A Visit From Brian

Nov
19

Posted by: Maggie

Brian came out from Philadelphia to visit us last weekend. As I mentioned on Friday, Brian is Josh’s best friend and was his best man at our wedding. Brian is our funniest, smartest, most interesting, and tallest friend. He’s like 6′3″ I think. Super, super tall. It’s impossible for me to give him a proper hug. I even once had a dream where I stood up on a chair to give him a hug. True story.

He currently lives in Philadelphia where he’s finishing up his PhD in history at Penn. He’s super smart.

Brian is probably in our top five favorite people in the world. He might be number one for Josh. On my list he probably ties for second place. Okay he might win second place.

In fact he’s my back-up in case Josh dies unexpectedly. I mean, if I were looking for anyone to replace Josh, I couldn’t find anyone more similar. Yet there are some key and rather attractive differences. Get this: Brian told me that it makes him anxious to leave dirty dishes in the sink! I can’t even imagine how wonderful it would be if Josh needed to do the dishes rather than begrudgingly do them because I insist that he does. Also I hear he talked a female police officer out of giving him a ticket for running multiple red lights. I couldn’t even imagine Josh being that charming. Impressive!

Okay, all the single ladies, put your hands up! Because here is the best part: He’s single! Did I mention how tall he is? Send me an email if you’re interested and I’ll hook it up!

Anyway, so he stayed with his parents for the weekend. He was here for a wedding on Saturday. So he spent Friday night and Sunday afternoon with us. On Friday night (Taco Night in our house) he bonded with Eleanor (I think they were watching Blue’s Clues) while I made dinner and Margaritas. He hadn’t seen her since his last visit at Christmas.

They also had to compare their impossibly long legs. I wonder if she’ll be as tall as Brian.

Brian was pretty immediately charmed by Eleanor. She kept say “ooops” and “whoops” all weekend because it made him laugh. I think he also liked how she used his name over and over again. She does that. She really likes learning people’s names and using them repeatedly. She is going to be a great salesperson. He also appreciated her creativity like when she called her cup of milk her “milk baby” and used a tortilla as a blanket to put it to sleep at the table.

Sunday afternoon we took Brian to Menchie’s since he’s seen it so many times on the blog.

After Menchie’s we grabbed a Vincenzo’s pizza, one of our local favorites. And that was it, Brian was gone! Always far too quickly. Luckily he’ll be back for Christmas! And claims to be staying for several weeks! We can’t wait! We love you Brian! See you soon!

p.s. Did you notice Josh’s new haircut? Nice huh? Much more clean and respectable like! What a handsome husband I have!

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Categories: Eleanor Stories, Friends, Josh, Maggie
Tags: Brian, Menchies, Taco Night, toddlers

Fabulous Friday: Cute Stuff for Sick Babies

Nov
13

Posted by: Maggie

I promise I’ll give you all the full details of Eleanor’s illness on Monday, but for now I’ll show you the cute stuff we got to buy because of it. Because Croup is a respiratory virus the doctor recommended that we use a humidifier. Which would be great because a year and a half ago we did a bunch of research and bought a really good programmable one with sensors and all the bells and whistles. Except that last week Eleanor broke it. I don’t know exactly how it happened, Josh was there not me, but I guess she pulled the tank off of the thing and then dropped it cracking it so it won’t hold water anymore.

Anyhow, we’ll eventually replace it, but in the meantime I needed something quick so I headed over to Target and bought the most adorable humidifier they had (it even says so right on the box). I have no idea how well it works. I mean water vapor comes out of the thing, but no programming, no sensor, none of the fancy stuff. But I guess it works for our purpose of letting it run for a while before Eleanor goes to sleep and letting her breathe the vapor for bit. But really who cares. It is just too dang adorable to care if it works.

It’s an elephant!

That spouts vapor from his trunk!

Oh my goodness with the adorable!

Up next is this little cutie.

On day two of her illness, I could tell that Eleanor was running a pretty high fever. All of her skin was hot to the touch, but I soon discovered that our thermometer was broken. So off to Target once again to get this fantastic ear thermometer.

Which comes in this great little egg case. How cute is that! And it’s yellow, which I think is the color I have finally decided on for the bathroom. So it will match (if I ever actually buy new towels and accessories)!

Again, who knows how well it works, but it’s so cute who cares!

And it’s so easy to use even an almost two year old can do it!

p.s. We have an exciting weekend ahead! Josh is getting a long, long, long overdue haircut and our dear friend Brian is visiting us from Philadelphia! Of the two, clearly we are most excited about Brian. Brian is Josh’s best friend. He is by far the smartest, funniest, and most interesting (and probably the tallest) person we know. He is definitely on my top five favorite people in the world list (immediate family not included). We are always so happy to see him which is only once or twice a year since he is finishing up his PhD in History at Penn. Hopefully I’ll get some good pictures of him bonding with Eleanor to show you all next week.