Did you know the wise man built his house upon a rocket ship?

That is the Wise Man and the Foolish Man according to Isaac. He makes me laugh.

Gracies Giggles

We often call Grandmas just to let them listen to Graces giggles. But, for the rest of you who haven't received a Grace giggling phone call...

We were playing in the back yard last night. Isaac 'needed' a snack, so I promptly went inside to find one. As I was heading back out I saw and heard this. (listen close at the beginning)



Sorry the clip is so short and I'm talking. I missed a couple minutes of the giggling by the time I got the camera. Hopefully it was enough to make you smile.

Grace is lucky to have such a fun big brother.

Mea Culpa

I realized tonight that we haven't posted a picture of the front of our home.  So ta da.  There is also a shot of the backyard from the other side of the swing set.  We absolutely love the house.  But to be fair, we do miss a few things about apartment living, such as: maintenance free living, getting away with rag tag "decorating" and having a large annonymous dumpster for incriminating evidence. Can we just say how happy we are with overhead lights in every room, bathroom fans that work separately from lights, fenced yards, and absolute silence at night?

And finally, when I got home from work Isaac said, "Dad, come ir, see bout Ike's new bed. Mom maked SORSOR (dinosaur) pillows, yes!"  He has talked non-stop about them ever since.  Thus furthering my personal dream that Isaac become a world-renowned paleontologist. 

Tea Parties

I saw this chart today and have been staring at it ever since: it maps federal spending.  I have heard a lot about tea parties lately (from friends, clients, random people in the elevator) and rather than discuss whether you think that tea parties are totally awesome or just plain silly, I propose the following exercize.  If you want lower government spending (and the lower tax burden that accompanies it) tell me what you'd cut! If you want to raise government spending, tell me what you'd add.

You can zoom in on the chart by clicking here.

Disclaimer: this is not a political blog, this is Diana's cute family blog. Justin just wants to hear what you'd cut or add. If you want to debate/discuss/rant/bellow/belch/or yell about government policy, let us do lunch. 

Easter

We had a happy Easter and hope you did too!  Isaac had a riot searching the house for eggs and even more fun gorging on candy for breakfast. Before heading to church and to Great Grandma's for dinner, we put the kids in their "Easter clothes" and attempted a few pictures.  Grace wasn't having it.  But Isaac was hamming it up, until the batteries died, that is.  

Just for fun we threw in a few other pics.  As you can see, Grace loves to sit on her dad's neck. She then bends forward, grabs cheeks/ears and sucks on the nose.  We call it baby boarding, the newest form of torture.  I did agree to upgrade her diapers to Huggies and to start work on painting her room this weekend, so I guess it worked.

Finally, we have a family meeting.  Sunday mornings are for reading the NY Times, but the kids don't get that.  Grace always steals the paper and Isaac likes to color on it.  So we had a little talk about respecting newspapers.  Isaac just argued that print media was dead and Grace ate the stock quotes. 

House Pics...

...Part one :)

We're starting with the most important part of the house. At least according to Isaac.

Any Guesses?

For anyone who knows anything about our little boy, you know he is very active and LOVES to play outside. We've had to install numerous types of locks on ALL exits of our house. Isaac spends every waking moment trying to escape and begging to go out when he realizes he can't get out himself. Sounds like a puppy, huh?

(our yard isn't trashed with old sinks, we took it out of the play house to clean it up)

Thanks to Uncle Brian for taking the great picture of our little family.

Now, onto the second most important part. MY PIANO. After five long years my piano and I will be in the same dwelling. Kind of strange, but tons of fun! Here are some pics of my HULK of a husband heaving the piano into the house ALL BY HIMSELF. A furniture mover/dolly and I did help a bit, but Justin did 99% of the work.

Until Part Two...

Party On

On Saturday, just before we started loading the truck, another "Notice of Party" appeared on our door from our upstairs neighbors. And so, in the spirit of yellow-legal-pad-paper notices, I taped the following note to their door: