Madison complimented Nathan on his coloring yesterday and he said, " I am a expert shoe colorer." Expert is his new word. Three and so very funny! The kid is a hoot.
Alexandra is turning 5, all she wants is a coloring book. I love my little artist.
Alexandra picked out a black bathing suit with peace signs on it. They were on sale $6.49 and $4.69, so I go some for next summer. Funny thing is that I went into Target to look at winter jackets and ended up with bathing suits? We covered the pool for the winter almost two weeks ago! Anyway.... Madison said, "she doesn't even know what that means." I said, "Do you?" She said, "Yes, Hollywood." Miss smarty pants!
Mark had a conversation with a friend the other day that told him his eye center that he goes to is hiring a retinal surgeon at $700,000 a year. Later than day in the van Mark as serious as could be said something along the lines of "listen up kids, one of you has to be a retinal surgeon. You all can discuss it and decided, but mommy and daddy need someone to pay for our retirement." Nathan said, "Can I say doodie head?". Mark said, " You can say it all you want if you are a surgeon."
House still is not fixed from the storm on July 31st. As soon as we decided to go ahead and do the roof and deal with the insurance later is started to rain and has rained almost everyday for over a week. Bottom line is it has to get fixed.
We have only hung one thing on the walls from the other house. I have a vertical stack of pictures and wall decor that has yet to be hung. Just not sure where to put some stuff and God forbid I put it somewhere and don't like it. One reason is the family room is paneling and I just refuse to hand anything until we drywall. Which will end up being 2015 at this rate. The Laundry room still isn't done completely.
All are welcome to come and have a working vacation to help us. I am not joking! Wish we were Amish this house would be DONE! Have a barn raising weekend. Or laundry room raising, kitchen remodel, deck raising would be the best, or foyer redo. I could go on but shouldn't it is depressing to think how much we want to do and how long it is going to take. When it is all done this house will be just the way we like.
So thankful for the friend that mails us kids clothes. She really has no idea what a blessing it is to hardly have to buy clothes for the man child.
Kids are totally into Scooby Doo and both girls want to be Velma for Halloween. Velma?
As hard as I try to remember kids birthdays and write them all on my ical for the life of me I never look at the ical and always see it too late.
Thunderstorms sound different here. Not sure if it is the mountains that divide up the city or they just aren't has severe here. Yes we have mountains and they are beautiful. They aren't white capped and huge, but the landscape here is gorgeous. Mountains run along the east of the city and we live about three blocks from the land trust. We call it our mountain. That is how the kids know we are almost home. There is more than one mountain, but they line up along the whole east side of the city and I can't tell where one starts and the other ends.
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