Of changes in mood and weather... or projects and rainbows

I go through moods..
I think I maybe the most moody person ever.
Days of moods,
sometimes months.
Usually...

One day I lay awake with words and ideas in my head just itching to blog , edit photos, tell stories, do crazy oddball crafty things--
the next, I'll have some odd urge to take apart my home and put it back together after a through scrub- all while baking some extravagant yummy treats.
.... and then, I don't want to do anything, maybe watch some tv, play some arcade games- screw around on the internets eat junk and veg out.and on those days I am racked with guilt pondering on the projects unfinished.. that recipe I looked up, those photos I edited, projects I started laid out cluttering the room in which one corner is scrubbed and part of an old drawer or cabinet are laid out on top of..
Guess what day it is???

I think it was Wednesday that Rory decided it looked like rain and decided she would walk around the yard with an umbrella
..but I took some great pics





It didn't rain, but it was VERY sunny. So maybe the umbrella was a wise idea.
The piled up fence pieces... RI's broinlaw and their buddy finally tackled getting that to the curb and out of the yard the next day.
Actually , we had planned to make a quick trip to lowes and wallyworld for Halloween supplies ,before they started working on the fence. Instead we managed to somehow come home and see them almost finished dragging them to the front as we came home...it was luck, I swear.lol

Ah, The lowes trip to plan our costumes...
Rory's costume I just need to get the finishing touches on...



Yup, the paint will work out awesomely! She is soo happy to get to be Leela for Halloween..
If only Ri and my costume was so easy.

Do ya know when you tell the guy at a hardware you need a giant tube of cardboard for a robot costume, he gives you a funny look??
... he thought it was cool. I don't think he knew who bender and Leela are, but he thought it was cool we were all running with costumes to match Rory's idea. Rory told everyone she was going to be Leela, every single cashier and person walking by. Exciting.
What have I gotten myself into?

Our shopping list included TWO big tubes(the smaller is for my head and spare bits),duct tape, red felt, tons of face paint-namely red-(ri is going to be Dr.Zoidberg , gray spray paint, aluminum pie plate/foot cups.
This project is trouble, I tell ya, trouble.I now feel obligated to complete it as we have spent money on it... I will manage this in two weeks. I will...

We came home with all that to a yard full of people.Mel(sis in law)'s whole family was in our yard as the guys moved the fence pieces. The kids came in and played with Rory for a bit.. and then Terah came over to let Lyric and Lennix play .The kids chalked and made a big mess and we tried out Rory's costume in the little while they were here.

Ri got off early the next day and Terah stopped in again, this time with the kids she was babysitting.Rory and Lenny both seemed a bit on edge, (Rory was hungry I think).. Terah already seemed stressed. Lets just say with all the other kids running around and the blow out between the girls the stress was too much. Terah ended up leaving with a car full of screaming kids seeming very on edge. Rory through tears decided to be selfless and let Lynni keep the toy they were fighting over, So we took Rory to the store and let her pick out a little toy.
We have been doing a sticker chart lately, for every little good deed- like cleaning and helping - she does we give her a sticker, enough stickers earns her a reward.It seems to be working ok so far, there have still been a lot of tantrums though.

I was left dizzy over the thought of more kid... more convinced Ri should get a vas. lol.



Saturday, Mom came to pick us up to go shopping. With Aaron and Amy.
We went and picked up Nicco and Lissy too.

We rode into St.Augustine to scour thrift stores.
Got some new clothes and a greay long sleeve for my bender costume arms.

Then headed to Pizza Hut for lunch





Nicco just loves Rory sooo much. He just watches her run around and squeals,.the highest pitched ear piercing squeal




Nicco even tried a little. I can't believe how big he is.


Lots of convo and fun.. Lots of spoiling the kids.

One the way back to Lissy's we saw the most amazing rainbow over the bridge-- Mom stopped by the river to see...
It was faded a bit by then- but still beautiful

Rory says if her Aunt Lissy has the red hair Aunt Amy will need to be blonder.
She seems to need one redheaded aunt and one blonde... or maybe thinks I need a redheaded and a blonde sis. We are part of a set or something... can't mess that up.

Lissy tried to hold the rainbow, maybe she will find the pot of gold.

I dunno if Nicco really saw it, Rory thought it was cool , as sleepy as she was
Lissy let me borrow her dremel tool to begin to tackle the heaping tube of gray cardboard , I am calling a costume.

... I still haven't done much with that.
I thought Rory would want to go to Mom's after shopping, but she had a new toy with tiny parts she was eager to open .
For the better anyways, I was WAY OVERstimulated and over tired. .. plus missing Ri who was off work and just hanging round the house.

Ri's friend Josh was over visiting him bringing sandwiches and pictures of his baby boy.. but didn't bring the baby!shame on him.

Me I am spent. Mentally, physically,emotionally- and I haven't done all that much.
in fact, i have done very very little the last few days..

I made some black bean soup and Rory ate a huge bowl, So I did accomplish something.Poor Rory is still coughing up a storm when she lays down. Made for grumpy time but the cold is pretty much gone, maybe she will sleep some day.

there is a little guilt over not working on my costume.. but I think I will go do more nothing.

Besides, Ri says he will help my with it some on Thursday, and I think Lissy said she will help on Saturday..
...there is a new episode of HOUSE on HULU anyway.



PEACE AND TOFU CHICKEN GREASE

BABYHELLFIRE

“Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.”

-Dorothy Parker quote...

Hi Rockstars and pussy cats...
..and everyone else,
anyone else??

Well .anyway.
Things have been ok.
Autumn weather continued on, along with the new kitty sending us spending most every waking moment out of doors..
On the plus side, Rory has been waking a bit earlier to see the kitty....
unfortunately she has not started going to bed earlier to balance that- we are grump city up in here.




It was sooo cool out I turned off the air- opened up the house, put in a CD and cleaned while Rory sat with the kitty



It was almost enough to make me forget it was Florida... until I spent the next 10 minutes chasing this gecko out of my dishwasher


-- this pic is dumb cause I forgot I had the timer set to take three pics and started singing again..
but my hair looks awesome, which is an effin rarity lately.




Bailey Sweets was a bit constipated that day.. but his poor little baboon butt looked better and he was super cuddly. Poor guy. He would run off, Rory would pick him up ,and he would just accept it and lay where ever she put him , just purring away about it. That continued pretty much all day.
I really wonder if it is possible to do wrong by him, he is too sweet.
( I am in LOVE with this pic, would it be weird to blow up and frame a picture of a cat?)

...
Well, there is ONE thing Sweets isn't so cool with just yet,


Poor Noobs
She JUST wants to lick the puppykitten, cute little puppy kitten.. Noobie can't stand it


"Why won't it let me cuddle it?"

Though, I did open the back door the let Noobie in the other night,
only to see the cat had been hanging out in the backyard with her, maybe things are improving between them?

Also, I can't claim Sweets is in love with his need of three baths a day, and many many many buttwipes he ends up needing , but like the child's affection he tolerates it all for the sake of the attention.We are pretty certain now it is a rectum problem, and not an illness... Our freind assures us surgery wouldn't be a good option(pricey, risky,low success rate) - and he will most likely out grow it.
For now we are keeping him clean and just waiting... please get better soon kitty.

So , anyway.
Some updates. Ri's old freind Chris stopped in the other night.. told us about Harvey,( I mentioned a month or so ago his girlfriend had came over concerned looking for him because no one knew where he was, just that he'd been hanging with a bad crowd.)
Yeah, the bad crowd got him locked up. Chris came over to hang out with Ri and discuss it.
Flashbacky moment,At one point years ago- when Ri&I contemplated an actual factual big formal froufrou wedding- We decided Chris and Harvey would be groomsmen. They where the two most excited people ever... it let us know we'd made the right choice. I think they were the most bummed out when we eloped, out of all Ri's many female friends, and my sisters- it was those guys that were the most excited.
It is super sad that things like drugs ,women, bad crowds ,and such lifestyle has come between their friendship so much.
Got to meet Chris' new girlfriend for a second , before she left the guys to play GTA late into the early morn.


Momo(ri's gram) had surgery and it was a little more complicated than they expected- they said she came out ok and is recovering, Ri is really really concerned about her though. The same day we got the email- Rory got a snailmail pretty card from her. Just one of her random "I love you" hallmark cards with a tiny bit of money "to spend on something fun" in it.


Sis Lissy- took preggy Babysis Amy to the dr , found out Amy has pretty bad asthma(not just allergies/ a cold.) and got her an inhaler.

Saturday we went to visit Ri's Mom's new apartment.

It must be clarified , it is a "senior community NOT an old folks home". I agree with Ri, it is half retirement castle, half hotel. ..not that there is anything wrong with that. Hotel life is sorta cool IMO. You don't have to take care of anything, you have a pool, a gym ,and more- ....this hotel is just full of Senior citizens..and those handrails along all the hallways. Ri says there is no way he could live like that tho.
It's small- BUT 2 bedroom - 2andhalf bath. It is set up fairly decent. I do believe she will be hating that tiny kitchen before long.
She did get the Highest up farthest back room corner she wanted, and the view is pretty great.She says you don't have to be a guest to use the abandoned little gym- and we have thought about how we could drop the kid off in the pool with her, and workout together...we may have to start doing that, if no one minds.
We took her to walmart with us to get the random things we needed and let Rory spend her money.Sari met us at walmart with Lily. They had an absolute blast hanging out - I tried to BEG Sari to come back to the old folks home , hotel in south florida - senior community pool to swim with us all...but she wouldn't.
and I forgot the entirety of the odds and end list that sent us to wally world in the 1st place.

Rory picked out a Littlest Pet Shop Lemonade Stand which she has been glued to for days now.

We had fun swimming, probably on of the last chances we will get with the winter trying to come in full force this year.

Lissy(sis) called yesterday asking if we'd babysit Nicco for a few hours while they went to watch mom and dad at a karaoke bar.Rory helped me clean up, and keep up, all her tiny toys all day.. as the day wore on I figured Lissy might not be coming. They have a lot to do with their friends moving in, and Nicco hasn't been feeling well, Rory wasn't happy about it though. I let her tell Lissy how rude it was when Lissy called to apologize. LOL. Rory really wanted to babysit Nicco. Another time I guess. I caught up with awesome fall tv online , so really I was fine with another time and assumed that might happen to begin with.

Ri did end up getting those odds and ends we needed from wallyworld last night- along with some extra odd



..Rory would NOT eat the finger candy, would you??

It is made of corn syrup and beef gelatin I wouldn't eat it either. ... and it had a bone, made of sugar, on the inside that made it bend realistically, it was soo gross feeling.


More with the bizarre overtired of a child that had been up since well before Noon playing and cleaning... yet is awake past 3 am...
and her father who worked all day yet hadn't gone to bed.
I think they played till they collapsed.

...and she was still up before noon.
and I have had a shitty day.overtired kid+no smokes+shitty cat+ small spat between cat and dog- effing messes...and any other problem you can think of.
We did make some awesome baked apples. Rory LOVED that process and the house smells of autumn.
Well, for the love of all that is good in the world leave me a comment before I start breaking things...
also.note, photoshop is installed and my pictures are popping with bright color and less blemishes. woohoo.

PEACE AND TOFU CHICKEN GREASE,
BABYHELLFIRE

..wherein we meet Sweets Bailey Poof

There are quite a few things I could talk about this week...
Only one of importance to blog about ,
....that, and I think I may have exhausted everyone else with my chat of it.

SO, Saturday
I was chatting on the phone with Ri on his way home,(he had got off work to help his mom move to her new apartment) he was just going to drop of the goodies he had got from the discount grocer , when he pulled in the yard and
he said "Why is there a kitten in the yard"
"is not, I was just out there, maybe its the neighbors"
I ran out to see this mystery critter , only to hear Ri say "It's not ok, get the number for animal control"
Ri thought it had been hit by a car, its whole backend looked messed up
:( When I came back outside, ruffling through the yellowpages with my cell phone ,I saw it get up and follow Ri around, sweet and cute... not limping.
...but just sooo covered in filth from the waist down that we thought maybe something else was wrong-...

We filled the kiddie pool with water and tossed him in, only to discover he didn't even have a tail at all - poor kitty I will spare the rest of the details on it- it was the most terrifying thing I have ever seen , to wonder how he had got in such a position, to think he must have been trapped somewhere to be so skinny, and so filthy.

He is the sweetest cat I have ever seen, which is even more shocking considering it is just a stray seemingly abused ,and dumped in our yard. We fed him and washed his butt over and over poor kitty.


We called a friend who is a vet tech and asked a hundred questions, about what could be wrong with him, how sick he should be , should we rush him to the vet now or would he survive the weekend...
with clean eyes and nose , he told us not to fear AND promised to bring over dewormer and such.


Noobie was completely disinterested in him the 1st day or two, I even brought him in the house - maybe Noobie was trying to behave?

Lissy even came over to hang out, bringing with her some newborn diapers- to help bring in leaky butt cat

Sweets wasn't impressed .

Oh Yeah, hung out with Lissy and Nico too


Weirdo pic of me... how do I access photoshop?

OMGosh... when did he get so big. He was rolling scooting almost crawling around my floor!



He is a little BO


wait... I think I might see a Lissy face
definitely



even got this incredibly cute video in which I look like crap, and I still -suddenly- cannot get WMM to work with my memory card to put it on youtube





....back to the cat .
I thought he was gone Sunday, when it was storming and I couldn't find him in the garage or outside .. I was thinking maybe a neighbor scooped him up now that he was all cleaned up,
or ..something bad. and Just when Ri had given in an stocked up on kitty supplies
I even softly suggested the possibility he was gone to Rory.
But , when Rory went outside to look he came right out to her, this cat is not mine at all, Rory and Rian's kitty. I gave him another bath with new shampoo - he didn't seem pleased - but he let me, and looked worlds better.

Ri seemed to have a pretty stressful day going from helping his mom move all night ,to working all morning Sunday- then realized he was getting sick. He called into cowboys, came home and pretty much slept all evening. He did take Rory shopping while I cleaned, with the intention of making veggie sloppyjills for dinner, but he fell asleep when he got home, He seemed tired, I didn't bother him..( I made sloppy jill yesterday as he was on his way home instead)
Sad though, I thought we were all pretty much over the sick when Nico was here, instead it seems Nico has the sniffles now- this stupid bug is spreading like crazy :(


Noobie decided Sunday evening to finally take an interest in the cat(I guess she realized it was staying)-
& Sweets decided he is not actually that fond of dogs,or going inside if that is where the big dog is..Noobie even tried sooo hard to be sweet. Laying down and going flat to appear as small as possible when the cat bowed up and hissed at her.

Ri wants an outside cat, Sheia ( my last cat) traumatized him about litterboxes, I am not thrilled about the thought, - and last night I almost busted my face on the door when the adrenaline of hearing him doing the afraid cat whine/growl/ screech , thinking something was attacking him- and forgot how to unlock the door (instead, I woke Ri up slamming the door screaming NOOO!!!)- he was fine. I dunno what was out there but it was gone when we made it out.

Plus, I am now fighting to remind Rory to ask permission as she seems to spend the whole day going in and out to see Sweets.
..or Bailey Poof
Rory decided ( despite what I think may just be a bit of boy parts)
Sweets is a GIRL, and her name is Bailey ...after her fav yellow littlest petshop CSI character..
or Poof, because he(she) is poofy.

Rory is beyond thrilled to have a cat..yeah, I will admit me too.
I am sort of surprised Ri has agreed to keep him, but after seeing him that way how could we not? - plus ,Ri says that THIS is why he never wanted to go get a cat, he knew this would be the way it would happen, that one would come to us.
Poor skinny bobtail kitty
Oh- Ri got Rory some new shoes Saturday too- she loves them.they make her look like such a big girl though-sniffle-
Yesterday morn , we woke up to find Sweets brought Rory a present,he caught a frog, and he made a big deal about it being for Rory.. she wasn't thrilled at the gift- but agreed it was a nice gesture.

Ri's friend came over and gave the kitty the basic shots and dewormer,soo sweet. I don't know how to thank him. He told me bobtail cats tend to have butt issues(with prolapses and such) so perhaps it was just that and a parasite ,that was the problem.His little butt is already looking WORLDS better,he seems to have more control about all that too,and he is gaining some much much needed weight.
We still need to bring him in to get a rabies shot, and get fixed.

Today we brought the kitty to the backyard and put Noobie back there just to let them sit in the same yard together. Sweets/Bailey is still a bit spooked by her but for the most part they did well, just letting them slowly get to know each other.

anyways. in other news.

I haven't heard from Ri's mom now that she is all moved in, Ri says her apt is like if a hotel crashed into a retirement home, he even teased her about how he thought she would be far more senile before he put her in a home. I hope she is happy with it all. Sari (in her online communication) seems happy about the move into Ri's moms old place.Hope it all works out
Lissy says Bo is working all over the house to fix is up and get it ready for their friends to move in with them. Transitions all over the place

Last I heard from Mom, Amy and her had been sick too :( I have completely lost track of the day and am not sure when Ri is off again...

Well.. I know I am forgetting something, but I am off to go clean more


PEACE AND TOFU CHICKEN GREASE,
babyhellfire

You are the only flower of meditation in the wilderness, okie dokes?

Rory says Okie Dokes all the time .. the rest is what her fortune cookie told her.

10 days...10 days ago I left you whining about my neverending flu bug.
Nope. I did not die of the swineflu
Though, the laptop might of...
well, in the sense that the panic over swine flu is equivalent to the panic over Y2k ,
and I can blame any unfortunate occurrence on it, can't I??I can right?

Basically.Ri came home, I handed him the laptop and the thing went ~poof~ blackscreen. Some goggling on dinoputer showed us how to get the lights on it to show us an error code-which revealed fried videocard, and being a beautiful dell that she was had an integrated chip...so the motherboard also pretty much went ~poof~
sunnuva!!
On the bright side that means we may still have a harddrive from the old beast, assuming we can find away to get into it. .. So . Ri dusted off the dell card, that we had JUST paid off mind you, and went back to the refurbished list to find us a nice little laptop,even better than the last one- for fairly cheap(though more money that I wish to not have to spend ,when we just said things about belt tightening grr grr grr)

Soo- three days shipping time was set,we have the mute dinoputer... but its best for checking email, a forum or blog if you are lucky- slow and glitchy for that even
, so no tv , no youtube no games and no fun no fun. Me still feeling crappy. Coughing soo bad I needing meds to sleep.. I hate taking crap.
Rory continued her streak of being an awesome (yet nocturnal)kidlet, so we played outside, and took pics instead of internet games)
PLus the autumny evening weather is nice(still 90s in the afternoons tho )



We played with Noobs, and with chalk
-Rory is such an art junkie lately she spend the day drawing pictures and letters or hiding in her clubhouse/bed with littlepets or baby dolls.
The season mural was Rory's idea. She says her favorite season is summer, because she loves swimming...
.so she needed to go swimming..
I could fix the colors in these pics and make them soo awesome-but I don't have photoshop on here yet :( -- just when I am up early and could really have fun making pics for my other blog)



I was trying to clean her pool and let her swim.. she thought it was the coolest thing ever



In other news... Ri's mom finally decided to move to the apts she has been considering for years.She says she is just DONE with having a yard and all that maintenance, plus the big place is pretty much unnecessary for her with all her kids grown up and moved out..
I think Sari is going to move into her place though, so even cooler all around.
Lissy and Bo are having friends move in with them.
Ri started his short vacation.. woot !!
He mostly just hung around the house.. worked more on taking the fence down. Woke up before me every morning unable to get out of the habit.

Somehow the laptop made it here on FRIDAY- I was really thinking it wouldn't make it here before the weekend turning our five business days into more



old and new.. its so much smaller it is weird to get used to -but the screen is better so tv surfing hooray!And Wooo hoo a fully functioning keyboard I have a working letter K!!

Saturday I woke up from a stupor of crap I took to stop coughing long enough to fall asleep- to see a clean kitchen, a big bucket of soda and a clean dog. Ri had woke up, washed the dog, cleaned the kitchen, taken Rory on a bike ride and to the store while I napped. awwww!
I have been soo sore from coughing in my sleep and coughing all day long.. it is terrible.

Terah invited us over to let the kids play and do art projects ...Well, someone has gotta do craps* with Rory, I've never been a huge fan of craft projects, art yeah- projecdts, not so much.

*I miss when Rory used to call crafts craps..lol

I didn't really want to go see the kids coughing up a contagious storm, on only a few medicated hours sleep .
I asked instead to drink a bit more nyquil and stay home while hubby took Rory... it was hard. I did sort of want to go. I packed a bag of art stuff and a drink for Rory, I even gave her the cam.. seeing the pics the kids took was totally worth the finger prints on the lens




She had an awesome time and colored and played.
Unfortunately, I was woken up by Rory running in the door crying hystericallly for me...
she was a bit traumatized seeing Terah go to swat at what she thought a fly, but was actually a wasp, and it stung her.Rory has been a bit extra bug phobic lately, and that thought- bugs biting someone back, was too much for her without me.


Ri had to work a little on Sunday.. and called and left some odd message about going to TN during this four day vacation..what??? the man who earlier in the week said we couldn't afford a zoo trip?
at the same time Lissy left a message telling me she was on her way to spring, did I want to come, AND did I have any advice about good springs to go to- call her- she said from an unlisted cell number....
um.

I swear I woke up from odd nyquil oversleep cough dreams to think that the virgos in my life had lost their sanity..or were trying to make me lose mine.
I was half waiting for mother in law , and tata to call with cryptic messages too.

I zombied around the house finally catching up chores and tv... man, its nice to move the laptop to the kitchen - stream hulu and do dishes.

Midnight the kid tells me her tummy hurts, and her head hurts. I try feeding her- and take her temp(nothing) ..I give her tylonal just in case the bug is trying to get to her.. sure enough she soon runs a fever..

she was up and down all night after that,as soon as the tylonal wore off she would wake up and run another fever. One was complete with the fever nightmare...
--Did you know if you tell someone a nightmare it can't come true?? Well, thats what Rory says.. therefore, I don't hear about her dreams ,
but I do hear about nightmares-ones where glowing rainbow cats that drive big gray boats and kidnap little girls ..fever nightmares always seem sillier than scary once you say them outloud.
she woke up extra early in the morning suddenly hyper.We made muffins

She seemed to feel a bit better and was happy playing all day after that.
Ri had to run to Radioshack in search of a part for the hard drive...they didn't have it..
we walked around a bit

Rory was being extra good holding her skirt like a princess..
We stopped in wally world to get the LPS journal she wanted.. though there was a battle because she wanted the peacock toy and they didn't have it.
Ran into my cousins- Missy and Mandy.. who said they have also been sick, I swear everyone has.

Ri treated hungry Rory with krytal chiks on the ride home.. he got me a bk veg.

Rory fell asleep early..which excited us, since we were going to go to Ri's boss/friend staycation rental the next day and she was seeming healthy enough to give it a go...
but I was nervous to meet his coworkers ,boss,friends and all..she soon woke up realizing we were still up.. and then it was a struggle to get us all to bed...
a bigger struggle to wake up
I think I was asleep most the way to st.auggy.

We feared bad weather driving through a little storm but it was clear and perfect when we got there.

It was super cool to meet and spend time with everyone finally.
Everyone was funny and nice as expected :) (expecting such doesn't mean I was less nervous tho)
Food was awesome- veggie kabobs , sweet potatoes , fruit, salad , artichokes- I was stuffed. Rory ate as fast as she could to jump in the pool with their little boy..
OMG! he is like boy Rory. Some of the words/phrases they use are even similar, they both seemed so big talking and walking through the house like adults.. omigosh,my baby she is soo big~sniffle~
She was soo big in the pool with him ,too. He has just
learned to cannon ball and belly flop into the pool. He was trying to teach her, she wasn't interested, but she was far less afraid to swim into the deep end once he was there.


It wasn't long before everyone was jumping off of the porch deck into the pool
...everyone except me and the kids, tho Asher did really want to try.
I got great vid of that but a last I can't get vids up today , another day another post.
Hilarious great fun,food and convo.

Rory and Asher spent a long time in the room watching tv and playing with matchbox cars- they are apparently his equivalent of Littlest Pets and he told Rory about every one.They also played hide and go seek AND tag. soo cute.
She said she loved it.

The guys decided to go out on the paddle board and kayak ..

Ri had even tried the paddle board a bit earlier, he did better than expected, he fell trying to do a quick turn.. but he said it was easier than he thought to jump up on it.

... they said they freaked some guy out coming back into the canal. He had seen their heads through the bushes and thought it was three guys in a canoe- and that one -jerry- was standing up fishing..He couldn't see the board and thought Jerry was Jesus walking on water.
LMAO
We joked about how it wasn't a vacation it was a bonding seminar , a team meeting, a food tasting- and so on. It is defiantly the best place Ri has ever worked , and seemingly the best group he has ever worked with/for. - I didn't know until the next day but the even gave them bonus and sweet thank you cards

While they were gone I chatted with Bobbi and Rory swam with Asher more..

He taught her the "inchworm" going around the pool holding the side inching a long..
the WHOLE pool.


I took a vid too, the way he said inch-worm with each hand was soo cute.
The kids ate some more and watched tv. Then decided it was time for dessert as we were leaving. LOL. the D word was spoken. ..and Rory declared she wanted oreos,actually she wants Ri to deep fry an oreo for her,like we saw on conan the other night- we said maybe another day. We did stop by the store and pick up junk food including oreos for the ride home.

I was soo tired. Rory slept a little on the ride home. And said she was tired, you could SEE she was in her eyes. We layed her in bed with a movie on, but she fought sleep.. in fact she fell asleep for a second, then woke up and cried and tantrummed for HOURS over everything from the air vent, to the blanket ,to her eyelashes - and then to me not loving her when she screamed, all because she was so so overtired. WTH- just go to sleep! I ended up convincing her that the only reason she was soo upset was because her body was tired and nothing will be right until she gets some REST at least rests.She eventually fell asleep while resting in her bed.. thank god.

Today, we had dentist appointments.Ri and I both at the same time. We had asked Lissy to watch Rory for that hour or so, but there was a lot house fixing stuff going on there .. so we asked Ri's mom sort of last minute. Luckily she was MORE than thrilled.Rory was just as excited to go to Grammy's as Nicco's tho she did make a point to mention that it has been to long since MY mom has babysat her...next time I guess.

We woke up later than planned and ended up dropping Rory off and racing to the dentist.Still ended up spending a long time in the waiting room.. but hey! it was on headline news instead of foxnews.-which is something, they even talked about the on going local news case drama.

Filling sucked - and it was cold, and I forgot to bring a jacket- Ri got numb and grumpy. Now,He needs all of his wisdom tooth taken out and has an appointment for an oral surgeon which he is pretty stressed about . :(
Rory had an awesome awesome time at her Grammy's.Swimming, snacking ,playing- It was hard to get her to leave.
Came home zombied out. I clewaned the kitchen and Ri made lunch.
Rory threw another oversleepy tantrum,ate and felt a little better. Terah stopped in a little while to chat while she was nearby and her mom had the kids.
Lissy came over after she left. We played with chunky Nico
He was like" Oooo puppet show"
"this is awesome"
..then he wondered about the box

He also tried to eat Rory's hair and slobber on her toys.
He is getting sooo big!!!
Rory says she even heard him say Rory ..and he might have Lissy says he has been saying little words. Like "Ho-ho" for Rosco their dog.
Rory also stole the camera and took loads of pictures, while me and Libby chatted



I look terrible but I am posting it anyway

Rory decided she had to put him in a box before he went home to bed

So they were on a train.. he thought it was hilarious! I love his excitement soo cute



Aww sooo cute!!


Ri ordered chinese for dinner and took Rory out to get it.LOVE chinese food- we ate soo good.
I am soo tired.ugh.The house is a WRECK
I have no idea how Rory has enough energy to be awake now.
Well. I'm out of here before I pass out on the keyboard.
HOPEFULLY I will have photoshop and all my lovely hardrive stuff on this laptop soon- please please please be intact.
Sorry this is soooo long.
PEACE AND TOFU CHICKEN GREASE
BABYHELLFIRE