Weekends. With TWO days.

Note: This post is stripped out of a run-on, grammar-less email. Take a Dramamine now, if you must. (Kate, that means you.)

friday afternon, vi an I went to target to get sheets for her big! girl! bed!. then we went home and play,play,played. saturday we hung out with adam and dylan in the morningl, then went to cumberland to get the big! girl! bed from my parents' attic. it was, like, a million degrees up in there. we stopped on the way home to get a mattress and a mattress pad. the rest of the afternoon we put together the bed, moved around furniture, played outside, and sort of tag-teamed with vi until the project was done. she slept in her bed two nights, now, and seems to sleep really well in it! hurray. last night, she didn't get up in the night for a bottle - maybe, just maybe, this bed has solved the sleep issue! crossing my fingers. sunday we went to your parents' house and installed the old stairs on the back slab-deck, which was quite a project. dan had to dig down to make the stairs level. we did this while they were at church, and when they got back, they were so, so excited about the stairs. we hung out long enough to see jasper and have some lunch. his new motorcycle is SO HEINOUS, and yes, it renders all caps. it looks like a transformer or go-bot - seriously. apparently it's really cool and lots of fun - what do i know. :-) in the afternoon we hung out more with adam and dylan, let the girls run through the sprinkler and they had popsicles while we had iced coffee. vi and i went to the grocery store and to feed the ducks at 5 while dan did some more yard work. she had only taken a 45 minute nap, so she fell asleep on our way home at 6! we put her in her big!girl!bed! and she slept until around 7:30. had a bottle of milk and some snuggling (which is a lot easier without a crib involved!) and went back to sleep until 5:30 am. Yeah. she slept that much - magic bed. meanwhile, we enjoyed a leisurely evening, which nonetheless involved lots of chores, but we were able to do them without dealing with bedtime rituals simultaneously. we went to bed around 10.
TWO WHOLE DAYS of weekend, we have now. 2. TWO. It's pretty amazing how much more we can get done - in the way of chores AND fun - with an entire extra day thrown in there. I guess that's how the rest of the world operates, but this is completely new to us. We're eating it up.