First Blood: Part II

I had sent my men to get my revenge for having blood drawn on me. I hired a couple of ex-Soviet thugs to do their worst. Their mission was simple: get Kasia to apologize for making me bleed.
The storm outside was picking up in ferocity as my men went to work. Kasia was in her rocking chair, her head drooped down in exhaustion. It could all be over, whenever she wanted. All she had to do was talk into the microphone and apologize. Nothing fancy. Nothing too tough.
As the lightning flashed through the windows, her eyes were lit with a flash of fury. She grabbed the microphone in her sweaty palms and leaned into it. In a voice barely above a whisper, she began to speak.
“Daddy.... Daddy, I’m coming for you!”
I’m not sure what happened after that, but she must have had outside help. Both of my Soviet thugs were found dead the next day, and Kasia once again came after me.
Well, she did it again. Though not as dramatically as all that, she was able to once again pierce my skin and draw blood. This time though it was almost a little more vicious than the last time. Somehow she had found a broken stick that had at one time been a part of a puppet she has. The end had broken off and was rather sharp, so I decided that it was best if she didn’t play with it. As I went down to take it from her, she moved like a ninja. With one swift stroke, she jabbed my hand with her new found spear before crawling back to reestablish her fighting stance.
I glanced down as my palm and noticed that once again, I was bleeding. The little booger. That’s twice now that she’s gotten me. She even got her mother the other night by clawing her lip and drawing blood. This is getting out of hand.
So the tally is now up to three. Three times she has drawn the blood from her parents, and we have yet to get revenge. The question I now ask is, where do I find more ex-Soviet thugs?

Kurious Kasia at the Zoo

Since the weather has once again turned beautiful here in Virginia, Kasia and decided to take a trip to the zoo. This is actually the second time that Kasia has been to the zoo. The last time we went was last summer, and I don’t think she enjoyed it very much. Though it was hard to tell because she was asleep for most of the trip. This time, however, she was able to get the full experience.
The biggest shock of the day was that we saw the miracle of all miracles. There was a male lion lying out in plain sight of everyone. Not only that, but he was actually awake. Considering that lions sleep around 22 hours a day, this was really quite a shock.
All total, Kasia saw lions, tigers, elephants, and a few giraffe that came really close. I was able to carry her on my back for most of the trip so that she could see over the fences that seemed to block her vision of everything at stroller level.
The big thing that she enjoyed at the zoo were the fountains. As soon as you enter the zoo, there’s a small plaza with fountains that you can run through (if that happens to be your thing). Kasia loved looking at them. She loved listening to them. But she did not want to run through them. I guess if she did, that would be too close to taking a bath, and that just isn’t going to happen.

More House News

We are now closer and closer to purchasing a new home. We made an offer on the pictured house. It was accepted, and a contract was then drawn up an signed. Assuming that everything goes well, we will close on April 27. Between now and then we just have to inspect numerous things and wait. Considering the house is only four years old, there’s really nothing much that worries us as far as the inspections go. It’s the waiting part that is difficult to live with. It’s just that we want to move in now because while we love our apartment, it is just making us feel claustrophobic.
The low down on the house is that it’s a two story, four bedroom house with 2.5 baths. The master bedroom sits on the first floor, but until Kasia is grown, we’ll probably use it as an office. The second floor has three bedrooms and the guest bath. The first floor features (say that ten times fast) the great room with a gas fireplace (it’s propane... just to make Hank Hill happy (again with the alliteration. What’s up with me today?)). The front also features an attached two car garage along with a very nice porch for sitting on to watch the sunset and sipping lemonade.
The backyard, as I mentioned before, backs up to the golf course. While we weren’t crazy about it at first, we’ve come to realize that there are certain advantages to it. The backyard is also rather large, which is great for playing around in, but bad for having to mow. The one thing it doesn’t have yet is a deck, and that’s my first priority of things to do. The guy down the road built a screened in porch and deck onto his house, and I know that I can totally beat that. It’s just that I have zero experience when it comes to deck building. So if anyone out there has any ideas or tips, I’m more than willing to listen.
I’ve put some of the pictures up in the Photos section.
All the other pictures that I have are just of the bedrooms, and there’s nothing really exciting about looking at someone else’s furniture. I’ll post more pictures when I get some, or after we move in and all of our furniture is in there. Now THAT’s exciting stuff.