Vacation time

We are going to New Hampshire, Laconia, Nh to be exact. Why, becuse my hubby closed his his eyes, flipped threw a catalog and opened to the page with this resort on it, saw it had an indoor waterslide and thought it would be fun for our daughter. I'm not sold on it yet, he thinks we may love it, i dunno, I'm used to Florida and caribbean destinations. We haven't been on vacation since last June, since then we had a son. This will be interesting. We are driving there....'nuf said. There is so much more to think about packing when you have both a toddler and infant. First I thought a baby wouldn't make much of a difference, but I think the back of our van is going to be packed quite tight.
My daughter is excited, she is spending the vacatin with her BFF Rachel, she can't wait. She fainlly at the age where she understands that she has a friendship and remebers her, it's too funny.
My son just started to sleep thru the night, agian (he's given me hope a few times before), I hope the vacation wont screw him up, oh well, C'est la vie if it does, right!
What to pack, I went shopping yesterday for some odds & ends, now I need to start packing so I know this time next week what odds & ends I really still need!

Left at pre-school

Madeline, my eldest at 3, starts pre school this September. It's no secret, she's well aware of it, we've visited the school and talked aobut how it will be. She's excited and also scared, typical.

I was having lunch with a friend today and I was telling her That Mad start's school this year. The waitress chimes in and asks Mad, "Are you going to school this year?"
Mad answers, "Yes, my mom is leaving me there and nobody will take me home!"

Awww, I guess I emphasized the fact that I cant stay but forgot to mention I will pick her up, opps!

Swim lessons

I got private swim lessons for my daughter and a neighbors child. I started looking into group swim lessons, but they were expensive. I found a women willing to do them for $12.50 a 30 min or so session. I discovered by a one time lesson with this women, to try it out, that Mad is very tired after 30 min. The lesson went well. it's done in our own pool. With may and hubby, mad dosen't want to take her swimmies off, try going under water or try to float...but for Miss Erin, she will do whatever she asks of her, go fig, children are so silly. But at least I can expect her to listen to her teacher in pre-school this year, she dose well with ohter authority, just not with us ;)

Another reason why Wegman's is awesome

They have this short cart. It's shorter and a duoble decker, none of the other supermarkets around here have these, not yet. In this, the top basket can hold Nic's whole carseat, much better then using the shelf/seat of the regular cart, in which it is hard for a 5' person to see over, or the basket of the cart which the whole cart useless 'casue it takes up that whole basket.
So nic fits in perfectly stable in the top basket, I load up the bottem basket (2 gallons of milk, bread, cearel, cookies, the normal run stuff) and then there is a little lip/shelf on the bottem facing me that mad sits on. We are so compact :)

BTW, my friends Tom & Erin told me that they have babysitting, at theirs, I think mine dose not, have not seen it yet, but even without, it's still an awesome store, despite the LARGE parking lot (yes, all the "with infant" stalls were taken :( )