07 MAR 2009 : SATURDAY
Amanda was ill with another nasty GI bug. I entertained Lonan Kai outside of the house for most of the day so she could rest. I went down to the Goodwill in Tukwila to look for shoes for LK. It looks like he has very wide feet, so getting shoes for him will take more effort (or $$$ as the case may be). I struck out at the Goodwill though. None of the shoes at Target fit him either. Alas.
It snowed today (as it had been recently). Crazy.

08 MAR 2009 : SUNDAY
Amanda was feeling better. It snowed again in the morning. The weather cleared up for a bit in the afternoon so we went out to the Seattle Center to take advantage of our very inexpensive annual pass for the Space Needle. There were many people in line, but we got to use the special line for members and others just picking up their tickets. There were still a lot of people; we asked the ticket person about the discounted internet annual pass sales, and he said that over 3000 people bought them.

The views up top were nice, although it was too cloudy to see Rainier or the Cascades. We did see a bit of the Olympics on the other side of the bay.
Here is Lonan Kai and Amanda:

Lonan Kai looks longingly down at the Ivar’s on the waterfront, but Amanda does not feel his pain:

Here is our car parked right across the street from the Space Needle:


I received this great new year’s card from my dentist:

Inside it says:
NEW YEAR TO THE RESCUE!
MAKE IT A GREAT NEW YEAR!

I think its pretty cool, but it seems a little odd to be sending a card with a scantily clad woman (with tiger cub!) to your clients. Perhaps he wants a certain type of clientele… um, like me I guess.

His holiday card last year was great, too. It just said “GOOD TIMES RIGHT NOW”. No scantily clad women, though.

A toddler called me a “babydaddy” at Lonan Kai’s daycare the other day… funny

Amanda found a stash of potato chips I had for emergencies. Although I was not really hiding them from her.

Mike had his 40th birthday party at Flying Squirrel on Saturday. Lonan Kai was cheerful for a while, but all the noise and commotion started freaking him out. We then left early for their house where the party was to move afterwards. We wanted to try to put Lonan Kai to bed at their place, but he proved to be too excited by the new place and new noises. We did get a couple of songs of Rock Band in before we left.

The evening proved to totally wig LK out, and he did not want to go to sleep at home. He did eventually, though.

Today (Sunday) we ventured to the Eastside and had lunch at Chipotle; Amanda had a gift card from the holidays. On the way back home we stopped at Pier One to get some replacement fragrance/air freshener oils… mainly for use near Piglet’s litter boxes.

Lonan Kai is now asleep. Amanda is working/charting. Who knows what the evening holds? Okay probably an early bedtime for Lonan Kai and perhaps some movie watching for us.

So it did snow last night and it is still coming down.

Daycare/school was again closed, so I am watching Lonan Kai at home again (he’s hopefully taking a long nap right now). Amanda went to work. She called when she finally got there to say that she probably would come back since many people did not make it in, but she is not back yet so perhaps someone convinced her to stay.
The other day we put together our modular rug that Amanda ordered online as our old one was deemed disgusting.

Basically, it came as sets of tiles that you used a sticker to keep together. Presumably the “sticker” actually induced some sort of reaction to the floor tile backing to keep them together because otherwise it seems that they would come apart easily.

Amanda is considering the installation instructions in the above photo. We have not stickered the tiles together yet. We bought the cheapest and most heavy use tiles available because piglet and the progeny cannot be trusted with not soiling the carpet. The striped design is not really me, but thinking outside ones comfort zone is good.