one more baby...

When I was in Dallas, I also got to visit with Brooks and Greg and meet Sophie! She is also very cute and very hungry. And VERY stylin in the cowgirl socks that I gave her. Alas, stylin does not necessarily mean happy in baby world:

But it didn't take long for her to get happy and snuggly. What a pose!


After her nap, she was all strapped in and ready to go. We had some good times at dinner! Brooks managed to get about two bites of her sandwich before Sophie got hungry again. She thought she was going to get some food from me, but I explained to her that she was nuzzling the wrong person. Back to mama she went. Babies eat a lot!



When Greg came home, he also got some Sophie action. Babies are a great accessory!

A break with Captain Finchley

We don't have our baby yet, but we do have a rather large and fluffy furball named Captain Finchley who loves us like he's our baby. He prefers sleeping in the bathtub to sleeping with us and his favorite toy is a horse whip (kinky!). To comemerate his unique personality and action hero-ness, our next door neighbors Maddy and Joe created two custom made capes for Finchley to wear. Pictured below is Finchley in his "good" cape. He also has an "evil" cape, for when he does things like claw open the bag of kitty litter that I left sitting on the floor, thus making a huge and unnecessary mess. He also has a water fetish and splashes almost all of his bowl of water out onto the floor before he deigns to take a sip. But that doesn't count as evil--that's just a quirk. Anyway, here is Finchley being good. Evil pictures to be added at a later date. (and for the record, he doesn't seem to even notice when he's wearing his cape. This is not another case of 'Buster in the hot-dog costume' which was clearly not something he enjoyed, but something that brought us great joy because he looked so cute and funny. He makes a great hot dog! Also, Finchley's girth is not an optical illusion. He has suddenly become rather obese. We think he might be getting food somewhere else while he's out catting around.)

Dallas

After almost two years, I made it to Dallas to see my friends! It was HOT, but great to see everyone. First stop was to visit Cameron. What a cutey he is!

He was hungry, too! Rachel knew how to handle that!


Then I headed to CI where I made the rounds and saw everyone before we all went to Chuey's. It was great to be back in the old 'hood'! A festive time was had by all at Chuey's. Especially by those who could drink margaritas. I watched the margaritas enviously, but there were no restrictions on enchiladas, so I hogged out on those. I love Tex-Mex and what better place to get it than in Texas, where it doesn't have any weird things added to it (like an olive on top)!


There was no competition when Anissa and I had belly wars. She won hands down. In fact, she had her baby the very next day! I'm glad I got to meet him in the womb and that I got to visit with his mama a little, too!


And then I met the REAL baby: Hitsuguya (I'm not sure I'm spelling that right). This dog was a charmer and his ability to get to food makes Buster look like an amateur. He may have short legs, but he's got a long body and a really long and sensitive nose. I've never seen such counter surfing! But look at that face! He could be forgiven for any silly behavior I think.

I think he might have Susan charmed, too. He's a 70 pound lap dog! I love him!


The next day, everyone stopped by to have some sandwiches and chips and dip and white cake with white icing (like wedding cake...delicious!)and to visit and to meet my ever expanding stomach. Marilu and Carolyn were the first to swing by:

We had a small crowd eventually. I have made a note to myself to take off my giant flip flops when posing for pictures with all my smaller friends. I look like an Amazon woman!

Last, but not least, Andrea stopped by with little Luke. My friends sure do have cute babies--human and canine alike! It was really fun to visit the CI Dallas crew. It's great to have such good friends in so many places!