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Drywall Part II
04.30.10 | Permalink | | Comments Off on Drywall Part II
Ahh, drywall. You have been a challenging wench. First, our drywaller’s wife had a baby, and he nearly stopped showing up to work. He would tape here, hang a sheet or two and dash home to his newborn. Frankly, I didn’t blame him – babies are lovely – but we were 31 days into our project and the drywall wasn’t even finished being hung. We decided to have a conversation with our drywaller and we all agreed that the job was going ridiculously slow, so he stepped out and his crew stayed on. Well, in the week since he stopped manning the job, it has nearly been completed! Drywall sheets are hung and passed the inspection and the tapers and mudders arrived to smooth the walls.
As you can see, we are again on the road to moving into the house. They should be finished by Wednesday or Thursday, and the project will again be ours.
We went and bought our kitchen this week. It is waiting to be installed and the paint will be purchased this weekend. We are back on track and feeling good. Phew!
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ChewBecca
04.24.10 | Permalink | | Comments Off on ChewBeccaWe were invited to a birthday party tonight and some of my students were there to celebrate with the birthday girl. Jude fell in love with one super sweet girl named Becca, and began tugging her around by the hand, asking her to be his partner in everything. I tried to teach him her name by saying, “Jude, her name is Becca. Can you say Becca?” He responded with a wookieish, “Grrrrr!” We realized he thought we were asking what Chewbacca says! By the end of the night, Becca was Be-be, and no longer ChewBecca!
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Dunked
Jude is busy exploring his world, sometimes with comical results. The other day Bradley took the kids to the park while I was at work. The park we went to is a wetland with a boardwalk that goes through the middle. The kids like to find sticks to poke the mud and muck with and spend quite a bit of time doing just that. Gigi was showing something to her Daddy and the moment he looked away he heard a strange noise, turned around and saw that Jude was planted head first in the muck up to his legs. The only thing sticking out were his little legs! Bradley had to hop into the swamp to get the boy, and Bradley was nearly soaked up to his waist. He pulled Jude out and the child was simply covered with swamp slime. And sadly, he had opened his mouth whilst in the water and had a mouthful! Yuck! Jude was understandably upset at being all wet. so Bradley, being Superdad, rapidly stripped off his shirt, stripped down Jude, and strode topless out of the park with a mud covered nearly nude baby boy. It must have been a sight! Anyhow, everyone is safe now and we have another funny Jude story to add to our canon of parenthood tales.
This is obviously not the park they were at, but this boardwalk looks very similar to where they were at…
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On Pizza
04.24.10 | Permalink | | Comments Off on On PizzaHer: “Mama? Do you like pachonies?”
Me: “Hmmm. I don’t think so. Can you describe them for me?”
Her: “You know, pachonies, like you eat on pizza. Have you ever had it on pizza?”
Me: (Now thinking we are talking about pepperoni) “Oh! Yes, I did eat pachonies when I was a kid. They are kind of spicy.”
Her: “Did you like them?”
Me: “They were good, but they are made of animals.”
Her: “Yes, fish.”
Me: (??? Now I have no Idea what she is talking about!) “Where did you learn about pachonies?”
Her: “On Arthur. Buster likes pachonies on pizza but nobody else does.”
Me: “Oh, yes! I know what you are talking about, they are very salty. I did not like them on pizza.”
ANCHOVIES!!!
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Care to Dance?
04.06.10 | Permalink | | Comments Off on Care to Dance?
First the guitar,
Then it’s just the dance.
But, he forgot something…
Nope, not the pants!
He needed his dancing shoes!
