Random Thoughts

Friends once theorized that no one should ever see the hour between 7 a.m. and 8. After working 5:30-1:30 for 18 months in the 90's, I decided that hour is actually 4-5. Drunks should be blacked out and business people shouldn't be up yet. Yesterday, that theory was tested when Kitten woke up screaming at 4 and did not want to go back to sleep. As long as everyone was up, Meimei decided she needed a bottle too, and a crappy night was had by all.

Someone Pants works with has a girlfriend that works at a children's store and she had some samples that we're going to be thrown away. This is the benefit of being nice to people at work. Free is the right price, so he brought in the toys and Pants brought them home last night. They were a HUGE hit. I checked the website and, although the toys aren't on there because they are still in the sample stage, judging by their other (very expensive) toys, the box was worth $100-150. Kitten especially enjoys the soft shape-sorter with soft shapes because she can stuff any shape into any hole and then just pull it back out again through the same hole. Try that with the Tupperware sorter.

My MIL is nuts. She watched the kids Saturday night while Pants and I went to his holiday party (at which I sang very terrible Karoake, but that's another post), for which I am extremely grateful. But Kitten going to bed was a hoot! She told us that it took everything she had to actually close her bedroom door. What's the difference if it's closed or open an inch? She also was glad that we put plastic on Kitten's window, but then thought that she might somehow pull it down and smother herself with it. And lastly, she took the dirty blankets off the floor (that I had pulled out of the crib precisely because they were dirty) and put them back in, removing the clean blue fleece blanket because she thinks Kitten will somehow strangle herself with it. She thinks it's too thin and, therefore, pliable enough to get around her neck.

My stove is coming next Monday, but we have to get the plumber back out to run the gas line upstairs. Yay for gas stoves!

I am actively looking for a new car seat for Meimei, but Pants has sticker shock over the Britax Boulevard (usually $300 and rarely on sale). This is the one thing I can justify spending on, as it's the only thing the kid will use every day for the next 4 years, but it still may take some talking. I did find two patterns that were on sale for $250, but one is really hideous and the other is really bland. Is it wrong to not buy a car seat on sale because it's ugly? I should probably save the $50 and get the bland one.