Long Time No Blog

 

We’ve decided to start looking for a house in earnest, which has taken up a lot of time these days.  It is an interesting process this time around, especially in this economy.  We are learning all sorts of things about foreclosures, short sales, overpriced housing, and various other reasons this “buyer’s market” is still fraught with complications and delays.  Nevertheless, we are in no rush and are fine to stay put until the right house comes along.  At the right price.  As determined by somebody’s bank.  A bank that is probably receiving government bailout money.  Money that is really coming out of my pocket.  Anyway, I digress.

So when I am not scouring the internet looking for the right house, I am enjoying the heck out of my boys.  We really don’t miss naptime at all.  Once or twice a week we can tell that they need one, and that allows me my precious cuddle time.  However, for the most part they are adjusting nicely and we are enjoying our days together.  It is nice not having to watch the clock constantly, making sure we have time to get home and fed in time for nap. Thus, our days have taken on a more relaxed, casual quality.  We are all enjoying this very much.

It doesn’t hurt that the boys are absolutely adorable and hilarious at this age.  We’ve noted a few favorite episodes:

1. Noah had the pleasure of catching Lucas during breakfast when he stood his sausage upright and christened it “The Sausage of Liberty!”

2. The boys are simply in love with their friends Sarah and Eliza.  And the feelings are definitely reciprocated.  We often have to separate them in our Homeschool Preschool class because they can’t stop touching and kissing, laughing and playing, and even sitting on each other’s laps.  Elayne (the girls’ mom) and I are lamenting the all too early onset of all this flirtatious behavior, even though it makes us laugh like mad.

3. Noah taught the boys to give a “thumbs up” to things they like and a “thumbs down” to things they don’t like.  They have embraced this method of communication fully and emphatically.  One of our favorites was a rather loud statement made by Ethan at a birthday party: “I like cake (thumb up) and I don’t like poop (thumb down)!”  In case our hosts were wondering if they made the right dessert choice, it is now settled.

4. The boys are going through a rather ethnocentric phase.  It all began at a party a couple of months ago where our friend introduced his lovely mother to the boys.  She is French and spoke her native tongue to the boys.  The boys were surprisingly terrified.  Since then, they have developed a very irrational and inaccurate fear of people who speak foreign languages.  Inaccurate because they refer to everyone who speaks a foreign language as “Spanish.”  And they don’t just speak Spanish, they are referred to as “Spanish people.”  Thus, we often hear, in public, at a loud volume, the statement “I don’t like Spanish people!”  This goes over very well here in San Diego.

A quick report on Mother’s Day 2009 – it was great!  We picnicked in the morning and hosted our Homeschool Preschool friends and their families in the afternoon.  The kids made us all pizza and sundaes.  What a great way to celebrate!