Tuesday I put my mom to work. She was such a tremendous help. I feel bad she had to use her precious time here helping me clean out the apartment and organize our new kitchen. There is no way I could have finished without her. We really spent all of Tuesday working on it. Wednesday, we spent most of the day running errands. We spent a lot of time comparing prices for twin beds, trundles, etc. That night we went to the 3 ward Trunk or Treat with Liz, Branden
and Taven (Superman). What a great party! There was dinner, games for little kids, and about 30-35 cars decorated and loaded with treats. Callie came home barely able to hold her spider bag full of candy. We have all slowly made a dent on her stash. Thursday more
unsuccessful bed shopping. Then we had dinner with the McMillan's. Friday my mom left for Texas to see Grandmommy Dorothy. We were sad to see her go, but boy was it nice to rest. My mom never rests she has a lot of energy. Tonight we had Aaron, Kristen and the girls over for dinner. It is so nice to have space to host a real party. We never could have invited a family of five over in New Haven. I guess that is the difference between 649 sq. feet, and 1400 sq. feet. Oh, we love our home.
Spider house mystery. Ever since we have been coming to our new home to clean it, and now to live in it, Callie has called it "the spider house." We thought it was because when we first came to clean there were a lot of dead bugs, after not having been lived in for over a year. To her spider house was a good thing. She liked the space, and spiders and bugs do not scare her. She often would cry to me, "I want to go to the spider house, mom." She still does this when we are out running errands and she has clearly had enough. When I was coming over to clean or meet with the contractors, I would set up a mini DVD on the fireplace step and she would go and greet her spider in the fire place. At first I thought maybe there was a spider. I would ask her to point and she always pointed in the same spot. I never saw a thing. So I would ask, "Is the spider moving?" "No, mom," was her reply. So then I told her it must be a nice spider. She would talk to it and say hi. I thought it was something she made up. Well, yesterday the mystery was solved. The morning light was hitting the fireplace just right, and I happened to be sitting in front of it playing with her princesses. There tucked secretly under the logs of our fire place was a large, red eyed, black, plastic ant. I busted up laughing, and asked, "Callie where is the spider?" "Right there mom." She was excited that I finally saw it, and I feel bad I did not believe her. I am grateful that it is only plastic, and the spider remains a friendly thing.
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Addie, I am so happy for you guys that you are in your new home and settled! HOORAY! We really need to take a trip down to AZ to visit. How much time does Cameron have off during the holidays?
Yea! You won't be leaving that for a closet-sized place in D.C., unfortunately. We watched the movie of Callie climbing on that bench a few times, and each time Eli called out, "It's DANGEROUS!" Julia just begged to watch more.
That's pretty funny! I would have been really scared about the 'spider' that lived in the house. Glad it's a plastic ant!
xoxo,
Sarah
I finally had a chance to read the latest blog entries. I love the movie and your pictures are darling. It was not work at all being there with all of you. I loved it and had a ball. Callie is so clever and funny, like you said. She has the greatest little sense of humor and with that a wonderful happy personality. I could have stayed for months, and may next time!! Just kidding!!xoxox
Hi Addie,
I'm very happy for you--a new big house, Callie growing up so fast, and another little one on the way. I'm due the same week as you, and I think I'm carrying an acrobat. 99% chance it's a boy.
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