Reasons to celebrate

First of all, congratulations to Tim and Kristi and Samantha for their new addition Clara Louise!!! We can't wait to meet you, little girl! Click on over to Kristi's blog to see some super cute baby pictures :) I can't wait to see a picture of Clara and Sam together. A whole lot of sweet.

Secondly, MANY thanks to my mom for responding to my S.O.S. email last week asking her to come save me from my paralysis in the face of all that needed to be done in order to move into a new house and rent out the old one by the end of the month. She came in and whipped things into shape, and by that I mean she packed up our whole house. And painted. And cleaned. And played with Ellis. And cooked for us. THANK YOU, MOM!!!! It was great to have you here.


On the first day of my mom's visit, she was carrying (the fully-potty-trained) Ellis down the stairs when Ellis got right in her face, like a couple of inches away, looked her Grandma in the eye and whispered, "You have yellow hair like me." From then on, they were close buds.


Playing with homemade goo (cornstarch and water):



Thirdly, we are probably moving our closing date up to late next week, which means we'll be able to move in to our new house (in Arvada) a week and a half earlier than originally planned! Woo hoo!

And finally, Ellis has been O U T of diapers for the last week or two (?) which is even better than I imagined. And to top it all off, she's now transitioned from her little toilet to the normal one, which means no more wiping/cleaning out the little one. Just flush the big one. Hooray for that!