The Week in Review

I haven't blogged in a week! Here's why.

Wednesday, Oct 24th--Papa John and Grandma Mary were in town so Anita took her girls and I took my boys to Grandma's house in Albany. We had a fun filled day which included, birthday cake (Grandpa Bob's), airplane flying at the park, playing at Papa Jim's playground, new toys from Frogs and Pollywogs Toy Store, gelato, yummy steak dinner, and cookies. It was so great to visit with family, I didn't want to leave! While I was gone a lady was supposed to come purchase a mirror we are trying to sell on Craigslist. She didn't show up.

Thursday, Oct 25th--Tobin had his 6 month well baby visit. It was our first doctor appointment in Oregon and it went really well. Our new doctor is super nice and she has a medical student shadowing her this year so we get to learn all kinds of information that I would never think to ask. Toby got caught up on all his immunizations and then all of us got flu shots. Oh, and Toby was pronounced "right on track" and "socially advanced". Basically, the doctor was charmed by his uber-cute smile.

After we left the clinic we went to the farm to spend more time with Anita and the girl who had spent the day with Lila and Eldred. Noah was especially excited to show off Mario, the power-wheels jeep that Lila and Eldred gave him for Noah James Day.* When Noah drove the jeep out of the garage Analia's eyes lit up and she announced, "Noah can drive and I'll sit in the woman-seat where women usually sit unless the men are out working and the woman has to drive the kids around." Yes, I spent a few moments smacking my forehead because of that.

Noah drove Analia around the farm and they even ate their dinner (hotdogs) in the jeep while listening to the radio (NPR--we raise them right!). Geary was able to convince Lili and Karissa to try driving and they both did great! It was again really fun to spend time with family.

Friday, Oct 26th--John and Mary came up to Newberg to visit Uncle Jim and Aunt Winona. They ended up all coming over to our house for a tour and to visit for awhile. It was a fun visit. Afterwards, we were supposed to meet someone to sell one of our bookcases on Craigslist. They didn't show up.

Saturday, Oct 27th--The Craigslist mirror lady didn't show up again. But my mom and my brother came down for a visit. We did a walking tour of Newberg and played at two different playgrounds. Then my mom took us out for some excellent Chinese food. The bookcase people tried again but were late because they got lost and then they tried to lowball me on the price. I was annoyed and told them that I had four other people hoping they wouldn't take the bookcase because they wanted it and would be willing to drive down and get it for full price ASAP. They took the bookcase.

Sunday, Oct 28th--My mom and brother headed back to Seattle and we went to Grace Baptist Church for the second time. A retired missionary, Dr. Mary, was speaking and she was amazing! I had actually heard her speak before at Multomah's Mission Conference and it was a joy to hear her again. Later that night we went back to Grace and watched their Worship Flags team. It was so cool! I could easily imagine all of us in a great celebration before the King with these children waving their banners and flags and dancing for Him. It was really fun and I think we could really find a home in this church. I'll keep you updated.

Monday, Oct 29th--the Craigslist mirror lady didn't show up again! And I had been waiting to hear from a different Craigslist lady about buying a Yoda costume for Toby. When I finally got in touch with her she said, "Oh, yeah, I meant to tell you that I sold it to a lady from work." Thanks. Thanks so much. I have never encountered so many flakey Craigslist users! Also, Geary got his flu shot this afternoon (insert music of doom here) despite feeling like he might be getting a cold.

Tuesday, Oct 30th--Our hot water heater stopped heating water. Geary took a cold shower and asked me to investigate our options but I must have been sleep talking because I don't remember him mentioning it at all. Noah and I carved pumpkins and made Noah's costume all day. It was really fun being creative with him. Geary came home from school feeling sick.

Wednesday, Oct 31st--Geary called in sick. Cold+flu shot+cold shower=aches, sore throat, headache, fever. Nice. I called several plumbers and Home Depot to arrange getting the water heater replaced. Even though Home Depot was a little bit more expensive they said they could do it the same day so we went with them. Three hours after setting up the order I hadn't heard from the contractor yet so I called back and learned that their computers had been down all morning and that someone had called in sick and they were way behind and couldn't it make it until between 9 and 11pm. Geary took the phone and said, "We went with you because you said you could do it today." They said, "Yeah, we'll be there tonight." Of course, they called later and said they couldn't make it and offered us $50 off if they could come the next day. I asked, "When will you be here?" They said, "We'll have a contractor on your doorstep at 9am." I said, "I guess that will work." You know where this is going right?

Noah called Lila at the farm and asked if she would like to see the costume that he made. She said, "Of course!" so I took the boys over to the farm where Noah proudly showed off his costume. After that I took Noah trick or treating around the neighborhood and then we headed home to pass out candy from our house. It was fun but kind of sad--only about 1 in 10 houses had their lights on. I had really been hoping to meet lots of our new neighbors.

Thursday, Nov 1st--9am came and went and no contractor was on my doorstep. At 9:45 someone called and said, "Are you the house with all the mailboxes outside?" I said, "Noooooo? Do you have the right address?" They didn't. But then 10 minutes later Ryan from Fast Water Heater showed up and he's replacing our water heater as I type. He also wins brownie points for letting Noah "help" with his toy tools.

Phew! What a week! And Kudo's to you if you read this far!

__________________
*Noah James Day was a special day at the farm just for Noah this summer. I have a post about it but I need to scan in the pictures. There are some amazingly cute photos of Noah.