Amazing feats of prestidigitation!

Ok, so we didn't go with the bungalow or the yellow house. On the third day we found a totally cool house that we really liked. Now in the two previous posts, as you may have noticed, the words 'bungalow' and 'yellow house' were links to the listing information for those houses. Actually the links may not work anymore if the houses have been sold. So it is with the house we bought. I wanted to link to the listing page because it had 7 or 8 great photos of the house, but since the house is off the market it is also off of the listing pages. Unfortunately we only took a couple of pictures of the house ourselves.

Below you will see a picture of the family room and the kitchen. What can I say about it, wood or stone floors throughout, crown molding in all the rooms. All new windows and French doors leading out to the patio from the family room. Fireplace, granite counter tops in the kitchen. 4 bedrooms 2 bathrooms. Good sized yard with landscaping and a fountain.

We asked for a thirty day escrow and all seems to be on track for a closing on November 20th. S will be home from France on the 12th and we will be checking into a Residence Inn for a week and a half until we can move in. S will start his new job on the 13th of November. We will have little by way of furnishings until the household goods arrive from France sometime around Christmas, but we'll have a bed for us and a Pac-N-Play for Aidy and a few dishes. We'll have to buy a fridge, but the washer and dryer were shipped from Illinois so we will be able to get by until the rest arrives. The house is in Camarillo and I'll forward the address to you all as soon as we close.




In the meantime Aidy and I are in SD with family and our lives have been busy with catching up with people and everyone wanting to get their first glimpses of Aidy. For Aidy's part he is really enjoying his cousins Nick and Michael, they're like the older brothers he never had. (Except of course for his biggest of all brothers, Matt, whom he misses A LOT!) They rough house with him and let him play with their toys. He loves seeing their smiling faces in the morning and will immediately look around for them when he hears their voices. They both have him in stitches regularly and work hard to outdo each other in hilarious antics to earn Aidy's giggles.

The other night we were invited to Ardo and KM's for dinner. Ardo fixed us a fabo dinner with a 'to die for' cream sauce, I must get the recipe. Aidy was introduced to Sabby the giant cat. Sabby weighs nearly as much as Aidy and is the most unbelievably patient cat I've ever seen. Aidy was fully laying on the cat and had both hands firmly dug into the cats fur and Sabby just sat there and took it and purred away. It was amazing. I was afraid Aidy was going to get himself mauled, but Ardo sat by and assured me that Sabby wouldn't hurt him and he was right, Sabby was a real trooper. Belle, who is not pictured, on the other hand saw one little pudgy hand drift her way and she ran for it.




We did dinner one night with Z and her man Rich and their combined brood of 6 kids. Aidy, as the newest of the cousins was the center of attention. He was a bit overwhelmed at first by all the attention, but he was soon in the middle of the chaos and loving it. He has started full on crawling and is anxious to be on his feet and chasing after all of the kids, especially when they run up the stairs.