going nuts

maybe it is being a stay-at-home mom but i am going NUTS! i bought a peg perego stroller from a family in livermore, in very decent condition, from craigslist. it was only $40 which was good considering it originally retailed for $350 to 400 depending on where it was bought. peg perego strollers have a fairly good resale value (kinda like hondas) so i thought i was getting a good deal. when i got there, turns out the reason it was only $40 was because she couldn't find the detachable hood. it is a nice hood - it retracts fully and opens fully to cover the child and has a zipper to allow air to circulate. it is rain resistant and machine washable. all the things you would want in a stroller hood. that was a bummer but oh well, it was only $40.

that was 2 months ago. so now i was a doing a little research on strollers and it is almost $120 to buy the replacement part from peg perego. forget it!!! now i start obsessing a little because i really want a hood. i start looking at craigslist again for a similar stroller with a hood. only most people want at least $75 for the sim stroller in decent condition with all parts. call me a cheapskate but i do not want to pay that much for a used stroller. arrrrrgh...

well, william was cleaning out his garage a little this evening and guess what he found in there?? a hood attachment that matches my stroller. what?? how can that be? i don't recall getting this part when i bought it. i mean, i even remember her saying that she couldn't find the hood. william walks in, holds it up like a fish he just caught and says "hey is this something we got from lawrence/daphne or julie/james?" i practically had a coronary!! what is that doing in the garage? did it magically appear there? did God put it there??? william claims that when he first took the stroller out of my trunk, he remembers pulling two other pieces out with it. are you lame?? why did you not tell me this? i mean, actually, why don't i remember this? do i have alzheimers? why can't i remember getting this from her? that is just greeaaaat... i have emailed her twice pestering her about whether she has found the hood yet. she is going to think i am a complete nut case. sheesh... is this what having babies does to you? sucks the youth and mental capacity out from you until all you are is a white haired grandmother sitting on the porch drinking lemonade?? !!!! why doesn't she remember giving me the hood? i am so confounded...


----------------thomas milestones-------------------

trying to calm myself down... his first two teeth started breaking through last saturday. so far, he has been very good about not biting while he is nursing. we'll see how long that lasts. in this picture, if you click on it to get the larger version, you can see the two bumps in his gums form the teeth. he has such a wonderful smile. :)
more lovely pictures of thomas on our vacation, and yes... it would be so nice if all of our bedrooms looked so cool, uncluttered and clean. we decided that a king size bed is very nice.
we actually had a very good vacation. i was a little worried because i have been so cranky lately.... worried that i would spend the entire time making william miserable but it never happened. we had one incident over take-out but as i was putting thomas to sleep, all i could do was look into his sleepy, lovely eyes and take-out didn't matter any more. i put him down in the pack-n-play and went over to the bathroom to see what william was up to.

there was william, sitting in the middle of the bathroom floor (it was pretty large bathroom for a hotel room) on one of the big white bath towels, drinking beer, eating take-out and reading my celebrity trash magazine. :D
as he looked up at me with that very happy smile, it completely did me in and all i could do was giggle and join him. so there we ended the night, drinking beer & wine cooler (btw, the green apple vodka chiller is really really tasty), eating thai noodles, sitting on towels and reading trash about celebrities.