adventures with baby

Saturday night we went over to the Terre Hill Days again and won Chase a fish at one of the little games. We got a little aquarium and food for it and Monday morning it was floating around on it's side and looking a bit pale. I knew it was going to die soon so I wanted to flush it before it died and grossed me out. Chase and I went to the toilet and I dumped it in and told him to say bye to the fish. He flushed the toilet and as Oscar (what Ricky named it) was going down Chase waved and said, "bye-bye fish". Ricky came home from work in the evening and asked Chase where the fish was and Chase waved and said "bye-bye fish". It was pretty funny. Poor Oscar though. Let's have a moment of silence, shall we?


Goodbye Oscar... we hardly knew you.


Ok, Seriously though. I've been pretty busy lately. Monday, Patty(Ricky's sister) called me in the morning and said that she and a bunch of other ladies and children were getting together at Ricky's aunt Francie's house. Tina (cousin) had the idea of doing a carnival for all the kids. She had come up with all sorts of games for them to play with prizes. She also made lunch for everyone with carnival food like popcorn and funnel cakes and slushies, etc. We went over there around 11:00 and left at 2:00. Chase desperately needed a nap when we got home. I always like to see how he acts around other children. He likes them but doesn't really play with them. He keeps himself occupied really well. He reminds me of when Dawn was little and how she used to play by herself all the time. This one picture cracks me up because Chase was giving Joanna kisses and I was trying to get a picture of it. She accidentally touched his car and he was very concerned about it as you can see. hahahaha

I was trying to get a picture of Joanna smiling but my camera is slow taking pictures so I only sort of got it. She smiles a lot bigger and for real. I think she smiled at my dad the other day so he can vouch for me if you don't believe me.

Oh, and she does have eyebrows, but they are blond and so are her eyelashes. That is why I think she is going to turn blond but Ricky thinks I'm crazy.

So Tuesday, I went to NJ with the circus (literally). I left at 9:00am and took both adult dogs and all 3 puppies and both the kids. It took me about 2 hours to get there (usually an hour and a half) and I hit traffic and stopped to change Jo's diaper, so that wasn't bad. I had to go down because the puppies needed their shots and I don't feel comfortable giving them yet. I decided to go down there because I also wanted the adult dogs groomed by the woman who used to do them for my parents. She does such a nice job and I haven't found anybody who can groom them that well up here. I'll have to get a pic of them, they look nice. So I hung out at my parents until 3:00 then my mom and I went and picked them up. We came back to their house and I tried to nurse Jo and then hit the road around 20 of 5:00. It took me 3 hours to get home! Yikes! I had to stop a couple times and also hit really bad traffic on the Schuylkill. I stopped at a McDonald's with a playground the one time and let Chase run around a little. He was pretty whiney the whole ride back because he hadn't napped enough. Eww, he stuck his hand in something, what is that?

I was so mad when I got home because Mishti threw up as I was pulling into the driveway. Ugh! She made it that whole way!
Oh well. Joanna slept really good last night so I feel pretty good today. I was so tired last night though. I'm hoping Ricky has an early day today. It's supposed to be raining but right now it just looks dreary. I have tons of laundry to do today and thought I might start pulling the wallpaper border off in the living room. I also wanted to try and pick some tomatoes, but I'm not sure if I'll get to that. Does anybody have a good recipe for ketchup? That's all for now.