More Friggin' Snow!!!

Okay, between this afternoon and tomorrow "they're" forcasting another 10-16 inches of this dang white stuff! This is crazy, people! Since when do we live at the North Pole? After the traumatic drive home in the midst of the last blizzard Jason wanted to take the 4WD today. I understand, of course, but Easton and I still don't like being holed up in the house. And we'll be that way tomorrow too. Blech. Doesn't Mother Nature know I've got some birthday shopping to finish?

At least we got out for a bit yesterday. Then my mom and Lauren came over to help me clean my basement. My poor mom...when I moved out of my house with my ex-husband I moved in with them for awhile. Then when Jason and I got married I never officially moved out (of my mom's). So I had TONS o' crap being stored at her house. Not so nice. She bought a bunch of big totes and boxed up my stuff and every time she'd come visit our house she'd bring along a tote or two and we'd stash it in the basement. Problem was, I never went through any of it and our basement was getting overwhelmed with lime green totes. So, since she's off school for winter break she volunteered for Lauren to watch Easton and she'd come help me sort through everything. SOOOO not her job but I took her up on it anyway. Well, while Easton slept the entire time I went through everything. My mom lugged away bags and boxes of trash and things to donate to Goodwill. I have a big box of stuff to keep somewhere else in the house. Not bad! I couldn't believe it took me so long to get around to it. After Easton woke up they watched him while I tackled another project 2 years in the making. It was awesome!

My reward??? Dinner out. Jason treated all of us to dinner. Yay! As we were getting ready to leave the house I took out a couple more bags of trash. On my way back in I stupidly tripped over Easton's stroller and fell! I normally walk around with the grace of a ballerina (okay, maybe that's a slight exaggeration, but I am pretty sure-footed). Anyway, down I went in the garage...I hit my knees, my shoulder on the car, caught myself on my hands and yet still somehow managed to bonk my head on the ground like a top-heavy toddler. Lovely. I was in there by myself so I had to heave myself back inside where I sat down for a moment. My belly was contracting from the jarring so I gulped down a bottle of water and then we left for dinner. The contractions stopped at dinner like I knew they would. Everything is fine but I'm a little sore. Silly me!

After dinner Lauren came back to spend the night with us. Easton just loves "Ruh Rah". We all got Easton to bed and then hung out and chatted while Jason rubbed my aching back. My shirt was slightly hiked up over my belly and Baby Deuce had fun weirding Jason and Lauren out by poking parts out awkwardly and moving my belly about for them to watch. I told them, "You think it looks weird, think how I feel."

This morning Jason went off to work in my car :) and I made pancakes for me, E, and Lauren. I told Easton to go knock on Lauren's door to wake her up. I heard him come up but I didn't hear much else so I went and took a peek. The door must've not been latched all the way because he was able to push it open and he was just standing in the hall quietly watching her sleep. But then that made me laugh so she woke up anyway. Cute. My mom came to get her and they hung out with Easton for a bit and then left.

It was naptime too and the poor guy...he had a hard time going down. I was getting tired of re-rocking him but we were unfortunately in the habit for a while there. Time to stop! So, we rocked for a very very long time then I put him down and he whined about it for awhile before finally going to sleep. Oh well.

Now that he's napping I'll have to do some more birthday shopping online as well as email out a couple of birthday invites. Better run but I'll leave you with a few pictures of Easton enjoying some gifts and gift boxes over the last few days:
See, I told you he digs that helmet:



Zoning in front of the tube on his "cycle":