62 Days Under the Alexander Administration

It's official, Alexander can roll over. As a matter of fact, he can even roll off the couch. Of course, I'm so quick and nimble, he didn't actually make it to the floor; thank God!



He's also become the master of the cute little GaGa GooGoo Smile. I think he can even say "Hi!"

In other, less adorable, but in some ways just as exciting news, Alexander slept for more than 7 hours last night! He may have slept closer to 9 hours, but I woke him up a few times before I went to bed to feed him; he wasn't too interested. Of course, being the stickler to detail that he is, Alexander insisted on keeping his schedule and was up for the day at 4am. For some reason, I don't feel all that rested this morning?

With the extra sleep, I'm starting to get back into the ol' craftin' spirit. Last weekend, between coos, cries and wet diapers (because he hadn't pooped in 4 days...), I made Alexander 2 more receiving blankets with the cutest discount flannel.

I was even motivated to jazz up his cute little diapers with the left over flannel.

D has also been getting "crafty" this week... he decided to "remodel" the kitchen to make the perfect cubby for our new super-deal fridge; yep, the failing economy has been good to us. Our weekly trips through the Lowes clearance isle finally paid off. We found a $1000 side-by-side Whirlpool fridge on clearance for $698. I asked if they would take $500; and score we finally got a working fridge!

And then I saw a clearance dishwasher... it matched... and now we have one of those too. Yippee!



Jenny Brown & Stretch coined a new phrase last week, "What would E do." I guess my thrifty reputation has gone nationwide; but what girl doesn't love a deal? Check the left sidebar for some of the other deals we got this week.

28 Weeks

We have just 12 weeks to go until Baby Boris (did you guess his real name yet?) moves into his nursery... hint, hint, hint! (Maybe we should start working on that soon? Blake, maybe you could come visit this month?)

I've felt great this week, although a little lazy. D has been working extremely LONG hours this week; he leaves at 4:30am and isn't getting home until nearly 8pm. This has just added to my willingness to spend the afternoon cuddling with peanut on the couch... I haven't had to make dinner or clean all week! The first couple days Baby Boris & I woke up with Daddy D, but by Wednesday D told us to just stay in bed... what a good man!


This week Baby Boris has grown to about 16 inches and weighs almost 2.5 pounds! It must be getting tight in there, because the little guy is punching & kicking to get out! Boris is starting to bulk up, just like mama! D gave me a hug last night, and after a quick squeeze looked at me & asked if that was the baby... it was, but i should have told him it was gas... that would have freaked him out!

Although we've had a dreary, cloudy week, Baby Boris can see light, and he is blinking frequently. Don't worry though, i haven't shown the little guy any of his baby shower presents... i am sure he will like a good surprise!

To keep the little guy busy this week I took him to his first political rally (Biden spoke in Ohio) and we spent Wednesday morning volunteering with the church at the soup kitchen! He liked it so much, we'll probably go back next week... they gave us doughnuts!


After taking inventory of all our shower gifts and hand-me-downs, Boris & I also spent some time this week figuring out what else we will need and doing some online shopping...:) I never knew there were so many cloth diaper choices! Or that one cloth diaper would cost between $17 and $25 bucks! For one! Hoy vey!

Luckily, one of Jenn's friends is willing to sell us her old G-Diaper covers, which would have cost us more than $300 new! Yippee for good friends and recyclers!

Today is D's last long day this week... I hope... so if all goes well we will spend the weekend tearing up the carpet in the nursery. If all goes well (and we don't have to tear the hardwood out), we will have a finished nursery before Baby Boris is 29 weeks old!