Our Kids

How do you not buy everything in the store when you go to Baby Gap? Ok, besides looking at the price tags and computing just how much money per day an outfit will cost… obviously Mystique and I stopped by our local Gap over the weekend. I was raised on Gap, so I of course liked everything. We hit the sale items which seems like the best way to buy stuff from the Gap. I don’t think the babies will notice that they’re a season or two behind. They’ll just be happy that mom and dad bought them fleece.

Also hit a couple garage sales with our garage-sale-tutor in tow… we’re garage sale newbies, so we needed some help in that category. Apparently we got a great deal on a musical swing thing. It seemed a bit scary to me, but I hope the kids will like it. It was kind of tough buying clothes for the kids since we don’t know their sexes yet. We got a couple unisex items (i.e., not pink and not blue), and a very cool toy car that has velcro, crinkly stuff, and a pull-string that makes the car vibrate. Rupert loves it.

As far as I can tell, Mystique and the kids are doing fine… it’s funny how the kids help Mystique decide what to have for meals… they have no problems telling her they didn’t like something by making her throw it all up an hour after eating it. Oddly, it seems that the kids don’t like fast food, so they must have missed that gene from my contributions. We’ve been to our local farmer’s market the past couple of weeks and they seem to love the stuff we get from there: fresh fruits and veggies, and some tasty pork and beef from local farmers.

We were also able to check off a few things from our “Get done before the kids come” list, so that was nice… we’ve got some more work to do this week, and then next week one of the biggest items (new floor in the kitchen) will get done. That’s the last big thing we were worried about, so we’ll be real happy to get it done.

jason