4 Miles

We were having some technical problems. Not sure what, James is in charge of that. But since this is operating on a tiny portion of one of the servers at the office, when there are server problems—this is low on the priority list to fix. But, it’s been fixed! And I’ve been saving up things to put up.  So, I apologize, but here is a great deal of things to share!

›

We got a piano!!! For FREE! Well, we’re going to have to tune it and get a few pins tightened in it, but for the price we paid, that is worth it! How did we get it for free?  www.Freecycle.org   This is a great organization that James’ mom told me about. You sign up to join a group in your area, and get emails (or you can visit the web site) of things people are wanting to get rid of for free.  It’s a chance to get rid of things, but give to people who can use them.  We “frecycled” our extra queen bed and the green couch after we moved and realized we didn’t have room for them.  On Saturday I was reading the latest list of items, and someone was wanting to give away a 1950’s small, black, upright piano.  It’s a bit scuffed up, but with 2 boys, that’s fine.  Several people have said “Why are you getting a piano? Who plays?”  Well, no one, yet!  Will is already interested in music. Alex has very long fingers that several people have called “piano playing fingers”. James and I had already said we wanted our kids to take lessons for a few years, and learn some basics.  But, it’s hard to take lessons when you don’t have a piano to practice on! And now we do. So, I’m going to dig out some of my old books from Mom & Dad’s house and see what I can remember—once we get it tuned.  Below is a picture of Will showing it off and "playing" it. 

I was asked to work on a big project for James’ office, and that kept me busy through Monday. Now that is done, so, I will go back to working on the birth announcements. Maybe we’ll officially get to announce Alex’s birth by the time he’s a month old.  That’s not too bad, is it?  I just have to go and get stamps. And more of those 2 cent ones—I found a sheet of stamps I didn’t realize we had, so never mind that I’d carefully counted the number of old stamps we had and bought JUST ENOUGH 2 cent ones for them.   And, speaking of Alex, we’re due for some pictures of him on this site, to prove he’s not a poor second child who never gets his picture taken.

First two are to show he does open his eyes.

He will sometimes hold his pacifier in place—this is the closest I’ve gotten to recording it on film yet.

Left picture: Sleeping like a baby, while we were eating dinner.  (We did give his head support after the picture, but he kept moving and ending up like that!)

Right picture: Sleeping like a baby after supper—he was getting some tummy time in and fell asleep on the foot stool. 

We have a membership to our local Children’s Museum.  This means we can get two extra people in free at anytime—so please take advantage of us! Feel free to ask us anytime to join us, we love taking friends with us!  I wanted to make sure I’d put that out there for any friends who might be visiting the area.

›

James and Will went Saturday morning to the Museum with one of his partner’s from work and his family. We had told Will Friday night he was going to get to go with Jared. Will was very excited about this, and I had to tell him “First you’ll go night-night, then when it’s light outside you can get up, and go to the museum.” (Key thing there “Light outside!” I didn’t want him waking up in the middle of the night and thinking it was time to go!)  When Will woke up, the first thing he was “Light outside! I go to Children’s Museum!” 

›

James borrowed a truck from a partner (Alan) last night to move the piano. We knew Will would love a ride in it, so he took that to run errands. He didn’t want to tell Will he was going to get to ride in the truck until the carseat was moved over, so he went out to move the car seat. Will came running to me saying "Will ride in the truck!" I asked him how he knew, and he said "Daddy put car set in truck!"