House & Home

Well, faithful readers, I have yet again been away for too long. Usually it's something minor, but this time it's a biggie: My wife and I are homeowners! We just bought a modest house in a fairly well to do town and couldn't be happier about it. I've been dead tired from washing, sanding, and painting and the last thing I've wanted to do is write a blog entry, but it's about time I did, don't you think?

We closed about two weeks ago now and have been working on the house on weekends and spent the 4th over there too. One BIG help has been some rain over the last two days that was light but steady, the kind that the soil can actually absorb instead of these "Global Warming Specials" that give you a horrific thunderstorm with two inches of rain, but in the span of about 60 minutes! It's not that I don't know how to water a lawn, but how much do you water it? What's the best time to do it? I know the answers now, but you wouldn't believe the amount of time you spend learning about what formerly seemed like such obvious things.

So, that's obviously taken up most of my time with packing and watching the boy taking up the rest. He's growing like a weed these days and becoming more intelligible everyday. He's still sticking mostly to one or two word phrases which seems a little behind for his age, but the kid also knows half the alphabet now which is supposedly way ahead of his age. All I know is that he seems to learn more everyday and that can only be a good thing. Larger statistics are pretty much meaningless when it comes to your own kid, although I know they are useful for teachers who have to deal with 20+ at a time. However, in one way or another your child will always been an outlier of some kind...and that's a good thing!

Anyway, the boy is being fussy about eating his banana and keeps asking for his favorite "Appis" known to the rest of us as applesauce, so I best run for now. Pictures will be coming soon, I promise!