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It is raining. A lot in this moment. Ryan is asleep on the couch, and Rowan is asleep in her crib. Lucy is at school still and I'm hopped up on Oreo Cakesters and Dr.Pepper. Great. I'm so mad I can't get pictures up here. It's starting to bum me out big time. I think the connection is just a little bit too slow. Hopefully soon we can get that little magic piece that we had a while ago that makes it faster.

Ryan got back from Vargina this morning (the joke never gets old to me...I've been switching that 'i' to an 'a' all day...and I'm still laughing). He was visiting his brother, who got married yesterday! Congrats to Jackie and Justin. They have a cute little place for their Party of Five to live. For those who don't know, Justin, my brother-in-law has two girls; 1 Lucy's age and one a few years younger, and Jackie, my new sister-in-law (yeah!) has a little girl (6ish-years-old). Anyway, Ryan was gone all weekend, and now he's sleeping off the jet lag. So is Rowan. I think babies have sympathy symptoms for things like sickness and jet lag.

The girl is crawling like crazy, and puts EVERYTHING into her mouth. I'm pretty sure a muzzle is in her future.

Lucy lost her other front tooth last weekend, on Valentine's day, actually, and she is an avid reader. Good thing Deborah has helped implement that skill, neither Ryan or I read a lot, something I'm working on for myself. I love books, I just don't read them...it's the weirdest thing!

AHA! We are getting our new car tonight! It's a 1998 V70 T-5 Turbo Volvo wagon. It is fully loaded with leather (heated) seats, a CD player and a sunroof. I have never owned anything so luxury! It also has that sweet third row of seats in the way back that face out, so you can see other cars out the back window like a dog. Lucy is super excited about that bit. She also comes with 4 studded tires, a bike rack, ski rack, and an extra set of wiper blades. I could go on and on, I could probably start a brand new blog page on how excited I am, and all the little features this car has...I can't wait to drive it!

pictures coming soon....

...Easy like Monday morning.

Here I sit, at the table, cold, no socks, no coffee but I have creamer (it's the pits when you have one but not other, especially the creamer and not the coffee, because the creamer goes so much faster), Rowan has been asleep for over an hour and I don't know what to do with myself. That's not to say that I don't have many things I could be doing, like folding the laundry on my bed, doing the dishes in the sink, but none of those things seem as important and checking my email, and watching people's status updates on Facebook. I think I might have a slight addiction to pilfered internet. We recently discovered that we can get a fair connection from one of our surrounding paying customer neighbors. It's the not the best and the fastest, but it's internet and we're not paying for it. I'm not complaining.

Things on the slough front are jim dandy, I woke up this morning and after my shower went in to wake up Lucy and noticed the dusting of snow on all the cars and trees as I was tying her curtains back. It was pretty; but even Lucy said, "Oh great, just what we need, more snow." She read my mind. She's been funny lately, you can tell she's getting more of an attitude, but at the same time she gets the joke, so there's a nice balance there, until the attitude out-weighs her understanding of sarcasm and she gets in trouble. She'll figure it out.

Rowan is offically crawling, and I wish I could post pics of it on the page. She gets on all 4s and just moves, it's cute, but annoying when you've just picked up and then all the DVDs and CDs are out strewn on the floor for you to pick up again. Good thing she likes her daycare!! (and she does! They love her too, and say that she never cries! Awesome.)

Ryan has been playing a lot of shows lately; the last two weekends have been busy. This coming weekend, Valentine's Day, he's playing at the Tractor Tavern in Ballard. I won't be able to go, again, but Lucy and I are planning something fun. I'm sure it won't be a romantic dinner for 2, but it might be a mac and cheese dinner for 3, which isn't bad.

Rowan just woke up, and she'd like to write a little note:

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She's trying to close it, b6tbv bybbbbbybybi7yy7jnohb nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn yh h gf


she's going to make a hell of a receptionist some day.

Lagos OUT!

AARRRRG

I'm getting mad because I'm trying to post pictures, and there it keeps saying it can't open the window. It is so frustrating cuz I gots to get some pics up on this page!! Rowan and I are kickin' it root down tonight; Ryan is at a show in Seattle and we are watching the movie Step Brothers.

Anyway, as soon as I can get my pictures up, this will be more exciting to check...until then, RowBot and I are Audi 5000. Take it sleazy.

My Latest Portrait

Ba-Wang-O! I don't know, maybe it's been a month or three...who's counting? My plan is to just roll with the story that I last wrote on election day, and now it's inauguration day, and I was taking a hiatus from blogging in honor of B.H.O.

Anywho, I'm back and better than ever, so don't miss this season of Esther's blog...

IT'S GOING TO BE BIG!

Solid like Barack

Ahhhhh. Today has been a different day. It felt different, going out and doing things knowing that the direction of this country is changing...I didn't really think about it until I was down town at Pike Place with my friend Jen getting her cards read for her birthday. I overheard some women talking about it, and realized, this is different, people feel happy, they aren't worried or pissed off about what will happen, they feel secure, this is good.

Last night as we were watching the election results, Rowan had fallen asleep around 8:30 or so. She slept for maybe a half an hour, and as soon as Barack Obama came out to give his victory speech, Rowan woke up, and sat clear and alert on my lap and watched almost the entire thing...I thought it was not coincidence, she knows she's witnessing something that is long overdue and something that as my friend Donnianne said "an everyday reality" as opposed to a question of time.

Yeah! I'm proud to be an American...again!

So, maybe it's time for a post that does not revolve around pictures, but more simply just what we've been up to.

As I sit here, the night before Halloween, Lucy is building a wooden block castle for her plastic animals, Rowan is shrieking and kicking with delight, chewing on her baby blankie in her bouncy seat. Ryan is gone setting his drums up for their show tonight at the King Cat Theatre. I get to go to the show tomorrow, I'm excited. Lucy is going trick-or-treating with her mom, and Rowan will be staying with Auntie Deb, an over-nighter, too!

I'm pretty stoked on my halloween costume this year too, it's been a few years since I have been excited to dress up for the holiday, so it will be a refreshing change of pace to be dressed up as a pregnant sister wife...can't wait! Got my crisp white collared shirt and my denim/floral print dress all lined up. To top it off, my running shoes and a nice black fanny pack to keep some literature in for passing out to folks enquiring on what it means to be FLDS (fundamentalist later day saint).

I've been reading Stacy's blog lately which is making me want to write more real things, instead of just captioning my pictures. The only problem is, I'm not sure what to write about, since most of the writing is about the kids anyway, and what else would I have to write about it? I open for suggestions.

Time to check on the lasagna. I'm getting excited for the cold weather again...Halloween is like the gateway holiday becuase the day after is November, and then Thanksgiving is a few weeks away...then I get to start listening to Christmas music! I'm excited to have Rowan be the age she is for the holidays, chewing and grabbing for stuff...it will be fun :)

til next time...

video post experiment

This is my practice round at trying to post a video. The picture still says processing, but I'm gonna try 'er anyway.

Here goes!