Sunday Funny

The following is a phone conversation I had with Luke tonight.

Me: (watching the snow pile up outside) Next Sunday night we'll be on the beach Luke.

Luke: Grandma, is that a nude beach or a normal beach??

A nude beach??...what kind of grandma does he think I am??? (Nevermind!) Or a better question might be this - where in the world does a home schooled 6 year old hear about nude beaches!?!

Oh it's going to be an interesting week in Florida isn't it??? Did I mention that Caleb is also coming with us?? Oh yeah......very interesting!

Six Days Until Florida

Well, we did it.....we closed on the house this morning! We were supposed to close next Monday but the realtor has already received the sellers packet and the bank has the money so.....we met today and sealed the deal! Yay! Tom has been down there all day. First he went there to make a list of things he needed from the hardware and then he came back and worked on stuff all afternoon. That is fabulous but - he is looking for an exact match of floor tile color and style to put down behind the refrigerator! My kitchen floor has holes in it and he is looking for tile to put behind the fridge!!! There's more, lots more, but I'll spare you the details.

Tonight we have Julie & Steve's kids. They are pretty funny......at dinner Caleb stands up in his chair, grabs his crotch and says something about his "tenders". None of the other kids even pay attention. So I asked him "tenders??" He smiles, the smile only Caleb can smile, and says "yeah Grandma, tenders like Captain Rex." (Whoever that is DUH.) This is where Alec chimes in with "Yeah Grandma tenders are nuts." I KNEW THAT!

Fifteen minutes after dinner Caleb informs me that he is hungry. This is the kid that doesn't eat so I know that he has a plan. Sure enough.......he found a leftover candy cane and that is what he was "hungry" for. And he is smart enough to know that if he took it into the family room where the other kids were, he'd probably have to share so he sat quietly in the dark in the dining room and ate his candy cane! Pretty smart kid, I'd say.

Currently he is campaigning to go to Florida with us and his brother Luke. I don't think that sounds like a bad idea.......they could go on the Teacups and the Flying Dumbo and Space Mountain with each other!!!! Well, maybe not Space Mountain but still that would mean that Tom & I didn't have to go on all those twirly rides at Disney!! And they could bury each other in the sand on the beach! It's brilliant! Yeah, I'm liking the idea better and better.

Maggie's Ears

Tomorrow Maggie will be 6 months old. YIKES!! Today she had her ears pierced. Here is a photographic journal of the big event. This is the before picture.....she is almost smiling, enjoying all the attention, wondering what in the world is going on!

This is after her ears are marked and both girls are positioning the piercing guns (!) .....beginning to look concerned......

Her ears are done here and if you look closely you can see that she is starting to react....her lip is quivering......

And now she is feeling the sting and reacting whole heartedly!!! She is probably wondering why everyone is smiling when she is clearly so upset.....not the reaction she's used to!!!!

And here she is a moment later, safe in Daddy's arms, looking so cute in her new blue earrings!!!

9 More Days!!!

Nine more days and we should be headed for Florida!!! YAY!!! I don't remember when I've been so anxious to get out of here for vacation.......well, not since last year! Our hotel is supposed to have wi-fi so I'll be able to update with lots of pics and stuff. Julie calls at least 20 times a day when we have one of her kids but now she'll actually be able to see pictures of Luke daily. Maybe I'll even be able to figure out the webcam by then! How complicated can it be???

The House - Closing #1

Well, as of about 4:30 this afternoon we are one step closer to finishing up our house purchase. We closed on the refinance of our home (above) today and expect to close on the "new" house next Monday. I say "expect" because we've learned during this process that absolutely nothing goes as planned. So...barring any more delays, snafus, misunderstandings, problems, time changes, etc......we should be the new owners of the house down the road by this time next Monday! Yay!

Work on the roof is scheduled to start the next day and should be finished by the time we get home from Florida and then we will work on getting the plumbing repaired, the leak fixed, the wall redone and install a new water softener and a water heater. Phew!

Hopefully, the "new neighbors" will be able to move in sometime mid May. I'll keep you posted. Right now I am going to watch "The Money Pit"!!!!

More Barbie

The whole thing with Barbie started a few weeks ago when she turned 50. I used this image of her as my Facebook profile for a few days (isn't the resemblance remarkable??) and then I wrote a birthday tribute to her on this blog and reminisced about my childhood without Barbie....my mom thought she was trashy and had big boobs so no Barbie for me.

Anyways, then Susan sent me some pictures of this Barbie cake - yes, this Barbie is chocolate cake! For real! It would be really weird to cut her up and eat her but whatever! So it got me to thinking of the time when Julie was little, probably about 3, and my grandma made her and my little cousin Barbie cakes.

Here is my grandma, my cousin Shannon and Julie with their Barbie cakes. Julie is the girl in the front with the orange Barbie cake. You'll see better in the next picture where she dives in face first to eat her!!

Yep! That's my girl......the Barbie carnivore!! Notice how Shannon is gently stroking Barbie's hair while Julie is eating her Barbie. Her kids are SO like her!!!!!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

I don't really have anything to say - just wishing everyone a Happy St. Patty's Day! Actually I do have an idea for a post (thanks to Susan D.) but it'll have to wait until I have time to put it together! So check back in a day or two.......