This is what's good about the current situation.

It makes me so happy that Gwen and her Pappy get to spend so much time together and get to know one another a little more. More then once she's grabbed his hand, walked him out the door, and away they go for a walk through the neighborhood. He just laughs and laughs when she does it... "Imagine, she wants to go for a walk with me!"

Forgot to mention a highlight from this weekend... Gwen took a 3-hour nap on Saturday!! Crazy!

paint and picture...

We met one of the guys at our house this weekend to give him the paint colors. Here's what we went with.

Kitchen:

Morning Sunlight   360A-2
I swear it looks more yellow and less peachy in person.

Dining room:

Martha Stewart Living Cavern

Living room and Hall:

Sterling   780E-3

Can't wait to see the final result.

Sunday we visited with my Gram, which was great.

I snapped this one this morning... I love these pants so (they were a cape cod purchase). She's snacking on yellow watermelon and looking quite the "little girl!"

Slightly blurry... sorry!

Hopefully we'll be in our beautifully clean and fully painted house by my birthday! (Now that would be a present!)

behind

I'm behind on emails (work and personal), behind on blogs (reading and writing), behind on returning phone calls, and am just getting around to mailing a package that I meant to send out weeks ago. The cleaning crew is behind too... though hopefully we should be able to move back in this weekend.

::cross your fingers!::

Working on a big organizational project at work with my boss. It keeps me away from my desk for most of the day, so no time for emails or blogging. And that's all I have time for now... hopefully back to "normal" next week.

Gwen and I are both dealing with summer colds right now, and she's cutting the last of the first set of molars... and maybe starting to get the top eye-teeth. So poor girl has been a bit cranky. But we had a nice weekend, and getting to see 1) familiar faces and 2) her pup, seemed to help a lot with getting her to feel more settled.



Friday: Trav brought home the pack'n'play that we're borrowing from a friend until we get back into our place. It was a godsend! Gwen went from waking or halfwaking 3-4 times a night, to waking once at 10-10:30ish and then sleeping until 5 am when she always comes to bed with us. Bliss!


Saturday: We headed to the house for a bit so Trav could mow the lawn. Didn't go in at all, but it was nice to be there. Afterwards we went back to Willy's so Trav could shower, which he did while I sat in the car and read magazines so Gwen slept in the back! She slept from the time we left our place until Trav got back into the car at Willy's, woke only briefly, then slept the rest of the way to Ro & Pat's place. We ate lunch there, hung out, then went swimming. Gwen had a great time in the pool (as did I, it felt like bathwater!), and was so relaxed that after a while we leaned against the wall (still in the pool) and snuggled, and she fell asleep! Then it was back home for dinner and an early bedtime for the babe.


Sunday: Willy left for the week to go camping with his boyscout troop, so we have the house to ourselves the rest of the time we're there! We went to a diner for breakfast, picked up a water table from Kmart, took a short nap, headed to the grocery store, then stopped to pick up Daisy. Willy loves Daisy, but we didn't want him to have to worry about her during the day while we were at work, so she was staying with a friend. But now that he's away, we grabbed her. I'm so excited to have her around again, I missed that crazy pup. After that is was back home to cook up some yummy, honey chicken tenders (breaded with fried onions... soooo yum) for dinner, and an early bedtime for all of us.


Now its Monday. And August! A busy week ahead... but hopefully by the end of it we'll be getting settled back into our own house!