Week 23, and a dishwasher!

I have lived for the past 11 and a half years without a dishwasher.  I think I might have forgotten what really clean dishes actually looked like.  But today, after a month of waiting and bumps in the road, the dishwasher finally arrived and was installed (of course, there was one final hiccup - the dishwasher was two tall for the cabinet and so some quick surgery needed to be done to remove a bit of wood and make it all fit).

We have loads of beautiful china we got for our wedding six years ago which has never seen the inside of an automatic dishwasher.  While the "good china" can't be dishwashed, the "everyday" dishes can be.  The first load was filled with 10 dinner plates, 10 salad plates, 4 bowls (there wasn't room for more), twelve coffee mugs, eight pint glasses, and 12 place settings of silverware (including the iced tea spoons).  And it all came out SPOTLESS (well, except for one salad plate and a fork...but really, I packed it so full, you can't really blame the dishwasher).

I think I could get used to this.

And with that update on the boring day-to-day lives of the Salvatores - on to the Salvateenies!  Week 23 is upon us!

Max was still snoozing as we set up the weekly Myrtle photo shoot, so Daniel and Caroline took a few poses.

She was smiling through the whole thing, except when I hit the shutter.

When we woke Max for the pictures, he was not happy...and Daniel was easily influenced by his brother.

But Daniel rallied quickly.  

And then Max followed suit.

But Max slipped again into unhappiness.

And then swung the other way again.

Caroline did not seem to be enjoying being in the middle of her goofy brothers, so she took off...quickly replaced by Myrtle.

The Salvateenies are off again to their grandparents' house tomorrow.  Fun!