Little of this, little of that...

Last week....

- We celebrated 4 years of living here!

- We picked 9 pineapples from our yard. Brant brought 3 more in today. We're considering starting a pineapple export business and getting rich. :) Seriously though, we figured in the next year we will save enough grocery money from all the free fruit in our yard we'll be able to buy 5 tickets to Disneyland when we are back in the States!

- We had a huge storm come in and knock a huge tree on the road in front of our house... and take out the power lines with it. 25 hours later we finally got power restored. Brant and I moved our mattress to the living room and slept where there are more windows, and in theory, more of a breeze, but it was so hot and sticky we could barely sleep. Ezra slept with us, a hot sticky mess, and since then, every night he has cried "I sleep Mom Dad bed" when we put him in his own bed.

- We baked snicker doodles. It was an hours-long, cinnamony-sugar production, that was way worth it in the end.





- Ezra learned to open his dresser drawers himself and decided he didn't like how i had organized his clothes.


- My little sis had her 2nd baby boy (congrats, Mel!) That means she loses the bet we made when we were in junior high as to how many boys we would each have. (Yes, I lost a long time ago!) I'm looking forward to a weekend of free baby-sitting when we're back in the States.

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Boy-isms
Elijah, blood all over his hands: "Ooh, I got a mosquito, but he was already suckin' someone."

Caleb: "When we grow up we are going to be Dads. But first we have to get our spots. Then we have to get hairs on our chin. Then we can get our black coffee cups and black sunglasses without Thomas on them. THEN we will be Dads."