Well, we are preparing for the holiday weekend (will it ever be here?!) and also preparing to say Goodbye to our cat, Misty. She is going to "visit" Heidee & Tory in Nebraska (as we tell the children). Mostly, we are giving her away because of her sudden complete disdain for our canines. Now, if she just didn't like them, we wouldn't really be so concerned. But her disdain is manifesting itself in 'packages' left for us through out the house. Unwanted packages.
I think all of our animals may soon be asked to find new homes if Ron has to clean poop off of one more surface.
When asked about Misty's little trip, Ullrich's first response was indignant: "But they've already MET Misty. If they want to see her, they can come HERE." His next was slightly more sympathetic: "Misty can't go to Nebraska. That's too far. She might get car sick. And die." (Coincidentally, this is what happened to Nanny Kristen's rat after the trip to Florida. When I tell Cadel that Misty is going to Nebraska she simply states: "And then she'll come back here." We feel bad for them, but not badly enough to keep the cat and her 'presents'.
My work, Best Buy Connect, is in the home stretch to go live. We hit stores on 7/11, and the press has already gotten ahold of some information. It's fun to see things unfolding. There were times we never thought we'd get there.
Here's a couple funny kidisms from recent days:
The other day, we were driving, and listening to 'Cadel songs'. Cadel songs (and Ullrich songs) are personalized CDs from www.nameyourtune.com. They basically take children's songs and plug your child's name in. And they go into the studio to record new names on request, so even MY kids get to have one! Anyway, there is a song that says "Oh I just want to go to (insert name)'s house..." Well, in a recording snafu, Cadel's says "Oh I just want to go to Bronte's house..." instead of her name. So it is our family joke that when things get rough, we say "I want to go to Bronte's house.". I happened to say that in the car. And someone said (Ron maybe?) that we don't know how to get there. Ullrich answered "We should just use GPS." Such a problem solver.
On the sweeter side, for the first time the other morning, Ullrich woke up to find his little sister all snuggled up next to him in his loft bed. She told us she woke up and got scared, so went and got into brother's bed. She was SO apparently pleased with this. We asked her if that made her feel better and she answered "Makes me smile..." with a huge grin on her face. That is something super cute she's doing right now -- telling us she is happy by saying "I'm smiling" with a big grin on her face. She did this also at the bike race in St. Cloud this past weekend. She LOVES and EATS UP crowd applause, which are always abounding in the kids' races, especially for the little ones like Del who take 30 minutes to go down a city block on their little wheels. Anyway, she was "racing" and looked to me and said "They cheer for me. I'm SMILING.". Ah... so sweet. Love her.
Okay - signing off for now!
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