Passports, Home Invasions and Strawberry Sweaters!

Lots to tell since last post! Squidgy­boo con­tin­ues to grow cuter by the day! We are work­ing on get­ting her a pass­port so that we can go on our hol­i­day to the Azores. We have an appoint­ment at the Amer­i­can Embassy in Lon­don, Sept 7.

Scary thing hap­pened to us last Thurs­day, we had a home inva­sion. 4 men wear­ing ski masks kicked our door in look­ing for the keys to the car. Wal­ly­woo fought them off!! Who would have thought he had it in him. He has a black eye, bruised ribs and was taken to the hos­pi­tal just as a pre­cau­tion. I screamed my head off and am com­pletely trau­ma­tized by the entire inci­dent!! Appar­ently these types of inci­dents are more and more com­mon. With secu­rity on the cars being bet­ter the theives need the keys in order to steal it. So what do they do?? They just bust down your door and expect you to be too shocked to resist. I haven’t slept a wink since it hap­pened, I keep think­ing they’re going to come back!! Wal­ly­woo and are were plan­ning on mov­ing but this is just speed­ing up the process. I’m hop­ing to be in a new place by Christ­mas, I fear this is wish­ful think­ing! I’ll keep every­one posted if they catch the bas­tards!! We had the car taken away and dusted for fin­ger­prints, hope­fully they found something.

We spent the week­end in Shrews­bury with Wallywoo’s old col­lege friend and his fam­ily. We had a vey good time and Squidgy­boo was very good. We went into the vil­lage to watch fire­works and she slept through the entire thing! Of course she woke up as soon as they were orver! She’s able to keep her head up more and has a lot more con­trol of it. She looks like a lit­tle tur­tle some­times. I’ll post some more pic­tures when I have a sec­ond!! She’ll be 2 months in a few days. I can’t believe how quickly time is passing.

Here’s a pic­ture of Squidgy­boo wear­ing her new straw­berry sweater sent to her by her Madrinha Maryann!! It’s just a lit­tle BIG!!!!