Quiet !

In two ways.

First, the house is quiet. Really, really quiet. El Burrito is spending a few days with my parents; they picked him up (or abducted, as DH says) yesterday. No mention of when they're bringing him home, Mom just asked if I'd packed enough clothes for 6 days or so. They didn't call last night, so he must have slept - Mom was worried because he didn't sleep well last time we went for a visit. (It's because she talks to him too much, instead of telling him to lay down and go to sleep.)

Also, it's quiet here, because I haven't had as much computer time as usual. Blame DH and July. July is "use it or lose it" vacation time at work, since he can only bank so much vacation time. He came home last Monday and said, basically, "Oh, by the way, I'm taking off work tomorrow, and Thursday, and next Monday, and a half-day on Wednesday." Gee, thanks for the notice.

Somehow, he had a five-day weekend and we got squat done other than relaxing and eating out. He spent most of Tuesday with some sort of bug that's going around. We did finally take my car in for some maintenance work that's been on the to-do list for 6 months - replacing the 9-year-old battery, oil change, etc. - and I managed to get DH to fix the leaky faucet, since we've had the parts sitting around for a month.

Cute Burrito story of the day: Yesterday, while we were getting ready for the library, he took his rubber duckie and made it kiss all of the Breyers lined up on our dresser. That's my boy.

He's also been asking for a "kee-nex" a lot - when he wakes up, while he's eating, and so on. He wants something to wipe his face with, we figured out. Doesn't like drool on his face apparently. He also asks for one - we usually give him a burp cloth - when he gets his face wiped after he eats. Persnickety child, he doesn't like his face wet much at all.