I am FREAKING OUT… ok so maybe that is a little strong, but the whole “no rental secured thing” is driving me BONKERS. Being second in line is NOT close enough, though this morning Ken emailed two more places and left a phone message on a third. He is still SURE we will find a place in time… I am in need of the address secured to feel the warm fuzzies of true optimism. I still stand by my usual statement – I trust Ken whole heartedly, it is the rest of the world I am not so sure of! Ken always comes through for me and our family.

Well besides the worry today is STILL a pretty big day – Echo is 9 months old today on one of our luckiest days of all – Friday the 13th! I made her a tutu last night and took pictures of her in it today. I am hoping to make her a matching tulle bow to do more pictures next week. This onesie was another of my mom’s gifts at the baby shower.

Finished tutu

9 months old today

The onesie

What with the stress of packing, the windy weather yesterday and everyone’s grumps about being stuck relatively close to home due to the limping van we made the decision to go this morning (to miss ALL rush hours) to The Mall with the provision that we HAD TO stay there a minimum of an hour and a half. Hmm not exactly a HORRIBLE and impossible goal. We had a few errands that had to be accomplished… I stopped at Sephora to do some information gathering on brands of hypo-allergenic lipsticks, as I need one for the wedding in August (everything I have tried to date has caused my lips to burn for some unknown reason). Then we wandered through a few clothing stores until I found some lovely tank tops at Garage Co. priced at 2 for 20.00.

Tank tops

Seeing how tall they are at Old Navy

We went down to the main foodcourt for lunch as usual. The kids had Taco Bell, Ken something from one of the pasta places and myself – a yummy burger from Harvey’s (I have been having some anaemic episodes lately sadly… nothing to extreme just shaky, tired and a few tunnel vision moments.) . They did a great job of sharing.

Lunch

Oh we stopped at H&M to peek in at the Hello Kitty gear and pick up new dress socks for Trinity. somehow her only pair that remotely fit got horribly stained.

New pretty socks

The kids had to stop in at one of the fish tank areas to see the fish.

Fishy

And we took a peek in at the Sea Lion.

Swimming by

We even ran into Nathan and Anna! Ada was at a different store shopping and set to meet up with these two at the food court we just left on the lower level so we missed seeing her BUT I got a cute picture of our sweet (almost 1 yr old) god-daughter.

Miss Anna

With a lengthy mall visit we came home without the urge to do any organized schooling, instead the kids watched some educational telvision… played with Emanuel’s robot bug set (with new batteries), Sorted through our plastic containers (and threw out all the lidless containers and containerless lids) and played with Echo. I have gotten in some more stitching on the mini project.. it is coming along nicely!

A little further along

So beyond the freaking out on my part, the kids feeding on that and being bratty and Echo deciding to spit up a nice mouthful of her new mixed grain and fruit cereal as soon as I had put on her clean pants… the cookies that we need to bake… the packing that needs to be done… well life is certainly full even though I don’t have much of a life outside of this house. BUT I am finding things I forgot we had… which I will blog about tomorrow.

One more of our 9 month old pixie!