I am exhausted. It's exhausting taking care of two kids when you have no where to put them. We started the day fine. James made breakfast, we hung out with Bobs caretaker Bonnie and then hit the road. I took James to the house then took the kids to an Easter egg hunt. We were supposed to meet friends but that didn't really work out. We got there just in time for the hunt. Will got 4 eggs and decided to ride the toy plane. It was fine by me. My instinct was to have him keep looking but there were SO many kids and I had to remember the point of going. That point was to have fun. So will had a great time playing. I surprised myself by how much I let him do on his own. I had Keely in the front pack so I was severely limited in what I could do with him. I watched a ton of kids fall and a ton of kids get run into. It was a battleground. Thankfully Will never hit or got hurt by anyone. We got to check out the fire truck, we got to sit in it and we got a cool hat. He was all set for nap time. We went to Bobs and fell asleep.
Once we got up we gathered some stuff, got Bob and headed to the house. Things were moving along. James had the laundry room pretty much pulled apart. He introduced me to our neighbor (Aaron) with the awesome play set. Our new neighbor said it was cool if Will wanted to play on it. WIN!! Also met his pregnant wife Rachel. I met another neighbor (George?) who was mowing our lawn. George apparently gets a little confused. His son owns the property next to us. He thought Aaron was my husband.
Once inside I put a naked Keely on the blanket while I made James and Bob some sammies. Keely was starting to lose it by the time I delivered the sammies and it turns out she shit the blanket hard core. Her legs and feet were covered in poop. There was poop chunks everywhere. I actually ripped open the wipe pack because I couldn't get them out fast enough. All the while so pissed at myself for letting this happen again. I cleaned her up, cleaned me up, cleaned the blanket up and then found two huge turds under the blanket.
I take the kids onto the deck and feed Keely while Will plays with chalk at my feet. Things are good. When Keely is done I stick her in a toy, bring her on the deck and Will and I garden. I knock the old wasp nest off the roof. It hits the ground and all I see are bees. I let out a good Oh Shit and slam the windows shut. I go get Keely and realize there's no bees. I go look, they are all dead except for one living bee. I sweep everything off the deck. Next thing I tackle is the potted plants. I realize the best thing to do is throw them off the deck. I take the dirt out and Will and I toss it over. He loses Dino in the process but is surprisingly cool about it. Now Keely is tired and Bob has taken my one chair on the deck. I go downstairs and take over his wheelchair. Kiki falls asleep quickly.
About this time the neighborhood slowly converges on our house. Our friends Gunner and Ahna have come to say hi and help. Ahnas mom comes over too. People aren't exactly quiet, but it's not terribly loud. Personally, if it was me and I saw a mom in a wheelchair holding a sleeping baby I may have bailed. Kiki managed to get a decent sleep and all the cooing over her was no problem after all.
While I had her asleep James and Gunner were investigating the hot water heater. Turns out that thing was NASTY. They pulled up some plug thingy and it had lots of white growth on it. It looked like chunks of laundry soap. James was over it. This quick project turned into finding rot on the floor, needing a $1000 water heater and several tools and phone calls to finish the first part of the project. He went outside to hack the multitude of stinging nettles we have. While doing that Steve and Mimi come by. They are the parents of the girls we met the previous night. Well, James tells them our problem and what do you know, Steve is a plumber. He can get us a new water heater for $250. We found out he likes Crown Royal. I had given Kiki to Ahna and went outside to meet these two wonderful people. After a few minutes Kiki started to cry and I went in. Turns out there was water all over the floor. It had been covered by the huge cooler Gunner brought over. This massive leak was actually the result of water dripping out of a pipe that was connected to the water heater. Major disaster slightly averted.
Holy Jeez. Buying a house is whack. The problems, oh the problems!
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