Tuesday, May 19, 2009

so much for "blog = family history"

here's a brief update on our lives: our house is still under construction, but progress is being made. we hope we'll be back home by the time we leave for hawaii (late june), but that's a somewhat optimistic view. sighhhh... fortunately, we're able to stay with paul's parents, which has been a fabulous thing with only one drawback - a 15-minute drive to get to our house. dah well, a small price to pay.

carsonisms:
- "mom, not everyone can be very very good at building legos. i am, but not everybody is. it takes lots and lots of training." [really? who trained you?] "just myself. a LOT of training."
- [after telling the kids we got to stop at maverick for them to pick out a treat after a 1-hour drive, amidst excited squeals and cheers, i hear an emphatic:] "mom. you're duh BEST."
- "boys just have to wear shorts for swimming because dey don't have baby-feeders."

exciting things:
- we had a/c installed in our house while it's under construction. hello, bearable summer heat. too bad it couldn't have been last summer, when i was overweight with addie in ye ole belly (she was born mid-august). but better late than never.
- paul and i are planning a weeklong trip to hawaii in june (with his parents and sister/bro-in-law). katrina & jordan are saints and get to hang out with carson & layla; john & jenn are, too, and get to hang out with addie. i wonder if addie will get along better with her siblings around...comments? experience in this area? she'll be about 10 months old. or, i'll just get on the plane and try not to bawl about leaving my loves and let the competent, loving aunts and uncles work it out. :)
- we're going to get to sweden to visit my parents one of these days.
- michelle's wedding day is getting closer! june 19.

um, i'm sure there are other things to mention, but i can't think of them now.

peace out, and happy tuesday.

4 comments:

Joyce said...

Baby feeders?????!!!!! I almost wet my pants laughing.

val said...

woo-hoo hawaii!! have the best time. great to get an update. i still want to meet up!

Kathy said...

hawaii????????? i hate you. kay, not really - but ser??? you are SOOOO lucky!

and HA HA HA on "baby feeders" - love it.

Julie said...

Who ever made up the baby-feeders is a genious. Was that you who came up with the term or Carson being awesome? Just last Evelyn was asking me about how I will feed the baby & I was talking about my "baby feeders." I didn't want to call them boobs & breasts sounded so old & gross. Now I will call them baby feeders. Evelyn just calls them boo-boo's which is find too but sometimes I get confused about what she is really talking about. A real boo boo or her boo-boo's.