So this is home-ownership

Wow what a week

 

It started out kinda chaotic. We moved EVERYTHING on Sunday, which wasn’t the original plan, we had talked about moving all week, and moving our “big stuff” this weekend. But I decided (for us:) ) that we should just get it over with. The house was SUCH a mess, I wasn't 100% ready to move, so at the last minute things got pretty unorganized.

But it has worked itself out. It always seems to happen that way.

The first couple days I felt claustrophobic with all the stuff EVERYwhere. But now I've got things at least distributed to the rooms they go. So it’s starting to come together. Slowly.

 

 

(This one is Ben eating a tomato,

I had to take it to show Dad, who hates tomatoes!)

 

So the first fun thing that happened…

We don’t have screens on our windows, the seller took them down to paint and didn’t put them back up. They are a pain to put up, so we’ve just been opening up windows sparingly and keeping an eye on the cats. Especially Charles who has hit puberty and all he wants to do is go out and impregnate some females. Yummy.

Well we were upstairs in Ben’s room, and the window was open. On that side of the house the window opens up to the lower roof. I was busy unpacking and Ben says “NO Charlie!”. I turn around and Charlie is on the edge of the window, I grab him, pull him back in, give him a beating, and then go on with my day…. well Charlie walks into my bedroom, turns around and bolts toward the window. It was like slow motion. And then Charlie was on the roof.

So I was trying to use my niccceeessst voice, to get him to come back in. Remember that I’m home with Ben, and James is at work.

I get his food bag and shake it.

Then Charlie comes face to face with a really pissed off chipmunk. I was sure they were going to duke it out. But luckily the chipmunk figured that Charlie was a little bigger than him and retreated.

Then Charlie started to climb the tree.

And climb.

And climb.

I call James, he was getting off work in about 20 minutes anyway, but told him to stay there while I tried to get him in.

So I haul Ben outside to try from out there.

By the time we get outside Charlie is back sitting on the window ledge.

ARGH!

So I run back inside, with Ben in tow.

Of course Charlie is back in the tree.

And climbing higher, and higher.

So I call James and tell him to come home and help, this is useless.

Of course Charlie gets so high he panics and sits there and meows.

Howls.

So we coax, and coax, he attempts to come down a few branches.

 

 

But THEN! He finds a nice large squirrel nest made of sticks and leaves and decides to lay down, take a bath, and a quick nappy.

LMAO!

 

So we gave up, we left, went out and ran our errands, had dinner and came home, to that little shit just running around the house like nothing ever happened.

 

Fun adventure #2 More window fun

After the Charlie incident we went out and bought these half window temporary screens that just sit in window while you have it open.

The windows are 100 years old, they’ve been painted over 50 times. They are warped, they are crazy hard to get open and closed.

So James attempts to get some screens in, and you have to get the window open 10 inches to do so. The first two windows are too stuck.

The third window smashed into 100 shards of glass all over the dining room.

James was SOoooo pissed. And I have this sick disease, or disorder, whatever you want to call it, when something bad happens all  I can do is laugh hysterically.

It just struck me as really funny.

So today WallSide Windows is coming out to give us a quote.

Yay.

 

On to the next adventure.

It's Officially Ours

Surgery Day has come to a Close

Wow today was such a long day.

Up early, we woke Ben up so he could have his last drink, since he couldn't have anything after 7:30. So we kind of chilled and watched TV and took our time getting ready since we didn't need to be there until 9:45.

Everyone was really good at the hospital, no real complaints there.

Ben was nervous, like he always is at a doctor's appointment. I was nervous, which I KNOW wasn't helping, but I couldn't help it. They took us right back, pretty much, and after trying to get his vitals, blood pressure, etc, and getting no where with it, due to Ben's anxiety... .they gave him what the they said was going to be "Goofy Juice", Juice being the primary word here... Ben hadn't had anything in hours, so he was excited to get juice. No juice. Nasty medicine in a syringe. Greeeaaat. But we got it down, and maybe 5 minutes later Ben was Goofy. My mom and James thought it was pretty funny, slurring his words, wanting to play and blow bubbles, but he couldn't make his blower work... I was just crying. LOL. I couldn't keep it together. Seeing him like that was just breaking my heart. I hated it. He would start to fall asleep in my arms and then get up to try to play, but he wasn't able to. It was a little entertaining, but at the same time I just wanted things to get started and be over with already.

They took him back, he happily went with them.
Thank you Goofy Juice. I said they should change the name to "Stranger Juice" since he just willfully went with any stranger who asked. lol
They said it would be an hour.
It was longer.

I was pacing and pacing, it was one long drawn out anxiety attack.

Finally Dr.Wan came out and told us, and drew diagrams, it went fine.

He can't have any rambunctious play, (HA!) (He's going to be 2 in like 2 weeks!)
for

4 weeks!

No riding toys, no bath for 3 days, lots of Tylenol 3, poor poor baby.

The wound looks gruesome.

I'm still teary.

We may be closing on the house this Friday.

I just want to drink a few beers, eat some pizza, and go to bed now.
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A Change of Zoo Scenery

We decided to hit the Detroit Zoo today, and compare it to the Toledo Zoo. We discovered they are just different, really good in their own ways. I wouldn’t say one is better than the other.

 

Last time we were at the TZ the butterfly house was empty… I was really bummed.

But it was open at the DZ today!! It was gorgeous. I want to live there. There were butterflies flying all around our heads, landing all around, and having snacks. Ben loved it. We all did! It was awesome.

 

Aunt Kelly came too. Ben loves her so much. 

They have a kangaroo area where the kangaroos roam free and you walk through. They are SO cute.  

Here’s Ben covering his eyes before running through the water spritzer with his Auntie.

Here they are poking their heads up in the Prairie Dog area.

 

Ben looked a little claustrophobic..

 

The Polar Bear tank (tank?) is SOooOO much fun.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think he had a good weekend. I tried to make it a good one, since he has a quiet week ahead. {Tomorrow is Ben’s surgery}

Wish us luck!

Plans, plans, plans,

Ben is such a big boy now. I walked in the room the other morning to him just sitting at the table having a drink. It just amazes me what a toddler he is now! You'd think I'd be used to it, I guess I'm adjusting. :)


We sewed Woof's leg up the other day, he was one of my first sewing projects {ever}, so he's not the greatest. I think he's still leaking from his arm, so he might need another operation. But Ben was such a good nurse, he patted him on the back and told him "It's Ok, Woof", and we gave him a bandaid after, and he insisted on getting his ice pack boo boo buddy for him. He's such a sweet boy.

So we STILL don't have a definite closing date or move date.

It's driving me nuts.

I've started to pack and really get an idea of how the next 3 weeks will happen, but not having it set in stone is just too much to handle............

SO

I've decided to start working on stuff for Ben's birthday, since we will be so busy from now until then, and I really want it to be great. I'm planning on having the party at our new house, if all goes well. I'm sure it will be fine to have it there.

It's going to be a Monster theme. I have started to make cute invitations, at this point I have a huge mess everywhere of cut out monsters. I also started a fabric birthday banner, so there's pieces of that all over too. I have so many projects going on, at least I'm feeling creative lately. It's like a breath of fresh air after feeling poopy for a while.

Here's a sneak peek of the super cute invitations so far:

Drawing lots and lots of monsters...

And cutting lots and lots of monsters...

And then gluing lots and lots of monsters....

They're going to say something like "Our Little Monster is turning 2"... it's a little cliche, but it's a little cute too.

Book Sharing Monday

Baa-Choo!
by Sarah Weeks and Jane Manning

This is one in the "I Can Read Book" series.

It's so fun, I'm sure I was meant to be a story-time lady, I do the voices so well for this one :)

And Ben loves it, he likes to fill in all the parts that he knows ... it's about a Sheep who has a cold and has a sneeze that builds up, builds up, and then... Baah Ahhh

No choo.