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It’s been a busy week, really.
No, we haven’t had kiddo #2 yet. My wife is still very…very pregnant. We’re just shy of one week from the due date today, but who knows if that will mean anything.
In the past week we’ve gotten around to addressing our kitchen faucet and upstairs shower situation left from our installation of a tankless water heater. We found some nice hardware and had it installed. It improved our situation immensely really. We not only got rid of some truly horrible hardware left over from the previous homeowner, we took the opportunity to embellish. Instead of a straight up swap from one kitchen faucet to another, we upgraded to a tall, goose-necked version that had a sprayer built into the handle. We’d been living without a sprayer for two and a half years now, and I cannot stress how much we missed it. Plus the goose-neck allows us to get all of our taller pots and pans good and clean.
On top of that, we had a brand new washer-dryer set delivered today. This was something a long time coming, thought a bit sooner than I had anticipated. It’s not really that there was anything functionally wrong with our previous washer and dryer. We just couldn’t keep up, and a second kid was just going to make things worse. I don’t think I ever really mentioned this, but we use cloth diapers. We’ve been using them since my daughter was just a few weeks old. And it takes a bit of effort to keep on top of those diapers, especially with a newborn. And that’s in addition to the tons of regular laundry we have. As it stood now, we were doing about 7 – 8 loads of laundry a week. With the baby on the way, we’re probably going to hit 12 – 14.
So…we got a bigger more efficient front-loading washer.
On top of all of that, my daughter successfully used the potty this weekend. Twice. And that was huge.
Of course, she followed that success with several dirty diapers and an…unfortunate incident in the bathtub just this evening. Not a habit yet, but a beginning.
Oh, and it turns out that she also has a pretty bad ear infection. She’s been on the anti-biotics for six days now and hasn’t shown much improvement. She throws tantrums at the drop of the hat and declares war on our sleep on a regular basis. We’re considering this to be our stretching exercises before kiddo #2 shows up.
It’s been a long week.
