This is how long we've lived in Milwaukee

THEN (2004)

NOW

Cohen's BFF

I know I posted recently about Ethan's BFF's...well this is Cohen's.
His woobie. My boys are both woobie lovers.
If he's upset his woobie is the cure.
It is so ratty but the kid loves it!

Happy Mother's Day to all

A sweet benefit of being a mom...
Isn't it tempting Anne, Molly?
Thank you Ed & Diane!

The kid loves skateboards

Nappy time

Ethan's BFF's

Today, Ethan had a full day of friends. He went to school, had Brady over to play, and then got to go to Carter's. Carter's brother, Britton turned 2 today so we went over for some dinner and cake! Ethan sure is going to miss his buds.

Ethan & Brady

Ethan & Carter

Birthday boy Britton

I just can't decide

What, oh what does one get their husband for graduation?

A nice t-shirt?

A sweet molar pendant?

A totally original mug?

He does love Apple...

But, he also thinks he's a superhero.

How about a personalized cartoon about himself?

Or a sign to hang outside his office?

Maybe, I'll have to keep looking....

Workin' like a mad white woman

Eric's schedule has tapered off as of late so we have been able to get some serious packing done. Though, Eric is a like a chicken with his head cut off - he wanders around, not knowing what he should be doing, acting confused and disoriented until I give him specific instructions. Eric, please go through all of this dental crap. Eric, please clean the dehumidifier. Eric, please take those boxes upstairs. Isn't it obvious what needs to be done? Gotta love him. I think he has his mind on other things, namely, the Laker/Jazz game tomorrow. He was wearing his Laker's shirt today in support of the Kobe (MVP) show. That is as much as I can say about the Laker's or else all of my Jazzhole friends might get all worked up.

Not only am I having to pack up all of our belongings, but I recently listed like 30 things on ebay and those are all set to end in the next 1-3 days so I will be boxing and shipping up those things as well. AHHHH! No wonder my hair is starting to fall out again. Diane - nerve pill please? The buyers of our house contacted us a while back and told us they would like to buy some of our stuff so we have lucked out there. $700 worth of things we probably would have had to put on criagslist. Yippeee! How did people do it back in the day - an ad in the newspaper. How brutal that must have been. Does anybody besides my dad and my father-in-law read the paper daily? If so I want to know. Actually, maybe I should start getting it - it would provide great packing material for my dishes.

I am still in my pajamas and it is 5:49pm right now. ON A SATURDAY NIGHT. How lame am I (statement, not a question). Workin' like a mad white woman.

Back to school for me

Last night I upgraded to a digital SLR and boy do I have a lot to learn about photography. So, tonight I was messing around with it and caught this one of Cohen that describes him perfectly. Daddy's lower lip? Definitely. Why he is up at 8:30 tonight - who knows.....

Classic Buddy

Eric has this patient named "Captain Buddy". He is in the upper echelon of the High Maintenance category. There are three messages on our answer machine right now from him, wanting Eric to call him back about one thing or the other. His messages are not short either. They average about 2-3 minutes each, and at the end of each one he always repeats his phone number about 4 times - just so we've got it. I've met Buddy. One day I picked up Eric from school and we headed over to the mall food court for some lunch and there he was, sitting at the table next to us. He's a cute old man. Very sweet and he couldn't say enough about how grateful he was to have Eric as his student dentist. So when I got the mail today I wasn't surprised when I saw who this graduation card was from.

Captain Buddy himself. It's signed, From your devoted friend, Buddy. So sweet. But in classic Buddy style, he added in the corner: Please keep this card FOREVER. Thank You. I have a feeling we will be hearing from Buddy, long after we leave Wisconsin.

Tajtunes.com

My bud Bennett didn't call me on my birthday, which I guess he felt really bad about because he sent me this singing telegram to make up for it. It's from tajtunes. Some guy from India (supposedly) called me up and sang me a belated birthday message. It was sweet! I thought this picture I got from their website was pretty funny too.

You can always tell when Eric is lying because his nostrils flare

Please forgive the state of my basement - I AM PACKING!

Ethan's Extended Family

Go Eric, Go Eric, GO, GO, GO Eric

HE PASSED! 86% - YIPPPEEEE!

Dun, Dun, Dun, Dunnnn

It's just sitting here, teasing me. I can hear it talking to me, whispering, open me, open me. I can't get Eric on the phone to give me permission so it will have to wait. I am not a patient person and IT'S KILLING ME.