Wordless Wednesday

EEK MICE!

When I was opening up a garbage bag filled with garage sale stuff to sort through today...I was met with a surprise. Apparently a family of mice had taken up residence. SICK! After screaming and running in to tell Dave (who replied, "Well just pick it up and get rid of it"...thinking it was dead...AS IF I would have done that anyway. He's the man for crying out loud). Once he realized that he was not going to get out of it, he came and helped me corral...yes 3 baby mice. We then found the momma with another baby. That took the longest. The vet in Dave would not let him kill the silly things (frankly I didn't want them dead either...nor did I want them in my garage). He caught them and took them out to a field and freed them. How very humane of him. I spent the rest of the day cleaning my garage because I am convinced that they infested everything (they probably didn't...but I am still going to clean it like they had...ick). That made my garage sale set up go a little slower today. Thankfully, Noah spent a good portion of the afternoon at my neighbors playing with her 2 kids. He (fortunately) slept through the mice incident. Yuck yuck yuck.

Cook-in Yenerich Style

Well, last night we hosted the set up/tear down team from church and a handful of college students who are leaving for the summer to a cookout at our house. Since it rained most of the evening, it became more of an indoor affair. We still had a lot of fun (in my opinion). Lot's of good food, games of euchre, and Noah had a blast playing with everyone. I love doing this kind of stuff...especially for the college students. Someday, when Dave and I upgrade houses, I would love to explore the possibilities in West Lafayette so we can have a home base close to campus where students can come when they need a break and a home cooked meal(Only on the nights that Dave is home...Don't expect any wonders from me).

With Noah and Callie asleep, I am going to sneak out to the garage and start pricing garage sale stuff. It will be a busy rest of the week.

Fluid Inventory

Let's take a brief look at the various fluids that are swarming our house: (Jonelly, this might be a bit much for you...fair warning)

1) The general poopy/wet diapers (biapers as Noah likes to call them) from both kids
2) Snot: From everyone. Dave and I both have runny noses. Noah's nose is runny...and yes, now poor Callie seems to be getting congested.
3) Spit up: Callie juices herself, me, and various other things multiple times a day.
4) Drool- Noah is cutting his two year molars. He sticks his hand in his mouth and drools on it, then tries to hug me or touch eyes or any other body part that he wants to label at that moment.

These all seem to come in projectile form and inevitably aimed at me. Today, I feel like I should shower every half hour. We're trying to teach Noah to cover his mouth when he coughs, but alas he usually gets a good lugie flung at me before he remembers to do it. I'm pretty used to Callie juice-ing me and have hit the point where I don't always change my shirt afterwards. Is that gross? Well, if it is, and you want to come over and do a load of my laundry, be my guest.

I feel bad for Noah. It's clear he doesn't feel the greatest (he went down for a super early nap today because he asked..."Night night???". Sure, baby...you can go night night. Who am I to argue with that?) So, everyone here is snoozing, except me. My "to do" list knows no bounds.

Noah just woke up in a much better mood...better see to getting him some lunch and continue with my "to do" list.

Peace.

Night walk

Last night, my parents were in town. After we had put Noah to bed and Callie was asleep in the swing, Dave and I snuck out for a walk by ourselves, leaving the kids in my parents care. We took the dog and just walked around the block, but it was wonderful. We hadn't walked by ourselves in the evening since before Noah was born. It was nice to hold hands and just chat without having to monitor Noah or try pushing a stroller. It was, in my opinion, pretty romantic. :-)

Garage sales

I love neighborhood garage sales. It's all the fun without all the driving. We picked up some cute clothes for the kids again this morning. The prices were still not stellar (I am SOOO cheap. I love getting things for a quarter), but I still found some fun stuff. I still haven't found the gold mine of garage sales yet. Next week, we are holding our garage sale. It will be a good time to purge a little bit before garage sale season gets too far underway!

Callie-3 weeks

Our printer is out of ink...so I don't have a cool print out of "3 weeks". These were taken this morning though. Check out her shirt...it was a gift from our friends, the Wellners. They had it special ordered with her name embroidered on it. How stinkin cool is that! What a great keepsake too. Thanks Wellners! (I have the link to the website if you are interested in ordering your own. It's a friend of Becky's who gives 10% of her profits to Young Life)
Happy 3 weeks of living in this world Callie!