snotty-nosed human

Blargh. I seem to have come down with a cold in my nose, or something. Copious amounts of snot. Blargh!

We went to dinner at my parents’ house last night, along with my sister and Gavin and Breic, and my friend Sam Perera from high school. Sam is Sri Lankan and was an exchange student at KCHS, and then went to UAF, where I re-met him, and he’s now a UN person in Afghanistan. I hadn’t seen him in probably ten years, so that was really cool! I’ll post some pictures later today.

Sunday, when Deirdre introduced me to Breic (“This is your aunt Catie!)”, he FROOOWNED and said, “No!” Apparently one of Deirdre’s midwives is a Catie, and he knew what a Catie was and I wasn’t it. :) So yesterday he was still pretty suspicious, although he figured out Unka TED! very quickly (as soon as Ted started throwing him WAY HIGH in the air), and so we were having a good time saying, “Where’s Uncle Ted? Where’s Mommy? Where’s Grandma?” to him, and he’d point around at the appropriate person. Until we got to “Where’s Aunt Catie?”, at which point he loooooked around at aaaaaallllll the people veeeeeeerrrry carefully, and clearly, through a process of elimination, deduced that I had to be Aunt Catie. :)

I was wearing my silly hat that Angie made me yesterday while we were standing in line at REI to return something, and there was a year old little girl in a stroller in front of us. She was *extremely* fascinated by my hat, but my God, I could not get the kid to smile. I was flopping my head back and forth so the pompoms would bounce, and smiling at her, and winking, and she just kept staring. O_O Tough audience! However, two adults complimented me on the hat. :)

*sneezes violently* Agh. Gah. Kaah. Blah. :}