Once Keith got home, the 3 of us headed to the movies to see "Monsters vs. Aliens". This is one of the first movies where Garrett has actually noticed the commercials (along with the ads and toys from McDonald's) and has told us repeatedly that he wanted to go see that movie. So we picked the first afternoon showing in hopes that most of the families would be at home with napping children. There were still quite a few in the theater, but it wasn't too crowded. We also opted to see the movie in 2D rather than 3D. I'm not sure if Garrett would have worn the glasses the entire time and I also didn't want to scare him with the 3D animation. As it was, he seemed to really enjoy the movie and didn't talk non-stop nor did he try to run up and down the stairs in the theater. Both are always a positive. Between the 3 of us, we completely emptied a large popcorn, plus Keith and Garrett shared a hotdog. I draw the line at buying $4 candy. (If we still had some Easter candy leftover, I can guarantee that would have made it's way into my purse, but somehow it's all gone...)
The rest of the day was spent relaxing and trashing the house as much as possible. I don't really understand how we can take a relatively clean house on a Friday night and by Monday morning, it looks as if a tornado swept through. I would be cleaning right now instead of blogging except for the fact that I spent the morning buying groceries and then putting them away. The more pregnant that I get, the less time I can spend on my feet. (Can you really get "more pregnant"? Probably not. You're either pregnant or you aren't, but you know what I mean.)
On Sunday morning we went to church and took Garrett with us into services. Thankfully with each week that he joins us, he seems to get more of a grasp on how to behave. That's not to say that he doesn't act up, and a good amount of time is spent rolling around on the floor (him, not me). But at least he's grasping the "whisper" concept along with the fact that he can't walk around. I draw more cars and trucks during that time period than I ever have, but he enjoys adding the wheels to my drawings and he seems to know what it is that I've drawn, which is pretty amazing considering that I have zero artistic abilities. I have noticed that there's a big different between the little boys who are accompanying their parents in church and the little girls. The girls tend to stay sitting down, even if they're not always quiet. Whereas the boys tend to stay standing, facing the seat of the pew as they draw, color, play with cars, whatever the case may be.
After Sunday school, we ate lunch at Schlotzsky's where Garrett took a sweet forever to eat his meal. I have no idea what it is about their sandwiches but every time we eat there, we are always waiting for him to finish. That's never the case anywhere else. Then we went to Home Depot to buy the last of our painting supplies. Once we got home, Keith finished applying texture to the walls in Cooper's room while Garrett and I took off all the outlet and light switch plates. I used the screwdriver because I don't quite trust Garrett not to somehow electrocute himself. Though he really does know how to use tools. He has completely dismantled a chair in our breakfast nook. With his play tools, no less! I still don't really know how he did it, but we have a few screws that need to be put back in place and nobody sits in that chair in the mean time.
The prep work for painting the room took longer than we expected, so Keith decided to wait until Garrett went to bed before he began the actual painting. By 11:00 last night, the room was completely painted and it looks great! Now it's time to do a little touch up and then paint some on the trim and we're done. It feels so good to know that we're getting close to being able to set up the furniture and then I can start working on the closet to get it organized. Once everything is done in there, I will take pictures and show the finished product.
I apologize that I'm becoming a once-a-week blogger, but I feel like I'm staying busy between working some from home, attempting to keep the house clean, and spending time with Garrett. I know the blog will move even further down the list once Cooper's here. But I will have lots of pictures to share at that point, so I will probably have many more picture-filled posts with much less talking. I know my parents will be very happy with those.
And to wrap this up, I have to share something funny that Garrett told me yesterday. I've been really attempting to work with him on his colors because he only knows maybe 2 and he doesn't even know them consistently (blue and yellow, by the way). Somehow he knows and recognizes all of the ABC's even to the point of spotting letters in strange places, like noticing that the ladder Keith was using yesterday makes the letter A. Anyway, I was reading a book about colors with him and the story even says what color the object is, but when I would point blank ask him "What color is that?" he would just pick a random color and then I would correct him. By the last page of the book, I said "What color is that?" and he said "Whatever." Keith almost died laughing, he thought it was so funny. That's his attitude about learning stuff too, so he loved that Garrett was so "done" with deciphering colors. Here's hoping he'll have the primary ones down by the time he starts kindergarten.
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What age to the kids in your church have to sit in the services? At ours it's 5 so I'm keeping my girls in the nursery until then. They have done well in the past when they've had to stay in church but Madelyn couldn't do it every week. I would be way to distracted to pay attention. Plus, Mike and I are both up front for the beginning and the end of the servicce in the worship team. I like Garrett's casual attitude about his colors! That was Katelyn's attitude about potty training-lol
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