I swear, when I find my camera, the appropriate cord and 10 minutes of waking time, I will catch up on posts. We're missing Kat's 3rd b-day party, the house, the 3 girls (Kat's bigger cousins) playing on the slip and slide, the house, and who knows what else by then....
Anyway, we are all in the house! We're still renting and haven't yet closed, however, as the folks at Dan's 401K brilliantly sent the check that we'll be using for the down payment to the address in Bellevue....after Dan left. We have no idea where it is at present....luckily, the paralegal's first reading of the occupancy letter was wrong and it says we have to close by the date on the sales contract (8/31) OR by the expiration date on the mortgage commitment letter (9/21?). So, we're not getting nailed for not yet having closed. Hopefully we'll see the check tomorrow. Else we'll be asking whomever to stop payment and issue (and overnight to US) a new one.
We have been busy here. Dan arrived after yet anoter cross country trek on Friday. And he had to dive right into work, as he'd been putting it off to drive 3500 miles (I'll get the exact # from him). So we're all here and settling in. I have ripped up the carpets in the LR & DR and painted the LR. Just finished the carpet removal tonite (garbage day tomorrow). All boxes are empty and most are recycled on Craigslist. Just a matter of putting the final layer of stuff currently laying around away.
We have already dog-sat for a few days and are now rat-sitting for Derek & Liza. The dogs and Hermy are very interested in these new occupants.
Kat has had endless fun playing with her cousins. If she knows they are coming over, as in this AM, she waits at the door staring out and then start yelling and screaming that Grace & Charlotte are here. It's quite cute. She still pitches a fit when they leave....we'll have to work on that.
Kat got her hearing aids today. They are bright pink (looks like bubble gum stuck in her ears). SO far so good, though she did remove them a few times, despite being told not to. And at the end of the night she was saying 'no want hearing aids'. Poor little thing, but hopefully she'll adjust to them quickly. SHe did keep saying 'hi mommy' over and over and over when they first went in. Hearing herself clearly was definitely interesting to her.
We're having our big party here on Monday if there's anyone reading who can make it but whom I neglected to invite.
I think that mostly sums up what's happening. I will now post random pics from the iphone (which sucks at this point now that the new software for the new unit has slowed it to a crawl). I tried to e-mail pics from the phone but it didn't feel they were worthy. Nor does it feel that I'm worthy of voicemail. I don't know why, but it doesn't tell me people called, nor will tell me about/or let me retrieve messages. I have a new phone on order. I can't wait!
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