In case you didn’t know there is a blog for the new baby. We got a new ultrasound. So for baby news, go here.

And an apology to my friends… I’m keeping secrets now. Thanks for understanding.

My dad would have been 56 today. I miss him.

Mark your calendars, Coldstone is giving away free ice cream on Thursday, Sept. 28, from 5-8pm. Yumm-o!

I’m sad Cate & Kaisara are gone. It was a wonderful, lovely visit, and too short. Left us wanting more. We never made it down to Garden Of The Gods, but we did go to Castle Rock and Boulder. Pictures from their visit are up on shutterfly, and I’m sure Cate will get pictures up soon too. I miss them, but we’ll see them again in a few months. Now I have a small reprieve before Athena & Stephanie come.

Have a few things going on this week. Thursday I have my doctor appt, Saturday Geoff has a men’s group meeting and then I am going stampin’. We’ll be making Christmas cards. Probably not enough for all the cards I send out, so I may have to find time to make some on my own.

House was fantastic last night, I can’t remember the last time I laughed out loud that much watching it. I need to get seasons one & two on DVD.

I read that Jim Carrey & Steve Carell are (sort of) reuniting in an animated version of Horton Hears A Who. It’ll be interesting to see. I don’t think I’ve read that book. Isn’t that odd?

Well, I’m going to sign off. I’ll close with a quote from last night’s House.

House: “Why don’t I have high-def in my office? I’m a department head.”

I was inspired by Cate’s look, to be daring, but subtle.

It’s Chilled Plum. I love it! Next time, I’m going more bold.

Thanks Cate!

Kaisara & Elijah

I’m having the best time with Cate & Kaisara (no surprises there). Last night for dinner Kaisara made enchiladas for us. I’ve never had that before, and it was a different flavor for me. We’ve gone to Cherry Creek, Peet’s, Le Peep, and played cribbage and blackjack. We’re gonna take a trip out to Garden Of The Gods before the visit ends. But mostly we’re just hanging out and enjoying each other’s company.

I just can’t a grip on the days of the week.

I’m feeling much better, just feeling typical pregnancy aches. I’m anxiously awaiting our visitors (less than 7 hours), and I have some stuff to do before they come. I’m taking Cate up on her offer to not make a big deal about the state of the house. 🙂 I am watching Caley for a little bit this afternoon so Amy can get a haircut. Later we’ll go pick Geoff up from work and have dinner at Fatburger before we go to the airport.

Tuesday night’s babysitting session went swimmingly (piece of pie). Caley went to bed as soon as I got there, so all I had to do was watch tv. I watched the season premiere of House (sooo happy it’s back, if only for a month), and I watched Contender (don’t get me started on that).

I got Jeeves & Wooster out of the library to watch, and we got through two episodes. It’s entertaining, but I didn’t think I’d have time to go through the whole series.

I have to get back to my day. I’ll close with a quote from The Whole Ten Yards.

Lazlo: Now you go in and you grab him. You go in and you grab him. Now what do you do?
Strabo: I go in and…
Lazlo: And grab him. Now what do you do?
Strabo: I go in and I grab him.
Lazlo: Piece of pie.
Strabo: No. It’s cake.
Lazlo: What did I say?
Strabo: Pie.
Lazlo: And what did you say?
Strabo: Cake. No, pie.
Lazlo: Piece of pie.

Last night I finally got a good night’s sleep, the two nights before that I don’t know what was going on. I dreamt last night it was Christmas time, and I woke up with some song I was writing in my head. It’s gone now, the melody. But I was working on it with Harry Connick Jr. Perhaps he’ll remember it and record another Christmas album (if you don’t have his two Christmas albums, you’re missing out). Just to make everyone groan… it’s 112 days until Christmas!

I’ve been nursing a sore throat on and off for about 3 or 4 days. My allergies are also really bad right now, September is the worst for me. So I figure the sore throat is probably due to that.

Tonight I may end up playing babysitter to Caley. That’s if she & Shaun are feeling better. Then Amy & Shaun will babysit Elijah one night and Geoff and I can go out. Little Caley loves Elijah, she gets so excited when she sees him, or if Amy says they are going to come see us. Sunday night they came over for dinner, and she was crying, until Elijah walked over to her. She instantly stopped crying, and he tried to rock her in her car seat. But he moved out of her vision, and she starting crying until he looked back at her. It was the sweetest thing.

We got a lot of chores done this weekend, now we can relax and wait for Cate & Kaisara to get here Thursday night. I caught up with my family on the phone, and everyone is well. Mom had a good time in Vegas, and thanked me for the tip I gave her about the mermaid. She won some money too.

I’m starting to panic about crafty projects I’ve put off for too long. I wonder if I will have time to complete them post-baby, so I feel like I better tackle some of them now. But then I feel overwhelmed. Does anyone else feel like that?

Because bad drivers is my pet peeve, I’m closing with this quote from Liar Liar.

Cop: You know why I pulled you over?
Fletcher: Depends on how long you were following me!