Friday...

Due to my lack of posts lately, I am skipping the whole "flashback" thing and just blogging today! I can hardly believe it is Friday and yet another week is coming to a close! Gotta love these holiday weeks!! They are short and sweet!!

Things here are moving right along. This hot weather is wearing on me. Back home the highs have been in the SEVENTIES the last two or three days. THE SEVENTIES PEOPLE! It doesn't even get that cool at night here yet. Ahh...big sigh. I know it is coming, it is still just a couple of months off. I guess I am just feeling a little homesick. We should be heading back next week, but life has happened and we aren't. So here is me...counting down to the holidays!! 

On a happier note, the kids are absolutely hilarious these days!! I am quite certain that none of my friends believe me because Gentry morphs into this shy, quiet child every time I take her anywhere, but the girl speaks in paragraphs. She belts out the ABC's, rattles off the names of half of Huntler's Thomas characters (please tell me there are other two year old little girls out there who know Diesel 10, Thomas, Rosie, James, Bertie, Rocky, coal tenders, etc...?), and just jabbers nonstop. Understandable jabber that is. She keeps us smiling for sure!!

Huntler is well, Huntler. He is so extremely sensitive. Last night I popped into their bathroom while Chris was giving them baths and he asked me if I had heard about a baby who had fallen into a pool here in our suburb. I had heard nothing about it (we don't watch the news so we never know what is going on in the world...bad, I know) so he proceeded to tell me about how this little boy (about 1) had crawled through the doggy door and fallen in the pool. He was still alive when they found him, but he is in critical condition. Apparently Huntler was listening to EVERY SINGLE WORD. He started asking all sorts of questions about the baby and when he got to go home and on and on. We used the opportunity to talk to him about water safety again and when he was still upset, we said a prayer for the baby. I went on with my business of doing laundry and picking up when I heard him start crying, I mean really crying. When I asked what was wrong, Chris said he was still upset about the baby in the hospital. He wanted him to come to our house so we could give him a ban-Baid and take him home. BROKE MY HEART. We have known all along he was a sensitive, caring little guy, but wow, this had me fighting tears. I certainly didn't want to add to his distress so I tried to put a positive spin on it and told him that the baby's mommy and daddy were with him and reading him stories, talking to him and singing him songs. He was still upset but accepted it. My sweet, sweet boy.

No...that is obviously not a funny story at all. However, this one is! He had not been in bed 5 minutes when he was back in our room. This seems to be becoming a habit, but we allow it. It isn't as though he is going to still be sleeping with us when he is 10!! So anyway, back he trots. There is a bug in his room. Oh, but then it gets better! There are little CREATURES in his bed!! Little creatures?!! How do you not crack up at that?! He is so, so funny!! Just a different kind of funny than Gentry. She performs and hams it up while Huntler is completely innocent with his funnies!!

So...my friend Shelly posted this quiz on her blog yesterday and talked about all of the people who check in on her every day and wondered who they really are, ya know?! Where are they from? Would they be friends in real life? That sort of thing. You can check out her post here. Like Shelly, I think about that stuff all the time...

As for me, I tend to be an open book. I share pretty much my entire life on here (well, not EVERYTHING obviously, but pretty close!!). That was actually one of the reasons I started blogging...to record my thoughts and feelings and little bits of random. Since I haven't scrapbooked in two and a half years, I can't really use that to record bits and pieces of our daily life, so I use my blog to do it! I just happen to have a whole lotta people following along!! YAY!! So, a big THANK YOU to all of you who take the time out of your busy days to pop in and check on us and leave a comment from time to time!! I mean it when I say I LOVE comments!! {Hint, Hint all you lurkers...leave me a comment and I'll be sure to check out your blog this weekend!!)

Back to Shelly here...I have never met the girl but I am pretty darn sure we would be friends in "real life!" And there are several other great girls I have met through the wonderful world of blogging that I am quite certain I would be friends with too! Can I just say how much I LOVE the internet?!! It has kept me connected when I REALLY needed it!!

Okay...I keep getting sidetracked! So much to say, so little time! (The kids will be waking soon!) Anyway...I took this "Accent Quiz" from Shelly's blog and it has me laughing out loud. According to it, I have a Northeastern accent!! As in, Jersey, New York accent! For any of you who know me, that is so NOT me!! I wonder how I ended up with that?!!

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Northeast Judging by how you talk you are probably from north Jersey, New York City, Connecticut or Rhode Island. Chances are, if you are from New York City (and not those other places) people would probably be able to tell if they actually heard you speak.
The Midland
The Inland North
Philadelphia
Boston
The South
The West
North Central
What American accent do you have? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz

Ahhh....what else? I don't think much else is happening in my neck of the woods! I have dates with my camera all weekend to do some more  practicing!! And then there is Huntler's birthday party that I am still working away on!! And I HOPE to get a few more things added to my little Etsy shop over the weekend! I have lots of things made, just having trouble finding time to get them added!! 

And on that note I am off! Huntler is awake and I am taking him out with me to do a little photo shoot this morning before the sun gets to be too bright!! I have to take pictures of something sentimental...I have the PERFECT little item for this (no, not Huntler...I am just letting him go play while I shoot!!) and I'll share soon!!

Have a FABULOUS Friday my sweet blog readers!!