"I wanted to tell her to be sure & say hello to our baby when she got to Heaven."

Sunday, June 14, 1992

     Not a whole lot has happened since Tues. Sometimes the days just all seem to run together. We'd wanted to go to a movie yesterday since we had to cancel going last week. But we couldn't find anyone to babysit. I called Jennifer Leland & her roommate but night one of them could keep her. I called Gayle Harrison & left a message for her with Robbie and left a message on Mary Sembra's machine. Neither one of them called back. This morning Mary said she didn't have a church directory so she didn't have our number. I didn't say it on the machine cause I figured she had it. I didn't get a chance to talk to Gayle today but asked Robbie if he'd given her my message & he said he thought he had. Anyway, Guy said he thought Ez. would do ok so he convinced me to take her with us. She did pretty good. We took plenty of snacks & juice. She got a little fidgety toward the end but we didn't have to take her out any. After that we went to Children's Palace. Now every thing's 30% off. We got some stuff for xmas. Busy Beads, 2 See & Say's, I can't remember now what all. We also got some things for now: a toilet lid lock, books, a car seat protector mat, a stove guard to keep her from reaching the burners, some onesies. I wanted to get some poppin' pals but they didn't have any Sesame Street ones. (That's the thing where you push a button, pull a lever, etc. and each one pops a door open with a character in it.) Things are started to look a little picked over in the store.

     We thought Ez. would take a nap on the way there but she didn't. She was one tired puppy but the time we came home. Guy put her down for a nap but she wouldn't go to sleep. We ate supper & he gave her a bath then she played for a little bit & went right to sleep when Guy put her down.

     Oh, we stopped by Walmart to pick up a roll of developed pictures: her birthday & Easter, misc. pix of her, & the Expectant Arms reunion.

     Oh, Guy had Fri. aft. off. He'd planned to spend the aft. painting out back but he hadn't gotten much sleep Thu. night (on the ship) and decided to take a nap. He did do a little painting Fri. evening & Sat. morning. I think he got the windows (downstairs) and the door frame done. He'll have to get an extension ladder to get the upstairs windows & trim and chimney trim done. Hopefully he won't have to repaint it before we move. He may have to do the front again—it's been two years since we did it. The hard part in back (besides the high stuff) is going to be the door frame where Chief scratches to be let in.

     We had to go to church early tonight for a meeting the elders had with the "silver marrieds". They need a better term for it than that. They also have the young marrieds and the golden marrieds. Anyway, they were looking for input & ideas of what the congregation is & isn't doing right. We had to fill out a kind of questionnaire and also one for visitation. I said I'd assist in visitation for visitors and chronic absentees.

     We've started leaving Chief loose overnight & when we're gone. We keep the dining room blocked off though. I kinda hope if he's loose he'll make some sort of noise if someone tries to break in. He was barking Fri. morning but we didn't figure out til later that it was because a cat or something was trying to get into the trash bag on the front porch.

     Oh, we found out at church this morning that baby Kayla Walker died last Sun. evening. She was just three days shy of being three months old. I feel so bad about it. I'd wanted to hold her but I never could get the nerve to ask. I wanted to tell her to be sure & say hello to our baby when she got to Heaven. And I never got the chance. I wonder if they'll try to have more children. Since it's an inherited syndrome they may not. They're so young. At least they look pretty young.