it's been a busy day up here... we hosted co-op this morning, so instead of my usual three hours of 'me' time, me and amy were on duty watching 5 littles at our house. looking back, it seemed to go okay, but i may be sugar coating my memories a bit. at some point during the morning i said to amy, "well it's gone pretty good, don't you think?" and she looked at me like i had a third eye and said, "are we even at the same house?" there were more than several instances of toy-snatching and rude behavior, a few time-outs, and some rather sneaky tricks too. also, i swear that one of the kids (i'm not naming names) rolled their eyes at me when i asked her if she needed to go pee-pee! these kids are two - what have i got in store for me later on? i guess i'd better toughen up to the eye-rolling - i'm sure it gets much worse than that later on. so adella and i both were pretty wiped out after everyone left. adella layed down and went right to sleep on the floor of the livingroom... and since she woke up, she has been a super crank! the only thing that she says 'yes' to is popsicles (good thing i had some yogurt pops in the freezer), and the only thing she wants to do is watch Dora, which sadly, we don't have dvd's of. so, it's been a pretty whiny day around here. one good thing is that i think our ice-maker is finally working! you wouldn;t believe the amount of stress and frustration that ice-maker has caused the past few weeks. and not just for us. our wonderful next-door-neighbor has been coming over almost daily to tinker with it, take it out, put it back in, and finally he came over yesterday... with a brand new cyllanoid (i know that's not the right spelling) that he bought for us! how awesome is that? so now i regularly hear the crash of falling ice into the bin, and i think it's safe to say the ice-maker drama is over. i'm planning to make him a pie and send over the money for the part that he bought too. what a great neighbor. and what a long story about an ice-maker! you guys probably don't care about that, do you? oh well. that's all for now - i promise more pictures soon...