Busy as a...Wasp?

As you have probably already guessed, we have been pretty busy here at the Hanley household.

Unfortunately I can not locate my USB cord for my camera so I can't post any pics tonight. I'm sure Ella has run off with it somewhere, so once I find it I will get some pictures up.

My sister Jennifer and my friend Whitney came out to visit in July. It was for the New Kids on the Block concert and boy did we have fun!!

The concert was a blast and it was so great to have people in town and to spend time with family and friends. It went by so quickly though, and I really miss them.

We have a picture of Lorelei on the fridge and Ella will point to it and say "baby" and get a big smile!

It was right around that time that I applied for the Accounting manager position. And I finally found out on July 31st that I got the job! Yay!!!! They are requiring me to take some Accounting courses (apparently they think my English degree "doesn't count") so it has been a busy month for me learning tons of stuff at work and registering for class.

My class officially starts next week. It is an online course which I am thankful for. I wouldn't want to be away from Ella two nights a week. I feel like I hardly see her as it is!!

About two weeks ago, Peter and I were hearing this weird noise in our bedroom. It sounded like something up in the attic but it was always in the same place. At first I chalked it up to the vents creaking when the dryer was running. But then we realized it was still happening when the dryer was off.

Well, that Saturday I had put Ella down for a nap and had gone to catch some Z's myself, I woke up to about thirty wasps in our bedroom!!! They had eaten a whole in our ceiling and were coming out. I actually opened my eyes when I heard some buzzing and then saw about two or three wasps flying over by the window, so I grabbed Koa and ran out the room, shutting the door behind me. I got Peter and when he went in he saw all the wasps on our window. Later we guessed there were close to a hundred in our room!

We tried to reach a pest control place but they are all closed on the weekend. Can you believe that!!? I was so annoyed. I guess you're not supposed to have pest problems on the weekend! Ugh! So I called my friend Elizabeth and her brother suggested that we make the room as dark as possible to get the wasps to fly back up in their nest and then to spray up in the hole.

Well we kind of did it backwards and Peter sprayed the hole before we made the room dark, so now the wasps were not going to go back to the nest! So he just went in the bedroom and sprayed all of the ones on the window. We could see where they were getting in from the outside so we sprayed there too.

It got rid of most of them, but over the past few days we have seen them flying back into the house and today we could here them up there again. So, we'll (actually Peter) will have to go up in the attic and spray the actual nest. I hope he's okay, cause I ain't going up there!!! I'll keep you posted on the wasp invasion.

Unfortunately, about four weeks ago I started getting a cough. I didn't think it was anything serious because I felt fine otherwise. I waited until the third week (last week) to see a doctor. She diagnosed me with Bronchitis and gave me some antibiotics and an inhaler. They also did a chest x-ray to rule out pneumonia. After a couple of days I thought I was getting better. But over this past weekend I really started to feel sick again. So I went back to the doctor yesterday and they diagnosed me with pneumonia. They have given me steroids and another antibiotic. I stayed home from work one day last week, and today.

This came at an awful time for work. I'm hoping I am feeling better though before class starts.

Blake started the 4th grade in July! I'm excited for him because 4th grade was one of my favorites. You learn the state capitals! I remember my mom used to quiz me over breakfast every morning. He got a bike over the weekend and has already had his first spill. He scrapped his elbow and knee pretty badly, but Boo Boo fixed him up pretty good. It was a good thing I had some bandages and medical tape...I guess I better stay stocked up on that stuff!!

He's really into baseball now and stays up on all of the stats just like Peter. Go Rockies!!

Ella is getting so big! I realized when I was going to update the blog that I really haven't taken that many pictures lately. I have to get better about that. But I do have some cute ones that I need to put up here.

She motors all over the house now. Upstairs, downstairs, she climbs up on the furniture and loves to sit in her little Pooh couch (a hand me down from Madeline and Taylor).

She talks a ton and is really good at letting us know what she wants. She says baby, ball, balloon, blankie, doggie, shoes, milk, Koa and Blake. Mommy and Daddy are an iffy thing. We can never tell if she is just making sounds or if she understands that we are Mommy and Daddy. If anything, she gets Daddy more than Mommy. If you tell her to take something to Daddy she will go to Peter, not so much with the Mommy....eventually I'm sure she'll be driving me crazy though, so I won't complain!!!

Anyway as soon as I find the cord I will put up some pics.

Just wanted to get an update on here....finally!