Saturday, March 31, 2012

Basketball anyone?

Harvey and Ryan got their birthday present a little early:

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Ryan’s game was cancelled today.  Once again he was fully dressed and about to leave when the rain started.  On the upside…

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Friday, March 30, 2012

You know you have boys when…

-you can identify the little green army men’s positions with the arch of your foot.

-your supply of computer paper is in the form of F-14s.

-socks are on your weekly Target list.

-you separate laundry by: whites, darks, lights, and camouflage.

-when you hear ‘James Stewart’ you think motorcross not “It’s a Wonderful Life.”

-you pass other carts in Target saying excitedly, “And Dale Earnhardt Jr. passes Kurt Busch on the inside.”

-you can name the Gator Boys.

-when 14+14=Buster Posey.

-when  your second bathroom is a eucalyptus.

-you spend your free time trying to figure out how to store Legos.

Thursday, March 29, 2012

A hammer and some nails

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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Buttons please

 Last week Harvey said we needed to get the garden put in.  A couple of days later:

IMG_8247I contributed nothing.  Hoping he lets me enjoy the fruit (and vegetables) of his labor though.  We let the straw bales sit all winter.  They were fun, but it was too hard to get to the middle and it turned out to be pretty expensive buying all of those straw bales here in the city.  Harvey built around them and put in more soil.  Hopefully we will do a better job watering the tomatoes (less) and they will be more flavorful this year.  Wouldn’t it be fun if a certain little person was home in time to help pick the cherry tomatoes?

 

2012-03-19_001 I never know what is going to really grab Erik’s attention.  Things I thought he would love have often only lasted a couple of minutes, but sometimes I get it right.  This guy is a sorter!  I’ve got a couple of drawers in mind for him!

 

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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Care Package #?

I am so happy to get to send a few things to Kimmy, but man it’s getting sad too.  I love this little blouse and want to see her in it…here!

I think all of the EPs from March 5th have made it through the government.  Now those families are waiting to get a travel call to get their children.  Everyone is anxious to see how long this next wait will be.  There have been a few people claiming that the next group of EPs will be given in early April.  Our Korean agency is the most backed up so that will probably only get our local agency caught up to their January families and maybe, maybe some in Feb.  We aren’t until June.  My hopes for this summer aren’t super realistic, but hope I must.

Ryan’s game was cancelled due to rain.  It’s supposed to stop until Sat…his next game.  Unfortunately, it didn’t start to rain until this afternoon, which meant Erik still had soccer.  It was miserable.  I can’t believe we only had two criers.  (well three if you count me!)  It was so cold and really windy.  I’m ready for some sun!

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Friday, March 23, 2012

Game 2

Last night was Ryan’s second game.  They have their groove back.  It was really a fun game.  I had to leave early and missed all of the excitement.  It was a very close game.  At 6:59 we were ahead (that’s when you quit folks!) they decided to go ahead with another inning.  We lost by one!  But did they have fun!  I had a great night too.  We finally had a mom’s night with some Korea moms.  We closed down the restaurant yet again.  No game until Tues.  Hope you can wait that long!

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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Go Marlins

 Yesterday was Ryan’s first game of the season.  The first two innings were painful.  The first inning ended because the other team scored five runs right away.  If they didn’t have that rule, who knows how long the inning would have gone.  It was looking bad, but all of a sudden, the Marlins got their groove back…or finally got a groove.  They started to hit and made some great plays in the field.  They lost, but it was 13-10 and that was impressive after such a tough start.  We are so happy that Ryan has such great coaches again.

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2012-03-20_048 Our little Posey was thrilled to play catcher and did great.  It’s amazing what he can do considering how big the catcher mitt is for his hand.

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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

It’s Soccer Time

 I’m a fair weather soccer mom.  Now that it is starting to get a little warmer we’re getting back out on the field!  Erik couldn’t not have been happier to wear Ryan’s old shin guards.  Now that he is 3 1/2 I don’t have to participate! :  )

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Tonight was Ryan’s first game of the season as well.  You know it’s going to be rough when all of the other team’s coaches have their names on the back of their shirt!  More tomorrow…

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Top o’ the morning

 While I was toasty in my bed this morning I heard Harvey working in the kitchen, two giddy boys, and the word ‘pancakes’.  Awesome…that’s a good half hour more for me!  When I finally got myself out of bed and went in the kitchen I saw a bowl with the last bit of green batter in it.  What a fun dad to make ‘greenish’ pancakes!  Weebit was a bit of a slacker last night and only managed to make a bit of a mess in the boys room and to turn Erik’s milk green.  He’s getting lazy in his old age!  Ryan hated the green milk a couple of years ago, but Erik couldn’t get enough of it all day.  Fortunately, Weebit left one of his shoes last night because we never got around to making a leprechaun trap.  Getting Ryan through our first biology lesson wore me out! (no explosions or chemical reactions)  So the boys are working on the Mouse Leprechaun Trap right now.2012-03-17_001

 

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Erik has a new household job and he is quite proud:

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So many gals I know go to used clothing stores for their kids’ clothes.  I’ve never been too inclined, but I hadn’t found anything cute to send in Kimmy’s next care package so I thought I would give it a shot.  I found a Gymboree dress that I loved a long time ago before I had a little girl and a couple of darling blouses.  They are so cute, I can barely send them.  I so want to see her in them…here!  It helps that I spent less than $10 on the two blouses.   I also found a little something for Erik:

2012-03-17_040 2012-03-17_042 I’m assuming you can tell it’s the coat since he has been in this outfit for like 75% of the pictures the last couple of weeks.