Babies and Trees!

This past weekend Irene and I decided to try to lay low to get some rest and peace and quiet, as it very well could've been our last weekend without parental responsibilities. However, it seems that the term 'laying low' means something different these days compared to those of the mid-20's. Back then, 'laying low' may have meant heading to Newport, RI or Vermont for a quiet weekend, hiking in a state park, or just flopping down on the couch with a bag of cheetos and a 2-litre of coke for an entire weekend, never getting out of your PJ's. These days, we found, are definitively different.

Saturday morning we woke up and hustled out to a used baby stuff sale at a local church. We didn't need much coming out of our baby shower last week, but you can never have enough books (sounds funny coming from someone who spent so much time looking for the movie versions of books I had to read in school) and we also got a few more toys and stuff. Then we spent the rest of the day running errands, fixing things around the house and random work. The hammock was not touched all weekend - a disappointing day 1 of the weekend.

Sunday, was not much better. After taking a long walk around Needham to get some excercise, we decided to start to do our landscaping in the front of our house. The project seemed daunting, especially since it started at 1pm, but we had done some research on what we wanted and decided to try to keep it simple for the day. All in all, it was pretty simple and lots of fun. But by the time we were done, it was 7pm and time for dinnner, a shower, and bed. Again, the hammock was not touched on Sunday....

4pm Sunday, April 30

We tried growing pitchforks, but only one bloomed

Tree #1

"Oh yeah, this is definitely better than that Cheeto's and couch idea"