Saturday, August 23, 2003

 

Our vacation was a blast! Xander loved The Land of the Little Horses. He wasn't all that impressed with the zoo since all the animals were hot and tired so there was very little exciting activity. Tian Tian and Mei Xiang (the pandas) were both splayed out on a rock sleeping whe we were there. Mei Xiang had a sonogram done that morning and they gave her a lot of fruits and veggies. Since she was so full, she just laid around. I've been keeping an eye on the website that is following her pregnancy/psudopregnancy. It's interesting that pandas go through 'pregnancy' every year whether they are pregnant or not. They won't know until she actually gives birth.

Anyway, the first day we were at the beach, it was so calm it was nearly like a swimming pool. But then Ericka stirred things up in the gulf and the waves were so bad several days that we couldn't get in the water. Xander didn't seem to mind. Grammy and Papa took him to the Gulf Shores zoo one day and to the Oceanarium in Biloxi, MS. another. James and I played a bunch of mini-golf. The one hole that we both got a hole-in-one on we won free games. So we both have tokens for free games next time we go.

It was nice to come back all refreshed. The house we stayed at turned out to be very nice for $80 a night and had a washer and dryer. So, for the first time, we came home with clean clothes! Quite a feat for a two-week long trip.

So, now we are home and the house was a disaster. After such a busy summer, we've a lot to catch up on. Luckily, my mom flew my 18-year-old niece down from Oregan to stay for a month. She's been a great help just keeping Xander busy while I get work done.

Yesterday, James and I rearrainged our den so that now my desk is not stuck over in the corner and hard to get to. Now I actually have a window view! James made some bookshelves out of the free wood that I snagged from a local business that opened last year. They were unloading displays out of wooden crates and they gave us the plywood that the crates were made out of. They have been turned into a puppet stage for the library, two bookshelves for me, and I painted a sea background for pictures at the library. Not bad for free stuff. :)

Xander's kitten finally got named by him. Camel kitty. Don't ask me why. We were out in the pool one day recently and I was bugging him to name the kitty. A few minutes later he suddenly said, "Camel kitty."
"Camel kitty? That's what you want to name your kitty?" I asked.
"Uh-huh."
"Okay." I was a bit skeptical and not sure exactly what to think.
"Camel," Xander called as he looked around for the kitten. "Camel."

I couldn't resist laughing at him. The name hasn't exactly stuck yet. If I ask him the kitty's name he gives me a gibberish name most of the time. Sometimes he meows. He's a nut! Lately he's been hiding around the corner of bookshelves. At first I thought he had something he wasn't supposed to. "Xander, what are you doing?" I asked him.
"Hiding," he replied with a giggle.
Don't they make life such fun?

Dawn posted this at 3:11 PM.

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