Itsy Bitsy Spider in Real Life

Roman is studying tornadoes in school right now. While driving in the car recently we had a discussion on tornadoes, something that fascinates both James and I. At one point he asked is we had ever seen one and we both admitted we had not... not for lacking of trying in our younger days! I then mentioned that the closest either of us has seen were out over the ocean at the beach - water spouts. To which Bethany pipes in from the backseat.... "Were there lots of spiders too??" After a moments hesitation and thought we all busted out laughing.

The itsy bitsy spider climbed up the WATER SPOUT!!!!!


This type of comment is generally expected from Hope Elizabeth, so coming from the B made it all the funnier. Her first Hopey-ism!

Happy Mother's Day

Okay, so Katy-bug just deleted my entire entry.... so here goes round 2 with the short version.

Breakfast in bed, lots of homemade gifts, church, picnic lunch by the river, hiking with the fam, Lowes, HomeDepot, Mexico for dinner, all was good, great family day, exactly what I wanted... minus the part about them cleaning my house for me! One can dream big, right?? :)

Happy Mother's Day to my mom, my godmother, my mil's, sisters, and all my great mommy friends! Hope yours was just as great!

Kathryn's First Fortune

In celebration of Mother's Day a little early, we took Barbara out for Chinese. Now we've been out for Chinese a few times since Katy's arrival - especially since I could stomach it all throughout the 9m i carried her! - but this time upon completion of the meal the fortune cookies were handed out. After we read them and were finishing up the waiter came back over and handed me another and said we could leaves the little one out of a fortune. While i don't remember the exact wording, honestly I'm not sure I read past the 1st 2 words from laughing so hard, Kathryn's 1st Chinese fortune cookie read something like this..... "German Proverb:......" LOL