Go Canucks!

Since the bathroom is still demolished, we're still basically living at the Doumas. In the morning, I drop David off at work and then go back to our apartment for the day. It finally stopped raining for a couple of days, so I took that as an opportunity to get outside and do some yard work. The problem with yard work is that once I start, I have a hard time stopping! In the last couple of days, I've weeded 3 flowerbeds, planted flowers in one of them, trimmed hedges, rototilled the giant vegetable gardens, and started a vegetable garden of my own! I convinced David that we should just plant one little watermelon plant for fun, but by the time I finished we had peas, carrots, pumpkin, parsley, basil, tomatoes, cucumber and zucchini. Woops!

We went for lunch with a recruiter from Deloitte today. He was here from Dallas for a wedding, and he and his wife took us out to the Olive Garden (on Deloitte's bill, of course). We're still in the process of deciding which offer to take. We've both been leaning towards Ernst & Young in Austin, and in spite of how delicious the Olive Garden food was today, I think we're still leaning that way. In fact, if I weren't such an indecisive person, I would say we were sure of it. Why do decisions have to be so hard?

One thing that we're definitely decided on, though, is that the Canucks are going to win the Stanley Cup this year! They're playing their first game against the Boston Bruins at this very

moment! Third period, no goals. It might be a tough fight, but we'll do it. Paisley will be so honored to one day be able to say that she was born the year the Canucks won the Stanley Cup. Oh, right. She'll be living in Texas. Well...

Speaking of Paisley, she is growing up more every day. Some exciting developments are:

• She used to hate tummy time. She would only last a couple of minutes before she started fussing. Now she's strong enough that she just lies there on her tummy with her head up, looking around the room, and never gets tired of it!
• She found her voice!! Her new favorite thing is to listen to herself talk, making the cutest little squeaks and squeals. Her face is so expressive that it's almost like she's speaking, just in a different, much cuter, language. When you laugh at her, she bursts out in high pitched little giggles right back at you.
• She's starting to be able to put herself to sleep, rather than having to be rocked to sleep.
• She's been going to sleep between 8 and 9 every night, and waking up consistently at 7 am. Usually she'll wake up once in the middle of the night, but last night she slept all the way till 5am, then went right back to sleep till 7:00. That's 9 hours!!
• As you can imagine, these last two are especially exciting for me.