Grandpa Charlie is here

We are very excited to have my dad here for a whole week!! He is a huge help to us getting things done around the house. After two days he has installed three outside light fixtures, one ceiling fan, an interior light fixture in the baby room, completed drywalling the roof of the garage and more...our list of projects is still nowhere near completion, but it is very exciting for Alex and I to be able to walk into our room, flip a switch, and have light!
We have a new dishwasher that has been sitting in the living room for about 10 days now. Our homeowner's warranty covered it after I realized that the puddle of water in the kitchen was coming up through my flooring when I used the dishwasher! The guy came to install it the other night, but we were dismayed to discover that the flooring had been laid with the dishwasher in place...literally locking it in. The guy was pretty dramatic and unhelpful. Alex and I were extra thankful to have my dad here, because together they were able to saw off the legs of the old one and tear it out without further damaging the floors.
Between the pregnancy, home repairs, and Alex leaving me for a few days to go camping over the weekend...I must have gotten all stressed out. Last year about this time I got itchy lips during the stress of planning an out of state wedding among other things. I had visited about five doctors, done tests, and taken a variety of medicines and none of them could figure it out. Then after about two months it just went away. This probably sounds stupid, but I'm talking about lips that are so itchy I can't think about anything else!! It was like a really bizarre torture. Well, as the news was getting worse with the repair man the other night my lips began to itch and by the time he left I was itching like crazy, and my TMJ started to flair up again...I developed this during my first pregnancy and it lasted about a year and a half and a lot of doctor visits before it just seemed to dissipate. I'm saying all this not because I'm looking for sympathy, but because it's funny...I mean who gets super itchy lips!? I'm hoping that having a few of these projects done with my dad here will put me at ease and hopefully these nuisances won't reach their past levels.
Alicia has been a really good girl lately, she is sleeping through 90 percent of nights, starting to tell me what she needs, and we've taken away bottles without a major hitch. The other night she did wake up and when I went in her room I said tell me what's wrong....She said, bicky bicky (I call her pacifier binky) and I gave her a pacifier which she doesn't use that often, but I think likes to chew while she's teething. Then she pointed at her nose and said, boobie boobie (which of course means boogies) and she blew her nose for me. Then she pointed at her hair and said, bow bow...so I put some clips in her hair...her new thing is having to have multiple clips in her hair. Then she seemed totally satisfied, so just to make sure that we would make it through the rest of the night I got her a drink of water and changed her diaper when she said, hot hot, and I have to admit that while Alex and I were enjoying our new ceiling fan, her room had gotten a little stuffy, so I turned down the AC a notch for her and she went to bed content for the rest of the night. What a little angel.