You know you live in Texas when . . .

1. Your daughter goes to school with kids named JuanPablo (& that's just the first name!) and she's one of the few in her kindergarten class that isn't bilingual.
2. When it's 72 degrees outside at 6AM and it's only April 30th
3. When your yard is inundated with mating "love bugs" See HERE for a picture (they are EVERYWHERE!!!!!)
4. June Bugs come out in March/April.  Again, EVERYWHERE!!!
5. School gets cancelled due to 10 inches of rainfall and MAJOR street flooding

That's it for now . . . stay tuned for more "only in Texas" stuff . . .

Kimball's word list

Well, Kimball is 19 months old now and I've been meaning to write down/document all of the words he can say so far.  I don't recall Allison or Sarah being this verbal so early.  Maybe I've forgotten how they really were, but I think he has alot of words for his age.  And he's already putting them together to make short sentences.  So, if my memory will serve me correctly, here goes . . .

1. Momma

2. Daddy

3. out

4. down

5. help

6. please

7. thank you

8. no

9. uh-oh

10. drink

11. ok

12. poopoo

13. night night

14. ear

15. eye

16. nose

17. mouth

18. Sarah

19. car

20. bye bye

21. go

22. ow-ee

23. chair

24. up

25. applesauce (I'm so serious - this little guy can say it!!)

26. nana (banana)

27. cracker

28. cookie

29. ABCD

30. book

31. ball

32. Amen

33. shoe

34. sock

35. bath

36. doggy

37. hello

38. all done

39. yeah!

40. cow - moo

41. neigh

42. baaa

43. ssssss (snake)

44. jump

45. roooaaaar (lion)

46. baby

47. diaper

48. nummy-num (translation: mmmmm, good!)

49. cup

50. hot

51. teeth

Sentences:

1. please mommy

2. ewww, poopoo

3. ok mommy

4.  bye, bye; car; go!

5.  thank you mommy

He can also:

1. open doors

2. turn on the tv, push in the VHS tape and push play

3. climb in and out of the bath tub

4. push a chair up to the counter and play in the sink, or climb onto the table

4. take off  his diaper

5. climb up and down Allison's bunkbed - or ANY ladder for that matter (including Mark &      Melissa's big playset in the backyard)

6. & make really big messes, of course

 

still here

I want all my readers to know that I'm giving up valuable sleep (it's 12:40AM) to write this brief blog.  (ok: maybe not so brief)

I'm sooooo behind . . . 

ahhhh . . . to have the time to blog again.  Maybe soon. (yeah right)

Here's  a few updates of the past month:

Back in the 2nd weekend in March we spent 4 days in San Antonio.  While we were there, my Dad and stepmom, Kay met up with us and we all went to Sea World together.  We had a great time with them. (come back again, soon!)

The following weekend, they came back down to Houston (well, Katy, technically) and stayed at our (rental) house for a few more days to play.

A few days after Dad and Kay left, Matt's grandfather passed away, so he left to Portland for 5 days - which meant that I was a single Mom for a little while.  Poor Matt and poor Me!

The following weekend, my Mom and my brother, Robert, came into town.  Robert announced that he has a serious girlfriend and said that they were likely going to get married this summer! (it's official now, by the way).  

The weekend after that, Matt's parents came to visit, and we went to Sea World - San Antonio, again.  Matt's brother's family were there with us too. We all rented a vacation house together and it was alot of fun.

Oh, did I mention that we bought a house and closed on it the same day we left for Sea World the second time?  Yep.  Now we're the proud owners of 2 houses!  Lucky us.

After we got back from S.A., my sister-in-law graciously let me dump my kids on her while Matt, Penny, Greg and I got down to business fixing up and cleaning up the new house we bought. (thanks, again, to all)

Now, we're to the following weekend - aka: the present time.  I'm still trying to get stuff done in the new house, while keeping the rental house that we're living in clean enough to "show" to potential new renters (so we can get out of our contract earlier and save money).  Also trying to pick out paint colors, meet with people to give us bids on painting, recarpeting, refinishing cabinetry, blah blah blah.  I haven't even STARTED packing yet.  My goal is to move in by the end of the Month (assuming that the rental house we're currently living in doesn't re-rent before then -- then I'm in trouble)

Did I mention that I started a new job this week too?  Yeah.  I got a part-time/prn Nursing job at the surgical center/hospital OR (I'll kinda be working at both).  So . . . needless to say, I'm a little tired and feeling a little crazy at this point.  

We had Sarah's birthday in the last month too. (the first weekend I spoke of). I've taken lots of pictures of the past month's events, but haven't had any time to post any of them.  I don't think I've even downloaded them to my computer yet.  Sometime I'll have to do a "blog barf" catch up on it all.

Just to be clear: we've loved all of the visitors -- so I hope this didn't sound like we didn't enjoy it all!  I'm just feeling the burn of not going to sleep before midnight for over a week now . . .

Anyway - I'm hittin' the hay now.  sooooooo tired . . . .  ZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

(This post 'outta suffice for a while, hopefully . . .)