Allright Already!

You people are sooooo demanding...

I finally gave up. Our camera was stolen by the movers and we had to replace it.

Here's a brief catch-up:

• We are Houstonians!



• We love our house, despite it's disaster status.



• Fear not! The Welcome Wagon is alive and well. Literally.... Two neighbors introduced themselves, asked about a church home, brought cookies and wished us well within 48 hours of arrival. Also, the official welcome people came with about $476 of free stuff. Delightful.



• Kurt, Sandy, and JM brought dinner on Friday night and went for a dip in the pool.



• Gabi loves her new house.



• Izzy loves her new house. She's most delighted that she has more room to hide from Gabi.



• Gabi loves her pool.








• Izzy hates her pool. She has great anxiety and will probably wither away to nothing from circling it obsessively.

• Gabi sweats a lot in Houston. I fear she will never be that cute kid with the dry hair ever again. Every time we take her out of the car seat, the back of her head is saturated. Lovely.





• Gabi fell into her high chair while she was walking around it and gave herself 3 head injuries-- fat, purple lip, scratched, swollen eyelid and bruise on her forehead. This occurred after returning from Linens n Things and declaring publicly that if she didn't stop yelling, I was going to beat her. I shant be returning to that store anytime soon for fear of having DCFS come after me.



• Gabi was delirious to discover her ladybug letters in her new room. She's at home finally.



• We sat next to the two nicest men EVER on the two puddlejumper flights from St. Louis. Both were very gracious and didn't mind Gabi's animal crackered hands waving about. I couldn't have lucked out more with my seatmates.



• It took the cable guy 3 days of working many, many hours to get our cable going. Guess what?!? Our wireless internet does not work. We are defeated.
• Gabi is off the bottle. We did not push this particular issue because it seemed as though she was enduring plenty by waking up somewhere different practically every day. We thought we'd try to make a clean break with the move. When we got here, all the bottles disappeared. I seriously don't think she even noticed. Either she is very, very easy, or very, very oblivious. Whatever.

Finally, our house and pool are glorious!!! We are so thrilled to be here with our daughter. Ed does not start work for another week and we should be ship-shape by the time he starts. Well, at least until I start painting. Did I mention that I love my house?

P.S. Don't get concerned about the nekkid picture of Gabi in the pool. Although, she was skinny dipping, her Daddy had his britches on.