Yard Sale and Other Weekend Fun

We had our very first yard sale yesterday morning as part of our neighborhood's annual sale.  We had no baby or children's stuff to sell which seemed to be what a lot of people were looking for, but I think we still did okay considering we didn't have all that much.  We sold the big stuff that we didn't want to haul over to Goodwill (like our old bistro table and chairs and firepit that was completely falling apart).  The rest of the stuff will be easy to fit in my car in one load.  We made $149.75 - not a lot, but not bad either since the majority of our stuff was a couple of dollars or less.

We didn't walk around this year but it seemed a lot smaller than the last couple of years, probably because of the forecasted rain. I started setting up around 6:15 am and it sprinkled on and off for a little over an hour.  I kept most of our stuff in plastic bins or in the back of the Pathfinder.  Whenever it started raining, I put the lids back on the boxes and then took them off when people showed up.  Luckily it cleared up and got sunny for awhile after that.  I started packing up a little before noon when it was obvious the rain was coming.  We had a thunderstorm develop about 30 minutes later and had storms throughout the rest of the day.  I'm so glad the heavy rain held off.  Even though we didn't have a lot of stuff to sell, it was still a lot of work getting it together and pricing it and I would have been a little annoyed with all the time I had wasted if we weren't able to have the sale.

Brian moved the Pathfinder when we cleaning up and took Carter for a short ride up the driveway.  Carter loves sitting on Brian's lap when he has to do this ...

Yesterday afternoon Carter and Brian played with his Mega Bloks again.  Brian built Carter a dog.  Carter decided he should sit on it ...

Then he decided the dog needed more blocks added to its head ...

I started working on painting the nursery again yesterday, finally.  Last night when I was almost done (all I had to do was the second coat on half of a wall), my roller broke.  I don't know what happened exactly but the spinner just fell off the handle.  So I had to finish rolling the last wall and then do all the touching up today. 

Here are some pictures of the paint ...

We are leaving all the furniture in the same place as we had it when Carter was using it.  I have the new bedding on the crib (it looks so weird raised up again!).  The glider is in Carter's new room temporarily and then I still need to hang stuff on the walls and get decoration, like a lamp.  I still need to finish that sort of stuff in Carter's new room too.  At least the painting is all done!

This morning it was still really windy even though the storms had passed.  We lost power around 7 am and didn't get it back until 10:30 am.  Apparently a tree had fallen near our neighborhood and knocked out the power.  Since we had no power, we went out to breakfast at Panera and then over to Lowe's to get a new paint roller so I could finish up the nursery.

Carter has been having a rough few days.  He's been really fussy since Thursday.  We had all we could take after lunch today and decided to take Carter to a playground for awhile.  We went over to an elementary school near our house.  The playground was designed for much older kids but Carter was still able to use the slides.  He mainly just enjoyed running around and watching people flying kites.

We brought Carter's soccer ball with us.  There were a couple of soccer goals at the school and without any prompting, Carter ran over to one with his soccer ball and threw it in the goal (he kicks it occasionally but prefers to pick it up).  It was probably a coincidence, but it was funny that he knew where the ball belonged!

After wearing Carter out some, we went for a walk around one of the neighborhoods that borders the school and then headed back home.

Even though Carter was really grouchy all weekend, we still had fun hanging out together.  Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day for him!