LOL

She has teeth! The better to shred paper with, I suppose. Since we can't eat around her without evoking one of her long drawn-out whines, we've been feeding her grains of rice here and there and little pieces of bread. I pictured myself feeding her baby food only, at least for now, and doing things by the book...but then my ears started hurting from her incessant whines, so I decided to accept the rules as mere suggestions ;)

She laughs a lot more now, too! She's consistently ticklish around her tummy and saying, "Da!" seems to crack her up, too. Please ignore the weird laughter in the background... I swear, I was only laughing that way to make her laugh!

Aislin, the Human Paper Shredder

Aislin has developed a fascination for paper. Even in her fussiest moments, a piece of paper can appease her like nothing else. We try not to let her get too carried away with dining on paper, but we couldn't save our Netflix envelope. Since it was so damaged that we figured the U.S. Postal Service would never accept it, we're hoping Netflix will accept two DVDs in one envelope :P

Almost a Pro

I can finally sit her on the floor and place toys in front of her, and she'll sit contently for a good period of time. She doesn't even need a pillow behind her anymore. Sometimes she'll take an occasional face-dive but luckily we have plush carpets ;)

Hello, Walter!

We considered Achmed after AJ reminded us of another favorite Dunham puppet, but we thought our new car looked more like a Walter.
The night before we bought it, we put our old car on Craigslist where someone here in Quincy (who practically lives down the street) bought it for $800. So the next day we borrowed a friend's car and went to Moses Lake to look at the Durango (also found on Craigslist), which was being offered for $4000; but after driving it and realizing we'd have to buy new tires and get some front-end work done, Tim looked the owner sternly in the face and asked how low he'd be willing to sell the car. So we bought it for $3200 and then took it to Les Schwab and spent another $1100 on tires and repairs.

We're now equipped to handle any future white winters!

Goodbye, Peanut

Poor Peanut!

Yes, we named our car after one of Jeff Dunham's puppets...

We knew its time was almost up, so we started car-shopping a few weeks ago with the intent of buying a new one as soon as we got our tax refund (which should be sometime this week, before the 31st). We just didn't know its end would fall on last night! We even skipped a trip to Costco in Wenatchee in hopes of saving up its juice for a day of car shopping, but clearly, not even that had helped.

Spacious, decent-looking and smelled like a car should, it did its job well for the price we paid for it (approx $1800).

So, what now? Tim will have to carpool with someone else to and from work for the rest of the week, just like he did last night after trying to start the car and coming to the conclusion that it wasn't going to start for us ever again. We'll probably call the bishop to ask if anyone has a car they'd be willing to let us borrow on Friday so we could drive to the bank, withdraw cash for a new car and come home with another vehicle.

Perhaps we can call the next one...Walter. Jalapeno on a Stick?