SWiit Success

Happy 28th Birthday to Robert!! We had the big celebration on Saturday, so Mitzi and Scott, who surprised Robert when he arrived Friday night, could be here for the action. After a breakfast of Bubblebread and bacon (sorry Mitzi) Robert opened the present of his dreams. Then we basically played all day with the new toy. It is pretty cool, especially the boxing game. Mitzi and I woke up actually a bit sore because of the action. Thank you to everyone for helping to make it happen!!

Pulling an Eric

This post has nothing to do with our children, so if that is the only reason you check our blog, stop reading now.

The following is my new favorite dialogue from a movie:

Dr. Jules Hilbert (played by Dustin Hoffman): Aren't you relieved to know you're not a golem?
Harold Crick (played by Will Farrell): Yes. I am relieved to know that I am not a golem.
(http://imdb.com/title/tt0420223/quotes)

The movie is "Stranger Than Fiction" and I give it 2 Thumbs up! (Do golem's have thumbs? Wow, thank goodness I'm not a golem!)

Construction

We burst through today. For those that don't know, we have a plan to turn the unfinished part of our basement into a guest bedroom, and kind of open up the living space in the basement into that bedroom. We don't have the final plans yet, but we've started on deconstruction. I tore down the workbench several weeks ago and reconstructed it in the garage. Then, when my parents were up, we tore down the ceiling and the wood paneling on the wall between the unfinished part and the walk-in closet. For the last week I've been working on tearing down the shelves in that closet. Today, Katie and I broke through the drywall; now we can walk between the closet and the unfinished area. It's pretty rewarding to tear through a wall. Hopefully it all works out the way we want; either way it will be a learning process. Hopefully rewarding both mentally...and financially =)

Rose Updates!

The month of September has been a big one already for Baby Rose! First, the most impressive news, she gained a whopping 2 and 1/2 pounds during August, boosting her weight to 16 pounds, 15 ounces. She's now in the 7th percentile for weight and the pediatrician was pleased too. Thank you to YoBaby Organic yogurt!

Also in the last couple of days she has figure out how to go up all of the stairs from our basement, going down is still a big dilemma, but I'm sure she'll figure it out in no time at all. (Mary Ann would like to say as well that she too can go up all of the basement stairs.)

And yesterday Rose figured out how to clap her hands. She did it for the first time on accident a couple of days ago and looked at her hands in bewilderment. Then Friday she really figured it out. Now she'll clap her hands no matter what her mood. (Mary Ann would again like to say that she can clap her hands too).