ding

Last night after Molly was tucked into bed she said that she had to go potty. (For some reason recently Drew and I haven't been great about reminding her after we brush her teeth.)
Drew: "dang it"
Molly: with great excitement "ding!"
Drew: puzzled face
Molly: "I ding-ed it"

They're Here!

I've been waiting for this day ever since we've moved in. It's going to be nice not having to cart my laundry around town. (Having said that I've still been really spoiled. My grandma lives maybe 3 miles from us and she's been letting me do laundry at her house.)

Aren't they beautiful! I think I have about 1,000 loads of laundry to do. They'll be really broken in tomorrow.

Gabe was in heaven today. First it was garbage day and then the men came to deliver the washer and dryer. I think I've heard "you wash my morcycle shirt" about 20 times today. (Gabe has been asking to wear his motorcycle shirt everyday. Sadly its been dirty for about the last week and a half.)

Molly has been obsessed with princesses and fairy tales lately. Yesterday she told me that she married Jack and the Beanstalk. I asked her what happened to Prince Charming and she told me that he lives too far away in his castle. After asking her a few more questions she told me "fine I just marry myself". She then invited me to her wedding "you come into your bathroom and you can watch me marrying myself" I followed her into the bathroom where she danced in her tap shoes and twirled in the dress and pettiskirt she was wearing. (Drew and I have a good size bathroom off of our bedroom with a skylight. I think it's Molly's favorite room.)

Molly also named her little dog last week. Molly has always called her babies and stuffed animals by descriptive words. She has heavy baby, sick baby, bathtub baby etc. Last week she kept telling me "I bringing Mango a treat. Mango needs___" I asked her who Mango was and she told me that it was her puppy. He's 2 just like Gabe. She also told me "Mango starts with a M like me". Then the name evolved to Mango Clementine. I'm not sure where she came up with it, but I think it's funny. I guess Molly does like the Oh My Darling Clementine song, but I'm still not sure where Mango came from.

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.