Eleven

Eleven freakin years!!!!

Happy anniversary to us! I love your guts!

Could I be any luckier than this??

Little Leah

Leah hit the nine month mark on Friday. We adore this baby girl so much! I took her to the doctor for her checkup and she weighed in at 24 pounds. WOW! No wonder I'm getting so seriously buff and have massive biceps. :)

Anyways, we love love LOVE her chubby rolls. She is at such a fun age. We discovered a little jagged edge of her first tooth coming in yesterday! She doesn't officially crawl on her hands and knees but she does what Keith calls the 'wounded soldier'. It's a sort of body drag thing. But she certainly gets around. She pulls up on everything and loves to be involved in whatever is going on. Especially eating. If you are eating and not sharing, she yells. And I mean YELLS. Hey, she didn't get to be 24 pounds by being picky! Bennett is so sweet to her and they get along so well. We feel so blessed to have Leah around!!!

Anyways, here's a few shots of our little cutie!!

A couple more

Bennett is cracking me up today. I just had to share...

This morning Keith found Bennett sitting on the floor in the hall outside his room. When questioned about what he was doing, he said, "I woke up because the dark went away."

Then this afternoon while reading books, he pointed to a picture of a tandem bike and said, "Mom, it's a bike for two dudes!"

Also, I bought a squash from a guy at the farmers market with really bad teeth. A classic Billy Bob. Just another day at my house. :)

Kentucky-isms

I had a weird moment today. Actually, they happen quite often lately. It came at the end of a busy morning full of errands. Random stuff: cleaning the car, buying new jammies for Leah, a stop at the gas station. My final stop was at the grocery store. As I got out of the car, I heard two guys in the parking lot talking.

"Bout time them fellers fix up that truck for ya."
"Oh yeah, they done real good."

That's when I had a weird moment. I LIVE IN KENTUCKY. I forget sometimes. I live a pretty sheltered life on my 2 acres on the lake. My neighbors are fantastic and so friendly but it's not like I talk to them all day long. Sometimes, I forget that I live in the sticks. And when I remember, it makes me laugh.

Here's a few recent Kentucky-isms of note:
--"She cooks good but she sure can bitch." (From the clerk at our favorite country store. Said to Keith about the previous customer.)
--"Some of my best customers are in prison now." (To Andrea from the same guy.)
--"I'm about the keel over." (Said to Keith in response to a casual 'how are you doing?' Again, same guy.)
--"I wanna bowl of chili, but I ain't gonna get none." (Once again, same guy. I have no idea how this came up while buying a soda.)
--"You may as well go ahead and vote for Obama, talkin' like that!" (Overheard by Keith. Said by an old guy to another old guy while sitting in rockers of the front porch of our other general store.)

I'm telling you, you cannot make this stuff up!!!!

Here's also a few recent Bennett-isms:
--Keith and Bennett were driving down the road near our house. Every time Bennett saw a kid toy, he would say "Hey, there's my friend's house!" He said this probably a dozen times as they drove. At the end of the road, Bennett said to Keith, "Dad, I made a lot of friends today!"
--I was vacuuming the house while Bennett was playing in his room. He did not appreciate the noise. He asked me a couple times to turn off the vacuum. Then in exasperation, "Mom, seriously! Stop!"
--Bennett was watching movies while we did some work in Keith's office. One of the office ladies asked him what was his favorite movie. After sifting though them, he pulled one out and said, "This one is really awesome."

And finally some pics from a good old redneck carnival we went to a couple of weeks ago...

Happy Birthday.....

to ME!!!!! I've been feeling especially old today. I think in large part because Leah kept me up for a couple hours last night. Waking up to 31 felt like a bad hangover (I'm guessing).

Then I met Keith for lunch. He had a patient this morning that told him she was turning 93 later this month. Keith told her that I was turning 31 today. Her response: "Well shoot. At 31 she's got the world by the tail!"

Fair warning, world. I'm just sayin.