Oh No, it's the PLUMBING.

I put a notice up last week saying that we were having plumbing problems.  It turned out not to be a problem, but a NEAR MISS WITH DISASTER.

Last Wednesday morning I was preparing to walk out the door with Evie and Isaac when I noticed some white plaster on the floor.  Huh? 
I looked up and was shocked: the plaster in the section of the ceiling underneath our second-floor bathroom had swollen due to water leaking, looking like a very crusty cow udder.  Oh No!
The emergency plumber came, punched a hole in my ceiling, looked around and gave me the very very bad news:  You don't have just a leak, you have a calamity.  OH NO.  
Your entire pipe system connecting your bathroom pipes to your soil stack needs to get replaced.
And yes, it will cost a lot of money.
And no, you can't use your bathroom in the meantime.
And we can't fix it until Friday.
OH. *%#@.  NO.

Big Girl Days!

Last Tuesday, I had a conversation with one of Evie's teachers that filled me with Great Hope.  She told me that Evie had been talking that day about how she wears panties at home.  She encouraged Evie to bring her panties to school the next day and Evie agreed.  My heart flip-flopped.  Could it be?  Can she do it?

In the words of a recently successful presidential campaign slogan:  YES SHE CAN!!

Dalton Daycare

My friend, Katie H., has a beautiful little baby girl named Noriana.  Nori was born a few days after Isaac, so they are pretty much the same age.  You can find out more about them here on her blog. Katie is returning to work, and had an emergency need for a babysitter one day.  She asked me if I would be crazy enough to care for two four month old babies one day.  Am I crazy?  YES!!  And here are the pictures to prove it.

Isaac 4.5

He is now 4 and a half months old, and I really can't believe how fast he is growing.

First of all, he is falling asleep so much easier than before.  I THOUGHT THIS DAY WOULD NEVER ARRIVE.   But now that it has, all I can say is Praise God, I THANK YOU!  This is his usual sleep position: flat on his back.  I have tried to get him to sleep on his side, but to no avail.  Which is why the back of his head is so very flat.

One day when he is much older and he complains about the flatness of the back of his head, I will tell him that I truly tried to prevent it and then correct it.  I really did.  But since he wouldn't sleep unless it was on the flat of his back, my choices came down to 1) a really cranky baby or 2) a really flat head.  I chose option 2.  This way, we would all live.

Because a Flamingo is Pink

If you haven't figured it out yet, Evie's favorite color is Pink.  She has been known to leave the house decked out in different shades of pink from head to toe.  If she is asked to choose between two items of any color and pink, she will choose the pink item.  But Tim and I had no idea how far her love of pink could take her.

Sorry!

Posts will be coming!  I promise!

But in the meantime, dealing with a plumbing emergency in the house. Yikes!  Hoping to be cleared up by Friday.

Nashville, TN

Hi everyone,

If you have been missing updated pictures and notes about our family adventures, you may have noticed I have taken some unannounced time off from blogging.  I was planning on putting together a post on May 1, but when I got on the computer, all I could do was read about the portable classroom floating down 1-24 in Nashville.  Then, my heart started to sink when I began to follow the news reports of the rising waters.  Imagine my utter heartbreak when I began to hear reports from my friends in Nashville that not only had the city become completely inundated with water, but also that the block I grew up on was one of the hardest hit areas in the city.