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Sally had an accident in the house today, and we’re out of paper towels. Here’s a snippet of the resulting exchange between myself and the man that I love:

“Why are we out of paper towels?” asks Rob.
“Because I used them all, honey,” I reply.
“But why didn’t we get more?” asks Rob.
<pause>
“Ah. Well, darling, that’s because I’m lazy.” Big smiles from Kim.

Anyway, I mopped up the spill with a couple of Alice’s cloth diapers. They’re incredibly absorbent and someone else cleans them. I love our diaper service even more, all of a sudden. 🙂

In other news, Alice is gigantic, in the cute and healthy way. She’s asleep in her crib right now, wearing a super-soft pink-with-polar-bears patterned fleece sleeper with polar bear heads on the feet. I’m a bad parent because I totally just tiptoed into her room, turned the light on, and snapped a picture of her… with flash. <grimace> And then I took another one because I didn’t like the way the first one turned out. Ha ha. 🙂

Alice in Polar Bear PJs

The significance of the sleeper, though, is that it is for babies 6-9 months old. Alice fits not into this range, but fits nicely into the sleeper: she’s 4 1/2 months old, and 16 1/2 lbs. Nicely grown, team. Earlier this week, I went to an “Ontario Early Years” center for an infant play group called “Infant Acttion” (aka “Infant I-Can’t-Spell-Action” or “Put Your Baby on a Mat with Toys and Talk to the Other Moms about Drool, Poop and Rolling Over”) (ooh, side note! Alice has started rolling from her tummy to her back all on her own!), and there was a 13 month old baby girl there who weighs 15 lbs. I joked with her mom that I’ll bring in Alice’s hand-me-downs next time. (Admittedly, that little girl was born three months premature, but STILL).

In other news, we gave our landlord notice tonight that we’ll be moving out at the end of September. We don’t know specifically where we’re going yet, but we’re determined to get a place with a yard (for both Alice and Sally’s sakes) amongst other features. I’d really like this next place to be the one we live in until we make the big, permanent move up to the Nutshell.

And, for my next trick, a few pictures. Oddly, I don’t think I got any pictures of Jackie or AJ meeting Alice. Oops. <sigh>

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