Riding Tricycle

Fingers vs. Fork

What 18 month old do you know that would rather eat with a fork than with his fingers? Well at our house, Carter usually doesn't eat unless he has a fork. (if he doesn't have a fork, his food goes straight to the floor) It took us a while to figure this out. I am not sure where he gets this from, because we use our fingers with everything except spaghetti. Carter uses his fork for everything including doughnuts. The other morning we decided to go to Daylight doughnuts for breakfast. We gave Carter a doughnut hole and bites of a sprinkled doughnut which he asked for. He sat there for a couple of minutes not taking a bite. He would touch the sprinkled doughnut, but it never made it to his mouth. Finally, Craig brought back a fork and right away Carter spotted it and motioned for it. As soon as Carter got the fork, he began taking bites of his doughnuts. Who would have known. We thought we had a weird kid who doesn't like doughnuts. Nope. We just have a weird kid who likes to be well-mannered.

At least well-mannered in some ways.

Land Update!

We are slowly but surely making progress on our land. We waited a week for the plumber to come out and do the rough plumbing. After a week, we ended up getting a different plumber, because the first guy was still busy. One wasted week. The plumber finally came out the following Wednesday. The Saturday after the plumber finished, was when the sand people were to come and pour the sand into the stem wall. That was the Saturday we got all of the rain, so it didn't get done. The next day we went out to the land and there was 4-5 inches of standing water inside the stem wall. Our builder pumped it out and then we had to let it dry out for 3 days. Finally, on Thursday the sand people put the sand inside the stem wall and the termite people came and drenched the sand with insecticide. Today, the concrete people came at 5:30 a.m. and starting pouring the slab, finishing just in time for the concrete to dry before the rain came again. Looking to the future. On Monday the lumber is to be delivered and the framers are to start the frame on Tuesday. In about ten days the frame should be complete, depending on how much it rains. Hopefully in about 2 weeks we can have pictures of our house!

Quiet Game

Ride a Little Pony

Concrete Evidence

Last week was a busy week for our home construction. As you can see in the pics they dug our footings and piers and poured the concrete(the footings and piers are below ground level). Also last week they built the forms and poured the concrete for our stemwall(that is above ground level that the house frame actually sits on). This week we have had little progress. Next week we are supposed to have the plumbing roughed-in below the slab, and then have the slab concrete poured. Once that is complete they can begin framing the house. Click on the pic to see more. (btw, Craig authored this blog)

Foundation Album

Race/Camping Trip

If you have read Kerri Tindles blog lately, you know what we have been doing. We started off last Friday going to the zoo with the Tindles and the Maucks. Later that night, Kerri and I ran the Sunset Series 5K and Camdyn and Quin ran the kids dash.

On Saturday morning, we met the Tindles down in Sulphur for some camping. It was not that bad except for the sleeping part, but who needs sleep. I thought it was a nice area with lots of trees to keep things cool and little creek to play in. Kerri even threw me a little b-day party. The kids liked to ride in the bike trailer, except for the helmet part.