I'm in the sky tonight

After all the excitement of drinking from a cup and eating soft foods, I hardly know where to begin. I'm really glad that Evan is doing some new things these days, and more than that, he's still doing them. A lot of things he's done were a one-time shot (see potty training) so we're always wary of new skills, especially long awaited ones. But Ev seems proud of his latest accomplishments. He hasn't even asked for a sippy cup since Thursday, and that's progress in my book.

We spent another quiet weekend at home, which feels so odd. It seems like our weekends are usually very full, and this little stretch of inactivity has been different, but nice. We were able to spend time just laying around and playing basketball with Ev. We also got some things done around the house--cleaned out the inside of the car, brought the crib and changing table down from the attic, started washing some baby stuff. Little things, but they make me feel better because I'm crazy and I need everything to be ready right now.

I was pleased to get those things done today, but there is one small problem. The crib we have converts to a toddler bed, and Ev used the bed mode for almost two years before he got a regular twin bed. Toddler bed mode was essentially just taking the drop side off of the crib to make it a three sided bed. So I had the one side of the crib in the attic first, and then when he got the twin bed, I took the rest of the crib apart and put it in the attic.

When I did that, I put the four important screws for the long side of the crib somewhere. Of course, that was over a year ago, and now I can't remember where I put them. I know it would have been somewhere "safe" so they wouldn't get lost, but I have no clue where the hell that is. I looked all over, couldn't find them, and even went to Home Depot for replacements. Tried two sizes, neither worked. So I'm either going to have to find the originals, or keep looking for some new screws that actually fit. Here's hoping it gets figured out soon, no matter what I have to do, or I'm going to forget about it and the crib will collapse on the poor kid.

I'm still having contractions, but they're sporadic and not painful (just uncomfortable), so I figure we're okay. I'm spending as much time as I can on the recline, drinking water. That's about all I can do from here. I sit and fold baby blankets and try to imagine life with two kids. I get excited, I get terrified, I have a snack. Imagination will become reality sooner than I think.