March 25th

Catchy title, isn’t it?  I’m not nearly witty enough to come up with a fun, exciting, creative title every time I blog.  So, deal with it.

It has been yet another interesting week.  Ok, maybe not so much interesting as, well, normal.  Oh well. 

The painters are done, mostly.  The house looks good, the colors look great, and we’re pretty happy with the results.  Kathie was getting a little sick of the painters after more than two weeks. And so was Sterling.   I’ll post pictures soon, but we need to get things cleaned up a little and the stuff put back where it belongs first!

Emma is being…well… Emma.  She finally fell off a breakfast counter stool and hit her head.  I say finally because we’ve been telling her she’s going to fall and hurt herself since she started climbing them at 12 weeks. Ok, maybe it was more like 16 months, but you get the picture.  She also hit her eye on an end table and looks like she’s wearing purple eye shadow.  The other night she decided it was time to get up at 2:00 AM.  She came out of her room and refused to be put back to bed.  And when I say refused, I mean refused in the sense that she screamed loud enough to wake the neighbors for 30 minutes.  Oddly, Braden slept through it all.  After I finally got her to fall asleep again, she decided it was time to get up at 3:00 AM.  I think she’s just trying to train us for when Barney comes.

Speaking of Barney, we have under 8 weeks to go!  We put up the crib and move the furniture in his room last night.  It felt good to get that started.  Emma doesn’t seem to miss her crib.  She kept calling it the “Baby Bed.”

Braden has two field trips this week! On Monday they took the city bus to the library.  Yikes.  I can only imagine taking that many preschoolers on the city bus.  Braden had fun, though, and was very proud to tell me about going on the city bus.  Tomorrow they’re going to see a play.  

Braden and Kathie also took his friend Joey and his mom to an Admirals game this last weekend.  Braden and Joey didn’t stop talking the whole time.  Braden even explained the use of a cup to Joey and his mom… and not the kind you serve drinks in. Of course, the best parts of the experience were the Zambonis and the human hockey puck!

This weekend Kathie and I head up to Algoma to help her Dad move his stuff to a new apartment.  More accurately, we’re going to move his stuff for him.  He’s still in the nursing home recuperating.  Hopefully he’ll get his strength back and be able to move back to the apartments.