You Can't Have Your Cake and Edith Too

So in honor of my 40-day Chocolate Free fast, I made cinnamon rolls. They were my mother-in-law's recipe, because Aaron absolutely dies for them. Truth be told, I actually made them for him since he's had a horrendous week at school. I wish that I took pictures of them afterwards, but I didn't so you can all just imagine that they are lovely and delicious. But incredibly sugary and fattening as well, so we only ate a few and then gave the rest away. As for my chocolate fast, it's going really well. The main reason I did it is because after Christmas and eating so many holiday goodies, we kind of got used to having them around and couldn't seem to stop eating junk, no matter how hard we tried. So I am hoping that by cutting myself off altogether that I can get back on track with a healthier diet. And what better way to do that by making cinnamon rolls?

So a couple of days ago, I had gotten completely fed up with all the food/stains on the dining room carpet from a certain messy eater...and Will, too. So I bought this little carpet cleaning solution by Resolve and went to work. Only Will woke up from his nap soon after I was knee-deep in my deep-cleaning. Since the carpet was all wet, I made a little barricade of chairs in the living room that I really thought he would not penetrate, but I was wrong.

Sorry this picture is so blurry but he was a quick crawler so this was the best shot I could get. Also on my cell phone.

Freedom!!!

It was pretty funny to me that he was able to squish himself under the chair. He has been desperate to follow me around wherever I go, which is actually kind of nice because now I don't have to carry him all the time. The other day I was getting his bath ready and I said, "Come on, let's go take your bath," and I waved for him to follow me, and he crawled right into the bathroom like an obedient puppy.

So last weekend we made a trip to Babies R Us to buy some baby proofing items and they were having some sort of event so there were lots of extra people there promoting various things. At one point the gigantic man-in-giraffe costume guy came over and completely scared me...he was just creepy. We also ran into some studly firefighters who insisted on chatting us up, probably because they were bored out of their minds ("What on earth are we doing at a Babies R Us??") I think they were promoting safety and smoke alarms. But they gave Will a red hat and posed for this picture.
And I guess we've sealed Will's fate as a firefighter since he was a dalmation for halloween and now he's a fully-fledged firefighter.

By the way, the carpet cleaning was very successful and now I refuse to let Will eat in the dining room by the carpet...he is restricted to our small kitchen.

Have a great weekend everyone, I know I will enjoy this one. I think we'll go swimming next week.