Story Time

Zoe enjoyed her first full-length book tonight at bedtime. Pooh held her interest and she was so snugly while listening to how Pooh's love of honey got him into mischief time and time again.

The Pink One Mommy

We went to IKEA Saturday night to let Z pick out her new "big girl" bed. I had a feeling Z would pick the very PINK bed and sure enough...she went straight to the showroom with the pink bed and said, "My new bed!" Rhett and Z worked together to assemble it on Sunday morning. I had talked up the new bed for weeks. I even put it on her calendar and we counted down the days before we went to pick it out. She never seemed too excited though. To her she already had a big girl bed. In her mind, she is a big girl-she sleeps in a crib-her crib is a big girl bed.

Now that we have it all set up she LOVES it. She took one of her toys from her crib and put it in H's crib. She told H it was for a baby bed not a big girl bed.

What's the phrase? Two steps foward, One step back

As we're admiring our new sod and the great improvement we've made outdoors we notice a buckle in the wood floor in the living room. Honestly my first assumption was that the cleaning people spilled a bucket of water on Tuesday. But as we continued to notice more and more planks showing signs of water stress it dawned on Rhett that we may have a leak in the AC. Sure enough the condensation line was backed up causing water to leak. What is very funny about this whole thing is that the problem was caused by a holy bush growing beside the outside AC unit. This is the same lone bush that survived while approximately 20 other plants croaked one by one over the past year. Rhett had mentioned he thought this plant survived due to the drip of the condensation line near to where it was planted. But until today we never realized how cunning this little bush had become in its need to outlive its peers. The roots of the bush were growing right up the line. So the one bush we have celebrated and admired over the past year had sabotaged us in the end!

A Fresh Start

Saturday's big project was Rhett's final attempt to establish grass in the backyard. After 4 years, the little bit of grass we had when we bought the house had diminished to nothing more than a dusty patch of ground that served as Benny's pooping grounds.

Potty Champ

You can only truly appreciate this if you understand how many diapers I have changed in the past 3 years. The average child goes through 7400 diapers before they are potty trained.

I made it!

I can't believe I have succumb to the blogging world! I've considered creating a blog many times before to share tidbits of what's going on with the kids with all our out-of-town friends and family. My friend Rosemond tried to talk me into creating a blog 2 years ago but I could never commit. I simply do not like the idea of the world having access to my life. After seeing so many friends, who I believe have good judgement, blog...I decided it can't be that bad. Afterall, I'm in control of what I put out there. You can tell I'm still talking myself into this.