Just a quick update that Sully started crawling last week! Very exciting. We now have to actually pay attention to where we sit him down to ensure that he isn’t too near cords, outlets, or piles of dirt on the floor that he can then amble toward, pick up and eat. He’s now our little human Swiffer, getting covered in all the dust and cat hair on the floor. We might have to start calling him Pig Pen after the little kid in Peanuts who always has that dust cloud hanging around him.
He also really likes to play with toys where he can put things inside other things and then pull them out again. We are also being more vigilant with giving him “big kid” foods and not just baby food, including soy yogurt (he has a milk protein allergy), canned green beans, peas and carrots (he’s not a fan of the carrots) and meatballs. This has been the first week with all of this, but seems so far, so good. He usually only makes the “What the hell are you feeding me? This is disgusting!” face with the first bite, and then decides he likes it and keeps eating after that.
I can’t believe he’s going to be a year old in a little over a month! Little bugger.
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Doing Dishes Ruined Our Life
Our rental house doesn’t have a dishwasher. This was a huge letdown when we walked into the place the first time and looked around (and yes, this walk-through happened after we committed to living there for four months). I seriously looked around the (tiny) kitchen a few times thinking it had to be hidden somewhere. I understand there are many people out there who don’t have a dishwasher, but this is an appliance that I strongly believe is one of the best technological innovations ever developed. However, I took our not having a dishwasher in stride, thinking, well, we wash Sully’s bottles by hand a couple nights a week, and we wash our knives and pots and pans by hand, so how bad will having to wash all of our dishes by hand be, really?
It’s really bad. Sucks, actually.
So bad that Gabe is going to the store tonight to get paper plates and keg cups for us to use until we move into our new house that has a dishwasher. The need to do multiple dishes has been affecting what we decide to make (or not make, as the case may be) for dinner every night. It takes a HUGE chunk out of our evening, so – while our commutes our now 100 times better than in Seattle – we still don’t get to settle down for the evening until after 9 PM or later, and I don’t want to go straight from doing house chores to going to bed. That’s just depressing. So, that means we don’t go to bed until near 11 PM each night after watching TV a bit, maybe reading a bit. By the end of the week, we’re wiped out and just want to sleep to get ready to do it all over again the following week. Ick.
So, we’re becoming environmentally unfriendly and using disposable plates and cups for the next couple of months. Oh, and don’t EVEN get me started on the stupid, ridiculous, archaic and asinine system that Minneapolis calls their recycling program. This system is circa 1979, I swear.
For being a fairly progressive, urban area, they require a shitload of separating, bundling, tying and cleaning to happen to the recyclables. And the recycling containers are the size of a laundry basket. They want us to put TWO WEEKS worth of recyclables in a laundry basket?! Are you kidding me? And we can’t recycle any of our packing paper from the move unless we go ahead and uncrumple, flatten and neatly place it in a paper bag that only is holding paper. Um, yeah. That isn’t going to happen. We’ve put three garbage bags of paper alone in the garbage. We’re going to eco-hell.
It’s really bad. Sucks, actually.
So bad that Gabe is going to the store tonight to get paper plates and keg cups for us to use until we move into our new house that has a dishwasher. The need to do multiple dishes has been affecting what we decide to make (or not make, as the case may be) for dinner every night. It takes a HUGE chunk out of our evening, so – while our commutes our now 100 times better than in Seattle – we still don’t get to settle down for the evening until after 9 PM or later, and I don’t want to go straight from doing house chores to going to bed. That’s just depressing. So, that means we don’t go to bed until near 11 PM each night after watching TV a bit, maybe reading a bit. By the end of the week, we’re wiped out and just want to sleep to get ready to do it all over again the following week. Ick.
So, we’re becoming environmentally unfriendly and using disposable plates and cups for the next couple of months. Oh, and don’t EVEN get me started on the stupid, ridiculous, archaic and asinine system that Minneapolis calls their recycling program. This system is circa 1979, I swear.
For being a fairly progressive, urban area, they require a shitload of separating, bundling, tying and cleaning to happen to the recyclables. And the recycling containers are the size of a laundry basket. They want us to put TWO WEEKS worth of recyclables in a laundry basket?! Are you kidding me? And we can’t recycle any of our packing paper from the move unless we go ahead and uncrumple, flatten and neatly place it in a paper bag that only is holding paper. Um, yeah. That isn’t going to happen. We’ve put three garbage bags of paper alone in the garbage. We’re going to eco-hell.
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Where you from? Minneapolis.
We're here! We got here almost not quite two weeks ago. We are fairly settled into our rental house, which thankfully is not as bad as we thought it would be. However, there is no dishwasher, which I will learn to deal with, but it is definitely keeping us from cooking much.
It feels like a lot has happened the past couple weeks, the two biggest things being 1)we found and bought a house; and 2) Grandma Sandholm and Great-Grandparents Kragt came to visit this weekend. On the house front, it is really cute, but we don't move in until December 3 as we are in a 4-month lease here. And the family trip was really nice this past weekend. We did some driving around and Gabe and I managed to even have a date! :)
Gabe is preparing to leave tomorrow for a week back in Seattle, and my mom is coming up on Wednesday to stay with Sully on Thursday and Friday as his daycare has conferences and will be closed.
That is the very much abridged and Cliff Notes version of what is going on. :) Here is our new address and phone number for the next three months or so:
5917 Vincent Avenue S
Minneapolis, MN 55410
TEL: (612) 920-0210
Overall, Minneapolis seems good. It was hotter than hell our first weekend here, resulting in our using the air conditioning, and now it is getting cooler and rainy with highs in the 50s (i.e. a typical Seattle winter). Thank god there is no snow yet. The neighborhood we live in seems really nice -- people actually are out walking around and kids ride their bikes. Hopefully this will be the year we get to have trick or treaters! I'll need to go get some candy to be prepared.
We still need to figure out what Sully will be for Halloween. Gabe had the good idea of James Dean, what with all his hair we could slick back, but we are having a hard time finding a mini-leather jacket and black shoes. Granted, we haven't looked that hard yet, but we might just put him in one of his Halloween-themed t-shirts and call it good.
We also should get some pumpkins or something. Hmm. This all sounds like a lot of work right now. I'm still trying to work in a trip to the local Costco and Trader Joe's for supplies, and trying to do menu planning that doesn't require me having to dig out any more baking dishes or pans than the very limited amount we did dig out of boxes. Maybe the additional fall decorating extravaganza will have to wait until next year.
It feels like a lot has happened the past couple weeks, the two biggest things being 1)we found and bought a house; and 2) Grandma Sandholm and Great-Grandparents Kragt came to visit this weekend. On the house front, it is really cute, but we don't move in until December 3 as we are in a 4-month lease here. And the family trip was really nice this past weekend. We did some driving around and Gabe and I managed to even have a date! :)
Gabe is preparing to leave tomorrow for a week back in Seattle, and my mom is coming up on Wednesday to stay with Sully on Thursday and Friday as his daycare has conferences and will be closed.
That is the very much abridged and Cliff Notes version of what is going on. :) Here is our new address and phone number for the next three months or so:
5917 Vincent Avenue S
Minneapolis, MN 55410
TEL: (612) 920-0210
Overall, Minneapolis seems good. It was hotter than hell our first weekend here, resulting in our using the air conditioning, and now it is getting cooler and rainy with highs in the 50s (i.e. a typical Seattle winter). Thank god there is no snow yet. The neighborhood we live in seems really nice -- people actually are out walking around and kids ride their bikes. Hopefully this will be the year we get to have trick or treaters! I'll need to go get some candy to be prepared.
We still need to figure out what Sully will be for Halloween. Gabe had the good idea of James Dean, what with all his hair we could slick back, but we are having a hard time finding a mini-leather jacket and black shoes. Granted, we haven't looked that hard yet, but we might just put him in one of his Halloween-themed t-shirts and call it good.
We also should get some pumpkins or something. Hmm. This all sounds like a lot of work right now. I'm still trying to work in a trip to the local Costco and Trader Joe's for supplies, and trying to do menu planning that doesn't require me having to dig out any more baking dishes or pans than the very limited amount we did dig out of boxes. Maybe the additional fall decorating extravaganza will have to wait until next year.
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