Spring Cleaning Fun!

So today is absolutely gorgeous here in Belleville. It's actually more summer weather than spring weather for us. As I type this it is 82 degrees out and sunny. Beautiful! I have been using my clothes line today (which is about to fall over, yikes!) and I every neighbor that I can see from my house is also using their clothes line!

Today has inspired me to really get moving on some projects that we have been meaning to work on. Eric and I made a list of projects to work on so that whenever we're just sitting around trying to figure out something to do, we'll already have a plan.

You may remember the picnic table from last year (there's a post with a picture if you don't). Well I just had to have the wooden picnic table, even though Eric wanted the metal/plastic one. His reason was, we won't have to stain it. I can now admit that I really wish I would have listened to him, but my pregnant self was insistant that I had to have the wooden one. We left the picnic table out all winter uncovered and had never stained it or put anything protective on it. This was a mistake and the picnic table was quite ugly after the winter. So, one of my first projects was to stain the picnic table and it is officially done! Yay! I'll get a picture and post it after I turn the table back over, right now the bottom side is drying.

For the next couple days it's supposed to rain, so I am going to work on some inside projects. Mainly I'm going to focus on organizing my sewing room and the workout room. We made some progress on the workout room the other day. You can actually see most of the floor and there is a path through the room. You can also use the treadmill now because we cleaned all the boxes off of it. :)

I'm off to tackle picking up the house since we are having guests over tomorrow!

Indie's First Road Trip and Other Updates

Here are some pix from our trip to TN and some other updates.

Yesterday we had our first ever cry/scream free bath. Indie just hung out in his tubby and relaxed during his bath. He still peed in the water eventually, but that's okay. He's getting much more interactive and spent most of the day yesterday fascinated with hanging out with Eric. He definitely likes to be on the move most of the time.

Indie is turning into a very good sleeper at night. He sleeps in his own room in his crib. After a bottle he goes right to sleep without crying or fussing and he sleeps about 7 hours most nights. It's really great. However, he's not taking big naps during the day like he used to. This presents a challenge in trying to get anything done since he likes to be moving constantly.

Here is Indie hanging out with his Dad yesterday. I thought this was cute. Now for pix from the tn trip.
Indie and all his traveling buddies.

Cousins! Indie and Lena.
Nana, Pops, Lena and Indie outside the aquarium.
Indie and his pirate turtle that pops bought him.
Nana, Pops and Lena checking out the sting rays.
eric and giant shark jaws.
Nana, Pops and their grand babies.
Cutest easter bunny ever.

Auntie Shanny and Indie
Learning to lift up his head
showing off his ducky outfit for easter
bath time with nana
indie and his 2nd cousin john

First Tubby Bath

Today was Indie's first bath in a tubby rather than sponge bath. He was not really a fan. I think we're going to get him a different tub since he had a little too much freedom to scooch around in the tub we have.

Here he is getting ready for the bath. Look how cute his belly button is!Tubby time! That's a well placed foot!

sewing, sewing, sewing

I finally have struck a balance with all the baby stuff and am managing to get some sewing done. Of course it is sewing for Indie. He needed some plaid pants and a black hoodie to go with his checkered vans. Since he has giant feet and will likely be outgrowing those shoes soon, I thought I should get working. I'm hoping to have them finished before we leave for TN on Wednesday. Indie is being a good baby today and is not being super fussy so far so I have hope that I can do that. Right now he is sleeping. I bought him a little soothie seahorse that plays music and lights up that is supposed to be very helpful in helping babies go to sleep. I've heard good things about it. I hope it works for us. He did just go down for his nap relatively painlessly with the seahorse playing lullabies. The true test will be night time as he is an excellent napper, but hates to go to sleep at night.

In other Indie news, today we're going to try to give him an actual tubby bath instead of a sponge bath. Wish us luck! We'll get pictures.

New Indie Pix

Indie has decided that now he loves his swing that Aunti Shannon got for him. He took his afternoon nap in the swing today and is now working on falling asleep for the evening in his swing.

Here's some pix of Eric feeding Indie for the first time. so cute!