Small update. More later!

The house is coming slowly. It has been bad weather and I have had to go in to the office a few times which means Eric has to come in and watch Caleb. And then my classes have been coming on even slower. I am sooo wrapped up in Calebs party right now. I am so proud of myself I have planned a great birthday party, and it is sooo crafty. I got all my ideas from Family Fun magazine of course. We planned a bike birthday party, I made my own invitations with a picture of Caleb on a bike on the inside. We are going to decorate our bikes that everybody brought with noise makers and name plates and handlebar bling with bells and streamers. Then they are going to take those bikes and go on an obstacle course that we are going to make with cones to go thorugh, and a chalk line to follow, and a bubble machine to ride past and an arch to go under, and then there is going to be a dismount section on the playground. It is going to be soo much fun. Then the presents, and then cake and ice cream with gatorade or juice. The cake is going to be two cakes a little apart from each other with a real train really moving on a track between the two. And then with the cake we are going to have a cat skeleton which is a whole bunch of vegetables all put together to look like a cat skeleton, and the face is dip in a bowl with more vegetables for the facial features. and we are also going to have apple bites which is an apple cut into quarters and then each quarter is taken and a sort of mouth cut out of it. and then slivered almonds are put in to make teeth. It looked soooo cute in the magazine I had to try it! So that is what we are eating, and then when they go home they are getting little goody bags that look like trophies made out of paper lunch bags with gold and silver wrapping paper cut and glued to look like a trophy and some metallic pipe cleaners put on that look like trophy handles! And I am going to put in normal goody stuff and then one little mummy that I made out of popsicle sticks glued to looke like a stick figure and then wrapped in fabric that I got and cut into strips. and little moving eyes I glued on. I am going to make a little mouth too because they look a little lost without a mouth. I think they are so cute! I am just soo excited that I found all these great ideas. And I hope they all work out! I will post pictures later so you can see.

Caleb Goes Down in History

Oh and I think Caleb should go down in History as the kid who got into the most trouble in a 30 minute period. OK I hear spraying in the dining room so I go check on what Caleb is doing. It turns out he is spraying Orange Glo on his book. I am trying to be like Jesus Book. Then I see he has also sprayed it all over the table and the floor. And not only is the Orange Glo on the floor and the table but so is a whole shaker of SUGAR! I had to go and clean the book off first, then the table, and then I went in to use the toilet and guess what, there is water all over the floor the plunger is wet so he was obviously playing with it, the toilet is still half plugged with poop floating around, and to crown it all off there is a HUGE wad of toilet paper on the floor that is wet! Sopping wet. Dare I think it is already been in the toilet and out again wet????? I hope not!!!! I made him pull it to peices so it wouldn't clog the toilet go wash his hands and then take a nap. I considered myself very restrained on that one. Now any time he just goes into a whole lot of trouble like that, I let him know that his behavior is telling me he needs a nap to help him remember the rules. So I make him take a nap. I have not had any repeats that bad but he is still alittle boy. I guess I am glad a little on that one. And I have told and taught him how many toilet squares to use before and then again after that episode. He uses the right amount most of the time. Just this one time I don't know why he did it! And he goes by himself all the time now. And he even tries to wipe his own butt. Most of the time he is successful too.

House

Hey guys, we are done painting all of one side of the house!!!! And we are almost done with the soffets too on that side!! We are getting ready to do the other side now. We have to scrape off the old vine leaves and branches off of the other side before we can pressure wash it and then paint it. We might have to wait till the weather warms up alittle more before we can truly paint it though. So we are definitely getting places. Hopefully it will go along fast until it is done.

YIPPEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!

I have had some GREAT news today from Eric. He called UTA to ask if there was something wrong with our application because, I think I told you in my last post about UTA that they emailed us and told us they were interested in us attending UTA with a stipend and we would have to apply for the MS program and then when we were there for a while they would trnasfer us to the PhD program. Well when we applied they had the PhD listed so we applied for that. So he called to see if they saw the PhD on our application and they said that they would change it and there was no problem there, then Eric asked about the status of his applicagtion and the guy Eric was talking too was really open with Eric and told him that When he was in the application meeting Erics name came up and the Chairman said do whatever it takes I want this student here!!! This is the Chairman of the whole department!!! And it happens to be the guy that Eric wants to do research with! So he is going to be a freshman and they are going to offer him a stipend anyway. Apparently they don't do that with a lot of freshman. That is just sooooo AWESOME!!! and Prestigious to boot! I am sooo proud of Eric! This is definitely the boost that we need to get us through the last few months here. It is getting closer and closer but not fast enough! You guys can all come and help us pack if you want to!!! I would sure appreciate it!

I'm Done!

I'M DONE WITH ANOTHER CLASS!!!!!! I am sooo done with half of my schooling. I cannot wait till I get it all done. And the side of one house is done except for a little bit of trim.