Well, as usual I can’t complain about the dead blogg when I am not contributing. So here is the latest and greatest on Cleveland. First of all, we got two feet of snow over the weekend! Not unheard of around here with the infamous Cleveland weather but still made for a interesting weekend. The Indians series had to be cancelled and the games this week were moved to Wisconsin. There are pictures in the newspaper of the kids out searching for Easter eggs in the snow! Tom spent 30 minutes digging out the car so we could make it to church on Sunday morning and then we got stuck in the driveway trying to come home because it snowed non-stop while were at church! Very exciting day! We had planned to have Geof. and Darla Bennett visit from Sunday to Wednesday but they weren’t able to make it at the last minute. They recently moved to Virginia for his job as a pilot and they can fly standby for free. However, all of the flights were full. Hopefully they will make it out another time. The good thing was that Lexi was gracious enough to allow us to re-invite ourselves to their house for dinner, after canceling on them previously. So we had a great time seeing them and eating delicious food on Sunday.
On Saturday night we dyed Easter eggs and Hayden had selected a Star Wars kit so his eggs look like all his favorite characters. You can see from the pictures how proud he is of them. Danica didn’t do so well at the egg thing and just ended up throwing her egg on the ground and cracking it to pieces. Oh well. A few funny kid stories from yesterday (my memory is so bad I can’t remember any from before that!):
We had a little girl and her little brother over yesterday and out of the blue she says, “Oh look, there are three girls and two boys here.” Hayden immediately pipes up and says “No, there are 4 girls and 2 boys because of the girl in my mom’s tummy!”
Last night at bedtime I was trying to convince Hayden to say the prayer but he wanted me to say it. I said I would but that meant that I would get the blessings from it. So as I was about to finish the prayer he interrupted and said “Wait, and bless me!” So I said “And please bless Hayden” and finished the prayer. Immediately Hayden plops down on his pillow, smiles and says “Ahhh, that’s one blessing I get!”
During family home evening last night we were discussing the true meaning of Easter. We had talked about this before but driving home from church on Sunday we talked about it and I realized he still didn’t get it. So anyway, we were discussing being resurrected and he kept interrupting and saying “Will we have Lego Star Wars when we are resurrected?” I would try to move on but he kept bringing it up he was so worried about it!
Danica doesn’t say nearly as many funny things since she barely talks but she is really into farm animals right now and says the sounds for cow and duck. But Danica says a lot without using any sounds at all, she is very communicative with her “look.” She is going to be one of those people who can make you cower simply by giving her disapproving look. If she doesn’t like what you are telling her or if she doesn’t know a person she simply puts her head down, doesn’t move and waits for it to be over. Or she will look at you with the pathetically sad face like you are the worst person in the world! It’s hilarious. Maybe I”ll catch a picture of it one day.
The pregnancy is still going well. I can feel the baby kicking all the time now and am really starting to look at feel pregnant (or maybe I just ate way too much Easter candy!) We have been really slacking on the treadmill lately. It’s hard to get motivated on the treadmill when a week ago I was able to be running outside. I even went without the kids one morning while Tom was home, that was a treat! But we got the treadmill because of weather like this. So, our new “rule” is that between Tom and I one of us has to run everyday, hopefully we can try to motivate each other.
We do have one major thing that has happened recently, Tom took his boards!!! They were over the last few days of March. He’s says it’s not worth blogging about until he knows his scores. Hopefully they went okay, we will know for sure in the next few weeks!! In Tom’s own words, if he passed that will be a “glorious day!” The dread, stress, anticipations and such have been immense and it will be great to have it all behind us! In the meantime he is just wrapping things up at the clinic. He is done in the clinic on April 27th and officially done with everything on May 4th.
Well that is all I should write for now, we got the kids in bed early and I should take advantage of the time to do something. Although if it’s up to Tom we will be playing worms or Battlelore! Take care!