Draw a Crowd

Greetings. Been an interesting rainy week so far. Glad to be off today, unlike last week when I was working 2-10. Over the weekend, Jill's parents came up to celebrate a late-Easter. Dinner, a little easter egg hunt were the highlights of Saturday. We also cleaned the former Guinea Pig room and will be turning it into a nice play room for Mia. We even got some nice carpet as well. Look forward to getting this started and finished. Myself and Grandpa put together Mia's little playhouse my Mom/Dad/Sister got for her for her birthday. Didn't take long get up and she absolutely loves it. Even has a pink chair in it (which is currently floating in the river on the side of our house.

All of the current rain has really put a damper on my time off with Mia. Can't play at the parks, can't play soccer or hit up the swings. We did keep quite busy though. Dropped off some left over guinea pig litter at the local humane society. Mia loved all of the dogs and cats. Surprised she didn't care for the rabbits, but that's alright. She went from cage to cage checking out the different dogs. When they'd bark she'd quickly grab me and say "DADDY WHATS THAT!? THEY BARKING!" You know how kids say "why?" a lot? well she tends to say "whats that?" a LOT. It's more cute then annoying so we'll leave it at that. Anyways, she thoroughly enjoyed the dogs and also the cats. She'd say in the highest pitch "hiii kitty!" Totally adorable. As soon as we got by by Dad, she was too tired to chat, and ended up napping for a few hours. Oh well.

Nothing too exciting going on this weekend. Hopefully the weather improves for once this week. ALMOST complete with the Lil Wayne portrait. Hopefully will complete by next week. HOPEFULLY. That's all for now. Thanks for reading.

Just Keep Swimming

Hello friends. Lots to discuss tonight, so let's get to it! Last week (and into this week) everyone in the house has been ill. Jill's got a double ear infection (mostly better now) and of course Mia's got a gnarly cold. Nothing worse then a snotty, upset and angry toddler. You wipe the nose, get all that crap off her face and she takes her arm and swipes her nose again bringing out MORE boogers. Gross, and redundant, but pretty much happens ALL day. Hope she gets better soon. I've got a lingering cold that needs to leave too.

Monday, our guinea pig sadly passed away. Not the best way to start out the day. Mia and I walked in the room and she was just laying there...Mia asking "what happened to Riley? I don't hear any squeaking". Pretty much talked about it the last few days. It was incredibly sad to break the news to Jill since it was HER piggie. We love our pets and when we lose one, its like losing a family member (as lame as that sounds). The good news, is that we can turn the guinea pig room into a nice play room for Mia. Going to get some new carpet in there, and I've got a mural to paint eventually. If the weather stays nice tomorrow, I hope to take her to the park, either play some soccer or maybe basketball. We've got to build her new play house in the yard too, but I want to wait till the 30 degree temps are gone. Come on Spring!!

No days off this week. Worked a Wednesday for the first time in a few years. Luckily, Jill's pop drove up to spend the day with Mia. Got some nice work done on the LIl Wayne Portrait. I want to get this thing done quickly so I can work on a last minute idea for my older bro's birthday coming up. Plus, a slew of other projects that I need to work on.

Mia had a great Easter. We didn't make it down to Illinois on Saturday, but we did visit with my family and have Easter dinner PLUS a little egg hunt for Mia. She loved looking for the eggs and after finding them all, she wanted to do it again. We may do something this weekend.

Oh, and one last thing-The announcement for the new Nemo sequel sounds great. Hopefully it won't go the same route with the last sequel (Cars 2) and not be that great.
That's all for now. Thanks for reading :)