"But I told her that this just wasn't working out."

Sunday, May 24, 1992

     Bob & Michele Bridgeman had a little boy Tuesday. He's still in the hospital cause he has jaundice really bad. It would be so hard to leave your baby in the hospital. I sure hope he's going to be ok.

     Ez's getting pretty good at pulling up now. Sometimes she tries to let go and lands on her bottom. I'm not sure if she's trying to stand on her own or that's just her way of getting down. She climbed up one step one day this week and Fri. she got up two. She still can't get down from the entry by herself though.

     We had the carpets cleaned yesterday. We were supposed to have them done Wed. by a company whose name I got out of the yellow pages. They called twice & said they were going to be late. Then they called to see if they could reschedule us. I told them no. She said they'd even do the bedrooms free—cause I'd told her we wouldn't have the bedrooms done because of the cost. But I told her that this just wasn't working out. She said she was sorry & I said I was too. So we got an appt. with Wall to Wall which is a carpet sales & installation company. They did dry cleaning instead of steam cleaning. We had to move everything that was movable and vacuum before they came. The stuff we'd moved when the other company was supposed to come, Guy just put it back in the corner of the living room. I moved what I could upstairs Fri. night & Sat. morning (Guy had duty) & we were still getting stuff moved & Guy vacuuming when the guy came. It only took about 35 minutes. It looks like all the spots came out. But a couple of high traffic areas still look a little dingy to me. The man said the spots came up pretty easily & asked if it was a stain-resistant carpet. We said it wasn't, that we'd had Scotch guard put on it the last time it was cleaned. We probably should have done that again & I figured he'd try to sell us that but he didn't. We still haven't put everything back in it's place.

     After Ez's short aft. nap we went to Children's Palace. Barb Leland came for lunch Thu. & mentioned that they were having a going out of business sale with everything 20% off. We went to get Ez. a high chair. We got a Fisher-Price wooden one with a plastic tray. It has a heart-shaped cutout on the back. She seems to like it. We also got a few other things—a pink crib sheet, a new syringe for her medicine, a F. P. Slumber Baby (like a baby dressed in a bunny suit, it's really soft & cuddly, we named it Snuggle Bunny), some diaper covers, & wipes. I don't know how long the sale's been going on. Most stuff didn't look like it was too picked over yet. We may go back & get some stuff with xmas money & hold it for her til next xmas. We had to charge the stuff we got cause they weren't taking any personal checks.

May 24, 1992