Case of the Mondays (for the hubs)

Happy Monday everyone!  Well, it has not been the greatest start.  I tried waking up early to get ingredients prepped for a slow cooker meal, and that took a little longer than I thought.  So I was running a tad bit late to work.  But then when hubby went to move his car since it was blocking mine in the garage, it wouldn't start.  He purchased a new battery last week and installed it himself (which was a pain as it was over 100 degrees in our garage), and it worked all weekend until this morning.  After meddling with it for 15 minutes and nothing happening, we decided to just get a Triple A membership for him to get his car either towed or a battery jump.  When I took the dogs out to pee, he tried starting it one more time and it magically worked.  I was only a half hour late to work, but I hope he gets the problem fixed, and not just temporarily.

Other than that, my Monday has been smooth sailing so far, but it's still early morning so we'll see what happens!

This weekend was pretty lazy and relaxing.  We have a membership to the L.A. Zoo, so we decided to check it out Saturday morning.  It's not the best zoo, especially in comparison to zoos in Washington or the San Diego one, but it was neat to check out the animals again.  What we really dislike about this particular zoo are the people...for some reason, we always see these huge families with really bad-mannered children running everywhere, knocking on the glass when it specifically says not to, shouting and running in front of us to look at things.  What annoys us the most is that the parents don't even care or do anything, it's so obnoxious!  We try not to be the grumpy couple at the zoo, but when the above happens at every turn, it's hard not to.  We spent a few hours there and decided to get lunch...and discussed how Baby Hovland will have good manners instilled in him.

When we got home, we had a knock on the door and found a package from the mother-in-law...and holy cow, this made my day:

Would you look at that skill?!  Little crocheted "amigurumi" rattles for Baby Hovland!  They are so cute, and I can't believe she made these on her own.  And next to it is a very cute onesie from Macy's-here's a better picture:

Baby Hovland is definitely getting hooked up.  Apparently she sent another package, but surprise-surprise, we never received it.  And we wonder why the USPS is losing money.

Sunday I cleaned the apartment all morning; I told hubby I think this is my "nesting" phase, or at least it comes in waves.  I get this urge to clean, organize, create, etc. and I'm on robot mode.  Once I finished, we went grocery shopping and found a store called "BuyBuy Baby" next to the Sprouts.  We never heard/seen the store, so we decided to check it out real quick.  The first thing we both noticed when we walked in was it looked exactly like Bed, Bath and Beyond-merchandise was stacked to the ceiling in the same fashion and organized similarily.  We took a lap around the store and noticed the prices were about the same as Babies R Us, until we found a few carriers.  I pointed out the one I registered for-it's this very ergonomic carrier, and it's not cheap, but the store was selling it for $230-it costs $120 on the carrier's website!  Once I saw that, we beelined for the door.  On our way out we saw this cute grass-bottle dryer that we registered for as well; Target sells it for $15, they were selling it for $24.  How ridiculous...so to all my friends who have babies/thinking of having babies, DO NOT GO TO BUYBUY BABY!  What's weird is that same day my mother-in-law sent me an email with their website, asking me if we ever knew about it.  She read our minds!

Well I hope everyone has a good Monday, or that it goes by quickly.  I'll be posting soon about how my crock pot meal turned out, and how Week 20 arrives--I can't believe I'm almost half-way through pregnancy!  Time really does fly by fast (especially when you don't find out you're pregnant until the second trimester...).