The Weekly Update

Nothing exciting to report...so here are some unexciting things...

This past week my mom came to visit. It was a short visit, but we were glad she could come. The kids loved it. Here is Grant wearing some little booty socks my mom made. I have a matching pair, also courtesy of my mom.

So cute!

Grant is growing bigger, but not that fast. He's still the little guy around here. But look out Anna, he might catch up to you. He weighed in at 13 pounds this week, Anna at 26 and Matthew at 39. All multiples of 13...curious. Scott didn't think it was that interesting of a coincidence. :)

Anna told me she wants to be a "cooker" when she grows up. She loves to help me cook and cook on her own for pretend. She likes to make pretend dinner with her clay and will work at it for hours! She calls her little clay cutters her "paring knives" and always wants to use a real cutting board. :)

Here is Grant sitting up for a burp courtesy of Grandma. We had fun seeing my mom last week, but it went by too fast! Before we knew it she had to leave. :(

We've been going through things in our garage with renewed intensity this past week, and actually cleaned it out enough to fit both cars in there at the same time. The next day we had a severe hail storm warning. It makes me unspeakably happy to have that done (the cleaning out I mean). The garage was filled with a lot of boxes that we had left in storage while we were in Okinawa, so going through some of it was like stepping back in time. I went through a lot of things from my old job, including a large amount of Boeing merchandise/propaganda. Sigh...memories. PS: Boeing is a great company to work for!!

Close up of Grant relaxing.

The kids played with the marble race kit a few times this week. Matthew always wanted to build the big set ups shown as examples on the box and directions. I was the consulting engineer on these projects.

Matthew has also started wrapping "presents" (on his own) and then sending us off on treasure hunts to find them. We did something like this for his birthday and he wanted to do it for the rest of us. Here is one of his wrapped presents before we open it.

Also keeping us busy for the past few weeks has been yard work. We've been focusing heavily on getting the bizillion dandelions out of our grass. My mom, who is plant smart, helped us get started with some of the other plants around our yard. Ahh, the joys of home ownership. ;) The kids planted some flowers and tomatoes in some planters. And I started a bunch of vegetable seeds as well...to go along with my unnatural love of produce. ;)

There is a small garden area in our yard and I planted some cilantro and jalapeno there (I'm growing my own salsa!) Maybe we'll use Matthew's tomato plants in our salsa.
Also this week Scott got his walking boot off and started physical therapy. He can now walk (or limp) around without his boot! He's gradually getting back to normal...pictures to come!