Crazy is the New Normal: Welcome to the family....

Lola!!!

Christiaan and I decided that our lives were not crazy enough, so we added a lab puppy to give us some more excitement. Kasi's stepbrother had puppies leftover and reduced to the price to something so low that we couldn't pass it up. Carter and I drove to their house in Royse City last Thursday night, and I picked out the calmest of the four remaining puppies. I held her up to Carter to see how she would respond, and she just looked at him and sniffed his feet so I decided that was a good sign. The others were trying to climb into his seat!

Friday Carter, Lola, and I loaded up after I got out of school and headed to Waco for the long weekend. It was the longest stinking drive to Waco EVER! Carter slept most of the way, and so did Lola, thank goodness, but there were wrecks everywhere I went, and traffic was backed up in places from the holiday traffic. Lola ended up peeing in the crate just before Waco and I had to one-hand the steering wheel at the same time to give Carter a bottle. So when we got there(after I bathed Lola!), Debra watched Carter while Christiaan and I ate at Texas Roadhouse. While we were there the Baylor basketball coaches and the star player, Quincy Acy, walked past our table and I thought Christiaan was going to fall off his seat. Don't think I have ever seen his eyes light up like that! Hah!! The next morning we went to see Julius play football, where he scored his first touchdown AND caught for a 2 point conversion! His team kicked butt. Saturday night we took him to Baylor's first football game of the season and Carter stayed with his Nana. It was a little warm at first, but when the sun went down it was perfect football weather! And as an added bonus, Baylor actually won! It was the first game that I had been to that the Baylor team, no matter the sport, had won. Good thing too, because I think Christiaan was beginning to have doubts about keeping me around! Just kidding.

The Proof

By Sunday after church I was completely worn out, after 3 nights in a row of being up randomly with the dog and/or baby, so I took a nap for almost 2 hours. Sunday night we joined Christiaan's brother Jason, Edna, and the kids for dinner at the hibachi restaurant that Edna just started working at. It was so so yummy!! I haven't been to eat hibachi in a long time and I love it!! Carter sat in the high chair while we ate. He has never done that before, but he is getting increasingly impatient sitting in his car seat. Monday was a much needed lazy day, we only left the house to get a name tag for Lola. Then Carter and I began our trek back to Dallas. Not too bad traffic, considering it was Labor Day, but Carter was awake most of the drive which meant a little bit of creative entertaining on my part. I give you, my solution....

A little excessive, yes, but we made it home without a major meltdown! Contents of this car seat are one baby, one bottle of juice, 5 binkies, and seven toys.

Who me? Nah, I am an angel, as usual.

So even though it was a short week of school, man has it ever dragged on. Between the holiday weekend and the monsoon/tornadoes that we have dealt with thus far, the kids are nuts. TGIF tomorrow! We were originally supposed to go to Waco again, but Saturday is Brannan's first birthday and I wouldn't miss that, even for a Baylor game! Christiaan will be here for a brief visit, and will bring Lola with him. She has done very well in her crate with the exception of crying the first night away from her momma. Still working on potty training though. She is a really sweet dog, and already knows the word "no" and how to sit! When she comes in from going potty, she sits and waits for her treat!

JuJu is #34

The boys

Football team's grand entrance

Julius took this picture after the game

In addition to being big enough for this....

Carter can also do this....

And this! My life has gotten much easier because of this trick! Except he is becoming ever closer to crawling, which will open Pandora's box of fun. Not.