it's offensive to monkeys!

we've been moderately busy these past couple of days. the usual blend of errands and sitting around doing nothing.

exciting news flash! since yesterday we purchased a waterproof mattress pad, tonight abby will wear panties to bed for the very first time ever! not counting the time she put her pull-up on over her panties! this is very exciting for all of us. we still have a store of pull-ups in case of regression or in case of travel to places where there are no waterproof mattress pads, but i think she'll do well.

we went to super wal-mart yesterday. my hatred of wal-mart is not well-documented, but it's there. and it's strong. however, brian was there on sunday to get a new tire for the truck (long story which i will not tell because a) it's boring, and b) it makes me irritated) and saw that they had eight-dollar jeans! so, yesterday we headed there to purchase these eight-dollar jeans for him to replace the jeans with holes that he's been wearing. i also had a prescription to fill (which didn't get filled, another irritating story) and some random other purchases to make, so we decided to do all of that at super wal-mart. ugh. they did have underground parking, though, which was nice, and abby enjoyed riding the "moving stairs."

we've purchased a new cd...the new they might be giants kids' album, called "here come the 123's." it's a sequel to their previous kids' album called "here come the abc's." abby LOVES this new cd. she requests it all the time at home and in the car. i would totally recommend it for anyone with kids. the songs are catchy and not annoying (for the most part...i'm looking at YOU number 2 with your monkey puppet impersonating vintage elton john), and abby can even sing some of them. her favorites? "high five", "never go to work", and "zeros."

and we've reached another milestone with ian. i cut his finger with the fingernail clippers for the first time last night. sigh. it happens with pretty much every baby, no matter how careful you are. their fingers and nails are just SO SMALL! abby was younger than ian is when it happened to her, so i feel good i lasted this long. but, i didn't even get any of the nail. just finger. he cried, i cried, he bled, it was a mess. nice way to end this post, eh? :)