Almost June

Lots of news to share:

1. The newest addition to the family will be named Jackson Stephen. His middle name is in honor of his uncle...or my brother in Chicago. He's still due around October 2nd and therefore the boys will be 15 months apart. YIKES! I just had a doctor's appointment and everything is progressing as it should and his heart is as healthy as can be.

2. We are "THIS" close to getting a house in Thornton. I can't believe we are looking at a house in the suburbs, but it’s a very family-friendly area and we can buy a lot of house for the amount of money. We'll have to landscape the yard as the former owner did absolutely nothing with it and kept the backyard as a pile of mud. The backyard is currently littered with half dolls or mangled stuffed animals, two rusting paring knifes, random kids and adults shoes (not pairs), a moss covered dog bowl (of sorts) and other treasures. Should you like any of these things, please let us know and we’ll happily ship them to you. They’ve been outside for roughly 8 months as that it the amount of time this house has sat empty.

Anyway, we'll have plenty of space for you to come stay with us, so keep us posted on your travels as I doubt we'll be traveling anytime soon with two babies. We are moving on June 15th so if anyone would like to help us, we'll gladly provide you with pizza, Pepsi or beer!

3. Seamus is going on prozac. It's very embarrassing to admit, but his nerves just go bonkers around certain other dogs...we're hoping this imbalance in his head is chemical and the prozac will help. We have no idea...

Murphie is fine…we’re looking forward to having a large area without stairs for both the dogs and the babies.

Sadie is now nice. We have no idea what happened to her. She likes us and the dogs. We’re waiting for her to go back to being the mean cat.

4.We went to the zoo on Memorial Day and we got to one of the first exhibits with an animal in it (it was a white arctic fox) and Eban pointed at it and said "DOG!" He thinks every animal is a dog...it's pretty funny! He's good at saying dog and dada at this point. And he loves making the wet bubbles sound too…it sounds like a long wet fart (if Ryan ever reads this thing, he’ll make me remove that sentence as it’s not appropriate but I didn’t know how else to describe it!)  I hope you enjoy these three zoo pics…





5.Last Friday (with the approval from my doctor), I played my first round of golf for the season. Not hal
f bad considering I’m almost 6 months pregnant, have a huge gut and couldn’t drink beer while on the links! It was great as every time the cart girl came around everyone would order beer, and I would get a Snickers bar or other food item. It’s amazing how I can eat and eat and eat.

6.Eban’s first birthday is coming up on June 29th and that will be two weeks after we move into our new digs. We’ll have a party for him (and everyone else) in July once our house is in a decent form…

Enjoy your June!