All of the 'i's have been dotted

and the 't's have been crossed

We're homeowners! Or at least we will be in 30 years.

Let the painting begin.

She's got a plan

Molly: "When I big I going to drive a car like you"
Mommy: "yep when you turn 16 you'll be able to drive a car too"
Molly: "oh... (with a very thoughtful look on her face) When I turn 16 I going to prick my finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and fall into a deep deep sleep"

I bet you can't guess what Molly's favorite story is right now.

*sidenote* We're using our wilkerson0505@msn.com email again. Even though windstream is based in the south and we're a lot closer to the south now than we were in Nebraska they don't service our area. Lame, but true.

We're Here!

Well we've been here a little while, we're alive and we have a phone connection! I'm just now realizing that I haven't pulled out my camera since we've been here. I'll have to change that this week, but for now if you want to see pictures my friend took our family pictures a couple months ago you can go here to see them. :) I think they turned out great. Thanks again Becky!


Drew completed his first week of teaching with only one incident. (Drew is split between 2 campuses, Bullitt County and Southwest. Southwest is 4 miles from our house and the Bullitt campus is about a 15-20 min drive. On Tuesday he got to his Bullitt office ready to print his syllabus, but the computer wouldn't recognize any of the documents on his flash drive. So he drove to his southwest office printed everything and made it back to the Bullitt campus with a couple minutes to spare. I think I would have been on the verge of tears.) And as for me and the kids well we're getting settled. We've unpacked a lot of boxes, but I feel like there are still a million more. I'm also feeling really young. Most of our neighbors (at least the ones right by us) are older with grand kids older than Molly and Gabe. Everyone has been really friendly and it's a pretty quiet neighborhood. So that's that so far. Teaching, Boxes and playing in the yard.

One step closer

I've often joked that all we needed was a sand box and a goat and we wouldn't need a Lincoln Children's Zoo membership. Yesterday at a garage sale I found a crab sandbox! My parents bought some sand for it. Hours of entertainment. Gabe isn't a fan of sand on his feet or being dirty, but he loves playing with sand. It's entertaining to watch Gabe as he tries to stay clean and winds up with sand ALL over him. Molly on the other hand told me that the sand box was the ocean. She then layed on her belly and pretended to swim in the sand. "Look at me jumping in the sea. I swimming in the ocean." I think I'm going to have some really dirty kids as long as the weather permits.

Sad

I have so many pictures to post. Projects I've finally finished. New family pictures. Some fun outings. I'm not sure when they'll make it on the blog, everything including my camera is neatly packed away. Tomorrow I'm leaving Lincoln with the kids. Drew will be following shortly. I'm really sad to be leaving, but it's amazing how taking all the pictures off the walls has made our apartment not feel like ours anymore.

ewww

I like making things with Molly and Gabe. We have different projects or outings almost everyday. On days that I don't plan anything they run around tearing our apartment apart and driving me crazy. One of the things that we've made a couple times is homemade gak. I store it in a Ziploc and every time we pull it out we need to add more starch, or it looks like this.
Gabe is never a fan of gak, but he's always insistent on playing with it for a couple of minutes before returning to play dough. We've also made our own play dough. I LOVE homemade play dough. We still have some that we made in December and it hasn't dried out. Fantastic.

A few weeks ago I watched my dear friend Becky's kids. Here is Gabe holding her little guy. I think it's funny in this picture that her baby doesn't look that much smaller than Gabe. (Her baby is only 2 months) I thought this was a sweet picture and since Gabe has been a bit of a monster recently I decided to include it. 3 of Gabe's "i" teeth just broke the surface and he has a strep rash. All of this makes for one crabby toddler and one frustrated mama.

When I have to get the laundry folded water always keeps them busy. Our patio is shaded until 12:30ish in the summer and we like to take advantage of it.

Lazy Monday

It was beautiful yesterday, overcast and breezy so we went to the Children's Zoo.
All Aboard!

Molly was BRAVE and decided she was going to feed the BIG goat (usually she'll only feeds the babies).