All Done!

Today was officially the first day of no breastfeeding! Annabelle only sorta asked for it a couple of times, but it was pretty easy to persuade her to drink her sippy cup. I haven't had any pain or anything either, so that's good! I'm gonna miss that time with Belle, but hopefully she'll continue on her hugging/cuddling streak and we can replace it with sharing naps or something.

Tumbleweeds went really well. It was pretty much what I expected it would be, and Belle seemed to really enjoy it so we're signed up for the next few months. She's definitely the youngest one in the class, and it seems like the other kids in the class have been doing Tumbleweeds for a couple of months (which makes sense... I think they started this "semester" in January). Belle was a bit shy at first, but she quickly started playing on the toys. When the kids came over to play with her, she'd get shy again but didn't cry or anything... just curious-like. She also let a couple of the instructors carry her and play with her on some of the "toys". Her favorite thing was the foam stairs. She loves going up and down stairs! It's funny too, even though she was much younger than some of the kids in her class, you couldn't tell by looking at her because she's pretty much the same height as most of them. She definitely got her height from the Donald gene pool. :)

On the home front... the drawings came back from the architect today.... I wasn't so impressed. They were pretty much professional drawings of what I had already designed. I want to give the architect the benefit of the doubt and assume that the general contractor didn't give him my "wish list", but many of the things on my list that I hadn't drawn up myself already weren't addressed. No matter whose fault, that tells me I probably don't want to work with either of them any further though, so we're going to work with the new metal-expert guys for sure. It'll probably be another couple of weeks before we have much so show for it, but I feel pretty good about these guys. I just hope we don't have too wet (or hurricane-active) of a summer and the actual labor doesn't get delayed once we get started!