Well, we still don't have a dishwasher. I just did yet another mound of dishes. Somehow there is already another sink of dirty dishes again. Argh. We tried buying a dishwasher off Craigslist last week but out schedules clashed so it didn't happen. I can hardly wait for one...and a garbage disposal.

I finally got some curtains for the cupboards in the kitchen. Here are some not so good photos of them, although, you can see all the dishes I did and the dirty ones that magically appeared after I finished. Also, Tyler is making eggs for dinner so the back of his head is in one photo.

We also got a new fan installed in the dining room and one in Amelie's room. Grandma D came over to help out so Tyler was able to get that stuff finished.

It was my good friend Cassie's bachelorette party last night. Julia, Beth and Amber were all there. We stayed downtown and cruised around on a Limo Bus. We bar hopped, saw a drag show at Gay 90's, had some fancy drinks at Prohibition, and ended the evening at Gluek's with some dancing. For some reason we walked back to the hotel. We ordered Pizza Luce and ate all the leftovers from the shower. It was really fat of us, but totally worth it. I felt surprisingly ok this morning.

Tyler sent me this photo of him and Amelie at the park while I was gone. She looks like she is having a pretty good time.

She initiates games of peek-a-boo with me all the time. The video is dark but it's so cute. She is pulling a blanket up to cover her face and then pulling it down.

She's at a great age. She is sleeping better most of the time. The other night she woke up at midnight while I was at work, and she didn't go back to sleep until I got home at 3:30 and put her back to bed. She's been eating more solids lately too. She loves cottage cheese. So do I.

Rainy day.

This is what I did to Tyler's bike.  If you can tell, I bent the frame when I drove it into a concrete overhang.  I thought it would be salvageable, but...

Luckily, he had that extra road bike that the guy we bought the stove from sold him.  Turns out it's a faster bike and now he has 2 gears instead of 1, so I feel slightly better about the whole incident.   

This is our sweet tandem bike.  The tandemonium.  We have barely gotten to ride it.  I found out I was pregnant slightly after we got it.  On our maiden voyage I was ejected right off the back of it when a couple of dummies jumped in our way on the bike path.  I landed on my feet so NBD, but that's why there are separate walking paths and biking paths on the Grand Rounds.  We kindly explained that to the ladies.  

Abby and I talked about attaching a Burley riding around with the babies in tow.  Perhaps next year.  

 

We had a lazy Sunday and Amelie and I took a nap on the couch.  She's so wiley that mom and baby naps rarely ever happen so this was a great treat.  Tyler busted us and took a picture.

Sam is pretty much sitting up on his own.  I practiced sitting with Ami today so Sam doesn't leave her in the dust.

We ran to Target today.  We got caught in the rain too.  I was not aware that there were Tornado warnings all over the cities.  I got completely soaked on the way home.  So did the drivers seat in my car.   It was POURING.  When we got home I considered taking her out in the rain to see if she like it, but then the sirens went off.  There was quite a bit of damage done from a few tornadoes in the area.  Not our neighborhood though.  Lots of standing water though.  We get this giant puddle right in front of the house in the street, so whenever we pull up to park when it rains, my feet get wet.  I have galoshes...I just forget to wear them.  

I can hear my darling baby screaming again (Tyler is trying to get her to sleep).  We just can't get her to go to sleep and stay asleep in her bed.  She'll fall asleep for a few minutes, then wake herself up kicking or rolling over.  She instantly falls asleep in the swing though.  I just need to find a swinging crib.

I made Zucchini bread this evening.  Well, I put all the ingredients in Abby's bread maker and turned it on.  I'm about to go test it out.  I heart zucchini bread.

Lastly, my neighbor came over to introduce himself to us and brought over a bagfull of cucumbers.  He also has a huge garden (said he'd give me some tips) and sells fresh eggs.  This neighborhood just gets better and better.

My big toes hurt.

Today, we upgraded our electrical service to 100 amps.  I feel all adulty doing all of these adult homeowner type things.  Painting walls, tiling floors, purchasing appliances, calling in an electrician, having a baby...

I went for a walk today with my friend Nicole.  Her daycare was sick so she had to stay home with her super cute daughter.  They came over to see the new pad and we walked up to Lake Nokomis.  We stopped at the park to play and Amelie took her first ride in a swing that does not run on batteries.  I don't know who had more fun, her or I.   My big toes hurt from the walk.   Is that weird?

We got Papa Murphy's for dinner and it was in the oven when we heard this strange sound.  Like a muffled thud.  We couldn't figure out what it was until I went into the kitchen and noticed milk leaking out the side of the fridge door.  Yeah, the temp in the fridge was too cold, probably from when the power had to be turned off then back on again when the electricity got shut off today.  One of the bottles of milk (the full one) froze and exploded.  It was super.  Unpasturized organic skim milk was all over the place.  We had to take out all the food, drawers, and shelves and scrub the whole thing clean.  Just when the pizza was finished cooking too.   I wish I would have gotten a photo of that.  

Now that I think about it, that's the 2nd milk incident that I have had this year.  Remember the first one, I dropped it on the floor after making myself a gourmet lunch, woke up the baby, ended up eating a cold lunch.  Actually, when we moved out of our old house, I kept finding milk drop stains all over the kitchen.

I loathe football.  I think it is by far my least favorite sport.  I hate watching it, I hate seeing it on the news, I especially hate fantasy football.  I'm already tired of watching all the Farve/Vikings hoopla.  It would be great to see some news on the News.  Not sports news, not entertainment news, and not so much negative news.  Good news.  Happy stories.  Helpful tidbits of information.  Thats what I want to see on the news.  

Hooray, my friend Beth is coming to town tomorrow.  I get to spend the day with her on Thursday.  Then I get to see Amber and Cassie too.  We are all going to go to dinner and have a couple of drinks afterwards.  I'm really excited to see them all again.

That's pretty much it for now.  Except for this very very cute photo.