TGIF

It's been a long, long week and as we type this post, our darling three year old is making it worth while. Grossly he is playing with a crude toy Truck Grandma gave him . . . a battery operated toy that makes 6 different fart noises from light and girly to loud and manly. Believe us when we say we've never been prouder! Perhaps my dreams of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, or Cornell from the last post are dimming a bit.

Doug stayed home today on account of his mouth pain and though I certainly don't wish him pain, the upshoot for me was that I was treated to an almost entirely clean house when I got home!! Which if you could have seen our house a mere 24 hours ago, you would understand that this was no small feat and probably required the simultaneous act of God, correct star alignment, and a bulldozer, or at the very least LOTS of sweat, elbow grease, and time!

We are looking forward to summer and a chance to have some quality family fun time which shall include golf for all 3, swimming, BBQing, and travel for the oldest 2 of us. Doug heads west to Seattle for business in early June and Sarah will be attending several local workshops throughout June and early July before also heading west to Tahoe for training. Caden sadly will go no further than Grandpa and Grandma's houses, the park, and his beloved Miss Becci's for the summer.

golf, teeth, graduate degree

I'm betting that most people could figure out who "graduate degree" is talking about. But I'd also bet you'd be wrong about who golf and teeth are about. If you guessed graduate degree for Sarah, 1 point. If you guessed teeth for Caden, you are logical, but in this case score no points. So by process of elimination, if you guessed golf for Doug, you also be logical, but totally wrong.

I, Sarah, am 8 days from receiving my masters degree in Instructional Design and Technology from Emporia State University. I am more than eager for this part of my life to be over. I'm tired of being a student and need a break for awhile.

Doug is snoring peacefully, although loudly, thanks in part to the sedative he got to take today to relax him before the dreaded 2nd half of his treatment for periodontal disease. It went well, but he was in more pain today than the first time and also had more bleeding. The hygienists were nice to him and one even called him handsome which caused a huge swelling of his ego!

Caden, or as Doug lovingly refers to him, TWJ (Tiger Woods junior) had a blast this afternoon while Mommy and Daddy waited agonizingly in the periodondist's office, (though for everyone, but Doug, I'll admit I was rather excited about the visit because I got about 90 minutes of uninterrupted reading time . . . for you Doug, it was pure agony for me as much as it was for you! I swear!) because he got to spend the afternoon golfing with Truck Papa (Doug's dad) and Uncle Tim (Doug's brother) and even got to help Truck Grandma (logically, Doug's mom) drive a golf cart. There is no other way to put it . . .our son LOVES golf!! He even sits perfectly still to watch golf on TV. He wants to hold golf balls, and tee golfs as he calls them, and he talks a fair amount about his clubs. He does actually own a real club and 2 sets of plastic ones. Perhaps TWJ is apprapro after all and I just thought Doug was projecting his dreams on to our young son. Oh well! Now I'll agree to all this golf business as long as it pays his way through Harvard, or Yale, or Princeton, or Berkely, or Cornell, or MIT, or at least KU!

Caden: pontificator & keen observer

Our son watches everything like the proverbial hawk and then talks about it, often with the adorable mix of adult and child language that only a 3 year could get away with.

Some of the things we hear often (and by often I mean repeatedly many times each day!):

"bow chicky bow wow!
"WHAT?!?!"
"no way!"
"STOPS!" (and yes, the 2nd "S" is supposed to be there, that's how he says it) only when he "reads" the red stop signs as we're driving and this is followed with a dramatic pause for full effect and then he continues, "okay, go now"

And the race is on!

Welcome to our blog! We are starting this to capture the everyday, simple and the not so everyday, grandiose moments of our lives. We (actually, I, Sarah) was inspired to start a blog because I've been viewing several friends' blogs and then today I saw a beautiful, bound printed book of a friend's blog. She has her children's lives recorded for posterity in her words and photographs. Amazing! Thanks for the inspiration to start, Amy! :)

We hope you check our blog often to see what's happening in our lives. ~ The Livesays