I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy

After several bouts with death over these last months, we were finally able to get Nikki and Andrew and their baby, Ella, up for a visit to the country. Always apprehensive about babies because of their trail of poo, goo, and doo, I was relieved to find Ella a most charming and happy little girl, quick to smile the smile of a diaper filled but good and easily the most squeezable kankles and mushies of any baby, ever. It didn't take us long on Friday morning to just steal Ella for some personal time, leaving her parents to sleep in. The rest of the weekend was filled up with naps, relaxing jaunts on the porch doing nothing but sweating, taking Ella for walks, finding creative ways to keep Ella confined and happy while we cooked and grilled, and even some home-based fireworks. It was awesome but we have serious make-up affection time with the kitties if we don't want to find ourselves murdered in our beds.