Serenity Now!

• Getting ready to put the house on the market
  


• Where did we get all this crapola?
  


• So tired - I feel like an example on one of those "this is your brain on drugs" commercials

update: Elsbeth

• Crawling!
  
• Tooth!
  
• 9 month appt = 20 lbs. 2oz. (75%), 27.5 in. (50%) and a referral to an eye surgeon for her clogged tear duct (blah)
  
• Lots of night waking = not enough caffeine in the world for Mommy

update: Andrew

• Turned 3.5 = Big Boy Party, the purpose of which was to encourage certain bathroom activities which until this point he would only do in a Pull-Up during his rest time.
  


• Didn't work. Blast.
  


• Upon seeing a pimple on my forehead: "That is ... (hesitantly reaches forward to touch the spot) ... Mommy's skin?" Momentary silence as he ponders this, then states matter-of-factly, "That's just how God made Mommy."
  

visit from: Dear friend Rachel and Darling Baby Shanaynay*

• So fun to get caught up with Rachel and meet sweet, amazingly laid-back baby
  


• Incredibly kind friend who claims to have had a good time despite the fact that her visit included:
  
  - Mobleys killing borrowed van battery ... twice
  
  - her digging in cold mud 'til 11pm trying to get Phil's car unstuck from our side yard (we failed ... had to call tow truck)
  
  - Mobleys leaving her here alone for several hours one evening because an opportunity arose for us to look inside a house we're dying to get (awesome house! just don't know how much owner wants ... tiny, insignificant detail)
  
  - getting stuck in traffic on the way to the airport leaving her no time to eat breakfast before boarding with Shanaynay (who was also hungry)

Off I go to scrounge for supper, for I am also hungry.

* name changed to protect the innocent