Ella has been fighting sleep this weekend, staying up for longer and longer periods. I'm thinking that incoming teeth are partly to blame. Last night she drifted off to sleep around 10 p.m. but woke up right away and didn't go to sleep until midnight. She's napping right now and has been in a fairly good mood today. The two of us took a grocery shopping trip together - her holding my hand and/or walking beside me the entire time - while Cole and Accalia stayed at home and played with Mercedes.

Speaking of Mercedes...the basement apartment in their duplex is up for rent and the new tenants came over a few days ago (a single mom and her four year old daughter). When they came over to look at it, Mercedes' two dogs were chained up outside, and they couldn't go inside because one of the dogs lunges at anyone and barks ferociously whenever he's on the chain. I guess they called the stepdad to come home and take the dogs inside, and as the landlord and the new tenants were walking around the perimeter, the agressive dog was able to chomp on the landlord's leg. The landlord told Mercedes' mom and stepdad that they would have to get rid of the dog, and when Mercedes was over today she told us that they were going to move. Now, this has obviously upset Accalia a great deal, so she's having a really rough day. Poor kid. I remember being about her age and having my best friend at the time move. It felt like the end of the world.

There hasn't been a lot going on this weekend, which is what I was hoping for earlier in the week. Cory spent most of yesterday afternoon weeding our garden. While Ella napped yesterday, Cole and I went to Goodwill and found a few items of winter clothing for him. Cory and I watched a couple episodes of Rescue Me so we can try to stay caught up with the current season.

Accalia doesn't have dance tomorrow - whole week is a holiday because of the 4th - so we don't have anything on the calendar. We might be meeting up with some new to the area homeschoolers this week (hi Laura if you read this), but that's about it other than art and storytime. We'll watch fireworks on Wednesday, too, but that's just a matter of walking a few blocks down to the river.