The fairy godchild!!! She and her mom arrived yesterday. I picked them up from the airport and was able to fit everyone into the Beetle, plus BabyK's car seat and her stroller and a huge suitcase. It was even easy to get her in and out of the seat, thanks to the tall ceiling in the bug. She thinks that dogs ride in the back of all cars, like her dog Oscar does in their CRV, so she was pointing to the trunk of the bug and asking where Ossie was. Um, not in the trunk, sweetie.
Getting the car seat set up before I went to get them was pretty entertaining. I couldn't figure out the whole Latch System thing and ended up just using the seat belt. I used to think it was silly that you can get CHP to inspect your car seat installation, but now I think I understand - they don't make sense!
I got to have an hour or so with the fairy godchild today while her mom got her hair cut (apparently it's really hard to get a decent short cut in Bozeman, MT), and we had a blast. She's 18 months old now, so she knows a bunch of words. We invented some kind of game where I had a bunch of plastic leis in my hands like pom-poms, and would wave them around and yell, "Yay, BabyK! Go, BabyK!" and she would run from one end of the office to the other, then stop and wait for me to start waving my pom-poms again before running back. Ok, maybe you had to be there. But it was Really Really Fun.
Jon and Ryan, who are giving us Ryan's old car because she got the world's most beautiful Jetta wagon. Maybe I will even learn how to drive a stick. It could happen. Ryan has driven this Escort wagon for as long as I've known her, so it's going to be kind of weird to get used to her in the Jetta. I wonder how many times I've moved with the Escort. I think four, but I could be forgetting one. So, now Dennis and I will have a station wagon in addition to the bug. I feel like we should go to Ikea just because we can.
Dennis, who gave me an early birthday present today - the MST3K DVD collection which has the first collection of shorts on it. Oooooh, yeah. Also Pod People, Cave Dwellers, and Angel's Revenge. And I have some new yarn, so my weekend just got pretty fabulous.
