June 24th

We had a pretty good weekend. On Saturday we went and test drove a few more cars.

• Mitsubishi Outlander Sport -Hated the interior design
• KIA Optima - This is a contender! We can get lots of extras and it drives very well. Cooled and heated seats and a sun AND moon roof. Awesome!!
• KIA Sportage -  Decent. Liked it better than the Ford escape, but not as much as the Optima.

So, I think for now we are thinking of either the Ford Fusion or the KIA Optima. There's a deal breaker on the Optima though. The only ones they had available on the lot had beige leather interior. We need black or possibly grey. We're going to see if they can find us one with black interior. We also need to go back and re drive and look at the Ford. I'm not sure if we'll go to other dealerships or not.

We drove out to Monon yesterday to check out the Ford dealership there, but they were closed. Sunday. So we looked around briefly. Vallerie had an accident in her car seat and we had to get home... Ugh.

Speaking of Vallerie, she's been getting a lot better at letting us know when she has to potty. I hope she continues to do so. Even when we would ask her if she had to go she would say no. I am also super happy that she tells me when she has to go while she is in the tub.

I ordered a couple bookshelves and storage boxes, and they should be delivered this week. I hope that it is soon enough so I (Eddie) can put them together and get everything set up before my mom visits. I suppose if she's here I can kick her out of her room so I can do it. Haha.

I pulled a muscle in my back yesterday. It hurts a bit. Nothing major, but it's still uncomfortable.

We are going to set up the little pool that Eddie's sister gave us. We went out and got some pool supplies yesterday.

There's still a few things I would like to get done before my mom visits, but I'm not sure they will happen. One of the main things is painting the dining room. We've had the paint for like a month! It's just hard to get motivated to do that after Vallerie goes to sleep. It would be impossible to do it while she was awake I think.