cousin and second cousin connection!

well saturday was a big day for me! i had some adventures in the OC and then back over to santa monica. my cousin katie is kind of amazing or kind of crazy. either way i sure love having cousin connection. i say crazy in a loving way people, jeez- like i'd really spill all the family secrets on the world wide web! anyhow katie and her husband hosted a slip and slide party. some of their friends and family with toddlers showed up, oh and me. katie filled up water balloons, ben mowed the lawn, i surveyed the activities. all in all it was a very productive afternoon for me. i really did have a great time and i was amazed by my cousin's abilities. she is constantly on the go, almost in a dizzying sort of way and if i didn't know her better i would think she was taking methamphetamines or abusing ritalin or something. but seriously. par example, after we spent a few hours being in the hot OC sun and playing volleyball, soothing crying children and actually heaving down the giant piece of plastic that is: the slip-and-slide. okay well actually i did none of those things, but both katie and bed did. i just sat in a lawn chair and did what i do best: chat and eat otter pops. so after all that, we go inside to discover that a mysterious urine spot has been identified and located on cousin's very cool couch. so katie proceeded to simultaneously spot clean the couch (which was a serious undertaking), give ruby a bath, clean the bathtub (when ruby accidentally used it as the toilet), vaccuumed and somehow provided me with homemade mac & cheese and a yummy avocado, cilantro salad.
katie working on the couch:
me hanging out with lulu!

cousin, still cleaning couch:
we were sitting on the pee-less side of the couch:
when everything was finally all settled we sat down and watched coraline (i love that movie so much). i had to head out as i had another place to be, so freshened up in the bathroom, when i came out- katie had ruby at the dinner table eating a full on meal. like i said, crazy.
i wanted to eat these little baby legs stuffed into this cool/weird moldable chair thing: