Stay-cation Day 1

This week we always take off for vacation. It is always around my birthday and anniversary. When I used to work, I always took advantage of vacations on weeks where one day we already had off so I didn't have to use as many vacation days. So normally we would be on a beach in Maui with drink in hand sitting at the pool enjoying the view. This year and many of the past years, our vacation is a stay-cation. (I am working on Mike now for next year. It will be our 10 year anniversary and I REALLY want to take a vacation back to Maui or Kauai, but he is not sure he can travel that far and leave the kids...1 year to convince him and possibly me to do that. If not Maui, then Napa for sure!!)

Anyway,  We started the morning off with a nice long walk. That is not unusual for us to do on vacation. In fact, when we go on vacation, we workout more than when we are home. We usually take a walk in the morning and then head to the gym after breakfast. I know, it's crazy to workout on vacation, but we usually are at the pool by 10am anyway.

We spent the rest of the first day doing what we would have normally done if we were really going on vacation, errands. Running around trying to get things done.  Yesterday I managed to get my car washed, run to Target, Bed Bath and Beyond, Sports Authority (not really on my list, but I found a new pair of sneakers), the bank and ran to the mall to get my rings checked and cleaned. All within an hour, well a little over an hour because the mall wasn't quite open. I was pretty impressed with myself.

We also FINALLY finished our office/guest room/craft room. Here are some pictures.

This would be the guest room part. The curtain is really a tan color like the bedspread, but looks yellow in the picture.

This is the Office part of the room

This is my Craft Station part of the room

We also pulled out some of Ava's old things that are now for Noah.

Ava's old "poop chair"

 He is not quite ready for it. I had to stack 3 books under him. It is called Ava's poop chair because when she used it, that was the ONLY place she would poop for a long time. Ava likes it more than Noah at the moment, which isn't good because there are a lot of noisy things on it!?!

The highchair

I have been asking Mike to pull this out for over a week and we finally got it down. I have been giving Noah some solids here and there. He has tried Rice Cereal, Oatmeal, Sweet Potatoes and Prunes. He had the funniest reaction to the prunes. It took him a while to get used to the tastes and for the most part he just likes to suck it off the spoon, but he is still very young.  I started with prunes to try to help the poor little guy get things moving. I thought with his daily apple juice and prunes something we get moving, but no such luck yet.

We got a lot crossed off our to do list. We decided to do something fun for the kids, or Ava, everyday. Yesterday she helped daddy plant some new plants in the backyard and go to Lowes with daddy to pick them out. That was her "fun" for the day. Now the best part about him buying plants is that they shouldn't die this time around because he FINALLY got our sprinkler system fixed. After almost 6 years in this house, we have the sprinkler heads working and on a timer. No more kitchen oven timer set and moving the hose around, when we remembered to do it!!

On the docket for today...watching the Indy 500 and our friends daughters 3rd birthday party!!