wavywards: The Squirrel

Let's first discuss the Squirrel. Saturday night Stan and I are sitting on the couch in the living room watching TV and Stan looks up and says, "What is that?!" Apparently, Squirrel has decided to mimic us and renovate his home which is on the beam separating the living room and dining room, and juts outside of our house right above our TV. While renovating his winter hibernation haven, he broke through the drywall! Yes, there is now a small hole (with some insulation sticking out) above the TV. All I could think of was that Stan would leave on Monday and Tuesday, somehow this Squirrel would end up sitting on the couch watching TV with me!! Yikes!

We had set the trap out on Saturday morning and actually watched as the Squirrel went into the trap, grab the apple and leave without being captured. Pesky little rodent! Now that time was running short, Sunday, Stan set the trap and 30 minutes later we heard the wonderful sound of metal to metal...the Squirrel was trapped. We drove him 13 miles away to Abasin, his new home.

Monday morning we scurried off to the hardware store and bought metal plates and spray insulation to again, close up this hole. Keeping our fingers crossed that this pesky rodent does not find his way back to Dillon and try to eat his way into his cave.

More activity this weekend...our floors are complete. Our friends Jason, Gretchen and Dave came over Friday and with Stan's help, finished installing the stairs. The oil will be applied this week! Now we just need to paint the walls, stain the columns and install the new trim.

Casey has been great with all these projects. Hardware stores have become her second home. She will most likely become a famous developer/architect/builder with all this experience at such a young age!

Casey is still taking 3 naps during the day and her bedtime is 7:00 p.m. She cannot make it much past that time. She sometimes wakes up in the middle of the night (3:00 a.m.) and talks for 30-60 minutes, which isn't that fun, since we can hear her through the monitor. In the morning she has been waking up between 6:30 and 7:30 a.m., but seems content to playing and scooting around in her crib until we decide we're ready to get up and get her. She loves to kick on her crib aquarium, so Stan and I have been waking to Canon in D most mornings.

She drinks 6 oz bottles 5 times a day. She is still trying to figure out the oatmeal with bananas. She is slowly learning to open her mouth to take the oatmeal in, but then spits most of it back out. She's more interested in eating her bib or the high straps than the actual oatmeal.

She is getting so much stronger sitting and can even pull herself into a sitting position when she is leaning back. She loves to squeal, sometimes does it the entire 1 1/2 hours while she's up.

We oovooed (video calling) with Gramma Gail last night and Casey was mesmerized with the pictures of her and Gramma on the computer screen. She kept trying to grab at the faces.

Friday, Casey and I went to our first Mommy & Me yoga class at the Rec Center. There were about 10 other pairs there...kids of all ages, from 3 weeks to 15 months. Casey met a girl, Rowan, who was born the same day as her. Casey was very well behaved and seemed to enjoy the class. She watched the other kids, rolled around, sat around. Not much actual yoga going on, but it's fun getting out with other moms and babies.

As for the weather out here...we got some snow this weekend and the temperature has definitely dropped into the 30's at night and upper 30-upper 50's during the day. Arapahoe Basin Ski Resort has been making snow and they are supposedly opening on the 15th. Looking forward to taking some runs this weekend!!! Maybe we'll run into Squirrel (or run over him...)

Casey wants to send a HUGE Congratulations out to Aunt Marcy who finished a 1/2 marathon this past Saturday in Baltimore!! And a Good Luck to Aunt Kel who has her midterms this week.