Today was exhausting. We worked outside for 5 hours, and could go on... no more, hahaha.

Put some sand in her basketball net, so now it will stop falling over. Threw what was left in her playhouse, she thought that was cool. He just bought the cheaper sand from Home Depot, and I don't like it, but for our purpose of just filling the base of the bball net, it worked out fine. Toys R Us sand is much nicer, much softer. That's what we used for her sandbox, and underneath the activity climber too. The sandbox has a cover and the activity climber, we keep it covered with a tarp. The little we put in the play house from Home Depot, it won't matter if it gets wet.

She's been complaining for days that she wants to go in the baby swing when Jon's in it.... which drives me nuts, because that's the only thing he is able to go on, she can go on all the rest, but of course whatever he's on, she wants. So we thought about it, and next summer, he won't even be 2... and Stephanie will only be 9 months or so... so two baby swings make sense... so she got her wish... we got another bucket swing. Both were swinging and happy, and if she wants to use the big swing she can, we left it up. We put away that trapese swinging thing. She won't be able to use that until she's probably 8 years old... We were just lifting her up to reach it, and holding onto her while she swings... which is a pain. So I won't miss that.

And Jon is too funny... he wishes he could run around like her, he gets so mad that he can't do much outdoors. We lay a blanket down, but he crawls off fast and likes crawling on the grass, and wants to play in the sandbox with her, but he has to wait until next year. And then you have her, who wants to play with all the baby toys, and do what he's doing, hahaha. We brought the bubbles out and they loved that.

Jeff was working on the front, trying to level it out, he needs even more dirt before he can seed it. And he bought more mulch and was fixing up that area. He got a new tire for the wheel barrow, the other one died beyond repair and last night we had to lift it from the front yard (full of dirt). He just used all the yucky dirt to fill around the yard. He still has to put weed killer around, and we still need to fertilize.

I was trying to make sense of the garage. I'm halfway done. We pooped out by 430pm. And I brought in some of the electronic musical tables that I put away until Jon sat up and they thought that was very entertaining. Jess has a renewed interest in it now that she knows colors, shapes, numbers and letters. And Jon just likes to bang on it, hahaha.

Oh yeah, and did I ever tell you how much I love my dyson. It picks up sooo much stuff. The front sweepers weren't moving, there was too much entangled in it, so Jeff fixed it. Then we vaccumed again, and it kept picking up more and more. We could make another cat with all the cat hair, and make a wig with all the people hair, hahahaha.