Sleepless.
Friday night Lily had a rough time. She was up off and on all night, so restless and uncomfortable. Ty, however, somehow managed to sleep through it all. At about 2:30 in the morning, when we were actually all sound asleep, Jay and I were both frightened out of bed by the sound of a large crash. What the heck?!?! I turned on the lights and started to creep down the stairs. Jay’s sense of hearing must be better than mine, as he went to the guest bathroom. We always have the blind down over the window – don’t really use that bathroom, and the blind helps keep the sun out. He said that he thought the window had broken. My groggy mind had a hard time comprehending what happened. And then I noticed little bits of glass sitting on the ledge by the tub, and I heard a crackling noise. Jay was hesitant to pull up the blinds – didn’t want it all to fall in. There wasn’t anything laying around that looked like it would have caused the damage. We figured a bird hit it, never crossed our mind that anyone might have thrown something at it. As we were already sleep deprived from Lily we went back to sleep, figured we would do more investigative work when the sun came up. Ty didn’t hear a thing.

Saturday morning I showed Ty what happened. We pulled up the blind and I was shocked at how big the hole was! He and I went outside to see if there was a dead bird (or bat) laying on the ground. Nothing. We looked all around the ground, under the hedges, on the other side of the wall. Nothing. I figured we better notify security just in case there were other similar incidents. They haven’t received any other reports. He did say that sometimes the heat makes the glass shatter, but I don’t think it has been especially hot here the past few days. He also said that he has seen the bats run into windows, shatter them, and fly off. This is my best theory at the moment.

The real estate manager came by to assess the situation. As he was standing outside looking up, he said, “it almost looks like it came from the inside out.” I didn’t think anything of the comment at the time. I am certainly not an expert in assessing the evidence of broken glass, but I can say with 100% certainty that nothing went through that window from the inside. And then glass started falling on the guy. He went upstairs and knocked the rest of the glass out with the broom handle. And then he said to Ty, “I don’t suppose you threw something through that window.” And my sweet little sarcastic kid who “just wanted to give the man an answer” said, “yeah, I shouldn’t have thrown my monster truck.” Oh boy. So if the guy had any initial thoughts that we were nasty people trying to cover up something that we did, now he certainly thinks so. Great. This ought to be a fun one.

For the record, putting this out on the internet for the world to know, and I would put my life on this, Ty did not “throw a monster truck” out the window at 2:30 AM in the bathroom that he never goes in where the blind was closed which prevented the glass from going everywhere when he was sound asleep and all three monster trucks were tucked away safe and sound in their box in the toy room. Good Lord. If he had done it, we would be the first ones to ask “who do we make the check out to.” I am so worried now that there is going to be drama…. Ugh….

In other news.
We decided to keep Lily home from swim lessons since she had such a rough night. I took Ty to his lesson and he did great. Still not real comfortable floating on his back, so we need to work on that. We came home and made an appointment to have the doctor check out Lily’s ears. Am hoping that she doesn’t have another ear infection.

While we waited for the time to go to the appointment we caught part of the Iowa State sweet sixteen game, and Jay and Ty vacuumed the car. What a bummer for the Cyclones. 😦

Ears.
Dr. Simone checked out Lily and, just as I suspected, she has an ear infection again. Twice in a month. :(. She said if she gets another one, she will refer is to an ear/nose/throat specialist to see about putting grommets in. I suppose this is like tubes in the US. Hopefully she doesn’t get anymore, but if she does we will consider it, if it will prevent pain in the future.
And, because I knew my mom has been worrying about this, I asked the doctor if it could be caused by swimming. She said no, because her infection is on the ear drum. Swimmers Ear is in the canals. So we don’t have to stop swimming! Yay!

Glass.
We had lunch at the ramina and then came home to meet the ASAP Glass repair guy. It was pretty impressive. He fixed it right up, right there in the driveway. Ty was fascinated by the process. We sat outside on the buggy and watched him work. He showed Ty the tool he uses to cut the glass. Pretty neat. He cleaned up all of the glass upstairs, and tried to get most of the glass outside, but a ton of it ended up in the garden, under the bushes. He couldn’t get that. The worst part is that is where I have to walk to hang dry clothes. No more running out there barefoot! I hope neither of the kids (or Jay) forget and run out there without shoes. Ugh. What a mess.

A couple weeks ago we noticed that the neighbor next door had a shattered window. She was outside so I asked her if she knew what happened. Nope, they figured a bird or the heat did it. She hadn’t reported it to security. I told her what happened. She was going to call security to have them review the tapes (there are cameras all over the neighborhood) to see if they noticed anything. Seems a little coincidental…and now I have myself freaked out a bit. We will be sleeping with the lights on outside. 😦

Bomb.
And then the neighbor gave me some interesting scoop. Apparently the renters 2 people before us got evicted. They were apparently bad people that pissed off some even worse people. One day she came home to find that she couldn’t go to her house. A bomb squad was there to extract a freaking bomb from the driveway. What?!?! Yeah, that guy didn’t live here much longer. Oh the stories these walls could tell…

Pool.
It was hot on Saturday. Really stinking hot. And humid. Like a good old Iowa August day. So between the Lily not feeling well, the dr appointment and the glass guy coming , we didn’t have a chance to go anywhere fun to cool off ( like the beach or the waterpark). When Ty went down for a nap, Jay and I put Lily in her playpen and he and I jumped in the pool. Well, I stepped in, cautiously, trying not to get my hair wet. And then as I was floating on my back, relaxing, Mr. I Just Learned How To Cannonball did just that. Hard to get mad at him when he looks so proud of himself. 🙂

When Ty woke up, he wanted to swim, so he and Jay splashed around while Lily slept in my arms. She would occasionally sort of wake up, sort of not, whining and moaning. Poor babe felt like crud. :(. The view I had, however, made me smile. Watching Ty and Jay through the window, I could only imagine what their conversations were about. I sure do love those boys.

I am hoping for a peaceful night, and that the meds kick in ASAP for Lily. There are some people from the States flying in tomorrow, and the plan is to take them out on the boat. It depends on how Lily fares overnight, though.

G’night mates!