Welcome Summer!

We celebrated Memorial Day with our fun family, friends and neighbors.
Good food, good company, good weather - can't beat it.

Caden's World

Last week - mom tells Caden "no" about something, who knows what...

Caden: "You're mean mom."

Mom: "Sorry" (or I sure am, or something like that)

Caden: "I'm going to run away."

Mom: "Well, we're going to miss you."

Caden: "When you run away does the mommy drive you to where you want to go or do you have to walk?"

Mom: "You have to walk."

Caden: "Oh."

Mom: "If you run away you can run away to John and Sam's (our neighbors 2 doors up) and then I'll know where you are."

Caden: "OK"


Caden, today on the way to soccer...

Caden: "My girlfriend is on my soccer team, she's 5."

Mom: "Oh, what's her name?"

Caden: "Well, there are two Zoeys."

Mom: "Oh, so there is a girl named Zoey on your team and she's your girlfriend. Why is she your girlfriend?"

Caden: "Because I think she has cool toys. Even she has Barbies, and that's cool, I like Barbies."

What???

The Flood

Usually when something major happens in the world I watch about it on TV for an hour or so, be glad it doesn't affect me directly and then move on with life. Not this time! Fortunately our home and our little city of Spring Hill sustained little lasting damage but it's certainly different to watch the TV and know that the devastation is a mere 30 miles up the road. There's a good chance that my first house in north Nashville was damaged - my street ran parallel to the Cumberland River. There's an even better chance that several of the children I taught over the years are now homeless. I have had a hard time wrapping my brain around this flood and what we would have done if the rain had poured 13 inches on our house rather than stalling 20 miles to the west.

This coupled with the threat of oil washing onto the beaches of our beloved Gulf Shores has me feeling a little blue. But I know Nashville will pull through...we were even the subject of today's letter to the President:

http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/05/dear-president-obama-471-wholl-volunteer-for-tennessee/

New Pictures

I pulled out the exer-saucer a couple of weeks ago and quickly discovered that I'd need a second. Fortunately one of my neighbors had one in the garage sale pile.

The boys are almost 5 months old already!!! I can't believe how big they are - both around 16 pounds. They sleep 12 straight hours at night, roll from front to back and back to front and started solid foods the first of May. They are about the sweetest boys ever. They smile, laugh and are pretty much happy all the time (except when they're hungry). Drew is wearing green and Dane is wearing the gray. I realized that since their birth I have taken their blog pictures in the matching farm chairs. It's cool to see how much they've grown just by how they fill the chairs.