A blog about Kyle and Rebecca's family
I previously mentioned that when Wendy and John delivered Grandma’s piano, they also brought my parents trampoline. Dad was so excited to get that out of their backyard, but it does make me wonder what the kids are going to do the next time we go to visit them….
I really want to have the trampoline set at ground level in our backyard, and the kids really just want to get it set up. Today I looked out in the backyard and found several of them trying to dig a hole for it.
Kyle’s mom had to go in for some surgery because they found some lumps in her breast that needed investigating, so we get to take care of her dogs while she was in for that and while she is recovering. Her dogs, Darcy and Ziva took a little bit to warm up to us, but they seem to be enjoying their stay here so far. They are licky dogs though, anytime someone is sitting on the couch they will cuddle up next to them and just start licking their arm or their hand or something. One night after we put the kids to bed, we heard Lydia just start laughing and then she said “The doggy’s tasting me!” sure enough, Ziva was sitting there on her bed just licking her. 😛
Chewy and the cat were unsure what to think of our house guests, and watched them cautiously. Chewy seemed to hide more than usual to stay away from them I guess.
Ziva, on the other hand, wasn’t sure what to think of Jango, Jango being so much bigger than she is.
We had been told that Darcy and Ziva tend to fight a lot, but I didn’t see them fight once. In fact they seemed to like to cuddle with each other.
They got to spend a lot of time playing outside with Jango, which is a huge contrast from what they do at home. At home they are usually kept in a small pen in the kitchen, and are only let out when Karen feels like supervising them, and they rarely ever go outside. I just didn’t want them inside during meal times. The kids tend to be messy eaters and all kinds of things end up on the floor. I didn’t want the dogs cleaning that up and end up being sick from it. It was funny though, anytime Kyle or I were in the kitchen and we opened a wrapper or a package of something Darcy came RUNNING. If we were eating she would just stare at us, watching the food go to our mouths and back. Ziva didn’t seem to care if we happened to be in the kitchen, but Darcy made sure to be right there waiting for any possible handouts.
Kyle and I were sitting in the living room, having our nightly ice cream after the kids were in bed, when the cat started doing some exploring on top of the kitchen cabinets. I happened to get a picture of her in mid-air, jumping from one cabinet to another.
Today’s project was rearranging the boys room. Bringing the living room tables in last night made me so excited to bring in more of what we are going to keep that I decided the car bed was coming in next. I couldn’t just place it in the empty corner of the boys room though. It would fit there, but that’s where the vent for the room is…in the floor. So I had to have the boys clean their messy room and I moved the bunk bed to the corner with the vent and the crib came around to the other side of the room. At least the bunk bed is raised up off the ground and air would be able to flow, the car bed sits directly on the floor. Then I went out into the garage and like the macho mamma that I am, I lifted that huge car bed over the other boxes and stuff out there and brought it into the house. Once in the house I could just push it down the hall and put it in place. Adam was very curious about what was going on:
After I got all the dust wiped off, I brought in the piece of plywood that supports the mattress, and the mattress, and we got the bed all made up. Adam really likes it.
We won’t use it for him to sleep on regularly just yet. We’ll let him just get used to having it in there before transitioning him into it, but so far he likes it!
The piano at my parent’s house was Grandma Shirley’s piano when she was young. Now, my dad is trying to downsize to be able to eventually move into a smaller house someday, and so he offered Grandma’s piano to us. Wendy and John were passing through Utah with a moving truck on their way to Idaho, where they plan to live while John is continuing school. They planned on staying the night with us on their way, and so dad put the piano (and some other things, including their trampoline) on the truck to be brought to our house. We had given Tiffany one of our old entertainment centers, and with that no longer in the living room, there was plenty of room for the piano.
Wendy and John were here yesterday! The piano is now safe in my living room. I’m not going to lie, I was REALLY nervous about it being moved. Dad took time off to make sure he would be at home to supervise the loading and tying down of the piano in the truck. We rounded up a few neighbors after scouts last night and I don’t think I breathed very easily until it was set in place in the living room. THEN I was super excited that it is here and that it is SAFE! 🙂
John also helped me get our living room tables out of the garage so they could come inside and not be in storage any more. I’m loving the clean uncluttered look. 😀