BIG weekend!

We (my sister and I plus our children) had a playdate with our new little/big friend Jordan Junior- It was super fun and Max brought a toy to share and everyone seemed to like it. It was nice to see the lovely Petmecky ladies and start down the road of our babies being friends. JJ is funny and adorable and we discovered that he had two newly cut teeth while we were there! Very exciting. :)

Carolyn let Selah and I go through all the clothes that JJ had outgrown and in addition to some awesome playclothes that are the right size for Max RIGHT NOW, there was this little chef hat! I surprised Jack with it and we had a good laugh.

On Saturday I awoke to my husband running through the house yelling "Oh no, Oh no!" Upon rising I find that he just opened our interior garage door to find that two of our longhaired cats had been locked in there all night and had somehow managed to knock over some motor oil and were both covered in it. Lola got the worst of it. We manage to capture them and Jack is trying to rinse Lola off in the bathtub. I bring in Magneto and he moves Lola to the kitchen sink (we had put Max in his playpen). Once I got some of the oil off Mags I went to assist with Lola because as squirrely as Neto was being I knew Lola would be worse, plus she was DRENCHED while he mostly just had it on his undercarriage. Surprisingly Lola was basically inert for most of the bathing. I was so worried that this meant that she was ill, but it seems that maybe she knew we were trying to help her. At some point I called my parents because bathing each of these cats was a two person job that could go horribly wrong at any moment and we have a 6 month old to look out for as well. I felt we needed reinforcements. Max was so good though, that Jack and I had the cats washed (as good as we could at the time) and in boxes ready to go to the vet by the time that Mom and Dad got here. Big boys went to the vet, girls stayed with Max-o. The cats are fine, and my parents get to blow bubbles for Max. They brought us moving boxes, and while all of this is happening, we get our Falcon Storage Go-Mini delivered to our yard. It was a crazy morning.


This is a very cool way to move by the way- you just get this delivered, rent it by the month, fill it up at your own pace, then have them take it to your new house, you unload it there and then call them to come take it away! Awesome! Next on the agenda is meeting our friends to show them our house-to-be. We meet at my sister's house (because it's so close!) and she reminds me that some friends are having their son's 1st birthday party that day! I'd totally forgotten- add one more thing to our so far very full day.
We checked out the new digs and Max got to play on the floor, but the power was off and we were all wilting, so after a quick once over and some pictures we went to lunch- yum. :)
This kitchen shot is my favorite pic of our house to be- it looks so bright and open and I can't tell you how happy it makes me. It's not the most amazing house and it wasn't our first choice either, but it's the one that was timed right, priced right and located right and it's really growing on me. :)

After lunch, Jack and I make a quick detour to Half Price Books to pick up a birthday present for little James. When we arrive at the birthday party Max is fast asleep- I tried to get him to nap again while we were there but to no avail. He starts to get pretty cranky and tired around 6 these days and is waking up before 5!! I (so far) have not gone in his room until it is actually 5 am or a little later- but this is no fun. He's sleeping at least 10 hours still so I don't feel like I can make him wait longer and when I try to keep him up later he still wakes up just as early. Any advice?


His first birthday party to go to was reasonably successful, it's nice when you go somewhere that understands what it's like to have a baby. The hosts were very accomodating and lovely- they have so many friends with babies right now! Little James has lots of friends :)