What! It's JUNE????

It's been a while. Why?, you ask? Because I don't get to blog when I'm busy preparing, editing, videoing, photographing for a certain 10 year old's blog! We'll get into the swing of it, just before she leaves for a two week vacation at Grammy's on Wednesday. ;)

So, a lot has been going on around the Watson house. Abbey got here last week, the next day Ang and Dan and Addie moved to Tulsa. I know that's not so much "Watson news"...but it is still fresh on my mind. There were several times this weekend I had to stop myself from calling to invite them over for dinner, or lunch, or a swim. It will take a while to get used to. But, the business around here has helped me not get too blue about it.

Like I said, Abbey is all about updating her blog. Must be a summer-time activity in her mind. ;) She also has been pestering her brother. And he has done the same! The other night he was sure getting a kick out of "playing possum" with her. She insisted on holding him...even though he's much too big for her to hold anymore.

And he would "go to sleep". Then open his eyes and smile.

We've had friends over to our house, cook-outs, and games a plenty. We got Abbey and Steve, and me and Steve, and me and Abbey a used bike today. It's a tandem, that we will swap out riders on. "Daisy, daisy...I'm half crazy all for the love of you...It's won't be a stylish marriage, I can't afford a carriage, but you'll look sweet, upon the seat of a bicycle built for two.". That's all I can think of when I see them riding on it.

We will order Max a special bike trailer for him to ride in soon, so we can all go for a ride!

Speaking of Max...


His Daddy gave him a cool summer do. There are more pictures over on Flickr, under the Mohawk Max set.

He likes the feel of it too...


And finally...my little garden. We bought flowers last weekend, and throughout the week got them planted in the flower beds. I'm really hoping it all lives. I've not ever been known for my green thumb...but I'm sure trying!

The coffee cup planters were fun...




Plenty of Marigolds to take over! You can't kill those things!


And finally...the English Daisies.
Likely, my favorite flowers in the garden...the poor pathetic things.


The reason I love them so much...is well...they're sure having a heck of a time living here. All they want is to blossom and grow in England...in the rain and soft sunshine...but they are here instead. In the blaring sun...and the dry climate. So, here we are together...doing our best to bloom where life has taken us. I will make sure they make it...if the rest of it goes to pot...the English Daisies will live in Denver.

And now my friends, it is 12:15 am. And I am ever so tired. Going to bed. And will try to check back in before another week goes by!

The boy that was a giant...

When I went into Max's room this morning, I found him like this.



I took a picture and went about getting his food and medicine ready. When I came back, he was even more relaxed...mouth wide open!



It must be a lazy day for him. Here's where he was when I came into the living-room from putting away laundry.





He's so big!!

And just for the fun of it...the beginning of summer-time weather in Colorado means sunset photos from Deana!

This is as bright as it got the other night...but just the beginning.

Oooooowweeeee!

I think you might have to be from some of our lower states to know just how to say that blog title correctly. But either way, that's about all I can say at the end of this day!

We had a full day up at Children's today for back to back appointments. I got there around 9:00am, and finally left at 4:00pm, arriving home at 5:00pm. Max did really well to have been around chaos and noise and poking and prodding and sitting through long conversations between his momma and doctors. He giggled and said "hi" to his nurse. He showed off his new adapted way of talking to his doctor. He puts his hand up to his mouth and moves it around to say "more". I don't know how he can do that but not put his lips together and just say "more"...but it's sweet his way too!

He went right to sleep in his car seat on the way home in traffic. And when we got home, he was happy to be going in. I got him out of his seat and was holding him to get him in the right position. He got as straight as he could, and took his strong arm and hooked it around the back of my neck...looked right at me and smiled. I was so surprised! I said, are you hugging me? He chuckled and squealed YEAH!!! He stayed like that all the way in the house...drooling down my neck all the time. It was his sweetest moment in a long time!

A few pointers from the day:

Monster Max is 41 pounds and 3' 10" tall...did you get that!!??? Nearly 4 ft tall!!

We had to increase his meds and formula calories because he's growing so much.

Talked over schooling...or how we will likely not send him to school in the fall.

And dodged germs left and right!!!!

So glad to be home now. I'm going to re-heat my spaghetti in a bit for dinner, maybe do a little laundry...and get ready for Steve to get home. He's been out all week to a conference. We were supposed to go to an opera performance tomorrow being put on at Children's, but because of the H1N1 flu threat, Children's canceled. Can't say I'm too disappointed. I didn't want to go out there again by myself tomorrow. But seems like a silly decision, considering they weren't really targeting visitors or parents or children walking in with colds. They were EVERYWHERE!!!

Oooooohhhh!!!!! I just heard THUNDER!!!!!!! Lucky day!

With that, I'll leave it for now!

Isn't he lovely?

Now that we have a carseat that stays in the car all the time, we can bring in his Special Tomato chair, which offers him more stability while sitting. I know he looks like his feet won't fit on the foot-rests, but he just likes to stretch out. He is a boy, you know!!

All done...

We got the keys Friday afternoon, and signed the lease. Friday night we started moving the kitchen over. Everything we brought over, we put away immediately. When Max's physical therapist got here today, she said she couldn't believe how it looked like we had been living there a long time!

It feels good to be moved in, and we've already met a few neighbors. I have the project of filling my dresser with all the clothes I took out to move. And to fill the bookshelf this week. I still shake my head at the thought that we moved our entire house in 2 days. After only learning that we needed to move 6 days before that. Go ahead and mark us down as your craziest friends/family!

And if moving wasn't enough to start the week out, Steve left this evening for California for most of the week. AND Wednesday night we'll have out of town guests coming. Good thing it's my cousin and his friend who won't mind that their rooms consist of nothing more than an air mattress!

Here are some pictures of the house before we moved in. And one picture of what we did with Max's room.

Kitchen:


Here's the picture on the ad for the house of the dining room:


Dining room empty:


And what we've done to make it a room for Max:


Our bedroom is directly across from the dining room, which is why we made it Max's room. We are going to put up some drapes to make a bit more private. Our little table fits at the edge of the living room.

Here's the living room, and you can click on any of the pictures to see the rest of the house. I'll get more pictures as we finish rooms up.

Living room empty:


With our chairs...and messy table!



Max is tired from moving!




Oh...and I guess Mother's Day happened in there too. My dear husband bought me flowers for our new patio. They are gorgeous!

And once again...the Watson's move...

I guess I should set a revolving blog entry...We're moving!!

I know I've been a bit vague about it all, but due to their own personal reasons, our landlords had to put our townhome on the market. I don't think any of us thought it would sell so soon, but it sure has! The new buyer came in for an inspection yesterday, and wants to move in asap. That meant for us, we wanted to get into something else as soon as we could for them to have the deal go through. (And so we didn't have to show the house anymore!)

We looked all last weekend, and boy oh boy were we annoyed! Just not a lot of houses out there right now for rent...because so many people can't get loans. We found one a couple of streets over, but they said it was already taken.

We got a call on Tuesday that the people they thought they would rent it fell through, and we set up a showing. We got over there and the guy showing from the property management company welcomed us, and asked how old Max was. The paused after we answered and said, Is he okay, or is he special needs? We answered, special needs, a little nervous if we were going to hear it about the steps in the house, or the stairs walking up to the porch. But instead he smiled and his face lit up. "My grand-son is special needs!!!". And so went the rest of the showing...talking about the similarities and differences in our little guys. Actually a lot more similarities than I expected. He wanted to give his daughter-in-law my info, because she was just saying so few people understand this kind of life!

So that was the little side story to our house hunting experience! We filled out the paper-work and got the final approval this afternoon. It is empty, so we can move in asap. And Steve will be traveling the next couple of weeks, so this weekend seems like the best time to do the moving.



So give us a couple of weeks to get settled...then let's fill up the summer months with visitors!!! We'll have plenty of room, with a guest bedroom!

Box Car Max

With such a special little guy like Max, we have to come up with special ways of playing.

When most people see a diaper delivery box, Steve sees a car for Max to ride around the house in. He took out a few bags and propped Max up to take a ride. He gave him his car steering wheel and it turned into an afternoon game!



I finally got the video out towards the end of his little game, so he wasn't showing off for the camera. But he had been honking the horn to "make the care go".