Late Spring, Wonderful

Swaddled in the car seat, it just might
be the trick to our sanity!

Brief bottle update: we went and got two different bottles to try out with the bottle-snob-baby (sorry for the name calling, I’m just bitter): an Avent bottle and a Dr. Brown’s bottle.  I tried out the Avent bottle yesterday and am happy to announce it was a tear-free experience.  I’m not so brazen to suggest that we have this situation licked, but it sure was a breath of fresh air to not struggle through a bottle-feeding for once.  I’ll try the Avent bottle again today and see if we can build from our mini-success from yesterday. 

In another attempt to feel like normal human beings, we both went to the YMCA to work-out for the first time yesterday afternoon.  The Y offers childcare for up to one-and-a-half hours for children over 6-weeks of age, so we were all set to take them up on their offer. We were able to get in a 20-minute workout until the lady from the childcare room came to tell us Safia was crying and they couldn’t get her to stop.  20-minutes: not bad for the first time.  We’ll definitely be hittin’ that up again. 

Late spring is awesome.  We’ve been tending to our little garden it’s been looking pretty good.  Our tomatoes are flourishing in the pre-summer heat wave, and our green beans are out-of-control.  We were pretty tardy with our peppers, eggplants, and okra, but they’re coming right along, too.  Our kale and chard are hangin’ in there; much longer than anticipated.  Oh, and did I mention that the blueberries are starting to ripen?  A bowl of just-picked blueberries might very well be the definition of ecstasy (and if it’s not, it should be).   We just got back from working on our friend’s farm (which has become a great Friday routine) and we all got down and dirty weeding today.  Enjoy the pics, and enjoy the weekend. 

Eat More Kale!