Boy #2

As you recall from the last post, the captain has been wearing an ace wrap on his right hand to help with some swelling from all his hard work. The other day he didn't wear it and left it on the dining table. I came in after breakfast and found Crash creatively playing cars.

Who knew an ace wrap makes such a cool road for your cars. He played with this for hours and then the Test pilot assisted by building a tunnel over the wrap. My boys!

House update

Well, the house renovation is coming along. This is the captain plastering in the living room. We have scraped all the popcorn in the house. We are both so sore. You can't see it but the captain has an ace wrap on his right hand. Ten hours a day of scraping and plastering for 4 days in a row has made his arm very achey and swollen. We should be ready to start texturing tomorrow afternoon and then on to painting next week.

The Steamatic guys came today and cleaned the air ducts and the tile floors. The house already smells fresher. A smoker lived there previously. The floors look so much better. We should have new carpet in a week so we are hoping the smell will be really gone then.

These are pictures of the boys' bathroom. We had to make the executive decision that the blue floral wallpaper will have to stay up for awhile. We won't get it renovated until after we move in. At least they are blue flowers and not pink. These pictures really don't do it justice. It's pretty ugly. Looking forward to posting the "after" pictures.

Beautiful Blue Daze

I love these flowers. They are called Blue Daze. The captain takes all the boys shopping at the hardware store for some flowers for mom every Mother's Day. My boys think anything is cool if it comes from the hardware store. The test pilot pilot picked out the blue daze for me. I have really grown to love them. They have these small delicate blue flowers all over them and they are only open in the cool mornings. The flowers will close up around 10:30am or so.

It has been an adjustment getting the test pilot up early to go to school, but then this morning EVERYONE was up before 6:30am. You could say I was not very happy with this development. So my morning has gotten off to different start and we will once again be flexible. (That is a hard thing for me- I like structure!) The poor test pilot inherited this from me. Anyhow, as I ate my early breakfast this morning and looked out the window I was able to enjoy my beautiful flowers. They had a very calming effect. If I wasn't eating breakfast so early I would not have been able to enjoy my flowers. Thank you God for your creation and taking me off my schedule to enjoy them!

First Day of School

It was the test pilot's first day of school. Sigh. He was so excited, but the mom was not so excited. I was so glad he was going to school. He is so ready. It's just hard watching your first born leave the nest so to speak. The first few days the school will let you walk your child into the classroom, but after that they prefer you just drop them off at the door to the school. We park and I start walking the test pilot to his class. He looks at me and says, "Why are you walking with me? I know where I am going." I almost started crying then. I was able to keep myself composed until I got back to the car where I had a good cry. I know he will do great, but it's just hard to let go a little.

Faster than a speeding bullet

The Test pilot had his first game of the new season today! He is on a team called the Bullets. He had a lot of fun and ran a lot.


I had a good laugh during his practice before the game. The coach says "dribble the ball to me." So the test pilot promptly picks up the ball and starts dribbling the soccer ball across the grass with his hands. I started laughing. Poor guy! They should use different terminology. I guess when your mom always played basketball that's what you know. After the game we talked about how dribbling in soccer is with your feet and dribbling a basketball is with your hands. It's the little things I always forget to teach my kids.

7 Months old!

Well, our little baby is 7 months old today! It's hard to imagine. Little Piglet or chunky as we call him is quite the eater. From the moment that boy came out of the womb he has wanted to eat. We have had to convince him that you don't need to eat every 2 hours all the time. He tends to disagree. He is doing better in that department but he's quite the big boy so it's hard to deny that he might need some food. He was my smallest baby, but now he is as big as the test pilot at this age plus the extra large head. He has cute little rolls on his thighs. At his last check up the doctor said he was a little anemic so we have had to put him on iron supplements. The doctor credits the anemia to the fact that he gained over 13 pounds in his first 6 months of life! He weighs 21 lbs now.

He loves to smile and laugh! He has recently discovered his toes and apparently they taste pretty good because he is always chewing on them. He has two teeth on the bottom and is waiting for some more because he wants to eat table food. He says "ma-ma" really well. We've had to work really hard at the sleeping thing but he is finally sleeping around 9-10 hours at night. He doesn't really nap during the day but I will take what I can get at this point.

I love you big guy!

New House: Before pictures

We finally took the plunge! We closed on our house last week and now starts the renovation! The captain will be taking off from work next week to work on the house. He's already started some projects in the garage and living room. We should move in towards the end of September. The test pilot is loving being daddy's helper. There's a lot to do before we move in and there will still be lots more to do after, but we are so excited. This house is just perfect for us. It puts the test pilot in a school we think we will like and very close to the school. We are in a great neighborhood. The house is structurally sound, but just needs a lot of TLC which put it right in our price range. The bedrooms are huge and I will have an enormous kitchen (especially compared to what I have now.) God picked the right house and the right time. It took a lot of patience on my part, but God once again revealed that depending wholly on Him is always the best way to go. Who knew buying a house could be such a refining time in my life! Can't wait to show you all the after pictures!