Proud Mama

I couldn't be prouder. Ethan came home today with new library books and they aren't Spongebob. We go to the public library fairly regularly and it is usually Spongebob or Scooby Doo books. But when he goes to the one at school he usually gets decent books. He's read everyone of the Black Lagoon books; "The Teacher from the Black Lagoon", "The Janitor from the Black Lagoon", there are tons of them. And today he came home with "Falling Up" and "Where the Sidewalk Ends". He plopped down on the couch while Jared watched the Yankees play and read about 8 poems. It's nice to know that he is interested in good wholesome things instead of the mainstream.

I took him for his bi-yearly well check this past week and he measured 52" tall and 71 lbs. I figure by 4th grade (if I'm lucky) he will out grow me since I'm only 62" tall. He's at the age where he is embarrassed to be in his underwear around people let alone being naked in front of anyone, so when his doctor asked him to take off his pants to check for hernias he had a giggling fit. He wouldn't even unbutton his pants he slid them to his knees and I couldn't look!! As soon as his doctor was finished he yanked his pants up faster than I have ever seen=) It's sad when little boys outgrow their mommies, cause we know that we have seen that tushie more than anyone else in this entire world.

We did it....We did it...

All I can say is "Holy Cow, we did it." We bought a house today! I signed the contract this afternoon and it should be finished in November. Kind of a long time to wait but now the wait is worth it. I finally got all of our crap together this time before we went and viewed the property. So this time everything really should work out. I love it, and I love it more because we aren't moving again for a very long time. I still have a garage full of stuff from the last move. I got so tired of trying to find things I started re buying them. I can't even park my car in the garage because it's so full. I just felt that if I unpacked and hung things up then we would be here for a while. It's one of my weird things. We've been living with the minimum and it's going to be nice to unpack all of our things and hang pictures on the wall and paint and decorate and, and, and.....

Click on the link below and you can see the floor plans and an example of what it looks like!!! If you select the interactive floor plan button select the B elevation on the left side and this is more of what it looks like.

http://kbhome.com/Plan~PlanID~00850726-230.1552.aspx

2007 Yankees

What a little man he is becoming!!

Baseball is over for the year and now what? Thank goodness Ethan is in school most of the summer because I wouldn't know what to do with him. It's bad enough Jared is out of school for the summer. He doesn't consider one online class school. I tried to enroll him in three classes for the summer but the aid only worked this year for spring and fall. UNLV is so weird, they hardly give out any scholarships, so when they give something you are really grateful. But I can't complain to much, he got a grant for this year just not for summer courses.

I think boys are way better at being troublemakers that girls. That is until they are teenagers, then girls get their streak. Ethan is having a steady track of having at least two not so good days per week. At this point it doesn't matter what it is, if it doesn't go with the flow of things he's in trouble. My poor baby is cursed with being impulsive. He acts before he thinks and it causes most of his mishaps. Last week he was looking for his friend in the bathroom at school and decided the easiest way to do this was to peek over the stalls. It's pretty funny in the big picture but Jared wasn't very happy when he had to go for his first parent teacher conference. What could the principal say? "Um, your son is a peeper." He's not that old yet, and it was in the boys bathroom. I keep telling myself that he will out grow this streak and then everything will be fine!!

Spring School Picture

April 2007

Rookies Season is coming to a close

This years little league season finishes today. The playoff games start on Thursday and that will depend on how many more games they play. If they win then they continue and if they lose then that's it till next year. Our team hasn't been playing as well as they could lately, so I would really love for them to at least win one playoff game. Because up until now they don't keep score, so all of the past games were like practice. Keep your fingers crossed and lets hope everyone brings their "A" Game.

Patience

We are going to look at houses today. All of the new homes are offering incentives to try and sell them so we are going to see just how much they are willing to give us. So wish us luck because we could be buying a house today. I found the one I love, it has everything that we would need for a long while. The schools are within walking distance and there are parks within the community. There is new shopping and a whole lot still under construction. Above all that there is enough room for us to grow; more babies, maybe?!?!?! One day, but we have to have the house first. I swore that we would do things in order from now on. If we could afford a house then we would get one now if not then Jared would finish school first. So my goals are 1) House, 2) School, 3) Baby. Nothing to extravagant or out of reach. Just all things that require a whole lot of patience.

Good News

I know I'm late, (of course) on reporting the last news I heard on my Grandpa Bill was that he had finished up with the radiation and had a few more rounds of chemo to go (or the other way around), either way he had a few scary moments but all in all he is recovering well. I'm really excited and relieved for him. I can't even begin to imagine what it's like to have to go through something like that. But to go through it and live to tell about it is amazing to me. People do it more and more everyday. Medical technology is truly under rated. The things that the doctors can do to help us make them heroes.