At Long Last

We finally bought the changing table! Note that we didn't say we finally have the changing table. If all goes well, we'll actually have it at the end of the week, when it arrives at the store. Getting the changing table has been a bit of an epic bugaboo. We bought it once, but the store gave us the wrong piece. So we brought it back and they gave us another one, but it had been opened and was damaged. So we brought it back and they didn't have any more and weren't ever getting anymore because of a redesign that... hasn't yet happened. Five-plus trips to the Babies R Us up in Roswell and we're still hoping that we'll get what we paid for. We've spent more in gas getting the thing than we have on the piece of furniture itself.

It has been a big weekend for Baby Girl. Saturday she went with Mama and Daddy to go look at changing tables, then she went to Target, and then to the grocery store. She was tuckered out! Then Aunt Nicole and Uncle Eric came over for dinner, and Little Monster was a charming hostess for them. Then it was bath time and to bed, while all the grownups stayed up late drinking coffee and playing card games.

Miss Fuss started the day early today, and had some rice cereal while Daddy made breakfast and Mama did laundry. When she got dressed, she put on her new boots that Mama found at Babies R Us yesterday. She scared herself briefly when she tumbled over sideways while playing with her Leap Frog activity table, but then she calmed down when she realized everything was okay. Daddy's old book of nursery rhymes helped everything get back to normal.

This afternoon, Wee Goblin is going to visit her friend Vincent's birthday party at Fellini's Pizza. Right now she's taking a nap to prepare for the festivities while Mama plays Civilization Revolution and Daddy listens to some weird Romanian black metal band.