A Look at the Summer

I'm starting to have the feeling this summer is going to be a long one. Mainly I'm thinking this because of Shawn's ridiculous schedule for school. June he's on internal medicine at LBJ, which shouldn't be that bad but he's on call every 4th night. We're going through that right now and I think the kids are forgetting who he is. July he starts his ortho rotation here at UT. The only upside to this is that its here, so we may see him for a few hours a week, and I don't think many of those he' ll be awake for. August he's gone for the month doing another ortho rotation in Utah. September he's gone again this time in North Carolina for yet ANOTHER ortho rotation, yuck. By October I"m pretty sure our kids are going to think I'm their only parent and are going to wonder who this strange man is that is living with us again. The only thing keeping me going is some of the fun stuff we have planned for the summer, which include, a day at Sea World, visits from both sets of grandparents, visits from all my sisters (that don't live here), trips to Miller Outdoor Theatre, Asher's blessing, dessert club and anything else I can come up with to keep myself busy. If you have any ideas please let me know, I'm sure we can fill them into our schedule.

Here comes the sun

WAY too early in the morning. The past few weeks the kids have decided to start their day around 6:30. This morning Shawn heard them at 6 jumping around. Now most of you may think that's not a big deal, but for me I refuse to deal with them before 7. Not because I don't love them, but because I know they will stop functioning properly around 10 if I let them get up and start the day that early. We think the reason they're waking up so early is because the sun is up beating down on their room around that time. Its driving me nuts, at least a half hour every morning I hear, "MOMMY, I WANT TO WAKE UP!" I don't think she realizes that she already is up, waking me up at the same time. So we don't know what to do. We've started pushing back their bedtime but that really hasn't really delivered the results we would have liked. So does anyone have any ideas? Please let us know.

Sneak Peek

Today was the greatest on call day this month. The kids and I headed out to Katy for Annie's party. Luckily we got there early and Bethy, being the great sister she is, took me over to her office so we could take a peek at the baby. Of course we wanted to find out what it was but the little stinker wasn't too cooperative. However Bethy wouldn't give up and we now have a pretty good idea what it is. Drum roll please... another boy. At least that's what it looked like to me and Bethy. I wouldn't take my word for it, but She's never been wrong so I'll believe her. We only got one good look and then of course the boy had his hand down trying to hide himself so we couldn't see, and then proceeded to sit indian stlye so the show was over at that point. Shawn is very excited, I think maybe more because he thought all along it would be a boy and he LOVES being right. Ryan was really excited that his little boy will have another boy cousin to play with. I had to take a few deep breaths seeing as Devin is very exhausting some days but it'll be fun for him to have a brother to wrestle with instead of Caroline. Boys are just funny, and they're less work as teenagers right? Soon our house will be overflowing with testosterone! Or as Shawn says, the boys at least have a fighting chance to have a say against the crazy girls. We don't have a name but I put one up to see if it would be vetoed by Shawn and he liked it. Garrett Rodney Funk, we'll see, I like it but I"m not sold. We also had fun at Annie's party. She is such a sweet girl and seems really excited to be big enough to play with Caroline and Mabel. All in all a great day. We can't wait for tomorrow to see Aunt Sandra and Uncle Phillip oh and Shawn too.

Happy Birthday Bethy!

Happy, happy birthday. Were so glad you came. So happy, happy, birthday from they Funky gang. Hey! We're so excited we hope that you are to so happy, happy birthday from the Funky crew.
Happy Birthday Bethy, we hope you have a great relaxing day and don't have to lift a finger. You are a great mommy, and awesome sister. We love you!

Its been a while

Since my mommy has posted pictures. Sorry she just isn't on top of things. So I, Caroline, thought I'd pick up the slack and post for her.
This is a picture of my favorite thing to do when daddy comes home from call, attacking him! He likes to play his game and Devin and I love to climb all over him and do whatever we want because mommy and daddy are too tired to stop us!

This is Devin or Dev as I like to call him. I think he looks a lot like my daddy. He is really big and I"m getting a little worried he's big enough to take me down now, I'm trying to be nicer to him. Yesterday he pushed me off the toy box, so mommy said we can't sit on there anymore.

This is daddy and Devin, they sure do like to sleep. I was jealous I didn't get to sleep downstairs too. Maybe later.

I couldn't end without putting up a picture for all my favorite person, me! This is me in one of my new shirts! I love all the new clothes mommy and daddy got me. They are really cute, they have pretty flowers and hearts and hats on them. I"m really excited for my mommy to have a baby, I love being in charge. My mommy and daddy let me be in charge of my plant, and babies, and ducks so Devin can't take them away at bedtime. I'll try and remind my mommy to post more pictures but she doesn't always listen, she says she's busy but I don't believe her.

An Idea

So I have this idea but I want to get some feedback. Now that Shawn is back into the swing of school and gone every few nights I thought I could do something with my free nights. So here's my idea, would anyone be interested in doing a dessert group? This is how it would go, its always at my place, only because I was planning on doing it when Shawn's on call, I make a dessert and people come and eat it and keep me company. Obviously other people can bring dessert too but only if you want to. We can bring copies of recipes in case anyone wants them and we can do different themes, pies, cakes, ect. I"m not that creative but maybe someone else is. So what do you think? Is anyone interested? Oh and we can start as soon as this month.