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Cheap Thrills

Tomorrow a professional photographer comes to the house to take pictures and video for the virtual tour.  I should be cleaning the house for this event, but I am blogging instead.  I think I finally got the ribbon just right.  I noticed that they were not even therefore the writing was off centered.  Mark's attitude was leave it alone.  I added a flower too.  I'm not sure if I like it, but I am moving on to Valentines Day background.  I might need another hard drive for all the free downloads.  

I am going to back track a bit...

Saturday night the girls stayed with Mark's mom overnight and Mark had band for most of the evening.  I decided this was a great time to get a little one on one with Nathan.  He is fun to be around right now.  It is hard to get alone time with him when there are five of us. Since it was just the two of us I let him pick where we were going to eat out for dinner. He picked McDonalds, what two and a half year old wouldn't?    

He got a cheeseburger Happy Meal that took him over 30 minutes to eat.  It took him so long I actually looked at the time on the receipt to see how long we had been there.  It doesn't help when a motorcycle cop pulls up and parks right in front of the window where we were sitting.  Dinner and a show!  All I heard was mama look at his boots, mama look at his helmet, mama why he have a helmet, mama what he doing, mama look! I cherish these times. So cute! 

We drove Mark's truck so that was fun for him too. We went to the dollar store. What I refer to as cheap thrills. He picked bubbles and I got a couple of night lights.  Hey big spender. (did any of you sing that?) I love when Mark plays that on the piano. Anyway,  I also picked up packing tape. Optimistically I hope to be packing sooner than later. We have boxes but are running low on tape.  

I had a great night out with Nathan.  His is going to be three this year!  THREE, how can that be?  He is not a baby anymore.  He is a little boy.  Mark is even making him a twin bed.  Gone are the days of the crib.  For the first time in over 6 years the crib will be taken apart. Bitter sweet.  

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