Today...

Ok, we really do exist.  We were hiding out for a while!  Not really.  Just got way busy and my "free" (ha) time was spent doing other things...lots of other things.  So looks like tonight we will be proud owners of a new Honda Odyssey.  Yes, that would be a (cough!)minivan.  To be accurate, it is an Odyssey EX-L...if that means anything to you.  Shawn is buying me one tonight.  Yeah me.  It's not for me.  It is really for the kids- present and future.  It really is the best car for them.  I won't go on and on about how safe this car is.  The car is big.  Tons of storage space.  Impressive safety features.  And better on gas than an SUV.  It will be our traveling car.  Oooh maybe we can take it to Fairbanks next weekend!  We aren't getting studded tires for it so maybe not.  But we are going to need a car that will be big enough and reliable enough (sorry, Jeep) for our 11-day trip out of here on June 1st.  Yes, we are moving back to Oklahoma City...yeehaw.  Let's not talk about the move just yet.  Not ready to face that fact today.  I LOVE here.  LOVE. HERE.  So this should be what we get tonight.  In navy blue and grey leather interior.  Because that is all they have here.  But again, it is not for me I would have chosen a Honda Pilot fyi.)  I haven't seen it.  Shawn did and I trust him.  And it better be loaded if I have to forgo my Passat for a minivan.  Lucky Shawn.  He will get to drive my Passat everyday.  We will just have to get the navigation system later.  They don't work up here in AK (nor does satellite radio...found that out when we moved here) so they don't sell them that way.  We do get a block heater though!  Also the one Honda dealership only gets the couple that trickle into the port every month or so.  So if we don't get this one we may not get one.  We have dibs, Anchorage!!  So if anyone has a suggestion on a portable navigation system...I need to know.  

Other than that, we are gearing up for the big birthday on Saturday.  Stella will be ONE!  Where did the year go.  Really.  My neighbors just had their baby a couple days ago.  He is so small compared to Stella.  Stella is still not walking by herself.  She seems interested.  She'll stand up all by herself in the middle of the floor not holding onto anything...then giggle and plop down.  Then she'll do it again.  And again.  She's such a good crawler that she doesn't need to walk.  I need her to walk though.  She is getting some shoes for her birthday so maybe that will inspire her.

Nicholas is turning into such a little boy.  He is playing pirates and cars right now.  Guess the nap is done with.  He napped once in the past week.  I still try.  That's ok.  He is so smart.  School is going to be great for him next fall.  Just a couple days a week, I think.  We do those preschool workbooks one or two evenings a week now.  He can write his letters up to "I."  He knows some random ones after "I" too.   He has known the letter sounds for a long time now (before he turned 3) and so maybe with the writing he'll want to read.  I was reading at 4.  We'll see.  His favorite-for-the-moment cartoon is Backyardigans.  It's a cute show.  So that's his treat in the mornings after he gets dressed.