ohmigosh!

We have FRIENDS!

For the first time since we had Tristan, we've met a couple that we really hit it off with. Jon and I have both had good friends before (*sniff* mostly left in KC), but we've never found another family that we all hit it off with. They have a 2 year old (who Tristan now calls "my best friend") and a 5 month old. They're the couple whose home we went over to a couple of weeks ago. They came over for dinner Saturday night, then (on the spur of the moment) we met them for dinner on Sunday. The restaurant was pretty empty, which was great because the boys could run around and act their age. Afterward, we went over to their house for tea and ended up staying til 11! Geez. Jon and I are so excited about this. We're having breakfast with them again on Saturday.

Besides that, it's been a fairly uneventful week. Oh, wait! We're getting a second car!!! Jon's mom is giving him a *new* Honda! Gasp! Our single car family days are over. We're all going to go to KC at the end of the month (KC mamas, wanna do anything?) and were going to just fly up, then drive the new car down, but it's ending up being cheaper for Jon to fly up alone this weekend, drive it down, then we'll all drive up in it together for our trip later this month. So, after this weekend, I won't have to drag the kiddos out of bed every morning and end up having Jon late for work anyhow, lol. I can't wait!

And I'm really, really wanting pet ratties again. Sigh. I think it's displaced baby fever, after seeing a few really sweet newborns over the past few weeks. That's ok, though...rats are cheaper and quieter, even if they don't quite scratch the itch in the way another baby would.

Photos of the Week:


Tristan and Ellie playing "the cheerio game" (invented by the former). How do you play it? Well, you get a baby. Then you throw cheerios at her. Then she eats them.


Tristan's self-titled masterpiece, Big Giant and Baby Giant.