Aurora Borealis

We were supposed to meet up with some of the folks from the pro-life commitee after they got finished with this afternoon’s annual Life Chain down at the cathedral.  But the benediction service following Life Chain must have been very brief because they were done much earlier than expected and weren’t interested in waiting until the pizza place opened at 5:00.  So just the family went.  Agent Murphy struggled to take an afternoon nap, but he still managed to be mostly happy at the restaurant.  (A kid’s birthday party - 8 kids and 8 adults - came in right after us, so even if he’d decided to be cranky and loud, it wouldn’t have mattered.)  Good food, and we’re glad to see this neighborhood pizzeria is doing good business, and we were very excited to see an ice cream shop is “coming soon” across the street.

In other news, all the letters from Agent Murphy’s name puzzle bench are currently accounted for.  It’s good he has his whole name back!

Well, sort of.  We had leftover pumpkin soup on the menu for lunch today, and we planned to make RW’s pumpkin pancakes with some of the extra canned pumpkin.  So we had them together as pumpkin brunch.  The pancakes were quite yummy, though my flipping technique needs some work.

Meanwhile, Agent Murphy has gotten up from his morning nap all grumpy.  Hopefully he’ll do better with his afternoon nap because we’re going out for pizza tonight.

Agent Murphy has a puzzle bench with his name on it that his Uncle G. and Aunt M. gave him.  Each letter is a separate, differently colored piece that comes out.  He loves it.  He takes the letters out and carries them around the house with him.  (He’s also gotten pretty good at knocking two letters against each other.  Banging things is good.)  We’ve been pretty successful at rounding up all the letters every night.  But the first letter of his name has been missing for over a week.  Today, Mr. Tldz found it.  Now two other letters are missing, but they’ve been seen in the last day or two, so they should turn up soon.

This is a cause for celebration because it means they won’t be bumping the classic country show we like off of the radio tonight.  What a lovely weekend.  Can’t wait ’til college football season is over.

I’ve been very busy.  Saturday last week I figured out how to stand up on my own, and get down.   So I’ve had to to do lots of practicing.  I’m getting lots better at getting down.  I like standing up under the dining room table.  It’s glass, so I can look up at Mommy and Daddy.  But I’m almost too tall to fit under there.  I have to be careful not to hit my head.  It’s been a very busy week.

Agent Murphy and I went for a little walk around the neighborhood this morning.  I should be doing that more.  Maybe now that the weather is nice and crisp, I will.  I am happy to report that I saw four McCain-Palin yard signs (still waiting for ours to show up) and only one for Obama.  I guess Georgia is considered pretty safe to go for McCain, but still this makes me happy.

In other news, Mr. Tldz and I had a lovely evening last night just being together.  With his new commute, it normally feels like we don’t really see each other during the week.  He gets home and we have dinner and then Agent Murphy does or vice versa, depending on the timing, I pack Mr. Tldz’s lunch, Agent Murphy gets put to bed, dishes get cleaned up, etc., Mr. Tldz spends a little time catching up on e-mail or other miscellaneous things he needs to do, and then it’s time to go to bed to get up early and do it all over again.  But last night was nice.  We need to find a way to make more “us” time regularly.

I said I wanted a t-shirt and yard sign.  Finally got around to ordering them.  I hope they show up quickly!

So I came down with the cold Mr. Tldz had.  Felt pretty crappy all weekend.  Still don’t feel great today, but I didn manage to get a fair bit done.  Of course, there’s feeding the Agent, picking up toys, picking up toys again, feeding the Agent, picking up…  Well, you get the idea.  But I also got diapers folded, a load of kiddo laundry washed and put away, scrubbed the stovetop and kitchen floor, and made another test run of Agent Murphy’s proposed birthday cake.  I didn’t mess up the frosting this time, so we’ll get more of the full effect.  But my cake decorating skills definitely need work.  Maybe the Agent will get birthday wishes written on his cake.  Right now we just have squiggles.

Mr. Tldz worked from home today because he isn’t feeling very well.  Well, at least he put in a few hours.  He has some sort of cold/sinus thing going on which started yesterday.  And today I’m starting to feel like I’m getting a cold.  So I’m taking Airborne to try to keep it away.  Hopefully Agent Murphy won’t get it.  He - knock on wood - hasn’t been sick yet.  I know it will happen eventually, but it doesn’t need to be now, does it?

Though I’m sorry Mr. Tldz isn’t feeling well, it was nice to have him home again - like “old times.”

Wow.  I wish these big convention speeches weren’t so late so I could actually see them.  But in the clips I’ve seen and heard today, just wow.  Sarah Barracuda alright!  I’m finally excited about this election.  I want a yard sign and a t-shirt.