Creeping along!

Friday night we went over to my parent's house for pizza and volleyball. Scarlett decided to show off for everyone and started creeping across the floor for the first time! It was really exciting! Shouldn't be too long until she's crawling. I guess the easy breezy parenting days (plop the kid on the floor, she can't go anywhere) are over!

Well, It Ain't SO Bad!

For those of you who haven't been around me lately, you don't know that I've been complaining about work a lot lately. So, in order to defend myself against the vicious charge of whiner (and, coincidentally, in order to not grade papers) I will now make a list of reasons why work ain't so bad:

1. No one poops on me.
2. No one cries when I need to take a ten second bathroom break.
3. I can tell my students, "I'm not your mom. That's not my problem."
4. I can have a conversation about something other than slow-flow versus fast-flow nipples and Ferberizing.
5. I can surf the internet during "group-work." (Group-work is a teacher's best friend!)
6. I can stop at the store on my way home and not have to pull a two hundred pound car seat out and try to hoist it on a cart that doesn't quite fit it, so that it continually slips and I have to walk down the aisle with one hand on the carseat and one hand steering the cart.
7. I can wear shoes with heels and put mascara on.


See? Now I feel a little better!

Old cousins (well, not so old!) and new cousins!

Last week one of my favorite cousins, Aaron, came home to Sacramento from North Carolina. (And we're all trying to convince him to move back!) Scarlett had a great time meeting him. She really wanted to grab his nose!



what a catch!! he cooks too!



This is Scarlett's new cousin, Parker William. He's very new and very cute!