Q: When is a good day to take a one year old to get a blood test done?

A: Probably never! i keep waiting for a "good" day to take avery in to get the blood test done that Dr. Joe ordered on her year appointment on the 19th. it was never a "good" day...until i realized that she is no longer going to be covered on insurance, effective September 1. so i took her yesterday to sonora quest, we were in and out in...an hour. and i had ethan with me but it actually went well. she cried for a bit, who wouldn't? but got over it and did smashingly well. here she is...in her cotton ball/gauze tape glory.


she also has become quite a climbing monkey! it started when she began climbing into ethan's child-size folding chair and then trying to sit down without turning around and basically falling into my waiting arms...backwards. i had to be with her all the time when she discovered that little trick or else hide the chair. so now...she climbs on the dishwasher if i leave it open too long. see picture: exhibit A.



in un-child related news, i have finally acquired some lockers. if anyone has talked to me lately, i am sure i have mentioned this fixation i have. i saw some lockers one day in Savers, a set of three tall lockers, kind of yellow in color, but they were $50. i wasn't that committed to the idea and i talked myself out of them. the problem is...i kept thinking about lockers...lockers in general. i just really wanted some to help contain my sudden and overwhelmingly cluttered den. so i started perusing Craigslist. you may know how Craigslist goes...if you don't get it pretty much a few hours after it goes on, if it is a "hot" commodity...it's gone. so i kept seeing lockers and then calling and not getting any lockers.....lame. so then i found some and they were available and they were in Queen Creek AND they were only $30. AND...they were large. i was so excited. and then the lady told me that she would bring them to my house because she lives near me...is it Christmas? i was totally stoked. i went out and bought paint and started coming up with all these ideas...and then the day came (last friday) that she was supposed to bring them and she didn't. and she said she'd call me and she didn't. what???????? these are my lockers woman!!! my fixation! anyway, long story short (too late jen)kendall and his brother kraig (thanks kraig!) went and picked them up yesterday for me. and kendall was walking towards me with a frosty in hand when he brought them home which means...they are not as good as you thought and will take more work than you thought, but here's a frosty to make you feel better. but i am up for the challenge...and she lowered the price to $25. sweet. here are some before pictures. pretty nasty huh? i cleaned them today...saw the spiders that made those webs...did my best to waterlog them and then squash the egg sacks i found...