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June 26, 2005
Derek's First Birthday!
Actually, this photo was taken the day before Derek turned one, but he was opening a present from his Aunt Nancy, so it was still a special occasion!
The present was a musical stuffed platypus which plays all sorts of tunes. Derek loves to dance to music!
He had a wonderful birthday, and got to splash in a baby-sized pool and eat cake and ice cream. What a lucky kid!!!
Grandma and Grandpa bought him a crab-shaped sandbox that he will enjoy playing in.
He is almost ready to walk, but resists talking (except for saying, "DaDa!" or "Dah!", which seems to mean "dog.")
He has a questioning kind of sound that he makes for almost all communication attempts, and he seems to understand a lot of the words that we use. If I tell him "no," he gets a very disgruntled look on his face and yells at me. But usually, he's a happy, smiling, laughing baby!
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June 22, 2005
Lots of Stuff
We have had an eventful couple of weeks! A ball game, Father's Day visit to Cabela's, garage sale-ing, visits to Flint...
Ryan and Danielle took us to a Tigers game last week. Boy, was it fun! The Tigers have a beautiful new stadium. I don't usually like "new" things, but this stadium is very nice. They are actually building nice-looking buildings again, after at least fifty years of ugliness.
We got rained on, but that cooled everything off! Of course, we ate hot dogs, pizza (thanks, Ryan!) and popcorn, got drenched, watched the Tigers win and I even saw my first Tiger home run!
Ryan is an excellent photographer, and he took lots of photos. I'll ask him if I can post one here.
I found two Breyer horses at a rummage sale this past weekend! They were very inexpensive, so I was able to buy them without guilt. Yay! They have very kind eyes, which is important to me. We were having kind of a bad week, so the Tiger game and the Breyers cheered me up.
Brian and I went down to Cabela's, which is a huge outdoors store down in Dundee. Derek enjoyed seeing the displays of the animal trophies (including an elephant, rhino, water buffalo, all sorts of stuff.) I was sad that they were apparently killed just to be trophies for some hunter. They were very interesting, though.
They also had quite an aquarium setup. Derek and I both enjoyed that. The fishies, at least, were still alive!
We also visited Brian's parents for Father's Day. We brought him gifts from Cabela's.
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June 13, 2005
Model Horse Show
This past weekend was the first model horse show that I've judged at this year.
It was held locally at a private park called the International Society. It took place in their dance hall, which was more like a rustic cabin by the lake. The show was for any model horse classic size and smaller, so was filled with stablemates, micro minis, etc but no Traditional size models.
I judged the stablemates/tinymites/micro minis, and there were some very nice ones. (No tinymites, though. Maybe next time.)
One of the showers gave me a palomino Little Bit saddlebred after the show. She had it for sale on her table, and I bought one of the other ones that she had, a bay one, for $2. (That's about my budget for right now!) She knew that I liked the palomino one, too, so right before I left, she gave it to me.
That was very nice of her, and I really appreciate it!
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June 08, 2005
Remember how I said it could be worse?
Well, it got worse!
This morning, Brian found out that he had been laid off. Isn't that spiffy? The good news is that he had an interview on Monday and he has another interview this Thursday.
They are going to start tearing our road apart next week, a project which will take all summer long. I may be without phone (and internet) service, water service, gas or electricity for extended periods of time. That's spiffy, too.
I'm sure that there is a silver lining here somewhere.
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June 06, 2005
Jessica and the Bad Week!
Everybody has their bad days, and some people manage to drag them out into bad weeks!
Well, last week was mine! It could have been a whole lot worse, but by the end of it I was sure I was going to lose my sanity.
Brian left for the wilderness of Ontario (well out of cell phone range) the last Thursday of May. I thought that I would have a relaxing week with Baby-Boo, maybe attend my usual round of garage sales, get together with some friends or visit Brian's mom. Well, the weekend started off great with the greatest barn sale I had ever yet attended! I got loads of great stuff for my booth! Turns out these people go down south to Indiana ever month, bring old stuff up here and sell it cheap, but at a profit to them. Their sales are so huge people line up before the opening time just waiting to get in!
That was the good part of the week. It went downhill from there.
Saturday night, I went to visit Ryan and Danielle. (Things were still fun at this point!) We were having a cookout, and Derek fell and hit his head on their patio. He appeared unhurt, but a bit frightened and needed comforting. (This incident would have been entirely forgotten about by now, except for what occured later on Sunday.)
On Sunday, I thought that Derek seemed more tired and cranky than usual. We didn't do much. All of a sudden, at 10 p.m., Derek started vomiting. He vomitted all night, every twenty minutes or so. By 1 a.m., I was frantic and called the hospital. They asked me, "Has he hit his head in the past three days?" I said, "Yes, he has." They told me that his illness might be due to head trauma and to take him to the emergency room! So at 2 a.m. I was in the emergency room with baby Derek.
No head trauma, just a nasty virus! No sleep for mommy! I called in reinforcements and had Brian's mother visit the following day so I could take a nap.
Then, on Wednesday, guess who got the virus? Mommy! I was so sick, I could hardly move. It was terrible. And Wednesday was supposed to be the opening day of my antique booth. I couldn't get my furniture in there at all, and barely got two boxes of smalls unpacked.
Then Grandma got the virus!
Everybody was sick!
We eventually got over it, but it was a loooong week!
Brian has now returned, and things are getting back to normal, but I was offline for that whole week. Sorry if I missed anything important!
I finally have the booth set up so that it looks okay, but not perfect. The three big-ticket pieces of furniture are not there (we don't have a truck, so can't transport them right now) and the best piece of furniture, a beautiful primitive china cabinet, was damaged last night during a storm, and now needs Brian to fix it in his spare time before it can be sold.
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