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06/13/2005 Archived Entry: "mover and shaker"

Yesterday morning started off with an earthquake. A nice size 5.6 about 120 miles south east of us. Baby was asleep and Chris was too. He got up and went to her, but she never woke and it wasn't big enough to warrant getting her up out of bed. I took Tabitha with me, but the shaking stopped before we ever got out of the living room, so no big deal. I told her that was an earthquake and she got kind of weepy saying she didn't know we had earthquakes in Ca. Considering she knows all about the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, I thought that was odd and told her she knew that San Fran was in CA and her response was "Yeah, but that's San Francisco!" We talked a bit more and she was calm fairly quickly and she now realizes it's no big deal. It's not her first earthquake, but it's the first in her memory.

After Chris was up he had to run an errand and once he was home again I handed him both children and went back to bed as I was just exhausted. So I woke up close to noon. Bizarre. I got dressed and once again ditched him with the kids and went out on some errands. We need to set up the crib for Daisy and I needed things like a mattress cover and sheets and I wanted to look at bedding. I can't find anything I like that isn't $200 so I've come to the conclusion that I'm going to sew the bumper to my liking. I know what I want and since rectangles are my specialty, I know I can do it. I'll get a solid colored dust ruffle to match and then we'll see what I do about a comforter. They are so useless anyway and kind of a pain in the arse. But my kid also does not need another blanket. So many wonderful people made her blankets that she has quite the collection.

One of the places I went looking for bedding was Children's Orchard, which is a consignment shop. They didn't have anything I liked, but I decided to make an appointment to bring in Tabitha's old bedding. I have the comforter, dust ruffle, two valances, bumper, sheet and lamp shade. Hopefully I can get a nice little something and I'll use that to buy material. I don't want to keep it and use the same bedding for Daisy. Daisy already has a hand me down crib and exersaucer and some clothing. I want the bedding to be something I pick out just for her, like we did for Tabitha. I'll keep it in the garden theme since she will be in the garden room next year. I'm thinking lady bugs and flowers, probably daisies, because really, who could resist?

When I got home we started taking down the crib and turns out we're missing one wheel and a set of the screws. It's only been in storage for 2 years since it was also a toddler bed so we've had them recently. Chris is going to call the customer service today to see about the replacement parts and hopefully they can get them out to us soon, other wise we might go hunting at Home Depot for the right things. So, the crib set up has been delayed.

Dinner occured and then we cranked up i-tunes and went outside. Tabitha swung (swang? swinged?) while Chris and I sat and talked with Daisy on my lap watching Tabitha and the dog. Daisy was positively entralled with Tabitha all day and laughed at her constantly for no reason whatsoever. She always has given her a positive response, as long as Tabi didn't try and hold her. But now she even tolerates that. Daisy started the bedtimes fussies at 7:40 and Chris had decided to take her so he left and I used the bubble wand for awhile before Tabitha begged for it, lol. Then it was shower and bed for her, ao both kids in bed by 8:15, woo-hoo! Chris and I then played a new game on the internet called Virtual Magic Kingdom. It's an online interactive game by Disney set inside what could me Disneyland or Magic Kingdom in Florida. It's not quite either one of them, though the castle is Sleeping Beauty which is here. We had made our character a while ago but this is the first time we could sit down and play. It's still in beta mode so there's a lot of walking around with nothing to do. But what we could do was fun and I cannot wait until it is 100% done in July because they are going to tie it into real life quests at Disneyland! Way cool.

The game kicked us out at 10:00pm, so we played Sims for another hour before heading off to bed. No Disneyland for us today (surprise!) though by virtue of me saying that we probably will end up there. It's not in the plans at all, though. I have the appt. at the consignment shop, we desperately need to take the recycling, we're probably looking at two trips at this point, I need to grocery shop a bit and we should do a little yard work as well. Most important would be seeing if we can fix the mower, ugh.

Posted by Mary Mercurio @ 06/13/2005 05:57 PM PST