Woot woot! Buckle your seat belts ladies and gentlemen, we're about to discuss the most interesting topic in the world ... Laundry!
Here's a little fact for your dudes who might be staying home, or thinking of staying home with your children ... there's a shit ton of laundry! (Perdon my French) I'm totally used to doing laundry for myself, ever since my mom taught me before I went to college. But I'm easy. I have 7 shirts, 2 pairs of shorts, and 2 pairs of jeans. (Do I wear underwear? You'll never know.) But add 1 woman, and 2 girls to the mix and that's a lot of laundry!! We all know women have a lot of clothes and younger women have TONS of clothes!
Z takes over Blackwell Photography tasks while Dad does laundry
One of the facts of being a Stay at Home Dad means you have to take up certain roles in the household you normally wouldn't. Laundry is one of them. Washing dishes, cooking and keeping the house clean are all other chores you find yourself doing as your wife sits in a cubicle and punches out sales. Is it fun? Not always. But if you get a good system going, it doesn't take forever and you feel so much better once it's all day.
I takes a nap, being cute and providing motivation
I think I need an apron. ;) I plan on having dinner ready for Stacey when she gets home from work this evening, but for now both of the ladies are taking a nap (Yay for planning that one correctly today) so I'm going to go on the clock and knock out some work.
So much happens in a day, it's hard to keep up much less post a blog about everything. I think that's why I'm a photographer. A photo can say so much more than words ... plus I'm no good at spelling.
Before I tell you what we got yesterday at Wear It Once, Wear It Twice (because I know you all are anxiously waiting to hear what we got ... some of you probably lost sleep over it) we had a funny experience today. Stacey was getting her nails did and Zoe and I were chillin' outside. When we went to the car I didn't notice that Zoe Toe's blanket had fallen off her car seat. Stacey noticed when we got to Trader Joe's a couple blocks away, so we went back to the nail place and in search. Now this wasn't just a normal blanket, it's a very special one. Stacey's dad, Stan The Man, brought it back from Italy when she was Z's age. So we were determined to find this blanket, and find we did. Only it was under the tire of a Green Lexus SUV with the license plate "TV BOB". So for the next 15 minutes I went into every shop on the strip in search of TV Bob. A little bit later he came out with a pizza and a coke oblivious to the situation. I kindly told him why I was standing around his sweet ride, he moved his car, and the blanket was retrieved! Now to the washing mashing it goes...
So what did we get yesterday!? Well, Zoe got a lot of cute clothes that you will see later in photos, I'm sure. She's getting bigger, which means she needs bigger clothes. Crazy, huh? Daddy got a Baby BJorn to get the sensation of what it feels like to be pregnant. :) It's cool, and much better than Stacey's purple sling. Zoe also got an Excersaucer! For the longest time I thought it was called an Excersiser and Stacey's Texan accent was prohibiting her from saying it correctly. But nope - it is an excer saucer. Yesterday was one of the best shopping experience I've ever had. Again, we highly recommend Wear It Once, Wear It Twice in Burbank.
We hope you enjoy the little video we took of her first time in the Exersaucer!
Like I said, a lot happens when you have a 4 month old. In a couple hours or a couple days your entire perception and life can change. This whole "E.A.S.Y" process is brilliant. And we think it's working. The past two nights Zoe has only woken up twice. We've been feeding the little monster rice cereal before her bedtime routine, which is bath time, massage and lotion, a book and then the crib! I'll keep you updated on the progress.
This morning we had a fun family outing to a great store Wear It Once, Wear It Twice (their website sucks ... but we'll fix that later! ;) ). It's like a Buffalo Exchange for babies ... or like a resell store for those of you outside of California. There were so many fun things for Zoe and we got a lot of great stuff. Our good friend, Uncle Lucas got ZB a bunch of awesome clothes there a couple months ago and we've been meaning to go for a while. So we packed up the car early today and headed down to Burbank and a few hours later we came back with a bunch of great used/new things for Z!
What'd we get? I'm saving that surprise for tomorrow. Gotta build the suspense! There's even a VIDEO! Ohhhhhh boy!
We highly recommend if you live in LA and have a little munchkin to buy things for, check out Wear It Once, Wear It Twice. They're a great shop with kind earthed owners and workers. They were very helpful and friendly and reasonably priced! I'm going to post a picture of the postcard because I'm too lazy to scan it. ;) Tell 'em the Blackwell's sent ya! Haha... I'm such a dork.
We hope you're having a great weekend! Even if you're in the midwest and snowed in, we're enjoying a beautiful sunny, 62 degree day and thinking about you.
