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March 14, 2009

the mother update of all updates

This will be random and weird but what's new, right?

-Last night we all went to Jake's work and had him serve us dinner. The ribs were so awesome and the cook sent home more of them with him last night. As we were leaving, he said "bye family I love you!" OUT LOUD. I am more and more impressed with him everyday. Who knew 2 years ago that things could change so much. My mom always said to just love the unlovable and eventually he'd come around. He has and we have. It's good.

-Max has just come out of a long long bout with the flu, ear infections and the worst week of his life (and ours). When he's sick, he wrecks us all,and our blankets and towels and carpet. He's so happy now though even though he has a ganglion cyst on his ankle. It looks awful but doesn't seem to hurt him. I guess he'll never have to wear shoes. Max is becoming a wiz at sign language. He's not as vocal as Tess was at his age but he uses his hands to speak volumes. I could learn to live with some quiet around here.

-Trevor is finally getting adjusted to his new school and admits to having friends. He's also spent the week cleaning up the back yard. These are two accomplishments I never thought I'd see from the surly one, himself. He's still a crab and still beats dead horses all the time, but he is what he is and I'll take it as long as he rakes leaves.

-Tess now wants to know what knees are made of, what trees are made of, what animals are made of, etc. She's so anxious for spring because I've promised to take her to the zoo when it gets warmer. She loves animals more than people so much that she considers herself one of them instead of a human. She uh...refers to people as "humans" which is odd.

-Kendall. Did I tell you she's perfect? There are 2 bad things right now. The first is that boys are constantly knocking on our door, pretending to want to hang out with Trevor, but obviously enthralled with Kendall. She doesn't give them the time of day but I can see that she likes the attention. The second is that she wants to wear a bikini this summer. I told her we'll find one that doesn't scare me to death and one that she likes too. She's ok with it. Dan said "tell her no!!" haha. He's so overly protective of her.

-Tonight's supper club at our house. The theme is "last supper". I can't figure out what to cook. I chose the stupid theme and can't decide what would be my last meal. How dumb is that? I guess I'm going to grill some steaks and maybe make mashed potatoes. I really just look forward to having a house full of people. It gives me an excuse to demand that my family help me clean.

-We also had our CD exchange last week. I love cd exchange because I get all sorts of new music. I just have to keep the kids from stealing the cds before I can listen to them.

-Our pool is being repaired in 2 weeks. Turns out we hired a scam artist to give us our first estimate and our pool is going to be much cheaper to repair. I am so glad we listened to Chrissy and my dad and got a second opinion. Looks like we'll be having pool parties this summer!

uh oh, max is awake. peas!

Posted by krystal at March 14, 2009 7:11 AM

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wow. your family is rockin' cool. i can't believe how much they've grown and where they're at now in life.

Posted by: a guy at March 21, 2009 11:22 PM

If you need company on your zoo trip, we'd join ya. Ada loves animals too. We took her to the zoo to see the elephants. Then she asked to see dinosaurs, so we went to the Smithsonian. She wants to see a whale- which they also have in the Smithsonian- but she wants to see one like in Jonah, not a plastic one hanging from a ceiling. Maybe a whale watching trip in VA beach?

Posted by: manda at March 26, 2009 9:57 AM