The Infamous Arrest

This morning, I had my first commute into work. I left at 7:15am, got a coffee, and got to daycare at 8:15am. I can't believe it takes me that long to get to work.

Anyway, to the juicy news from this morning -

We are having our town home professionally cleaned as well as having the carpets professionally cleaned today as we are showing it to potential renters tomorrow. I received my first phone call from Ryan this morning telling me he left Children's Hospital to deal with an issue at the old house. He said the three cleaning ladies were locked in a room with a drunk guy in the house telling them he wasn't leaving. Ryan told the ladies to call the cops.

The next phone call came and it was Ryan clarifying certain information. Two days ago, the moving company broke one of the newels under the hand railing going to the kitchen. They said they would send someone to fix it. Yesterday, a man came in and started to fix it. Great! No big deal, right?!

Well, the man decided to return today while the ladies were cleaning. He walked right in and began to lay down on the stairs to start sanding and to put puddy on the area that needed to be fixed. Well, the ladies inferred that he reeked of alcohol and when they asked him to leave, he angrily replied that he wasn't "bleeping" leaving. That's when they ran upstairs and shoved themselves against the door in our former master bedroom and called the owner of their cleaning company. The cleaning company called Ryan who informed them to call the cops and this is what ensued...

The cleaning ladies ventured out to check on the "drunk" guy who appeared to be laying in the staircase leading to one of the exit doors. He was actually finishing up fixing the newel.

The cops now have entered the house and yelled to everyone to identify themselves. The four cruisers, three fire engines, and one ambulance waited outside while this was happening (as well as all of our neighbors who were pointing at our house and most likely thought that Ryan was beating his poor pregnant wife).

They asked the man to come out and he replied, "I'm not "F****** coming out!!" That's when he stood up and started up the stairs. The cops knew the ladies were upstairs so they stormed into the house all commando like! The man was standing at the top of the stairs crazily wielding the puddy knife and the cops were pointing their weapons at him demanding him to put the weapon down. The guy said he wasn't going to put his f'in puddy knife down. He proceeded to call the cops all sorts of names, and that's when the cops charged him.

It took four officers to bring him down and cuff him. They carried him outside (to the delight of my neighbors, I'm sure) and shoved him in one of the waiting cruisers. Then he started to feign a seizure. Ryan was there at the time and the cops weren't too impressed with his alleged seizure. Ryan was nervous about his medical condition, but also completely taken aback by the rotten things coming out of this man's mouth. One of the police officers pinched the man in his arm and he popped right up...I guess that's a technique that's used to ensure that one isn't faking an attack?

Anyway, the owner of the moving company came in and apologized for his worker's actions and the owner continued to say he's never seen him act like this. I guess the crazy man was still ranting incoherently in the police cruiser. Well, Ryan then had to fill out paper work and a restraining order against the guy. The cops are going to charge him with evading arrest (or something like that).

But at this time, the cleaning ladies went back to work.

In the midst of all of this mayhem, the carpet cleaning guy showed up. He didn't even say hi to Ryan or look phased from all the police/fire activity (or the looky-loo neighbors). He walked his stuff around all the activity, passed the lunatic in the car, and started setting up to clean the carpet. He went into the house and started cleaning...he never asked one question or looked questioningly at the craziness outside the house.

Um...so that's the news from this morning/today. It was very exciting to get the three phone calls from my husband informing me about the real "soap opera" that was happening at our old house.

I'm sure the neighbors are thrilled to learn that we are moving.
Boy oh boy.
One of these days, our lives won't be so drama-filled...I promise!

You-tube Videos of Eban

Hey everybody, ryan here. Here's a couple of videos of Eban that we have hosted on youtube.



....and one of Eban crawling and playing with his favorite cell phone. Note the look of sheer exhaustion after crawling for 5 seconds.

Cheerios

This morning, Eban went to the Denver Top Cop ceremony with me at 6:00am. He was a total champ...until the lady read the scenario of the situation in which the police officer got the award. She read the report and said something along the lines of "The bad guy looked at the cop and yelled, 'Screw You!'" Eban's head popped up (we were standing next to the lady at the podium) and he looked at her and started giggling. They were loud, audible giggles which the cop-filled room heard...AND my boss! Everyone started laughing and he made the morning quite bearable and then I had to answer "tough" questions about the amount of times Eban hears that kind of language at home. It was funny...and I hope I'm capturing the moment for you!

Then we headed over to work where there were Cheerios in the cabinet. He loved the Cheerios as this is the first time he had them. He also loved turning the other computer in my office off and on...Boy, is he into things!


Ryan accepted a job offer from Microsoft and will start at the end of June. This job is located in Boulder so the fact that we are moving to Thornton will help as it's a good mid-way point for both of us. He will fly to Redmond, Washington in the near future for new employee orientation. Very exciting!

That's it for now!