Friday, November 21, 2008

Zane has a crazy laugh

We have tried so long to catch his crazy giggle, and this is the best we could get...but trust us it gets much, much crazier when we don't have a camera pointed at him.




Thursday, November 13, 2008

who is raising whom

Isn't it amazing to realize that as you are helping your children learn and grow, they in turn are helping you do the same? Through marriage and establishing a household part of me felt like I was getting away with something, and inside I still saw myself as young, on the cusp of adulthood. Even for a while after Willow was born, I still felt like I was playing grownup to some degree. I think Grandma Barbara knows this, because when we speak on the phone, she always asks "how is your dolly?" But somewhere along the way I realized I had become more bold, more assertive (still need to work on that, but I have improved) more patient, more thoughtful...when i have a moment to think again :) In short, they have helped me grow as a person, and I finally feel like a real adult. Thanks, you two. Now if you can only stop making me feel old!

P.S. Thank you Joe for finally explaining how to properly use Who and Whom. How sad that it took me till 32 to learn that.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Girl Scouts

I must be crazy.

I went to sign up Willow for girl scouts, and ended up volunteering to be a leader. I am so nervous, and holy cow, there is a lot of paperwork and training to be done, and also excited, because I had a great time in girl scouts, and had a really great leader, Penny Solomon. I had no idea how hard she must have had to work on our behalf. Thank-you Penny! I hope I can do as much for my girls. I've met a very nice woman who will be my co-leader and with luck we can convince some of the parents of our troop to step up and help out with some of the jobs or maybe even join us as leaders. We have 14 girls interested now!....did I mention being nervous? I'm sure there will be more rantings from me on this topic as the troop gets up and running. Wish me luck!

Halloween





Willow was a cute Zebra this year. She worked very hard to paint the stripes on the costume and I think it turned out fabulously! We decided to make Zane a lion to go with the theme. He really liked wearing his little lion vest and kissing the head. Willow may want to go as Dorothy from the Wizard of OZ next year (I got lucky and got a costume on clearance after Halloween) so maybe we can get another year out of it with him as the cowardly lion. We lucked out on the weather this year, rain in the AM, but nice and dry by trick-or-treating time. Zane doesn't have the concept down yet, he just wanted to run! We ended up letting him stay home with dad while I took Willow downtown and around the neighborhood. She is at a really fun age now!