Week and a half Recap! & Jacob's Clothes

You know you need to post to your blog when your husband says, "Honey, you haven't posted anything in over a week!"

Sorry to be MIA Jacob fans! To recap since the last post, let's see

6/13 - I had a mediation in Greensboro - it settled;
6/14 - I had Bunco - I lost.
6/15 - I had a mediation in High Point - it didn't settle - grrrr.... but, I did make an afternoon of it and stopped at Peaches-N-Cream and got Jacob the most adorable outfit for his birthday!


I also went to Carter's which is having a great 40-70% off sale, $5 polo shirts, sunsuits, etc. Great deals!

6/16 Went to the Farmer's Market, BJ's, etc. We had our friend Katie & Daniel over for dinner that night, which was really great to be able to socialize on a Saturday night since Jacob goes to bed so early. They are special friends - they came to Rex at 3 a.m. when Jacob was born. Katie stayed with me and Daniel drove Jeff to Duke.

6/17 Jeff's First Father's Day. He absolutely loved his present and has been showing it off all week. If you'd like to view the photobook I made him on Shutterfly - click here.

6/19 Tuesday - mediation - yet again to Greensboro. However, the plaintiff's attorney failed to notify me before my arrival he had not talked to his client since MARCH! He did realize this last Thursday, but felt it was too late to tell me! Grrr...

Last night, I was laying (or is it lying?) awake at 4 a.m. drafting a blog post in my head, but now of course I can't remember it. I was going to write about how shopping for clothes for Jacob is really more fun than even buying clothes for myself. I remember when I found out we were having a boy, a part of me wanted a girl because I wanted to be able to dress up a little girl in cute dresses. They make so many cute girl clothes. But, I also tend to think that boy's clothes are getting way cuter too. I'm a sucker for buying them all! Today, Jacob is wearing a very cute shortalls with a blue polo - the shortalls have little fishes embroidered on them! Wow, I just found them on Overstock! I got this outfit for BJ's and I think I paid maybe $10? This is not good. I didn't realize Overstock sold baby clothes! I'm really in trouble now! Look at this outfit!!! ADORABLE!!

Jacob has so many clothes for summer in size 12 months that he could probably wear a different outfit just about every day of the month. I wish I were exaggerating! Fortunately, he is growing a lot slower these days than in the early days, but he is so long, that some of the 12 months outfits are getting too short. We virtually have no 18 months clothes, so I did buy some Carter's Polos at the outlet last week that he'll wear this fall probably. His birthday is coming up too in just less than 6 weeks!

And of course, in his just 10.5 months, he's outgrown many, many clothes, in fact, more than three large plastic containers full! What to do with all these clothes? Save them? Sell them? Consign them? Give them away? What do you do with your kids/babies too-small clothes?

Live from Wilmington!

Whew.... we made it here. Finally!!

Last night was a rush to do laundry, pack, in addition to all the normal evening activities - feeding Jacob, getting him to bed, etc. I didn't even have time to go work out! So, I planned to go at lunch today, but it was not to be... I'm on the criminal appellate brief rotation at work and I have a criminal brief due next week. I had to get things organized for that and ended up having to meet with my supervisor on the issue, etc., which took up the time I would have been working out at lunch.

Jeff came to the office around 3:00 p.m. and we took Jacob around to see my co-workers. This was the first time they have seen him since he was about 8 weeks old, except in pictures of course... many many pictures. We finally got on the road about 3:30 p.m. We brought both vehicles since I've got to go to Whiteville tomorrow. So, this necessitated stopping half-way on a two hour journey to feed the fussy boy. This turned into a THIRTY minute stop... So, a trip that should take 2 hours or less, took nearly 3 hours!

Jacob was very happy to see his "Gram-Gram." He gave her hugs and his open-mouth kisses where he tries to eat your face. Gram-Gram bought him the Hallmark talking bunny rabbit. He didn't know quite what to think of it. He slept the last 45 minutes or so of the journey down here, so he was full of energy and stayed up until 8:00 p.m. I honestly cannot remember the last time he was up that late. He's been pretty consistent with a 7:00 p.m. bedtime lately. Even at 8:00 p.m., he did not seem sleepy, but we knew he needed to go to bed. He's sleeping in his "new" Tot-Block that we bought last weekend. I'm sure Jacob will wake us many times tonight, since we are in the same room with him!

Tomorrow evening, my best friend Heather is coming over with her daughter who is about 16 months old. Friday, we'll go to Ocean Isle Beach to see the other Gram. Saturday, I think we are going to my dad's. Sunday, we'll probably go to the service at the church where we got married, Grace UMC. And, in the meantime, I need to find time to go work out, and to write this criminal brief!