My Brain is Has Turned to Mush

This has been a relatively boring week here as we continue to settle in to our new routine with a new baby in the house, so here are some thoughts...

--Harper continues to be the Best Baby Ever.  She has been letting me sleep 6-7 consecutive hours at night, and is pretty sweet during the day, too.  I didn't sleep this well before she was born.

--Brandon has been reunited with his grill after a long absence.  He has cooked 3 of the last 4 dinners, and we have been rejoicing in the wonderment that is grilled chicken.  The weather has been beautiful (until today's much needed rain), and the boys have been having a great time playing in the backyard before dinner while Daddy cooks, and then after dinner until it gets dark.  And by "playing" in the backyard, I mean "peeing" in the backyard.  Every time I look out the kitchen window, one of those boys has his pants down.  But not Brandon.  I think the grill is too hot. ;)

--I got Dane's birth certificate today.  He is 5 years old, and now I finally have a birth certificate for him.  Why now, you ask?  Oh, because I'm going next week to SIGN HIM UP FOR KINDERGARTEN.  Holy cow.  I can't believe he is going to kindergarten next year.

--Have you seen Susan Boyle on youtube?  Have you??

--It has taken me no less than entire week to almost finish my to-do list, which was only supposed to take me a day and a half to do.  My brain has turned to mush, and I seem incapable of forming an intelligent thought.  I think I will need to go back to work in some capacity to remedy this, but the combination of HE IS GOING TO KINDERGARTEN in the fall and the knowledge that this is our last baby and she'll never be this little again, etc., etc., will make it very hard for me to go back to work.  So I think I will probably stay on maternity leave until the money just completely runs out, leaving me with no choice in the matter.  We'll see if I change my mind when the hospital bills start rollin' in.

--Monday will mark Dane's first day as a member of one of the local neighborhood's swim teams.  After our less-than-impressive experience with YMCA swim lessons last year, we've decided that this is the most efficient way for him to learn how to swim.  For the cost of a 2-week lesson at the YMCA, Dane will have 5 practices a week offered with optional weekly swim meets for the next 3 months.  We do not actually plan to go to swim practice 5 times a week, but we will probably take him 3 times a week until school gets out, then we'll see.  We will not  be a family whose schedules and lives are overwhelmed by a 5 year old's activity schedule, but I do want him to learn how to swim this year.  

--Guilt has motivated me to take more pictures of Harper.  Unfortunately, I have no idea how to take good pictures without the flash, so these are a bit blurry.  (And as you can see, she is enjoying her loaner swing and bouncy seat from her cousin Joel!)