Englerville USA

wander through the many streets that are our life...

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>The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. ~Erma Bombeck<

Thursday, May 17, 2007

so much to do, so little time...

I can't believe it's already been a month since my last post! how time flies...
I have tried to post a few pictures, although it didn't work, so I guess that doesn't really count huh?
It's been pretty busy the last few weeks:

I've still been working - although i changed my schedule around a bit. I now work from 1:30 to 5:30 4 days a week. MUCH better! It was really really hard to do the 9:30-3:30 (with an hour break in between to take care of the kids) I was leaving at 8:45am and not getting home until 5:30pm. I always ended up staying at least an hour over and then I had to feed the kids a snack, etc. - it was pretty much working full time, when I was only supposed to work 5 hrs. So by taking out the break and working in the afternoon, it's only 4 hrs and I get home pretty much at the same time as I did when I left at 8:45! Crazy. But it's going pretty good.

Brian had another successful trip to Colombia back in March. He was gone for almost a whole week! Over the weekend that he was gone, we attended Abby's (Brian's cousin) baby shower - while we were there, I got a call from Brian, which I let Kaylin answer. She just kept going on and on about how much she missed him, and where we were, and this and that, well - you get the picture. Finally I took the phone back, and on the other end Brian was frantic - he got pick-pocketed! He was trying to call and tell me to cancel the credit cards and Kaylin was just jabbering away! Funny in retrospect, but no so much at the time!
Thank goodness he didn't have a huge wad of cash on him (you know, since we usually do)! They just got a little cash and that was it - nothing was purchased on the cards. I think I cancelled them too fast for them to even get into a store! Pretty crappy, but at least they only got his wallet and he wasn't harmed in any way.
Other then that, he had a great trip - Tio Tim actually met him out there for some weekend site-seeing, and I know they had a great time visiting with some of the local colombian folk.

Kaylin and Isabella are both doing great - all smiles (most) of the time!

Kaylin is really into dressing up, singing, dancing and acting these days. Maybe, if I get real fancy-like, I could actually get some action on here for you to get a little taste. She actually just put on a really great performance the other day for mothers day, but I didn't think to get a video clip, until it was over. I did get a photo of it though. She performed "Tomorrow" from the movie Annie.
I think she knows every word (well, what she thinks the word is anyway!) to every song in every movie she has ever seen. She's a performer, that's for sure!

Isabella all over the place! She crawls mad fast to where she wants to go, puts everything and I mean EVERYTHING into her mouth (besides food of course), pulls herself up on the furniture, screeches at Kaylin to get her point across and says a few words - mama, daddee, beebee(baby), and golf club. The last one - trust me, she can say it. It's a little hard to get at first, but once you get her on a roll...!

1 Comments:

Blogger jodes said...

Golf Club - that's hilarious!! I can take a guess at who taught her that one.

Post pictures when you can, I'd love to see the girls again!! I still haven't figured out how to do a video clip. :O(

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