I was so excited Saturday Evening. I was able to sneak out of the house all by myself for a grocery shopping trip. Low and behold I returned to this…

Okay, so he wasn’t quite like that – I had to give him the bath and put him in his jammies, but his hair was all chopped off….. (compare to the pictures below) I should have known better than to leave him home with daddy – he was just waiting for the moment when I wasn’t looking! Poor baby. I asked him what happened to his hair and he said “all gone”. He must have cut off a good 2 inches or so. I was sad… but it will grow back I guess. It was so blonde and cute though!

Oh and at the grocery store we are obviously not from around here. Pretty much every time I shop I buy about $200 worth of groceries. That lasts us a couple of weeks. Well apparently no one around here shops like that because every time I shop I always get a comment from the checker such as “I have never seen someone buy so much” or Saturday it was “Wow, how many kids do you have?” I respond three. Her response “Wow, you guys must really eat a lot!”. HMMMM I guess no one out here shops like I do. I stock up on the sales and I don’t want to drive the 25 minutes into town every other day to buy groceries! In WA everyone in line had that many groceries. Anyway… I guess I’ll step off my soap box now.

Dane can finally say his name now. He also says Christian all the time – he is always calling “Christian Where Are You?”. His newest thing is sitting on the potty right before his bath. He remembers every time and won’t let you forget! He is already 22 months tomorrow. I can’t believe my baby is almost two! This is right around the time Ryan also got interested in potty training…. but Dane is so much smaller than he was! He can’t reach the potty at all without help. That and he has a ton of fall clothes that are one piece type outfits. I had forgotten about the potty training issue…. His legs are still too short for a lot of his 18-24 month outfits and pants. Hopefully he’ll grow a bit and get some use out of some of those before we go full force into potty-training.

Well it sounds like Matt has to do his first funeral and burial this week. It is a sister of a church member, so he didn’t know her. She was older and was deaf all her life and blind the last few years or her life. Most of her friends were also deaf, so there will be a sign-language interpreter present. We’re not sure what day that will be yet. We just got the call tonight.

John ended up not making it out here afterall. His original flight got cancelled and he was able to find a non-stop flight straight home to WA so he wasn’t able to come for his three day lay-over as originally planned. The boys were a bit sad, but hopefully we will see him soon.

I’m off to check on the kitty to see if she is having any kittens yet and then off to bed.

C-