nesting???

It was a hot and sunny day here in Ottawa, and yes these are pics from TODAY of my children in our living room in snowsuits.

So, I’m getting some seriously early nesting urges these days that are sort of driving me crazy.   Today I felt an overwhelming compulsion to have the kids snowsuits, boots, hats and mitts all ready and in our closet.   I think that my 24/7 Braxton hicks are making me paranoid.  But I had this vision a few days ago of a crying new born, two whining kids, and desperately needing to get everyone out of the house for some fresh air- and only having sandals in my closet,  while it snowed heavily outside.

To find all our fall and winter wear was no easy task.   We receive hand me downs from a few different families and this assortment of things are scattered between 4 different closets and the basement in an assortment of bins and  boxes.   This search led me to trying to reorganize my storage room a bit (once I made a path to get through to my stuff) and stocking Jesse’s dresser with all his fall clothes ( I already did Janna's a week ago).  Anyways, in regards to outerwear, I finally found all the things I needed.   But, I wanted to try the things on the kids to make sure sizes were good!    Janna simply adored her 90’s looking purple snowsuit and boots and cried lots when we made her take it off.  Jesse convinced us to let him keep on wearing his snowpants for a good hour until the supper hour when we made him ditch them.

The only thing I needed to purchase for the fall was one pair of sneakers for Janna.  Her little feet are still so small (size 3 or 4 depending on the brand) and most kids are in booties or robeez not even walking at that size.  I even dug through Jesse’s old shoes to see if she could just wear something blue for the next few months, but he didn’t have anything sturdy enough, either. 

So, after supper we went to the mall and bought her the CUTEST pink and purple sesame street sneakers.  It’s not often I buy new clothing for the kids as we get a lot of hand-me downs, and I buy consignment otherwise,  so Dave and I agreed to “splurge” at Pay-less.   She loves them and wanted to wear them right after we bought them, and cried when I finally took them off at bed time. What a girl! 

Janna slept all night last night, was happy and seemingly healthy today, and so I’m looking forward to a kid free evening tonight!  If I wasn’t pregnant it would be a brie and wine with mellow music night... but I will settle for scrapbooking with some MnM’s I think J Thanks for reading. I’m out.