I ended my day workday by rushing out to visit a customer's yard and getting my ass chewed overly a relatively minor thing which is easy to fix. Of course, I couldn't explain that to them because they interrupted me every time I opened my mouth to speak. So that was fun. I got home and since my mom--who was watching the kids--had planned on ( Read more... )

I just walked into my bedroom. I foudn that Conn had maneuvered a tub in there and had flipped it upside down. He climbed from the empty tub on top of the damn dresser. When he saw me walk in< he took a flying leap from the dresser on to my bed a few feet away.

I'm mad at him and trying not to laugh, but it did look pretty damn cool

Since adopting my father-in-law's guitars, Amanda has decided at my urging to learn how to play guitar. Today she was practicing on her dad's guitar and had just finished up when Conn came in ( Read more... )

Jesus it's cold. I know it's probably colder where shanty, weekendpbs, and jassguitar are but I dont care. It's freaking cold here ( Read more... )

Got home from the funeral everything in time for Amanda to run and pick up the kids from school and pick up a few things. Connor was asleep, Elena was playing. i nodded off. I woke up twenty minutes later to the UPS guy banging on the front door. Connor knows how to open the front door and he and Lanie were running around the front yard.

I realized today that I haven't written a good substantial post that didn't include bitching about one of my jobs. So here we go ( Read more... )

Connor's being saying so many new words lately.

When I come home in the afternoons he runs up to me and shouts "Yay".

When we were trick or treating and I was carrying him and he wanted to run up to a house he'd say "Down".

And just now he came up to me in my chair with a book and said, "Read! Read! Read!"

Awesome.

Yesterday was a hell of a day. Connor turned two yesterday so we had a nice little party for him with my folks, Amanda's dad and wife, her sister and husband and daughter ( Read more... )

Because it was cold and whatnot today, I kept Connor in his zip up jammies with the booties on them. He woke up from his nap a while ago so I changed him into real clothes. At that time I found stuffed inside of his jammies the following ( Read more... )