Shopping Trip

We went to South Carolina today for triple coupons at a grocery store called Harris Teeter. It's about an hour away and this is the third time we've done this. We didn't do as well as we did the first time we went, when we got over $200 worth of stuff for about $20, but we did pretty well. We got:

2 boxes of Total cereal
4 packages of Johnsonville brats
3 bottle of Frank's Hot Sauce
6 boxes of Beechnut snacks for Nora
4 tubes of Grands biscuits
6 Campbells Soup at Hand
2 boxes of Minute Rice
3 bottles of Powerade
2 tubes of Colgate
2 Sauve deodorants
1 bottle Kraft Mayo
1 bottle of Dawn
1 tube of Blistex
2 boxes of Pop-Tarts
1 bottle of Thai peanut sauce

I didn't have coupons for the Pop-Tarts or the peanut sauce, but Matt wanted them. All in all we spent $23 and saved over a hundred. Not too bad.

Play Date

Nora had her first ever play date yesterday. Her friend, Noah, from church came over to our house to play. Noah is a few months younger than Nora and just recently learned to walk. This meant that every time he threw a ball Nora would get it before he had even taken a few steps. They had fun, though. Since they are so little they really just played side by side instead of together, but Nora did talk his head off!

Update

Since my last post about Nora wanting to use the potty she has asked to go 4 more times. The last couple of times she has grunted and acted like she was trying to go. I guess this is her favorite new game.

Eleanor Coleman, CEO

We keep Nora's diapers in a basket in the corner of the living room. I came home from grocery shopping to this:



Nora had made herself a little office in her diaper basket. She sat there, typing on her keyboard, for 15 minutes after I got home. According to Matt, she had been at it for 15 minutes before I got home. Her daddy made her a sign for her office. It's still up, because she loves to point at it and have us read it.




I'm not sure what kind of business she's in, but it's tough to get an appointment with her!

Big Girl

Today I had to read Nora's A Potty for Me! book another 5 times. Yikes! On the fifth read we got to the end, where the little girl is so proud of herself, and Nora pointed at her and said"Pee-pee." Yep, I said, she went pee-pee. Again, she pointed and said "Pee-pee." I repeated myself. Then she pointed and said "I want pee-pee!" Huh? "I want pee-pee!" she repeated. Grasping for something I said "Do you want to pee in the potty like the little girl?" Nora clapped at that like she does when her daddy or I finally put two and two together and figure out what she wants. So I brought her to the bathroom, took off her pants and diaper and let her sit on the toilet. She didn't pee, but she was thrilled to flush the toilet and thought she was a mighty big girl afterwards. So either Nora is going to be super easy to potty train by pretty much doing it herself and soon, or, with my luck, this is the only interest she'll ever show in the toilet until she's five.

Our Day By The Numbers

3- The number of times Nora dumped her book basket all over the floor.
12- The number of books I read to her today.
5- The number of times I had to read A Potty For Me!
6- The number of times Nora had to take apart and put together her wooden puzzle.
15- The number of minutes we waited at the park to swing, which we never got to use.
3- The number of times we had to pick up all of the toys.
2- The number of Tylenol Extra Strength I took for my headache.

Finally

I made this baby sweater and bonnet a while ago to sell in a friend's consignment shop. The shop is closing, so I went to pick it up today. Before I try to sell it on Ebay I thought I should take a picture of it. I had promised mom I would let her see it and I forgot to take a picture before. So here it is.