Somebody...

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...GOT A NEW CAMERA!!!

And now you know what a Friday night looks like pre-bedtime around here.
I'd say more but I need to go play with my toy. Have a good weekend.

****Okay, I do have to note that Ray always laughs at E posing for the camera as "the Senator". But look where he gets it from. I will be playing with my camera, these two will be kissing babies or something.

Fire TRUCKS (bounce house)

While Ray finished the sink, E and I headed to an open house.

At the fire station.

E is in love with fire trucks. He liked the robotic dog. He wasn't so fond of the crowds and certainly did not want to actually get IN a truck, what are you, crazy?

But he did get in something else that he has previously been wary of.


No, not toddler jail.

Note the flailing limbs in the background of the next two shots.



A bajillion points if you guessed.....

...a bounce house!

Not only did he go in, he loved it. There was a line and each kid only got to go in for a couple of minutes. E asked for a second turn not long after coming out the first time.


Extra points for E because, unlike many of the kids there, he came out without argument. When we were leaving on older kid was crying because he'd had to come out of the bounce house, saying "I didn't have any fun"... E looked at me, puzzled, and said "I had fun!"  Every once in a while, it's all win.

Of course, this just gets us through Saturday of two weekends ago. The weekend wasn't over yet. But that is a whole OTHER post....

I already mentioned that we had a full weekend two weekends ago. Here is the first of three posts to explain that comment a bit further.

Ray and I both got the bug to start making some improvements on the house. Thanks to Heather's visit several months ago, I have had a sink in the garage awaiting a new faucet to vastly improve our kitchen (we both hated the enamel-covered aluminum super-deep double sink we had). Although E considered the sink in the garage great fun, a cast-iron sink is a bit of a tripping hazard. And it works better in the horizontal, plumbed state. Ray had finally had enough and decided that we were going to stop waiting for the perfect faucet and just get a good, workable one.

Thus, Saturday morning looked like this:


(Amazingly, Ray was managing to detach the plumbing while his wife sniggered and kept shooting in the background.)



One last time.


Yay, sock mitten dusting!

Amazingly, I don't have an "after" shot for you all. Partially because I'll never get this posted if I wait for one (I keep forgetting until late at night when the light in the kitchen is poor) and partially because E and I left to go do something else and left Ray alone to get the sink done. But that is a whole OTHER post....

So.. keep checking back, I'll get some before and after shots on this.....soon.