just a catch up

I guess we've been pretty busy around here. Or i'm just really uninspired about what to write these days. Do you remember when you started talking to friends on the telephone? Women are notorious for gabbing for hours on end, although I swear Doug could compete with any woman and win. He goes from one call to the next and the next until hours have passed by. Granted they are work calls, but seriously, I'm starting to worry about a brain tumor developing near his cell phone ear...anyway. The past week or so sophie has started getting calls from her friends. The first few were really funny. One friend called to tell her that High School Musical was on. All I could hear was Sophie's side, of course, but it went something like this. "Oh, Hi. It is?? Cool. I'm turning it on right now. Thanks." And then there was a pause and apparently the friend wasn't hanging up and it didn't sound like sophie really know what do say. Then after the pause goes on for a bit longer she says, "um. so....do you want to keep talking or...."

Not sure why that struck me so funny. Today she had a friend call from the playground at school. Because all of the 3rd graders have cell phones these days.

Owen is doing pretty well. Lately he's been walking around without a shirt, even sleeping without a shirt. He wants to wear pajama pants and socks only because he is a boxer. And boxer's do not wear shirts. But they do wear boots that look like socks so for him that works. We also introduced him to the board game Sorry. And he LOVES it. He knows how to set it up, he puts all of the pieces in the right spots, he knows the rules and when and when he can and can't move and he knows that when you draw a 4 you have to move backward four spaces and not forward four spaces. He's lucky, too. He always draws the 1's and 2's, (the only numbers that let you move a pawn out of start) while the rest of us just have to keep on drawing cards over and over until finally a good card comes up.

He took this picture of Sophie with our digital camera. Fortunately, he found the Happy Birthday setting.

Also, a pic of the kiddos. Owen wore that head band for a week straight, then we cut his hair. And don't worry, that bottle is a Root Beer bottle, i swear!