Dear Rebecca,
Hello my love. You are having an extremely rough night tonight. You just now stopped crying in your crib. Scratch that, you are crying again. I went upstairs at about eleven forty five to answer your cry. I brought you a cup of warm milk, wrapped you in your blanket, gave you your cup and rocked you back to sleep. You were snoozing soundly when I laid you in your crib and covered you with your comforter. You woke up, leapt up and reached out for me again with your tiny little arms. You were so sweet looking. I picked you up and rocked you for a little while longer. You were asleep once again. When I laid you in your crib, however, you began to cry very loudly again. I rocked you some more. I tried to lay you back down but you were in dire refusal. I have no idea what may be wrong with you; perhaps you had a bad dream. Perhaps it's your teeth. maybe you are cold. Maybe you're getting a cold. Perhaps you are over tired because you did not get your last nap in today. I am going to go with the latter, in my humble opinion. You always have a restless night when you don't get your naps out. I am sorry for that, my sweet. I tried to give you a nap and you didn't want to take it. I am weak when it comes to those big blue eyes and that cute little voice calling "Mama". I will have to learn to be stronger. I was strong just a minute ago. I put you down in your crib and let you cry it right out just now. You weren't overly wet, I had just given you milk so you aren't hungry, you don't feel feverish and you were going back to sleep in my arms. I do believe the only illness you have is spoileditis. It's a common and serious disease that doting parents, grandparents, and extended family members inflict on cute little babies like yourself. Or cute little toddlers, should I say. I don't care if they say you are a toddler, a pre-teen, a tween, a teen, a twenty-fifty something, an elder, or what. You will always be MY baby. I love you so much.
I made a few pictures for your new princess room at the new house tonight. A couple with butterflies, too. I think they are real cute. I hope your Daddy likes them, too. I am going to buy a clear place mat with the Disney princesses on them at the Family Dollar and hang it on your wall too. It will be cute, almost like stencils it's so clear. We're going to try to stick with mostly "princess" decor with only the remainder of the Disney things you have now. Your TV will now be in the spare room/office/playroom/viewing area ... Man that's a lot of functions for a little bitty room. You are crying again.. I hope that it subsides soon. I so hate to hear my little baby cry. I love you and I want you to always be happy.
As Daddy mentioned earlier, I had to go to the ER this weekend and have my leg/foot/ankle looked at. It has really been giving me a lot of problems. The pain doesn't go away in it anymore and it is making Mommy very grouchy. I can't be grouchy to you and Daddy and I have to be able to help us move so I have to get that taken care of. I am going to see the doctor tomorrow over my hand and that leg. I hope he can give me a referral to a neurosurgeon and to my orthopaedist Dr. Selby so that we can get the ball rolling on making Mommy feel better. I am so glad to be getting away from these stairs. I think perhaps they were detrimental to Mommy's bones and joints as well. Now it's something I don't have to worry about, for me or you. I know we all like the new place very much. Daddy did a lot of work today packing up the garage and putting boxes outside so when we move we will be all ready to go. I don't know what we are going to do for two weeks though when there isn't anything to do but sit and wait. It will be nice to relax and move without having to worry about getting all that stuff done though. Your crying has subsided now and I think perhaps you are falling asleep. At least I hope so. I was going to go and shave my legs tonight because the doctor will be poking around on them and looking at my ankle and such but I don't want the water to wake you back up and I don't want to really shave my legs but I am going to do it tomorrow instead. Right now I am going to go and look at a few websites online and then I am heading to bed. I want you to know that I love you so very very much and I thank God every day that you are my sweet little baby daughter. I love you!
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Monday, August 29, 2005
Dear Rebecca,
We had planned on having a lazy day yesterday. Your Mother's leg hurt her enough that we did not go to church so we decided to play with you and watch television all day. Towards the middle of the afternoon her leg became extremely painful so we decided to go to the Emergency Room at Central Baptist in Lexington. We ended up getting out of there around six that evening and they couldn't tell us anything. All they said was she should go see her orthopedist. Well, we kinda knew that but she was in pain now. They gave her some mild pain killers and that was all. They said they think she might be developing arthritis in that leg; they had no kind of idea at all. You got to stay here at the apartment because Mamaw came over to watch you so you would not have to set up there in the waiting area of the ER where a bunch of sick people are and not a toy in sight. That was nice of Mamaw.
While we waited at the hospital we watched coverage of the Hurricane Katrina. It's supposed to be a category 5 and the most destructive hurricane to hit the U.S. since records were took. It's supposed to hit New Orleans later this morning. Nearly the entire Gulf Coast has been evacuated. I'm certainly glad we do not live in New Orleans. I hope the news media have blown everything out of proportion but it does look bad for folks on further down south.
I'm gonna let ya go for now. Daddy loves Rebecca!
We had planned on having a lazy day yesterday. Your Mother's leg hurt her enough that we did not go to church so we decided to play with you and watch television all day. Towards the middle of the afternoon her leg became extremely painful so we decided to go to the Emergency Room at Central Baptist in Lexington. We ended up getting out of there around six that evening and they couldn't tell us anything. All they said was she should go see her orthopedist. Well, we kinda knew that but she was in pain now. They gave her some mild pain killers and that was all. They said they think she might be developing arthritis in that leg; they had no kind of idea at all. You got to stay here at the apartment because Mamaw came over to watch you so you would not have to set up there in the waiting area of the ER where a bunch of sick people are and not a toy in sight. That was nice of Mamaw.
While we waited at the hospital we watched coverage of the Hurricane Katrina. It's supposed to be a category 5 and the most destructive hurricane to hit the U.S. since records were took. It's supposed to hit New Orleans later this morning. Nearly the entire Gulf Coast has been evacuated. I'm certainly glad we do not live in New Orleans. I hope the news media have blown everything out of proportion but it does look bad for folks on further down south.
I'm gonna let ya go for now. Daddy loves Rebecca!
Sunday, August 28, 2005
Dear Rebecca,
It's now 3:21 on Sunday morning as I type this. I really didn't intend on staying up this late because we all have to go to church later this morning. I really don't know if your Mother will feel up to it though because her leg has been bothering her quite a lot the last few days but it got real bad last night. She still suffers from pain because of the accident she was involved in a year before you were born. She needs to get all of her pains looked into and maybe even go to a pain management clinic. I hate it when your Mom is in pain because there is absolutely nothing that I can do for her. She's probably been working too hard getting us packed up so we can move into our new house next month.
We've changed our minds about the color for the master bedroom and my office/guest room again. We are now planning on going with "Stone Brown". Your Mom said that was her final choice and we will not change our minds again. I like all the colors we have chosen for the new house; well, it's actually not a new house it's about fourteen years old or so but it's new to us. We're getting more excited about it every day. I can not wait to get in there and start painting my walls. As you know, I owned a house before you were born so I know the difference in living in something that belongs to someone else and living in something that you can call your own. There just is no comparison. You are going to love the new house. There's a nice big fenced in backyard for you to play in and lots more room inside for you to toddle about.
Yep, you are toddling all over the apartment now. You still would rather crawl or walk on your knees 80% of the time but you now will pull yourself up and take off walking on your own. Before we had to stand you up and get you to go back and forth from me to your Mommy and back again. You're doing so well. You can turn around on your own without falling down now and a few times you've even attempted a run. You still end up falling down on your butt most of the time but it doesn't seem to bother you so it doesn't either your Mom or I.
Friday you & your Mom met me at work when I got off. When I came through the door to the lobby where you two were waiting you got the most excited look on your face and yelled "Dada" and reached out for me to take you. I was so very proud of you. There were a bunch of the folks that I work with standing around admiring you and it made me very proud that you feel the way about me that you do. You can be assured that the feeling is very mutual. After we left my work we went to Taco Bell on Nicholasville Rd. for a quick supper. You had a cheese quesadilla, Mom had a meat quesadilla and a taco, I had three tacos and an order of Nachos Bell Grande and we all had a caramel empanada for desert. You picked the apples out of your and left the caramel and crust behind; your Mom & I would be much better off if we did the same thing from time to time. After Taco Bell we went and had your Mother's glasses readjusted again. You keep bending them up on her. We then went to Lexington Green where we all fed the ducks and fish. You had a pretty good time with that. You didn't squeal in delight like I had hoped you would but you did enjoy yourself. After that we stopped by Home Depot for a swatch of the new color that we had chosen and we browsed a little at the crown molding. We then stopped by the video store and rented two films on DVD; one was a horror film called "The Ring 2" and the other one was a comedy called "King's Ransom" then we came home. We actually got home pretty early for a change. I guess it's because we didn't actually purchase anything except supper and feed for the ducks & fish and also because we didn't go to Wal-mart for a change.
I got up with you Saturday morning and we had a fun time together as we always do. Your Mom got up at 10:00 that morning and I laid back down for a few more hours of snooze time. Your Mom came and woke me up around noon and we all had a lunch of pancakes and bacon. Sometimes it's fun to have breakfast in the middle of the day. We had been planning on going down to see Mamaw and Papaw but Mamaw wasn't feeling very good so instead we went to the park for an hour or so. After that we went for ice cream at the Dairy Queen and to Kroger for some bread, milk, water, juice, soda pop and beer. We saw Aunt Lynn and her whole clan in Krogers and she made fun of all of the beverages we had in our cart. I told her that we were a very thirsty bunch. We then came home and vegged for the rest of the evening.
After you went to bed we decided to watch one of the films we had rented but the DVD player we paid twenty-seven dollars for quit working so we went upstairs and stole your Disney Princess DVD player out of your room and brought it down into the living room and watched the horror movie on it. It was real late by the time we had finished watching the film and I went upstairs and talked to your mom some before she ran me off because she wanted to sleep. I've been down here playing on the computer ever since.
I guess I'll let ya go for now because like I said when I began this blog over an hour ago, I have to get up and go to church in the morning. Daddy loves Rebecca!
It's now 3:21 on Sunday morning as I type this. I really didn't intend on staying up this late because we all have to go to church later this morning. I really don't know if your Mother will feel up to it though because her leg has been bothering her quite a lot the last few days but it got real bad last night. She still suffers from pain because of the accident she was involved in a year before you were born. She needs to get all of her pains looked into and maybe even go to a pain management clinic. I hate it when your Mom is in pain because there is absolutely nothing that I can do for her. She's probably been working too hard getting us packed up so we can move into our new house next month.
We've changed our minds about the color for the master bedroom and my office/guest room again. We are now planning on going with "Stone Brown". Your Mom said that was her final choice and we will not change our minds again. I like all the colors we have chosen for the new house; well, it's actually not a new house it's about fourteen years old or so but it's new to us. We're getting more excited about it every day. I can not wait to get in there and start painting my walls. As you know, I owned a house before you were born so I know the difference in living in something that belongs to someone else and living in something that you can call your own. There just is no comparison. You are going to love the new house. There's a nice big fenced in backyard for you to play in and lots more room inside for you to toddle about.
Yep, you are toddling all over the apartment now. You still would rather crawl or walk on your knees 80% of the time but you now will pull yourself up and take off walking on your own. Before we had to stand you up and get you to go back and forth from me to your Mommy and back again. You're doing so well. You can turn around on your own without falling down now and a few times you've even attempted a run. You still end up falling down on your butt most of the time but it doesn't seem to bother you so it doesn't either your Mom or I.
Friday you & your Mom met me at work when I got off. When I came through the door to the lobby where you two were waiting you got the most excited look on your face and yelled "Dada" and reached out for me to take you. I was so very proud of you. There were a bunch of the folks that I work with standing around admiring you and it made me very proud that you feel the way about me that you do. You can be assured that the feeling is very mutual. After we left my work we went to Taco Bell on Nicholasville Rd. for a quick supper. You had a cheese quesadilla, Mom had a meat quesadilla and a taco, I had three tacos and an order of Nachos Bell Grande and we all had a caramel empanada for desert. You picked the apples out of your and left the caramel and crust behind; your Mom & I would be much better off if we did the same thing from time to time. After Taco Bell we went and had your Mother's glasses readjusted again. You keep bending them up on her. We then went to Lexington Green where we all fed the ducks and fish. You had a pretty good time with that. You didn't squeal in delight like I had hoped you would but you did enjoy yourself. After that we stopped by Home Depot for a swatch of the new color that we had chosen and we browsed a little at the crown molding. We then stopped by the video store and rented two films on DVD; one was a horror film called "The Ring 2" and the other one was a comedy called "King's Ransom" then we came home. We actually got home pretty early for a change. I guess it's because we didn't actually purchase anything except supper and feed for the ducks & fish and also because we didn't go to Wal-mart for a change.
I got up with you Saturday morning and we had a fun time together as we always do. Your Mom got up at 10:00 that morning and I laid back down for a few more hours of snooze time. Your Mom came and woke me up around noon and we all had a lunch of pancakes and bacon. Sometimes it's fun to have breakfast in the middle of the day. We had been planning on going down to see Mamaw and Papaw but Mamaw wasn't feeling very good so instead we went to the park for an hour or so. After that we went for ice cream at the Dairy Queen and to Kroger for some bread, milk, water, juice, soda pop and beer. We saw Aunt Lynn and her whole clan in Krogers and she made fun of all of the beverages we had in our cart. I told her that we were a very thirsty bunch. We then came home and vegged for the rest of the evening.
After you went to bed we decided to watch one of the films we had rented but the DVD player we paid twenty-seven dollars for quit working so we went upstairs and stole your Disney Princess DVD player out of your room and brought it down into the living room and watched the horror movie on it. It was real late by the time we had finished watching the film and I went upstairs and talked to your mom some before she ran me off because she wanted to sleep. I've been down here playing on the computer ever since.
I guess I'll let ya go for now because like I said when I began this blog over an hour ago, I have to get up and go to church in the morning. Daddy loves Rebecca!
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
Dear Rebecca,
Well, it's now 99.9999% for sure that the house is ours. Mamaw & Papaw have already purchased the house so if by some strange twist of weirdness they can not get the cash they are going to be in a pickle. We are so excited about it. Your Mom already has almost forty boxes of stuff packed. I'm going to take the Explorer down to Mamaw & Papaw's house this weekend so we will have room to store the boxes. Since I'm riding to and from work with my Dad, your Papaw, I don't drive the Explorer nearly as much as used to; plus gasoline is really too expensive to drive the truck too much these days. I still love my truck and wish I could drive it more often but we have to consider the financial aspect of driving it everywhere we go. We take it when we go to Wal-mart or somewhere that we need more cargo area. Anyway we are excited to be shaking the dust of this apartment off of our feet and moving into our own house.
We have altered our color choices for the house a little bit. Most of the house, the living room, kitchen and hall are still going to be the sage color the manufacturer calls "restful" and your bathroom is still going to be "pale sunlight" just like your present nursery. However, we have decided to go with a light purple color called "one enchanted evening" instead of "fairest of them all" for your bedroom. We really can't call it a nursery anymore since you are now such a big girl. We've also decided to go with a darker tan in the master bed & bath and my office/guest room. The new color is called "Autumn Malt". We're excited even about painting it and that will be hard work.
We may not post as much as we have in the past for the next month to month or two because we will be busy setting up our new house. We'll still try to drop by occasionally and let you know what's been going on in our world. Who am I kidding? I will probably post just as much if not more. I want to share all of the excitement with you. I am kind of addicted to blogging so I don't think there will be much of a decrease in the amount of posts.
Well, our supper of Fear Factor Fish Portions, mac & cheese, green beans and yeast rolls is about ready so I will let ya go for now. Daddy loves Rebecca!
Well, it's now 99.9999% for sure that the house is ours. Mamaw & Papaw have already purchased the house so if by some strange twist of weirdness they can not get the cash they are going to be in a pickle. We are so excited about it. Your Mom already has almost forty boxes of stuff packed. I'm going to take the Explorer down to Mamaw & Papaw's house this weekend so we will have room to store the boxes. Since I'm riding to and from work with my Dad, your Papaw, I don't drive the Explorer nearly as much as used to; plus gasoline is really too expensive to drive the truck too much these days. I still love my truck and wish I could drive it more often but we have to consider the financial aspect of driving it everywhere we go. We take it when we go to Wal-mart or somewhere that we need more cargo area. Anyway we are excited to be shaking the dust of this apartment off of our feet and moving into our own house.
We have altered our color choices for the house a little bit. Most of the house, the living room, kitchen and hall are still going to be the sage color the manufacturer calls "restful" and your bathroom is still going to be "pale sunlight" just like your present nursery. However, we have decided to go with a light purple color called "one enchanted evening" instead of "fairest of them all" for your bedroom. We really can't call it a nursery anymore since you are now such a big girl. We've also decided to go with a darker tan in the master bed & bath and my office/guest room. The new color is called "Autumn Malt". We're excited even about painting it and that will be hard work.
We may not post as much as we have in the past for the next month to month or two because we will be busy setting up our new house. We'll still try to drop by occasionally and let you know what's been going on in our world. Who am I kidding? I will probably post just as much if not more. I want to share all of the excitement with you. I am kind of addicted to blogging so I don't think there will be much of a decrease in the amount of posts.
Well, our supper of Fear Factor Fish Portions, mac & cheese, green beans and yeast rolls is about ready so I will let ya go for now. Daddy loves Rebecca!
Saturday, August 20, 2005
Dear Rebecca,
As your Mother mentioned in the previous post, lots of papers were signed last night here in the apartment regarding the loan. There will be no trouble getting the loan because Mamaw & Papaw are the ones taking out the loan. Our credit is so incredibly bad right now that I'm afraid a bank wouldn't loan me a pen. Actually, we recently saw our credit report and it wasn't as bad as I had feared. It will take us a few years of hard work and sound financial decision making to build our credit back up but we have done a fabulous job of it in the past year. Eventually I would like for us to take out a loan of our own but that really all depends on the interest rates. We got a really great interest rate of 5.5% on this loan. I am just so excited to be moving into our very own house I don't think my soft heart can stand it.
The banker lady is a woman that we knew when we all went to Kingsway Assembly of God years ago. She has been real nice and helpful through all of this. If it wasn't for her we wouldn't have attempted to get the $18,000 that we are going to use for the down payment on this house. We are lucky to know a mortgage broker personally who can get us the best deal possible. The attorney we plan on using for the closing and the one who dealt with the court to get us the $18,000 is also a personal friend of Mamaw & Papaw's. He purchased the house that I grew up in and still lives there with his family.
God has so richly blessed us in the past year. Even when I was angry at God when your Mom & I had to leave the home that I had owned for ten years already, he was working on blessing us but I was just too stubborn to let him move in his own way. The house was not nearly as nice as the new house we are moving into. I don't think the old house was as nice as the apartment we have lived in for the past 13 and a half months. The old house didn't have a garage and this apartment has a two car garage and the new house has a one car garage. The old house didn't have a dishwasher and both the apartment and the new house have one; the one in the new house is much nicer though. We had crappy carpet in both the old house and this apartment but we have beautiful carpet in the new house. The Village subdivision, where both the old house and our current apartment is in, has really kind of went down hill since I purchased my first house in the mid-nineties. It's really become sort of a seedy section of town and the new house is in the Colony subdivision and the Colony is a very nice area. Your Mom hates the stairs here in the apartment because she still has pain from her accident from two years ago. There's really nothing we don't like about the new house. We love our new house. And to top it all off, the owners had been asking $138,900 for the place which is more than we could afford so we decided to make an extremely low offer of $128,000. We had decided we would go as high as $135,000. He countered at $135,000 so we were going to take the house but the bargaining wasn't finished yet. We offered $130,000 thinking he would either stick to his guns at $135,000 or come down to $132,000 or so but he surprised everyone including the realtor and our mortgage broker and agreed on $130,000. How's that for being blessed by God.
I think we may paint the walls before we move into the new place because we have until the end of September to get out of the apartment. We've chosen a sage color called "Restful" for the living room, hall and kitchen. For your bedroom we've chosen a very pale pink called "The Fairest of them All", for the main bathroom we have chosen to use the same yellow that we have used for your nursery; we have a gallon left over and for our bedroom and the office/playroom we are going with a tan color called "Castle Path". Who thinks up these color names anyway? Your Mother wants to get a new door for your closet because she isn't really convinced that it's the safest door in our future neighborhood. I want to put crown molding in the majority of the rooms, especially the kitchen, living room and hallway. I think that would look really nice. Well, we'll see how that works out.
I have enjoyed my long night on the computer this past evening and into this early early morning. I worked on some pictures for your baby journal and downloaded some music and freeware that I probably will never use and now I am posting this blog. I am very tired though so I think I will maybe set down for a few minutes and try to watch just a few minutes of television and then get a drink of water and then hit the proverbial hay. I'll let you go for now, Sweetie. I don't know how much either your Mom or I will be able to post in the next five or six weeks though because we are all going to be busy packing stuff up and getting them unpacked again at the new house, plus I don't know how long we are going to be without the internet during the transition from this old nasty apartment into our beautiful pristine house. Daddy loves Rebecca!
As your Mother mentioned in the previous post, lots of papers were signed last night here in the apartment regarding the loan. There will be no trouble getting the loan because Mamaw & Papaw are the ones taking out the loan. Our credit is so incredibly bad right now that I'm afraid a bank wouldn't loan me a pen. Actually, we recently saw our credit report and it wasn't as bad as I had feared. It will take us a few years of hard work and sound financial decision making to build our credit back up but we have done a fabulous job of it in the past year. Eventually I would like for us to take out a loan of our own but that really all depends on the interest rates. We got a really great interest rate of 5.5% on this loan. I am just so excited to be moving into our very own house I don't think my soft heart can stand it.
The banker lady is a woman that we knew when we all went to Kingsway Assembly of God years ago. She has been real nice and helpful through all of this. If it wasn't for her we wouldn't have attempted to get the $18,000 that we are going to use for the down payment on this house. We are lucky to know a mortgage broker personally who can get us the best deal possible. The attorney we plan on using for the closing and the one who dealt with the court to get us the $18,000 is also a personal friend of Mamaw & Papaw's. He purchased the house that I grew up in and still lives there with his family.
God has so richly blessed us in the past year. Even when I was angry at God when your Mom & I had to leave the home that I had owned for ten years already, he was working on blessing us but I was just too stubborn to let him move in his own way. The house was not nearly as nice as the new house we are moving into. I don't think the old house was as nice as the apartment we have lived in for the past 13 and a half months. The old house didn't have a garage and this apartment has a two car garage and the new house has a one car garage. The old house didn't have a dishwasher and both the apartment and the new house have one; the one in the new house is much nicer though. We had crappy carpet in both the old house and this apartment but we have beautiful carpet in the new house. The Village subdivision, where both the old house and our current apartment is in, has really kind of went down hill since I purchased my first house in the mid-nineties. It's really become sort of a seedy section of town and the new house is in the Colony subdivision and the Colony is a very nice area. Your Mom hates the stairs here in the apartment because she still has pain from her accident from two years ago. There's really nothing we don't like about the new house. We love our new house. And to top it all off, the owners had been asking $138,900 for the place which is more than we could afford so we decided to make an extremely low offer of $128,000. We had decided we would go as high as $135,000. He countered at $135,000 so we were going to take the house but the bargaining wasn't finished yet. We offered $130,000 thinking he would either stick to his guns at $135,000 or come down to $132,000 or so but he surprised everyone including the realtor and our mortgage broker and agreed on $130,000. How's that for being blessed by God.
I think we may paint the walls before we move into the new place because we have until the end of September to get out of the apartment. We've chosen a sage color called "Restful" for the living room, hall and kitchen. For your bedroom we've chosen a very pale pink called "The Fairest of them All", for the main bathroom we have chosen to use the same yellow that we have used for your nursery; we have a gallon left over and for our bedroom and the office/playroom we are going with a tan color called "Castle Path". Who thinks up these color names anyway? Your Mother wants to get a new door for your closet because she isn't really convinced that it's the safest door in our future neighborhood. I want to put crown molding in the majority of the rooms, especially the kitchen, living room and hallway. I think that would look really nice. Well, we'll see how that works out.
I have enjoyed my long night on the computer this past evening and into this early early morning. I worked on some pictures for your baby journal and downloaded some music and freeware that I probably will never use and now I am posting this blog. I am very tired though so I think I will maybe set down for a few minutes and try to watch just a few minutes of television and then get a drink of water and then hit the proverbial hay. I'll let you go for now, Sweetie. I don't know how much either your Mom or I will be able to post in the next five or six weeks though because we are all going to be busy packing stuff up and getting them unpacked again at the new house, plus I don't know how long we are going to be without the internet during the transition from this old nasty apartment into our beautiful pristine house. Daddy loves Rebecca!
Friday, August 19, 2005
Dear Rebecca,
Well kiddo, we just got done having supper with Mamaw & Papaw. I fixed us a supper of BBQ Pork, corn on the cob, cucumber and onion salad, Macaroni Salad, Hamburger rolls and iced tea. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention. They just signed a bunch of papers regarding the house they now have to purchase because the seller accepted the bid. They want to purchase it though and we will be paying them for it. They are such good parents to your Daddy and they have been good parents to me as well. I don't think I could have married into a more caring family and given birth to a better baby to go into said family. Right now you want a drink of the adult beverage I am consuming. I had to tell you no way, Jose.' Anyway, the ball is rolling. I guess now it's time to get packing and get this place all together. Boy oh boy, what a chore. What a joyful and wonderful chore. I know we will all be so happy in the new house. Well little one, I am going to go and lie on the couch and relax for a minute or two. I love you so much, baby bird!
Well kiddo, we just got done having supper with Mamaw & Papaw. I fixed us a supper of BBQ Pork, corn on the cob, cucumber and onion salad, Macaroni Salad, Hamburger rolls and iced tea. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention. They just signed a bunch of papers regarding the house they now have to purchase because the seller accepted the bid. They want to purchase it though and we will be paying them for it. They are such good parents to your Daddy and they have been good parents to me as well. I don't think I could have married into a more caring family and given birth to a better baby to go into said family. Right now you want a drink of the adult beverage I am consuming. I had to tell you no way, Jose.' Anyway, the ball is rolling. I guess now it's time to get packing and get this place all together. Boy oh boy, what a chore. What a joyful and wonderful chore. I know we will all be so happy in the new house. Well little one, I am going to go and lie on the couch and relax for a minute or two. I love you so much, baby bird!
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
Dear Rebecca,
Well, it seems that we are going to have a new house. This new house will be the one that you now know. You will never remember the time we all spent here in this apartment. We all had a very great time here but we had always known that this was just a temporary residence or at least we had hoped it would be a temporary residence.
Your mom & I are so excited. We have so many great plans for the new place. We are going to do your room with a princess theme now that you are a little toddler instead of the moon & stars that you had as a baby. We still have a whole lot of moon & star stuff that I have no idea what we are going to do with. The main bathroom we are going to do in a ducky theme because that bathroom will be yours; our bathroom we are going to keep the sea shell theme that we already have in the full bath upstairs here in the apartment. We are going to paint the living room and kitchen a sage green color. I guess we will wait before we paint the master bedroom and the room destined to be the office/playroom.
We had great fun doing the interior design of this apartment so you can imagine how much of a ball I expect in doing a house of our very own. We have a fenced in backyard where eventually you will be able have your very own dog. You are such a lucky girl to have a Mamaw & Papaw like the ones you have. Without them we would not be taking this next step and I am ever so grateful. I really don't know how to express what this means to me and my little family. Wow! I am in such a great mood this evening. Everything is right with the world.
I'm gonna let you go for now. Daddy loves Rebecca!
Well, it seems that we are going to have a new house. This new house will be the one that you now know. You will never remember the time we all spent here in this apartment. We all had a very great time here but we had always known that this was just a temporary residence or at least we had hoped it would be a temporary residence.
Your mom & I are so excited. We have so many great plans for the new place. We are going to do your room with a princess theme now that you are a little toddler instead of the moon & stars that you had as a baby. We still have a whole lot of moon & star stuff that I have no idea what we are going to do with. The main bathroom we are going to do in a ducky theme because that bathroom will be yours; our bathroom we are going to keep the sea shell theme that we already have in the full bath upstairs here in the apartment. We are going to paint the living room and kitchen a sage green color. I guess we will wait before we paint the master bedroom and the room destined to be the office/playroom.
We had great fun doing the interior design of this apartment so you can imagine how much of a ball I expect in doing a house of our very own. We have a fenced in backyard where eventually you will be able have your very own dog. You are such a lucky girl to have a Mamaw & Papaw like the ones you have. Without them we would not be taking this next step and I am ever so grateful. I really don't know how to express what this means to me and my little family. Wow! I am in such a great mood this evening. Everything is right with the world.
I'm gonna let you go for now. Daddy loves Rebecca!
Sunday, August 14, 2005
Dear Rebecca,
Good morning, Rebecca. I, your Daddy, went to lie down yesterday at five in the afternoon for a little nap, maybe and hour or two and didn't wake up until two in the morning. I must have been extremely worn out. I don't think I will be able to lie back down again this morning; especially since it's my job to take care of you when you get up to face the day today. At least I'll be ready to hit the proverbial hay tonight.
We have a the Bowman family reunion this afternoon. Your great great grandparents were Lonzo & Stella Bowman, who lived long enough that I was able to get to know, and the reunion is of their descendants. Lonzo & Stella were Granny's parents. They were who I called Mamaw & Papaw. I have been meaning to design a family tree for you for some time now. The Bowman line will be the branch I will be able to go farthest back on I am sure. I think maybe the shortest might be your Mom's side especially your Mom's mother's family. She passed away when your Mother was just a little girl; her name was Evelyn Jean Napier and her maiden name was Williams. Even though I never knew her and have only seen one single picture of her, I know she would have been so very proud of you. How do I know this? Simple, everyone who has anything to do with you is proud of you. Anyway, I have to get your Mom up at nine this morning so she can get her fruit pizza ready for the reunion down at Big Spring park.
We recently came into some money that we hope to use on a down payment for a new house. Your Mamaw & Papaw are going to have to purchase the house in their names because of financial mismanagement & mistakes I, your father has made in the course of his life and Kristie & I are going to pay them for it. They are going to look into different types of loans that they can get that will decrease their risks and tax burdens and also look into possible ways that we can benefit from the tax deduction of paying for the house.
We looked at some houses in earnest this past weekend. We had been looking for awhile now and found one we liked on Sheffield Drive in the Colony that I'm absolutely sure we mentioned earlier in the blog. It had a great backyard and a huge kitchen and we all really wanted it but we just didn't have the cash for any sort of down payment at all. It sold a few weeks ago so that house is out of the question now. I thought the living room was much too narrow anyway and the bedrooms were very small for my taste. It did have a lovely backyard though. In our search this past weekend we looked at one house that was simply lovely from the outside with a two car garage but once we looked inside it was terrible. The previous occupants really didn't take very good care of the place, the kitchen was smaller than the one we have here in this apartment, the layout was kinda funky, the color scheme was very funky and there was a huge crack in the wall as you come through the front door. We thought about another house over in the same area but the one car garage with a workshop was just flat ugly and it had no backyard at all. We decided that even though it was the cheapest house on our list that it would just not do for us.
Finally we looked inside a house at 334 Colony Drive in, you guessed it, the Colony. It was a grey brick home with a one car garage attached to the house. It had some lovely trees in the front yard and a fenced in backyard with a nice deck and an evergreen tree. We went inside with Mamaw, Papaw & the realtor and your Mom just fell in love with the place. She was bouncing up & down in excitement so much so that Mamaw had to tell her to calm down because she was looking much too anxious to do any bargaining on the house should we decide to make an offer. The carpet was very nice; as a matter of fact, I loved the carpet. The living room was nice & roomy, it had a fabulous kitchen with some top quality cabinets, the bedrooms were a good size, especially the master bedroom and lots of storage space. We liked it very much. If Mamaw & Papaw can secure a loan that they are comfortable with I think that we may make an offer on the place. I know it's only the second place we have looked into since we got the cash for our down payment but it really is a nice place. If we get it then we get it and if we don't get it we still have roof over our heads and one day we will get us another house so that you may have yourself a puppy and I can once again feel really proud of where we live. Not that I'm not proud of the way that your Mom has made this apartment a very comfortable place to live but this apartment is not ours and it will never be ours so how can a couple feel the same ay about it that they would if they owned their own residence. I am happy here and have been since we got here, of course that may be due to the fact that you were born on day two of our residence here at 500B Tecumseh Trail. I hope we get that house or one just as nice.
You are still toddling around quite a bit. You still prefer to crawl when you have to go somewhere in a hurry and when you have to carry something it still suits you to walk on your knees. Mom thinks you took a hard spill in your walking adventures and have become just a little wary of taking long treks across the floor. I am so proud of the fact that you can even take a few steps that I don't care when you decide that walking is the way to go. I just know that one day you will. I was a crazy Dad and was afraid that you would never ever learn to walk. I thought you'd be fourteen and still crawling around on the floor. I am probably the silliest father that's ever been. You are also picking up words left & right. You are talking more & more. Everyday you say something new and, to us, exciting. You said Mamaw Friday night and I thought Mamaw was going to have a cow she was so excited. Your Mom hates the fact that your new favorite word is now No. She absolutely loathes it when you tell her No. She wants to quick saying that to you and start going to Tisk-tisk. I don't think that's going to work out very well. You already are extremely familiar with the word No and I don't see you adjusting to another at this point.
I'm going to let you go for now. Daddy loves Rebecca!
Good morning, Rebecca. I, your Daddy, went to lie down yesterday at five in the afternoon for a little nap, maybe and hour or two and didn't wake up until two in the morning. I must have been extremely worn out. I don't think I will be able to lie back down again this morning; especially since it's my job to take care of you when you get up to face the day today. At least I'll be ready to hit the proverbial hay tonight.
We have a the Bowman family reunion this afternoon. Your great great grandparents were Lonzo & Stella Bowman, who lived long enough that I was able to get to know, and the reunion is of their descendants. Lonzo & Stella were Granny's parents. They were who I called Mamaw & Papaw. I have been meaning to design a family tree for you for some time now. The Bowman line will be the branch I will be able to go farthest back on I am sure. I think maybe the shortest might be your Mom's side especially your Mom's mother's family. She passed away when your Mother was just a little girl; her name was Evelyn Jean Napier and her maiden name was Williams. Even though I never knew her and have only seen one single picture of her, I know she would have been so very proud of you. How do I know this? Simple, everyone who has anything to do with you is proud of you. Anyway, I have to get your Mom up at nine this morning so she can get her fruit pizza ready for the reunion down at Big Spring park.
We recently came into some money that we hope to use on a down payment for a new house. Your Mamaw & Papaw are going to have to purchase the house in their names because of financial mismanagement & mistakes I, your father has made in the course of his life and Kristie & I are going to pay them for it. They are going to look into different types of loans that they can get that will decrease their risks and tax burdens and also look into possible ways that we can benefit from the tax deduction of paying for the house.
We looked at some houses in earnest this past weekend. We had been looking for awhile now and found one we liked on Sheffield Drive in the Colony that I'm absolutely sure we mentioned earlier in the blog. It had a great backyard and a huge kitchen and we all really wanted it but we just didn't have the cash for any sort of down payment at all. It sold a few weeks ago so that house is out of the question now. I thought the living room was much too narrow anyway and the bedrooms were very small for my taste. It did have a lovely backyard though. In our search this past weekend we looked at one house that was simply lovely from the outside with a two car garage but once we looked inside it was terrible. The previous occupants really didn't take very good care of the place, the kitchen was smaller than the one we have here in this apartment, the layout was kinda funky, the color scheme was very funky and there was a huge crack in the wall as you come through the front door. We thought about another house over in the same area but the one car garage with a workshop was just flat ugly and it had no backyard at all. We decided that even though it was the cheapest house on our list that it would just not do for us.
Finally we looked inside a house at 334 Colony Drive in, you guessed it, the Colony. It was a grey brick home with a one car garage attached to the house. It had some lovely trees in the front yard and a fenced in backyard with a nice deck and an evergreen tree. We went inside with Mamaw, Papaw & the realtor and your Mom just fell in love with the place. She was bouncing up & down in excitement so much so that Mamaw had to tell her to calm down because she was looking much too anxious to do any bargaining on the house should we decide to make an offer. The carpet was very nice; as a matter of fact, I loved the carpet. The living room was nice & roomy, it had a fabulous kitchen with some top quality cabinets, the bedrooms were a good size, especially the master bedroom and lots of storage space. We liked it very much. If Mamaw & Papaw can secure a loan that they are comfortable with I think that we may make an offer on the place. I know it's only the second place we have looked into since we got the cash for our down payment but it really is a nice place. If we get it then we get it and if we don't get it we still have roof over our heads and one day we will get us another house so that you may have yourself a puppy and I can once again feel really proud of where we live. Not that I'm not proud of the way that your Mom has made this apartment a very comfortable place to live but this apartment is not ours and it will never be ours so how can a couple feel the same ay about it that they would if they owned their own residence. I am happy here and have been since we got here, of course that may be due to the fact that you were born on day two of our residence here at 500B Tecumseh Trail. I hope we get that house or one just as nice.
You are still toddling around quite a bit. You still prefer to crawl when you have to go somewhere in a hurry and when you have to carry something it still suits you to walk on your knees. Mom thinks you took a hard spill in your walking adventures and have become just a little wary of taking long treks across the floor. I am so proud of the fact that you can even take a few steps that I don't care when you decide that walking is the way to go. I just know that one day you will. I was a crazy Dad and was afraid that you would never ever learn to walk. I thought you'd be fourteen and still crawling around on the floor. I am probably the silliest father that's ever been. You are also picking up words left & right. You are talking more & more. Everyday you say something new and, to us, exciting. You said Mamaw Friday night and I thought Mamaw was going to have a cow she was so excited. Your Mom hates the fact that your new favorite word is now No. She absolutely loathes it when you tell her No. She wants to quick saying that to you and start going to Tisk-tisk. I don't think that's going to work out very well. You already are extremely familiar with the word No and I don't see you adjusting to another at this point.
I'm going to let you go for now. Daddy loves Rebecca!
Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Dear Rebecca,
Hello there my precious little baby bird. How are you? I will tell you how you are. You are sleeping. You are all tuckered out. I hope you are having sweet and salty dreams, like chocolate and pretzels. We've had a big day today. We've both been very busy.
You got up this morning around six a.m., and we had a breakfast of Toast and Oatmeal with Apples and Cinnamon. Also, of course, we had our milk. Then, after that you watched a little bit of your favorite episode of Sesame Street but you were so tired still that you were not very interested. So, we read a book and played for a while in the floor. I got you a juice cup and put you down for a nap around eight a.m. You slept until almost nine thirty. Which is when we left to go get Mommy's tire fixed. Actually, we bought a used tire as a replacement. Daddy didn't like that very much. He wanted me to go to S&S tire but I had figured I'd save us about twenty five dollars and just get a used one put on. I guess I messed up. Anyway, as they put the tire on we walked a little bit in the parking lot. You're doing really good, even in your shoes. They are heavy on your feet so it makes walking a bit more of a challenge. We got done with that at around ten thirty.
After that, Daddy called and said that Joe Hoffman, our lawyer, had called him. He called Joe back and he told me that we had the leftover money from the sale of our house. I was so happy. Now maybe Mamaw and Papaw can help Daddy buy a house that you can have a doggie in. You so love doggies. Especially Sadie and Ruffy. I can only hope we get a dog half as good as one of those two silly mutts. The money is around eighteen thousand dollars, so that is a hefty chunk of change. After Daddy called, we went to Thornton's and bought gas for the grill and then gas for Mommy's car. Then we headed off to KMart to get Daddy's medicine filled. Everywhere we went, you smiled and waved at everyone you saw, and everyone smiled and waved and made a huge fuss over you. You are the sweetest baby. I wish that everyone could be as innocent and loving as you; the world would be a much better place. After KMart, Daddy called and said he was getting off work early yet again. That is two days he has gotten off early this week. That is really going to hurt us money wise. We'll just have to buckle down. We got all of our groceries so we just have to pay the rent and a few bills. We'll be fine, We always are. We have discovered that our prayers work wonders. No matter where you go or what you do little girl, PRAY. Talk to God every day. People might tell you they are your friends, and though Daddy and I love you more than life itself, no one will ever be closer to you or love you more than Jesus. So tell Him thank you every day.
After we picked Daddy up, we all went to Stonehorse Car Wash to clean out my car and then on to McDonald's on Versailles Road. They have a play place but it's really for much bigger kids. You sat on the first square pad though and was extremely happy bouncing up and down right there and watching all the other kids play and run about. People there with other kids were very friendly to us and you had a nice time. We loaded up and dropped Daddy at the house while you and I went to Family Dollar for paper plates and a shelf for the kitchen. I have a big idea of what I am going to do in my mind so I hope it works. I need to go through all of these closets anyway. I really do. I also need about one hundred per cent more energy than I have right now. When we got home I tidied up a bit and Daddy tried to watch a movie. I was going to take you outside to swim but it was so very hot that I didn't want to expose you to the heat. He got to where he wasn't in such a mood to watch a movie but he wanted to read. You acted tired down here but when I tried to put you down for a nap you had apparently changed your mind. So I got you up and we brought the pool and the hose around front to the shade and I sunblocked you up and Daddy hosed you down and we plopped you in for some fun. You had a big time, too. You kept standing up in your pool and stepping out of it, then back in it again. I was a little worried at first but you were doing great. Then your diaper busted and the jelly stuff went EVERYWHERE. It was nasty. So I came in and asked Daddy for a little swimmer and we put one on you and went outside and back at it. Daddy was reading during this time where you and I were having big fun outside. After I put the swimmer on you, though, you decided you were done and would rather climb the stairs and play ball on the porch with me. You chased after an ant for a minute but alas, he got away. Then after you fell down and got a knee boo boo, you decided to bang on the door until I opened it and you crawled up the stairs as I follwed for a nice long play in the tub to get you all scrubbed up. We got you all clean and in a onesie and some socks and I put on The Street We Live On Elmo's World movie for you to look at and sat you in your playpen full of toys. I got all cleaned up myself in the shower and then I came downstairs to get your dinner ready. You had dinner in your princess chair Mamaw bought you for Christmas in your room while you watched the rest of your movie. You did really good with it, too. You are getting to be such a big girl, sitting in chairs and all.
After the movie, we got in the floor and played a while. I spread all of your toys out and the horse Aunt Lynn bought you for Christmas in the floor. You had a big time bouncing up and down on him. I decided to watch a piece of the news while you played. You kept getting up and walking everywhere, on your own. I am so proud of you. Then you pulled all your socks and bibs out of your tray. You are so silly. Daddy came in to say good night and we played a little more, walked a little more, and read a few books. Then it was time for you to take your milk and go night night. That is where you are now. Something in your room just fell and scared the whoopsy out of me. (Whoospy is what I have decided to call number two and Winkle is number one. It just sounds nicer than Poo Poo or Pee Pee) I thought you had flipped out of your crib. You can climb out of it, you know. You little monkey! We are going to have to lower it again. I don't know what it was that fell but it wasn't you. That's all I care about. You are still having dreams of chocolate and pretzels. Good night, baby bird! Mommy loves you so much.
Hello there my precious little baby bird. How are you? I will tell you how you are. You are sleeping. You are all tuckered out. I hope you are having sweet and salty dreams, like chocolate and pretzels. We've had a big day today. We've both been very busy.
You got up this morning around six a.m., and we had a breakfast of Toast and Oatmeal with Apples and Cinnamon. Also, of course, we had our milk. Then, after that you watched a little bit of your favorite episode of Sesame Street but you were so tired still that you were not very interested. So, we read a book and played for a while in the floor. I got you a juice cup and put you down for a nap around eight a.m. You slept until almost nine thirty. Which is when we left to go get Mommy's tire fixed. Actually, we bought a used tire as a replacement. Daddy didn't like that very much. He wanted me to go to S&S tire but I had figured I'd save us about twenty five dollars and just get a used one put on. I guess I messed up. Anyway, as they put the tire on we walked a little bit in the parking lot. You're doing really good, even in your shoes. They are heavy on your feet so it makes walking a bit more of a challenge. We got done with that at around ten thirty.
After that, Daddy called and said that Joe Hoffman, our lawyer, had called him. He called Joe back and he told me that we had the leftover money from the sale of our house. I was so happy. Now maybe Mamaw and Papaw can help Daddy buy a house that you can have a doggie in. You so love doggies. Especially Sadie and Ruffy. I can only hope we get a dog half as good as one of those two silly mutts. The money is around eighteen thousand dollars, so that is a hefty chunk of change. After Daddy called, we went to Thornton's and bought gas for the grill and then gas for Mommy's car. Then we headed off to KMart to get Daddy's medicine filled. Everywhere we went, you smiled and waved at everyone you saw, and everyone smiled and waved and made a huge fuss over you. You are the sweetest baby. I wish that everyone could be as innocent and loving as you; the world would be a much better place. After KMart, Daddy called and said he was getting off work early yet again. That is two days he has gotten off early this week. That is really going to hurt us money wise. We'll just have to buckle down. We got all of our groceries so we just have to pay the rent and a few bills. We'll be fine, We always are. We have discovered that our prayers work wonders. No matter where you go or what you do little girl, PRAY. Talk to God every day. People might tell you they are your friends, and though Daddy and I love you more than life itself, no one will ever be closer to you or love you more than Jesus. So tell Him thank you every day.
After we picked Daddy up, we all went to Stonehorse Car Wash to clean out my car and then on to McDonald's on Versailles Road. They have a play place but it's really for much bigger kids. You sat on the first square pad though and was extremely happy bouncing up and down right there and watching all the other kids play and run about. People there with other kids were very friendly to us and you had a nice time. We loaded up and dropped Daddy at the house while you and I went to Family Dollar for paper plates and a shelf for the kitchen. I have a big idea of what I am going to do in my mind so I hope it works. I need to go through all of these closets anyway. I really do. I also need about one hundred per cent more energy than I have right now. When we got home I tidied up a bit and Daddy tried to watch a movie. I was going to take you outside to swim but it was so very hot that I didn't want to expose you to the heat. He got to where he wasn't in such a mood to watch a movie but he wanted to read. You acted tired down here but when I tried to put you down for a nap you had apparently changed your mind. So I got you up and we brought the pool and the hose around front to the shade and I sunblocked you up and Daddy hosed you down and we plopped you in for some fun. You had a big time, too. You kept standing up in your pool and stepping out of it, then back in it again. I was a little worried at first but you were doing great. Then your diaper busted and the jelly stuff went EVERYWHERE. It was nasty. So I came in and asked Daddy for a little swimmer and we put one on you and went outside and back at it. Daddy was reading during this time where you and I were having big fun outside. After I put the swimmer on you, though, you decided you were done and would rather climb the stairs and play ball on the porch with me. You chased after an ant for a minute but alas, he got away. Then after you fell down and got a knee boo boo, you decided to bang on the door until I opened it and you crawled up the stairs as I follwed for a nice long play in the tub to get you all scrubbed up. We got you all clean and in a onesie and some socks and I put on The Street We Live On Elmo's World movie for you to look at and sat you in your playpen full of toys. I got all cleaned up myself in the shower and then I came downstairs to get your dinner ready. You had dinner in your princess chair Mamaw bought you for Christmas in your room while you watched the rest of your movie. You did really good with it, too. You are getting to be such a big girl, sitting in chairs and all.
After the movie, we got in the floor and played a while. I spread all of your toys out and the horse Aunt Lynn bought you for Christmas in the floor. You had a big time bouncing up and down on him. I decided to watch a piece of the news while you played. You kept getting up and walking everywhere, on your own. I am so proud of you. Then you pulled all your socks and bibs out of your tray. You are so silly. Daddy came in to say good night and we played a little more, walked a little more, and read a few books. Then it was time for you to take your milk and go night night. That is where you are now. Something in your room just fell and scared the whoopsy out of me. (Whoospy is what I have decided to call number two and Winkle is number one. It just sounds nicer than Poo Poo or Pee Pee) I thought you had flipped out of your crib. You can climb out of it, you know. You little monkey! We are going to have to lower it again. I don't know what it was that fell but it wasn't you. That's all I care about. You are still having dreams of chocolate and pretzels. Good night, baby bird! Mommy loves you so much.
Monday, August 08, 2005
Dear Rebecca,
SPECIAL ALERT!!! YOU ARE WALKING!!! We are so very PROUD of you! You are getting bigger and stronger every day. Tonight Daddy got in the floor with you and gave you one his notorious 'walking lessons'. A couple of times you fell down flat but then you got up and you DID it!!!! Mommy and Daddy love you so much! Well I am going to let you go because I want to watch you toddle about some more. You are such a good girl, Baby Bird!
SPECIAL ALERT!!! YOU ARE WALKING!!! We are so very PROUD of you! You are getting bigger and stronger every day. Tonight Daddy got in the floor with you and gave you one his notorious 'walking lessons'. A couple of times you fell down flat but then you got up and you DID it!!!! Mommy and Daddy love you so much! Well I am going to let you go because I want to watch you toddle about some more. You are such a good girl, Baby Bird!
Dear Rebecca,
It certainly is hot today. It wasn't too bad at work today but this afternoon has been a scorcher. Our unit at work went down after the first hour and they had us run in lamps from eight that morning until twelve thirty that afternoon and then they sent us home. I was happy to be able to go home but I would have been just as satisfied if we had stayed there. Mom came to pick me up because I rode with Papaw this morning. Your Mom isn't feeling well right now so Mamaw was looking after you. We went down there and picked you up after I got off from work. Mom still wasn't feeling up to snuff so I figured we would both get out of her hair for the rest of the afternoon. You & I went down to Big Spring Park for a little daddy/daughter time. We had lots of fun. It was hot, as I said but you laughed and smiled and that made me laugh and smile so I am real glad we got to go together.
Pappy & Aunt Mary came up to see you yesterday afternoon. They really don't get to see you as much as they would like but it's a pretty good little trip to Hazard and back. We all went to McDonalds and to the rather crappy antique & flea mall in the old Kmart building here in town. All I saw was, for the most part, just a whole bunch of overpriced junk. Pappy bought a an old turntable to play his old vinyl records. We came back here and sat on the front porch until it was time for Pappy & Aunt Mary to return to the mountains whence they came.
Your Mom still has a little mountain accent left over from her childhood and people are beginning to say that you also have a little mountain accent. A little mountain accent is cute if you also sound like you are an educated person but too many of the folks from down around Hazard sound like your stereotypical hillbilly and that isn't cute or funny; just sad.
Well, I'm gonna go and watch you watch your favorite Sesame Street episode. American Fruit Stand and maybe take a shower. Daddy loves Rebecca!
It certainly is hot today. It wasn't too bad at work today but this afternoon has been a scorcher. Our unit at work went down after the first hour and they had us run in lamps from eight that morning until twelve thirty that afternoon and then they sent us home. I was happy to be able to go home but I would have been just as satisfied if we had stayed there. Mom came to pick me up because I rode with Papaw this morning. Your Mom isn't feeling well right now so Mamaw was looking after you. We went down there and picked you up after I got off from work. Mom still wasn't feeling up to snuff so I figured we would both get out of her hair for the rest of the afternoon. You & I went down to Big Spring Park for a little daddy/daughter time. We had lots of fun. It was hot, as I said but you laughed and smiled and that made me laugh and smile so I am real glad we got to go together.
Pappy & Aunt Mary came up to see you yesterday afternoon. They really don't get to see you as much as they would like but it's a pretty good little trip to Hazard and back. We all went to McDonalds and to the rather crappy antique & flea mall in the old Kmart building here in town. All I saw was, for the most part, just a whole bunch of overpriced junk. Pappy bought a an old turntable to play his old vinyl records. We came back here and sat on the front porch until it was time for Pappy & Aunt Mary to return to the mountains whence they came.
Your Mom still has a little mountain accent left over from her childhood and people are beginning to say that you also have a little mountain accent. A little mountain accent is cute if you also sound like you are an educated person but too many of the folks from down around Hazard sound like your stereotypical hillbilly and that isn't cute or funny; just sad.
Well, I'm gonna go and watch you watch your favorite Sesame Street episode. American Fruit Stand and maybe take a shower. Daddy loves Rebecca!
Saturday, August 06, 2005
Dear Rebecca,
Hi my little baby bird. Right now you are upstairs sleeping in your playpen in Mamaw's guest bedroom for a nap. At first you didn't want to go. You were in there babbling up a storm. I wonder how many of Mamaw's purties you pulled down off the bed. This morning you were making a big fuss over that white bear.
Daddy is right, it bites not being able to indent. It doesn't look nearly as nice. There is probably a way to do it but I am way too impatient to figure it out. You are impatient too. You got that from Mommy. No bones about it.
We've had a pretty good morning together so far; you got up around seven am and you had a breakfast of milk, oatmeal with applesauce and bananas, and a piece or two of the canteloupe in Mamaw's refrigerator. You eat good when you want to; when you are interested in playing and in Sesame street you can take or leave it. Mostly you leave it. In the floor no less. You can throw a piece of banana farther than I can throw a baseball. I can throw a baseball pretty far but I don't have much other skill concerning that particular sport. I can dodge one pretty good if I see it coming at me. Anyway, as I was saying. After that you watched some crazy puppet show on CBS upstairs and played with all the toys that Mamaw has for you here. You really are a good baby but I don't want you messing up any of Mamaw's things and you disappear so quickly here that I decided to get out your play pen and put you in it. I put on a cartoon but you weren't interested; the blocks that Mamaw has for you here seem to fascinate you. You played and played and played with them. I could tell you were getting tired so I changed your stinky diaper, put away your toys, got your cup, took your playpen back in the guest room and sent you off to night night land. Of course you had a talk with your bear before hand. And who knows what else. I threw some laundry in and came down here to grab a shower and post this blog. That is where I am now.
Today I was going to go to Lexington by myself and get my paycheck and fill Daddy's medication and look for a watch. I also need to clean my car out. I don't think I want to go by myself though so I am thinking I might try to bribe your father with a trip to Cracker barrel or the new Mexican place for lunch today and get him to take me. I used to want my license so bad and to drive so bad but to be honest with you the simple act of driving to Lexington back absolutely wears me out. Not to mention everything that I have to wind up doing while I am there. I want to get Mamaw & Papaw and Aunt Lynn a special Welcome Home present. If I get paid today and I can find something I will. Of course I know seeing you will be enough.
Well little girl, I am going to go and check said laundry and check on you. Then I am going to wake up your father so we can get everything together and packed up and head to Lexington. Ick, Ick, Blah, I hope he takes me.
Hi my little baby bird. Right now you are upstairs sleeping in your playpen in Mamaw's guest bedroom for a nap. At first you didn't want to go. You were in there babbling up a storm. I wonder how many of Mamaw's purties you pulled down off the bed. This morning you were making a big fuss over that white bear.
Daddy is right, it bites not being able to indent. It doesn't look nearly as nice. There is probably a way to do it but I am way too impatient to figure it out. You are impatient too. You got that from Mommy. No bones about it.
We've had a pretty good morning together so far; you got up around seven am and you had a breakfast of milk, oatmeal with applesauce and bananas, and a piece or two of the canteloupe in Mamaw's refrigerator. You eat good when you want to; when you are interested in playing and in Sesame street you can take or leave it. Mostly you leave it. In the floor no less. You can throw a piece of banana farther than I can throw a baseball. I can throw a baseball pretty far but I don't have much other skill concerning that particular sport. I can dodge one pretty good if I see it coming at me. Anyway, as I was saying. After that you watched some crazy puppet show on CBS upstairs and played with all the toys that Mamaw has for you here. You really are a good baby but I don't want you messing up any of Mamaw's things and you disappear so quickly here that I decided to get out your play pen and put you in it. I put on a cartoon but you weren't interested; the blocks that Mamaw has for you here seem to fascinate you. You played and played and played with them. I could tell you were getting tired so I changed your stinky diaper, put away your toys, got your cup, took your playpen back in the guest room and sent you off to night night land. Of course you had a talk with your bear before hand. And who knows what else. I threw some laundry in and came down here to grab a shower and post this blog. That is where I am now.
Today I was going to go to Lexington by myself and get my paycheck and fill Daddy's medication and look for a watch. I also need to clean my car out. I don't think I want to go by myself though so I am thinking I might try to bribe your father with a trip to Cracker barrel or the new Mexican place for lunch today and get him to take me. I used to want my license so bad and to drive so bad but to be honest with you the simple act of driving to Lexington back absolutely wears me out. Not to mention everything that I have to wind up doing while I am there. I want to get Mamaw & Papaw and Aunt Lynn a special Welcome Home present. If I get paid today and I can find something I will. Of course I know seeing you will be enough.
Well little girl, I am going to go and check said laundry and check on you. Then I am going to wake up your father so we can get everything together and packed up and head to Lexington. Ick, Ick, Blah, I hope he takes me.
Dear Rebecca,
I hate not using w.bloggar to post my blogs. When I post on Blogger.com I can indent my posts like I like to do and it just doesn't look as nice in my humble opinion. Why am I not using w.bloggar? Because we are all spending the night down here at Mamaw and Papaw's house. Everyone is still in Colorado so we have the house to ourselves. We came down here after you got home from Lexington with your Mom yesterday and watered the flowers. Mom then took you into the basement for a shower, cartoons and play time while I rode Jacobs dirt bike and nearly broke my ankle in the process. I had lots and lots of fun though. I absolutely positively have to get a motorcycle of my very own; a street bike, mind you. I would have to have one I could tool about town in and maybe drive to work every now and then.
Mom then told me I had to put the bike up and as a good obedient husband, I complied with her demand. We all then ate some pizza and played a bit with you. We decided at that point to put you upstairs to sleep so we could watch a movie here in the basement. We watched a movie called Constantine with Keanu Reeves. After the film we decided that we really didn't want to haul you out of your sound sleep and pack up everything for the return trip home because we were all a bit tuckered out. We thought we might spend the night here. Your Mom is upstairs in the guest bedroom with you while I am typing this out on Papaw's basement computer. His garage computer has stopped working for him. I'm gonna watch another film here in a minute and lay down on the sofa to sleep.
Last night, after supper we sat down and figured up all the words you can now say. Here's the list we came up with, Daddy, Mama, Papaw, please, thanks, dog, duck, cat, bear, baby, block, ball, water, plane, drink, bite, bye-bye, hi, hello, no, nose, ear, toe-toes, bottle, cup, mine, gone, Elmo, fish, cookie, bubble, ow, night-night, tickle-tickle, uh-huh and uh-oh. That's thirtysix words. We are so proud of you. You have also used three short little sentences and they are, "Please Mama", "Thanks Daddy" and "Tickle-tickle Mama". Aren't you just so smart?
Well, I had better get started on that movie because I have a feeling that your Mom may wake me up sooner than I would wish to be woken up but doesn't she always? No, not really. Mommy is good about letting Daddy sleep. Daddy loves Rebecca!
I hate not using w.bloggar to post my blogs. When I post on Blogger.com I can indent my posts like I like to do and it just doesn't look as nice in my humble opinion. Why am I not using w.bloggar? Because we are all spending the night down here at Mamaw and Papaw's house. Everyone is still in Colorado so we have the house to ourselves. We came down here after you got home from Lexington with your Mom yesterday and watered the flowers. Mom then took you into the basement for a shower, cartoons and play time while I rode Jacobs dirt bike and nearly broke my ankle in the process. I had lots and lots of fun though. I absolutely positively have to get a motorcycle of my very own; a street bike, mind you. I would have to have one I could tool about town in and maybe drive to work every now and then.
Mom then told me I had to put the bike up and as a good obedient husband, I complied with her demand. We all then ate some pizza and played a bit with you. We decided at that point to put you upstairs to sleep so we could watch a movie here in the basement. We watched a movie called Constantine with Keanu Reeves. After the film we decided that we really didn't want to haul you out of your sound sleep and pack up everything for the return trip home because we were all a bit tuckered out. We thought we might spend the night here. Your Mom is upstairs in the guest bedroom with you while I am typing this out on Papaw's basement computer. His garage computer has stopped working for him. I'm gonna watch another film here in a minute and lay down on the sofa to sleep.
Last night, after supper we sat down and figured up all the words you can now say. Here's the list we came up with, Daddy, Mama, Papaw, please, thanks, dog, duck, cat, bear, baby, block, ball, water, plane, drink, bite, bye-bye, hi, hello, no, nose, ear, toe-toes, bottle, cup, mine, gone, Elmo, fish, cookie, bubble, ow, night-night, tickle-tickle, uh-huh and uh-oh. That's thirtysix words. We are so proud of you. You have also used three short little sentences and they are, "Please Mama", "Thanks Daddy" and "Tickle-tickle Mama". Aren't you just so smart?
Well, I had better get started on that movie because I have a feeling that your Mom may wake me up sooner than I would wish to be woken up but doesn't she always? No, not really. Mommy is good about letting Daddy sleep. Daddy loves Rebecca!
Friday, August 05, 2005
Dear Rebecca,
It's now early Friday afternoon and you are out with your Mother while she goes out to Lexington to purchase for you another fish to put into poor Spike's bowl also she is going to pick up her check and buy Daddy a roll of Copenhagen Snuff. I am here at the house enjoying my day off; as you know we have today off because they are doing inventory at the plant today.
After I got off from work yesterday we went to Nicholasville were we ate at Golden Corral and went shopping at Wal-Mart. We purchased over $250 dollars worth of groceries and we bought $30 dollars worth of gasoline for the Explorer and still didn't fill the thing up. Your Mom also got out our lay away for a lot less money than she thought she would have to pay. It seems that everything she bought went on sale. She was incredibly excited about that. Then we came home. We had taken both vehicles because I met y'all over at Golden Corral after work so when we returned home we had to drive in separate automobiles. Your Mom went home by going back to Lexington and you & I went home going through the country. It's faster going through the country but your Mom isn't as familiar with the country route as I am and she is not a very experienced driver yet so she took what we thought was the safest route for her. She witnessed an four car accident on Man O' War on her way home and if she hadn't been paying real close attention she would have made it five. Your Mom is not real experienced but she is naturally a pretty good driver. I am very proud of her.
Mom just called and said that she had your new fish. You picked out a black female and we are going to call her Baby Fish Dorothy after Elmo's pet fish Dorothy. She said you had a real big time at the pet supply store seeing all the animals that people bring in there with them. I'm glad we have another fish for you. I hated it when spike went to the big fish bowl in the sky. You used to love watching him swim around in his bowl. Spike was your very first pet. The very first pet of mine that I can remember was a little Jack Russel Terrier named Little Bit. You know about all the tales you hear about a boy and his dog? Well, that was Little Bit & I. I loved that little dog for all I was worth. We were pals and here it is nearly thirty years later and I still miss him. I'm getting a little sad just typing this all out. He was such a great dog; the best.
Your Eye looks 100% better than it did a few days ago. Your mom says there's still a little swelling but I can't detect any swelling at all. Your rash is clearing up very nicely and we haven't checked your thrush yet. We'll do that when you get home from Lexington. You're still got a touch of teething going on but there's nothing any of us can do about that so I'm afraid that you are just going to have to suffer through that.
You are starting to get a little obstinate. Alicia brought us an old computer that I plan on taking apart and fiddling with the inner workings until I destroy it. Anyway you grabbed one of the computer wires and when I told you no you, you looked at me like I had lost me ever loving mind. I told you no again only a bit more sternly and you dropped but immediately picked it up again and smacked the top of the computer with it. I said no for the third time much more sternly and I grabbed your little hand and made you put it down. We have decided not to use any type of corporal punishment with you until you are a bit older. We don't want you to learn hitting. We want to wait until you understand the difference between a spanking as punishment without anger and lashing out violently in a fit of anger which is an absolute no no. You started bawling when I grabbed your hand and took the wire away. This morning your Mom told you not to flip over your potty but you kept right on flipping it over. Eventually your Mom decided all you wanted to do was inspect the bottom of the potty. I think she should have stuck to her guns. We can't change courses in midstream when we are trying to get you to listen to us because you might get the idea that it's okay to ignore us when we say something. It's getting a little harder being your parents now that you have developed a mind of your own.
Mamaw & Papaw, Aunt Lynn & Uncle Rodney, Allison and the boys are returning tomorrow morning from Denver. Everyone has had a great time. Everyone really enjoyed flying in the jet plane except Papaw. He didn't care much for it because it hurt his ear. I have problems flying as well. The height in conjunction with the cabin pressure is very hard on the sinuses and your ears. At least they all had a great time in Denver and the surrounding area.
I'm supposed to be off the last week of August. Maybe we will all go swimming a lot during the day because all the older children will be back in school by then. I think that will be pretty fun. I'm sure the temperatures will still be warm enough for the pool, especially since it's been such a hot summer.
Well, I'm going to let you go for now and start uploading some movies from the TiVo to the computer so I can burn them onto DVD. We had a problem with our CD/DVD-RW drive yesterday. It would read CD-ROM and music compact discs but it wouldn't recognize any DVD at all. Your mom tried to play her Sims 2 game which is on a DVD and it wouldn't play so she uninstalled it and accidentally deleted all of her old neighborhoods. I came home after the grocery and fiddled with the computer and I couldn't figure out what the problem was. The troubleshooter wasn't any help and I couldn't find anything to help me on the internet so after I cussed at the computer for a while I decided to check with the Dell website for updated drivers and firmware for the drive and when I installed the updates it worked. That's what I love about computers. They don't always do the things you want them to do so when they become stubborn you have to do a lot of research and study your problem and if you do happen to fix your problem it makes you feel like the king of the world.
I'm going now for real this time. Daddy loves Rebecca!
It's now early Friday afternoon and you are out with your Mother while she goes out to Lexington to purchase for you another fish to put into poor Spike's bowl also she is going to pick up her check and buy Daddy a roll of Copenhagen Snuff. I am here at the house enjoying my day off; as you know we have today off because they are doing inventory at the plant today.
After I got off from work yesterday we went to Nicholasville were we ate at Golden Corral and went shopping at Wal-Mart. We purchased over $250 dollars worth of groceries and we bought $30 dollars worth of gasoline for the Explorer and still didn't fill the thing up. Your Mom also got out our lay away for a lot less money than she thought she would have to pay. It seems that everything she bought went on sale. She was incredibly excited about that. Then we came home. We had taken both vehicles because I met y'all over at Golden Corral after work so when we returned home we had to drive in separate automobiles. Your Mom went home by going back to Lexington and you & I went home going through the country. It's faster going through the country but your Mom isn't as familiar with the country route as I am and she is not a very experienced driver yet so she took what we thought was the safest route for her. She witnessed an four car accident on Man O' War on her way home and if she hadn't been paying real close attention she would have made it five. Your Mom is not real experienced but she is naturally a pretty good driver. I am very proud of her.
Mom just called and said that she had your new fish. You picked out a black female and we are going to call her Baby Fish Dorothy after Elmo's pet fish Dorothy. She said you had a real big time at the pet supply store seeing all the animals that people bring in there with them. I'm glad we have another fish for you. I hated it when spike went to the big fish bowl in the sky. You used to love watching him swim around in his bowl. Spike was your very first pet. The very first pet of mine that I can remember was a little Jack Russel Terrier named Little Bit. You know about all the tales you hear about a boy and his dog? Well, that was Little Bit & I. I loved that little dog for all I was worth. We were pals and here it is nearly thirty years later and I still miss him. I'm getting a little sad just typing this all out. He was such a great dog; the best.
Your Eye looks 100% better than it did a few days ago. Your mom says there's still a little swelling but I can't detect any swelling at all. Your rash is clearing up very nicely and we haven't checked your thrush yet. We'll do that when you get home from Lexington. You're still got a touch of teething going on but there's nothing any of us can do about that so I'm afraid that you are just going to have to suffer through that.
You are starting to get a little obstinate. Alicia brought us an old computer that I plan on taking apart and fiddling with the inner workings until I destroy it. Anyway you grabbed one of the computer wires and when I told you no you, you looked at me like I had lost me ever loving mind. I told you no again only a bit more sternly and you dropped but immediately picked it up again and smacked the top of the computer with it. I said no for the third time much more sternly and I grabbed your little hand and made you put it down. We have decided not to use any type of corporal punishment with you until you are a bit older. We don't want you to learn hitting. We want to wait until you understand the difference between a spanking as punishment without anger and lashing out violently in a fit of anger which is an absolute no no. You started bawling when I grabbed your hand and took the wire away. This morning your Mom told you not to flip over your potty but you kept right on flipping it over. Eventually your Mom decided all you wanted to do was inspect the bottom of the potty. I think she should have stuck to her guns. We can't change courses in midstream when we are trying to get you to listen to us because you might get the idea that it's okay to ignore us when we say something. It's getting a little harder being your parents now that you have developed a mind of your own.
Mamaw & Papaw, Aunt Lynn & Uncle Rodney, Allison and the boys are returning tomorrow morning from Denver. Everyone has had a great time. Everyone really enjoyed flying in the jet plane except Papaw. He didn't care much for it because it hurt his ear. I have problems flying as well. The height in conjunction with the cabin pressure is very hard on the sinuses and your ears. At least they all had a great time in Denver and the surrounding area.
I'm supposed to be off the last week of August. Maybe we will all go swimming a lot during the day because all the older children will be back in school by then. I think that will be pretty fun. I'm sure the temperatures will still be warm enough for the pool, especially since it's been such a hot summer.
Well, I'm going to let you go for now and start uploading some movies from the TiVo to the computer so I can burn them onto DVD. We had a problem with our CD/DVD-RW drive yesterday. It would read CD-ROM and music compact discs but it wouldn't recognize any DVD at all. Your mom tried to play her Sims 2 game which is on a DVD and it wouldn't play so she uninstalled it and accidentally deleted all of her old neighborhoods. I came home after the grocery and fiddled with the computer and I couldn't figure out what the problem was. The troubleshooter wasn't any help and I couldn't find anything to help me on the internet so after I cussed at the computer for a while I decided to check with the Dell website for updated drivers and firmware for the drive and when I installed the updates it worked. That's what I love about computers. They don't always do the things you want them to do so when they become stubborn you have to do a lot of research and study your problem and if you do happen to fix your problem it makes you feel like the king of the world.
I'm going now for real this time. Daddy loves Rebecca!
Wednesday, August 03, 2005
Dear Rebecca,
We are crazy parents. Today, your left eye got very red and swollen and then the entire left side of your face became puffy and swollen and we got very excited about all of this. You didn't seem very upset over this fact; your eye seemed to itch you just a wee bit but since Alicia was here with Brady your attention was on them and not your itchy eye. We got a pediatrician's appointment for you and rushed you up there. We still don't know what may be causing your eye problem but we have some medicine for it anyway. I hope it clears up in the next few days. We also discovered that your recent terrible diaper rash is actually a yeast infection and we got some medicine for a touch of thrush that you have. The doctor who saw you for your one year appointment also mentioned the thrush but she didn't give us any medicine so I didn't think it was such a big deal.
Mamaw & Papaw and the whole gang are probably up on the top of Pike's Peak as we speak. She called today and said they were planning on doing that this evening. I sure wish the three of us were with them. I think we would all enjoy that. I went down to water Mamaw & Aunt Lynn's flowers this afternoon and it started raining after I was finished. I gave the dogs some fresh water and some more food. I bet they can't wait for Papaw to get back from Colorado.
Well, Your Mom is home from getting your yeast infection medicine so I will let you go for now. Daddy loves Rebecca!
We are crazy parents. Today, your left eye got very red and swollen and then the entire left side of your face became puffy and swollen and we got very excited about all of this. You didn't seem very upset over this fact; your eye seemed to itch you just a wee bit but since Alicia was here with Brady your attention was on them and not your itchy eye. We got a pediatrician's appointment for you and rushed you up there. We still don't know what may be causing your eye problem but we have some medicine for it anyway. I hope it clears up in the next few days. We also discovered that your recent terrible diaper rash is actually a yeast infection and we got some medicine for a touch of thrush that you have. The doctor who saw you for your one year appointment also mentioned the thrush but she didn't give us any medicine so I didn't think it was such a big deal.
Mamaw & Papaw and the whole gang are probably up on the top of Pike's Peak as we speak. She called today and said they were planning on doing that this evening. I sure wish the three of us were with them. I think we would all enjoy that. I went down to water Mamaw & Aunt Lynn's flowers this afternoon and it started raining after I was finished. I gave the dogs some fresh water and some more food. I bet they can't wait for Papaw to get back from Colorado.
Well, Your Mom is home from getting your yeast infection medicine so I will let you go for now. Daddy loves Rebecca!
Tuesday, August 02, 2005
Dear Rebecca,
Hello my pretty little baby bird. Do you know something? Mamaw hasn't called Mommy yet. I am getting kind of worried. If she doesn't call me by two o'clock, I am going to call her. Trouble is, I have no idea what their room number is. I guess I'll have to call her cell phone. Mommy's used to talking to Mamaw every day at least once by now. I kinda miss her. Don't tell her I said that though, she'll think I like her or something. Ha, Ha, I am only kidding. I love your Mamaw. She's a wonderful Mamaw to you.
You are having trouble with your teeth. You woke up last night at three o'clock, and was awake for about an half an hour. I put you back down and you woke up again in less that fifteen minutes. Mommy finally got you soothed back to sleep, but by then Mommy was wide awake. I stayed up to do some housework while you and Daddy were still snoring. I got a lot done but by the time Daddy woke up at five thirty, Mommy was exhausted. You woke up at six o'clock, so you got to see Daddy go off to work. He likes to see you in the mornings. I don't blame him; you're the prettiest thing anyone could ever see in the morning. Daddy loves you so much.
We got you dressed and got you a cup of milk and you were very fussy because you were still tired. I put your favorite episode of Sesame Street on and you laid in the floor and watched that minute while Mommy kissed Daddy goodbye and had her last cup of coffee. Then we played together in the floor a little while and then I fixed your breakfast of oatmeal and cinnamon toast. You enjoyed it, and I enjoyed the leftovers. We played a little while more in the floor after that. I ran the vacuum and it seems you love it again. First you loved it, then you were scared of it, now you love it again. Go figure. You got tired so I gave you your milk and vitamin and put you down for your morning nap. I thought, lucky me, I finally get to get some sleep. Boy was, I ever wrong. You fought it off, and I mean hard. You finally fell asleep for about fourty five minutes, and just as I had dozed off is when you woke up. Oh, well, that's part of being a Mommy. I wouldn't trade the sleeplessness for the world, no I would not.
You woke up and had some juice and played in the floor a while, while I got our lunch ready. We had Ham sandwiches, a few cheese puffs, mixed fruit, and pudding for dessert. I tried to find the camera to take a picture of you after you "ate" your pudding, but apparently it's in Daddy's truck, so I couldn't. Oh well, you looked so cute. And so very, very messy. I had to put you in the tub, so while you played in the tub I decided to go ahead and clean the sink and the toilet. I did that and you got to play and we listened to the radio in there while we did that, and it took us a good long while, about an hour. Then we played "chase" in your room, and you went and got a book, "Johnny Appleseed", and we read it. We got a couple more books to read then you sat in your playpen and "read" them yourself while we listened to the radio and I dusted your room and mine upstairs. I came downstairs to clean up a bit and got you a cup of milk, then I brought it to you and layed you in your crib for your afternoon nap. That is where you are now. Daddy called and we talked a bit and I just tried to call Mamaw and Aunt Lynn's cell phone. No answer on either, and so I called the hotel. They said Marlin Lanham had cancelled, which got me kind of worried, but they said that Aunt Lynn was there. I left messages on both cell phones and on Aunt Lynn's room message center. Still, I am worried. I hope they call back soon. Well, little girl, I am going to get off here and fix myself a soda and get a brownie before Daddy gets home. Daddy likes brownies and Mommy has to eat them in his absence if she wants any. Ha, Ha. I love you, baby bird!
Hello my pretty little baby bird. Do you know something? Mamaw hasn't called Mommy yet. I am getting kind of worried. If she doesn't call me by two o'clock, I am going to call her. Trouble is, I have no idea what their room number is. I guess I'll have to call her cell phone. Mommy's used to talking to Mamaw every day at least once by now. I kinda miss her. Don't tell her I said that though, she'll think I like her or something. Ha, Ha, I am only kidding. I love your Mamaw. She's a wonderful Mamaw to you.
You are having trouble with your teeth. You woke up last night at three o'clock, and was awake for about an half an hour. I put you back down and you woke up again in less that fifteen minutes. Mommy finally got you soothed back to sleep, but by then Mommy was wide awake. I stayed up to do some housework while you and Daddy were still snoring. I got a lot done but by the time Daddy woke up at five thirty, Mommy was exhausted. You woke up at six o'clock, so you got to see Daddy go off to work. He likes to see you in the mornings. I don't blame him; you're the prettiest thing anyone could ever see in the morning. Daddy loves you so much.
We got you dressed and got you a cup of milk and you were very fussy because you were still tired. I put your favorite episode of Sesame Street on and you laid in the floor and watched that minute while Mommy kissed Daddy goodbye and had her last cup of coffee. Then we played together in the floor a little while and then I fixed your breakfast of oatmeal and cinnamon toast. You enjoyed it, and I enjoyed the leftovers. We played a little while more in the floor after that. I ran the vacuum and it seems you love it again. First you loved it, then you were scared of it, now you love it again. Go figure. You got tired so I gave you your milk and vitamin and put you down for your morning nap. I thought, lucky me, I finally get to get some sleep. Boy was, I ever wrong. You fought it off, and I mean hard. You finally fell asleep for about fourty five minutes, and just as I had dozed off is when you woke up. Oh, well, that's part of being a Mommy. I wouldn't trade the sleeplessness for the world, no I would not.
You woke up and had some juice and played in the floor a while, while I got our lunch ready. We had Ham sandwiches, a few cheese puffs, mixed fruit, and pudding for dessert. I tried to find the camera to take a picture of you after you "ate" your pudding, but apparently it's in Daddy's truck, so I couldn't. Oh well, you looked so cute. And so very, very messy. I had to put you in the tub, so while you played in the tub I decided to go ahead and clean the sink and the toilet. I did that and you got to play and we listened to the radio in there while we did that, and it took us a good long while, about an hour. Then we played "chase" in your room, and you went and got a book, "Johnny Appleseed", and we read it. We got a couple more books to read then you sat in your playpen and "read" them yourself while we listened to the radio and I dusted your room and mine upstairs. I came downstairs to clean up a bit and got you a cup of milk, then I brought it to you and layed you in your crib for your afternoon nap. That is where you are now. Daddy called and we talked a bit and I just tried to call Mamaw and Aunt Lynn's cell phone. No answer on either, and so I called the hotel. They said Marlin Lanham had cancelled, which got me kind of worried, but they said that Aunt Lynn was there. I left messages on both cell phones and on Aunt Lynn's room message center. Still, I am worried. I hope they call back soon. Well, little girl, I am going to get off here and fix myself a soda and get a brownie before Daddy gets home. Daddy likes brownies and Mommy has to eat them in his absence if she wants any. Ha, Ha. I love you, baby bird!
Monday, August 01, 2005
Dear Rebecca,
Papaw & Mamaw, Uncle Rodney & Aunt Lynn, the boys and Allison left today for Denver on a jet plane. None of them had ever flown before and they were all a little nervous but they all seemed to enjoy it. They called from Dallas where they had a layover before heading on to Colorado. We drove out to the airport and watched their plane take off. I'm sure they will have a great time out there. Mamaw practically begged your Mother to let her take you out there with them. Mama would not have any of that. Mamaw was just kidding your Mom anyway.
After we returned from the airport we had supper here with Aunt Linda and Granny. We had grilled pork chops, squash casserole, french style green beans, macaroni & cheese and corn bread with fruit salad and brownies. We all had a fine meal. I'm talking to Mamaw on the phone right now. She's in Dallas.
You took a few more steps yesterday. You just might be walking by the time everybody gets back. Your Mom & I are going to watch some television and I am going to take you a juice cup upstairs because you act like you don't want to go to sleep. Daddy loves Rebecca!
Papaw & Mamaw, Uncle Rodney & Aunt Lynn, the boys and Allison left today for Denver on a jet plane. None of them had ever flown before and they were all a little nervous but they all seemed to enjoy it. They called from Dallas where they had a layover before heading on to Colorado. We drove out to the airport and watched their plane take off. I'm sure they will have a great time out there. Mamaw practically begged your Mother to let her take you out there with them. Mama would not have any of that. Mamaw was just kidding your Mom anyway.
After we returned from the airport we had supper here with Aunt Linda and Granny. We had grilled pork chops, squash casserole, french style green beans, macaroni & cheese and corn bread with fruit salad and brownies. We all had a fine meal. I'm talking to Mamaw on the phone right now. She's in Dallas.
You took a few more steps yesterday. You just might be walking by the time everybody gets back. Your Mom & I are going to watch some television and I am going to take you a juice cup upstairs because you act like you don't want to go to sleep. Daddy loves Rebecca!
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