I recently choose not to renew my Sam's club membership. I'm not sure that I was saving a ton of money, especially by the time you add in the membership fee. I didn't do a spreadsheet or anything so I'm not completely sure that this is true, but it was my gut feeling.
So I went to Aldi's today for the first time. I was medium impressed. They had a lot of the staples that I buy, but were missing several things too...and I'm not really sure that I want to go to two grocery stores to get all of my groceries every week. I was really impressed with the speed at the checkout lane. The prices also seemed good.
So my plan might be to go there when I just need a few things that are common food items and I'll get more used to it. Then maybe I'll go more often, maybe I won't.
Oh, I also have this cute video of Isaac talking from two days ago. I think he's been talking more, but it is hard to get it on video.
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Tuesday: grading
Tonight was a marathon grading session. The class I'm teaching is a half semester class, and the registrar's office doesn't give any extra time between the class ending and having grades due. (One of the classes was actually scheduled to meet after grades were due...we got around it.)
Anyway, the final project was a toy car. Most of them were really cool. Some of them were amazing. I wish I could show you some pictures, but I don't have permission. But there were DeLoreans, gliding cars, dump trucks, hardware-mobiles, Hope cars, banana cars, drag cars, and your "normal" cars. I had the students include a short paragraph with their car, mainly so that I'd know what part they imported, but that part turned out to be really interesting. It was cool to see what they were thinking and really helped me grade better. (For example, in one of them it wasn't that the person in the car was too small but that it was a monster truck.)
There are a few things that I'll change for the class again during the second half of the semester, but overall I thought it went really well.
Anyway, the final project was a toy car. Most of them were really cool. Some of them were amazing. I wish I could show you some pictures, but I don't have permission. But there were DeLoreans, gliding cars, dump trucks, hardware-mobiles, Hope cars, banana cars, drag cars, and your "normal" cars. I had the students include a short paragraph with their car, mainly so that I'd know what part they imported, but that part turned out to be really interesting. It was cool to see what they were thinking and really helped me grade better. (For example, in one of them it wasn't that the person in the car was too small but that it was a monster truck.)
There are a few things that I'll change for the class again during the second half of the semester, but overall I thought it went really well.
Monday, February 25, 2013
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Sunday, February 24, 2013
Sunday: toys
Today I moved Isaac's toys from the main room upstairs into his bedroom. I had them out before so that I could watch him, but now he is allowed to be without visual supervision a little more and I'm hoping it will be a little easier to keep everything clean. Although I really expect that the toys will just migrate out of the room.
Note: He's not allowed out of sound supervision. When he's too quiet he gets checked pretty quickly. :)
Note: He's not allowed out of sound supervision. When he's too quiet he gets checked pretty quickly. :)
Friday, February 22, 2013
Friday: walking
Today I put my pedometer in Isaac's pocket.
Now, the number is probably off. The pedometer probably logs the number of steps that I carried him around. (My guess is about 400 because we went on some odd errands and I carried him more than normal.) It probably also logs each crawl as a step because it is based on the movement and doesn't care which direction it goes in.
At the end of the day, it said 4908. It was a pretty good day of walking. :) It helped that he took his walker and went from one side of the house to the other side and back to the first side and then back to the other side and then stopped in the bathroom and then to his bedroom and then back to the first side. I watched him while I was sitting, exhausted from shoveling. (As a side note, our driveway is shrinking.) He can walk without the walker, but he can almost run with it. And I'm not so worried that he will fall over backwards.
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| The pocket on his leg. |
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| Showing off that he is wearing a whale and playing with a whale |
Now, the number is probably off. The pedometer probably logs the number of steps that I carried him around. (My guess is about 400 because we went on some odd errands and I carried him more than normal.) It probably also logs each crawl as a step because it is based on the movement and doesn't care which direction it goes in.
At the end of the day, it said 4908. It was a pretty good day of walking. :) It helped that he took his walker and went from one side of the house to the other side and back to the first side and then back to the other side and then stopped in the bathroom and then to his bedroom and then back to the first side. I watched him while I was sitting, exhausted from shoveling. (As a side note, our driveway is shrinking.) He can walk without the walker, but he can almost run with it. And I'm not so worried that he will fall over backwards.
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Thursday: dragging
I'm going to admit, today dragged.
Class today was just a time to work on projects. So there were a few questions, but not a ton. It was boring. Then I forgot the library books to return to the library, so Isaac and I just went home.
I was excited to take a nap, but Isaac was determined not to. I thought he should take a nap around 10:30am, but it took until 2:00pm. I kept expecting him to be sleepy and so when he wasn't the day continued to drag.
Once we left for racquetball the day sped up. Hopefully tomorrow will be a little better. If we can at least stay on a semi-normal schedule it would help.
Class today was just a time to work on projects. So there were a few questions, but not a ton. It was boring. Then I forgot the library books to return to the library, so Isaac and I just went home.
I was excited to take a nap, but Isaac was determined not to. I thought he should take a nap around 10:30am, but it took until 2:00pm. I kept expecting him to be sleepy and so when he wasn't the day continued to drag.
Once we left for racquetball the day sped up. Hopefully tomorrow will be a little better. If we can at least stay on a semi-normal schedule it would help.
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Wednesday: a few pictures
As promised, I took a few pictures today.
He likes his chair, but rarely uses it as a chair. I more often see him pushing against it like a football player practicing blocking. But he wouldn't do it with the camera out.
He also likes his spools. They're all over the place, but they're just right for his little hands. So we're making a collection.
He likes his chair, but rarely uses it as a chair. I more often see him pushing against it like a football player practicing blocking. But he wouldn't do it with the camera out.
He also likes his spools. They're all over the place, but they're just right for his little hands. So we're making a collection.
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