I'm terribly excited.

I'm sorry - we haven't had the baby as of 9:46pm.
HOWEVER! We are the proud new owners of a kettle. Boo-yeah!
Anybody that knows Tim - knows he has to (and loves to) drink a lot of fluid - his fluid of choice being loose-leaf green tea. His tea pot I got him a couple of years ago holds 1 full liter - he drinks at least 3-5 of these a day.
He's been using pots to boil water - which was annoying as heck for awhile as we only had 1 large pot and 1 little pot. And if I wanted to make mashed potatoes in the big pot and carrots in the little one - well I had to wait for Tim to finish boiling his water. Thankfully Jessica came to the rescue and found some pots that they no longer needed (due to possible gluten contamination) - so we now have plenty of pots.

This evening we went out to the City Market (aka the massive grocery store with a massive cow in the dairy section - complete with udder and working bell) and as I was mosey-ing about - I saw a kettle. Not an electric one - which is fine. But a kettle that wasn't 40-50 Euros! It was 9,95E!!!! I'm super excited. Now I'm able to enjoy hot beverages too without fear of spilling hot water all over myself or worse, on the dogs waiting at my feet! And it whistles but not one of those ear-splitting-nails-down-a-chalkboard whistle. Just a light whistle to let you know that your water is done.

Other gems of the night include a tea steeper (now I can finally enjoy the loose leaf tea Jessica gave me for women who want to breast feed - I previously kept forgetting to pick one up downtown), some cereal (some apple/cinnamon muslix concoction - quite delicious), 2 WHOLE FRICKIN' KGS WORTH OF CARROTS (I love carrots so much), a large bag of dog food and some bulk candy. I took a bite of a light brown octopus - and it was salty with a hint of licorice...ick.
Oh and massive tubes of tooth paste, bottles of body wash and shampoo etc. All the usual stuff :)

In the car on the way home I read "Mr. Brown Can Moo - Can You?" to Sulevi and he's in the phase of repeating certain things and "Mr. Brown" was the chosen phrase for the night. (The other night was "Gruffalo")
When Taneli and Sulevi dropped us off - Sulevi told me he loved me. It melts my heart... :)

When we walked in - all was peaceful and the dogs were excited to see us. Which is nice.
Oh and of course Loki had to show that he missed us by leaving an empty bag of this soft/sweet square bread (I didn't even get the chance to take a picture of it yet!) that reminded us of the potato bread we tried with Taneli a few days ago! Here's the crazy part...
The bag was not torn and Tim had left the plastic tag on it - which I just found still in a circular shape. Loki was able to pull off a small plastic tag off the bread bag and eat the contents of the bag without ripping a single hole in the bag. (I am secretly impressed and proud - with the exception of him stealing food.)
Thankfully Tim had an ice-cream cone from the City Market to keep his mind off the missing bread and as well he had consumed more than 5 pieces of the bread (unlike the poor Domino cookies from last week).

Well that's all for now!