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I haven't been blogging lately, I just haven't seem to have been in the mood.
We finally just about finished our home projects. Two bathrooms are now painted and with new light switches too. Also the kitchen is done, back of the fridge painted, chair rail and molding all up and polyurtheaned. I need to fill some grout near the stove (no rush) and we need the bathroom counter replaced in the master bathroom (I spilled something on it, it's wrecked). Now mostly we need to tidy up (the pile on the dining room table is getting smaller.)
We planned Alan's 2nd birthday. Just a few friends and my mil and sil on 10/16 for cake and fruit salad. I'll get 2 balloons for decoration and maybe a little other stuff. (Alan's friend Jeff is coming with our friends his parents, so 1 balloon each will do). I'd like to get a Dora or Sponge Bob cake. Our friend Rita's birthday is the 17th, so I may do something for her also (I just can't see her name on a Dora/Sponge Bob cake though!)
Saturday we hung out at home. We did go over my MILs and a friends. Then to Ikea where Alan enjoyed his favorite ball pit! He was funny trying to toss the big stuffed bears out of it. (my husband likes to put them in to irk Alan who doesn't like stuffed animals, he ALWAYS tosses them or ignores them.)
Sunday we went to the Hoboken Street fair. Alan was pretty good actually. He liked riding the PATH train (we drive to Jersey City to park and take the train, it's like a subway). It was nice to have a lightweight stroller. Our friend Dave came and brought his mini tv to catch the jets and giants games (they both won). We caught a nice singer named Kate Jacobs (folk/country) that Alan slept through. We skipped the kids stuff, althought it was funny - they had a group called "The Waggles" - a wiggles tribute. The main act was Eric Burdon and the animals. (not the original ones from the 1960's). He was quite good - he doesn't seem to play a lot of dates. Most of the crowd was 30's-60's including one 40-50ish woman who ran on stage twice (and got carried off by the cops) - I think they didn't want the 20 somethings that swamped some shows in the past. Alan caught some of the music, playing with a frisbee as a steering wheel - I also took him into the Barnes and Noble. I got him two books - a boat one he kept taking off the shelf and a Sponge Bob one (there doesn't seem to be a lot of Sponge Bob toddler books out, but I did see a lot more Dora ones than there used to be (probably cause all the boy mom's can get them!))
We were going to stop at the rebuilt olive garden near us for unlimited pasta on the way home, but they had a nearly 2 hour wait at 7PM. I don't know why they closed it for a year made it bigger but filled the space mostly with a bar and it still has long waits! When the walmart (10 minutes from NYC) opens in the fall, it will get worse. They need one up our way (its 15 minutes south of us).
So we had whole wheat pasta for all of us for supper at home. Alan got a bath and to bed after reading the 2 books. (He liked sponge bob better, figures). He sneezed a bit yesterday and today he has a cold, from his sitter's daughter I think. He seems ok though. He grabbed 2 pieces of american cheese from the fridge this AM to eat!
We finally just about finished our home projects. Two bathrooms are now painted and with new light switches too. Also the kitchen is done, back of the fridge painted, chair rail and molding all up and polyurtheaned. I need to fill some grout near the stove (no rush) and we need the bathroom counter replaced in the master bathroom (I spilled something on it, it's wrecked). Now mostly we need to tidy up (the pile on the dining room table is getting smaller.)
We planned Alan's 2nd birthday. Just a few friends and my mil and sil on 10/16 for cake and fruit salad. I'll get 2 balloons for decoration and maybe a little other stuff. (Alan's friend Jeff is coming with our friends his parents, so 1 balloon each will do). I'd like to get a Dora or Sponge Bob cake. Our friend Rita's birthday is the 17th, so I may do something for her also (I just can't see her name on a Dora/Sponge Bob cake though!)
Saturday we hung out at home. We did go over my MILs and a friends. Then to Ikea where Alan enjoyed his favorite ball pit! He was funny trying to toss the big stuffed bears out of it. (my husband likes to put them in to irk Alan who doesn't like stuffed animals, he ALWAYS tosses them or ignores them.)
Sunday we went to the Hoboken Street fair. Alan was pretty good actually. He liked riding the PATH train (we drive to Jersey City to park and take the train, it's like a subway). It was nice to have a lightweight stroller. Our friend Dave came and brought his mini tv to catch the jets and giants games (they both won). We caught a nice singer named Kate Jacobs (folk/country) that Alan slept through. We skipped the kids stuff, althought it was funny - they had a group called "The Waggles" - a wiggles tribute. The main act was Eric Burdon and the animals. (not the original ones from the 1960's). He was quite good - he doesn't seem to play a lot of dates. Most of the crowd was 30's-60's including one 40-50ish woman who ran on stage twice (and got carried off by the cops) - I think they didn't want the 20 somethings that swamped some shows in the past. Alan caught some of the music, playing with a frisbee as a steering wheel - I also took him into the Barnes and Noble. I got him two books - a boat one he kept taking off the shelf and a Sponge Bob one (there doesn't seem to be a lot of Sponge Bob toddler books out, but I did see a lot more Dora ones than there used to be (probably cause all the boy mom's can get them!))
We were going to stop at the rebuilt olive garden near us for unlimited pasta on the way home, but they had a nearly 2 hour wait at 7PM. I don't know why they closed it for a year made it bigger but filled the space mostly with a bar and it still has long waits! When the walmart (10 minutes from NYC) opens in the fall, it will get worse. They need one up our way (its 15 minutes south of us).
So we had whole wheat pasta for all of us for supper at home. Alan got a bath and to bed after reading the 2 books. (He liked sponge bob better, figures). He sneezed a bit yesterday and today he has a cold, from his sitter's daughter I think. He seems ok though. He grabbed 2 pieces of american cheese from the fridge this AM to eat!
