Bean had some special visitors come during Memorial Weekend -- Mommom & Poppop! She got some extra attention and got to bond deeper with her grandparents. She's ready for them to come back after baby sister comes!
While Steve's parents were here, we packed a lot in -- 2 trips to our favorite ice cream spot (which makes the preggo happy!), lawn work, grilled out each day, a trip to a new nature park, Trisha headed up all meal preps giving me a break, and even Scott and Ashley came up to spend some time with us!
(I think someone has her Poppop wrapped around her little finger. Who can resist Bean's sweet little, "play with me??" request?!)
(Even though Mommom was the official story/bedtime manager, Bean was able to get Poppop to read her one story before nap.)
(No trip would be complete without some art time with Mommom!)
(I have no idea where this game came from, but Bean found my sewing measuring tape. She would have 2 people hold it across the room. We were then told to make the tape bounce while she jumped next to it saying, "Jump on the ceiling, doo doo doo!" She was entertained this way for HOURS. Seriously HOURS. She still sings her little chant and jumps around the house, but the tape measure is no longer needed.)
(Sporting her glasses and of course a stick on our little nature walk at the new park!)
We had a great weekend and are thankful that Steve's parents are willing and able to make the trek out our way to spend time with us. We also appreciated their flexibility when our fridge went totally caput! We've had lots of issues with it, but usually a simple defrost and resetting the fridge fixes it. Not this time. We could get the freezer compartment back up and running, but the fridge portion temp would never fall below "danger zone". So while they were here, they watched Bean and let us run to a store and fridge shop. The new fridge is ordered, but won't get here until AFTER sprout arrives - yikes! In a cool twist of fate, friends of my parents were visiting them in IN and were able/willing to detour on their trip back home to drop off my college fridge! So now we are using a tiny fridge, but making it work!
(Never a good sign. I am super thankful that we have a big freezer in our basement! It became a lifesaver!)
(The fridge was definitely the most stressful part of the weekend for me. After working in a dining court in college, I have food safety drilled into me. Seeing the thermometer in the danger zone everytime I opened the fridge sent me into a panic. We did purge a bunch of food and have had to limit what's in our small fridge now.)
(My college fridge, haha. It definitely makes me feel like we live in Europe -- tiny fridge to only store essentials and multiple trips to the store for the week. It sounds worse than it is. It's kind of nice to have a reason to get out of the house a few times a week and is helping to pass time before Sprout comes. But boy will I be happy when that new fridge comes!)
That fridge is bigger than I imagined.
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