This past weekend must have gotten away from me or at least severely limited my computer time since I haven't posted in a few days.

Our roof was finished on Saturday. It looks fabulous! I think I almost reached my breaking point with all of the noise, though, on Friday. The banging sounded as if it were coming from everywhere around the house, so I decided if I couldn't beat them I'd join them. The kids and I picked out some music, turned it up, and started to dance. Accalia didn't approve of my choice of the Indigo Girls' Shaming of the Sun album, so we went with her "ballerina" music, in this case a cd of Mozart. The really neat thing about it was that Accalia and I started talking about how dancers tell a story with the music and their movements and expressions just like writers tell stories with words. She really got into that and turned one song into a horse race with her being the winning horse :)

Unfortunately, the roofers informed us that we have a bat infestation in our attic. Lovely. They put wire mesh over the chimney tops and sealed up any openings they could see, and that should help clear the bats out. I have to call the county extension office to find out what else we should do. We have friends in Wisconsin who had a major bat infestation, and they've been offering us words of wisdom. We haven't had any bats actually inside the house since we moved back last September, and hopefully it'll remain that way.

On Saturday, we went to Sioux Falls to eat at Naps Alabama BBQ - one of my favorite places. Cory suggested it as a treat to "reward" me for dealing with all of the noise of roofing for the past week. It was really nice, too, because Cory took over the majority of the childcare during the meal so I could just sit and eat :) Then we went to a few different stores around town and headed home.

That night we decided to rent a movie. For Accalia's sake, we've always differentiated movies by saying the movies she watches are Accalia's movies and the movies we get for ourselves are Mommy-Daddy movies. After she picked out a Hello Kitty movie, she was wandering with us looking for our movie. There were a few movies on the shelves that showed a man and a woman kissing or hugging, and Accalia would pick those out and say, "Here's a Mommy-Daddy movie!" We didn't end up with one of those, but we picked out "How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days". Cute, no thinking sort of movie.

Sunday was a fairly lazy day. I think we all have slight colds/sinus stuff. I know Cory will probably come home a little early today since he's feeling the worst. Lucy started barking like crazy at 4:30 a.m. No idea what was happening, but it woke Cole up. His diaper needed changing anyway, but I wasn't in the mood to be up and getting a wiggly 11-month-old to sleep. I did get to sleep until 7:30 this morning, though, so that was nice.

Cole's napping right now, and Accalia's eating noodles and watching "Between The Lions". I think I'm going to grab some lunch now myself.