Email sent a few months before moving to St. Louis
Email - April 22, 2005LeeAnn, thanks for sending the pictures of the choir. I really enjoyed seeing them--that was a very nice picture of Dr. Smith. How come he doesn't look any older than when I was there a decade ago? Wish I could've been there with you. What a blast! It's been fun reading everyones responses to the quiz. LeeAnn definately had the longest list of nicknames--I missed my "low of the lows" name. How could I forget that! So Tracey did you put that one little dent in the bumper of the white van? I never knew that. One of my favorite things is seeing what time of day or night people are writing their email. I was startled at Angie's 4:45 until I realized...nursing baby. Such is life for mothers of infants! We accepted an offer on our house this week. The family is moving here from Korea. They seem like extremely nice people. The inspector came today and all went well. Our escrow will close around June 20th. We will have to let you know our address after that. I am happy with the price they offered and that we won't have to move until after school is out for Parker. Parker (5 ½ ) has his first T ball game tomorrow morning. It ought to be a up. He really likes the shirt and hat. And he has fun. Rich and I are hoping our kids develop more athletic ability than we did. Scott (3) is growing up a little bit. He is really a fun boy. He counts very well and is showing a little more interest in letters now and trying to write some of them. He has done some mazes with me lately and knows how to spell his own name verbally. He hears everything even though he is not big on eye contact, so I suppose he learns well auditorily. That will be useful in school--so much listening. Tommorow night our primary is having a talent show and he will sing with the nursery kids and maybe on his own too. He is supposed to sing the Family Night song on his own. This kid LOVES the microphone. He often uses a mixing bowl as a hat and some household object for a cane and dances for us. He also uses toys, etc. as pretend microphones. And Parker chose a doozy for his talent; animal noises. Yep, a 5 1/2 year old doing pig and rooster noises and roaring like a T-Rex into a microphone. It's pretty entertaining--totally his idea, of course. Tommy (1) is darling but he's ramping up to be a slightly more demanding personality and he has been climbing up on my kitchen table the last couple of days! I still can't cut those curly locks. He is just too cute! He loves to play outside and gets a good mouthful of dirt from the backyard every day. He does this growly voice that he thinks is hilarious because we laughed so hard the first time he did it. It's really fun to watch his personality emerge more and see the ways that he initiates play.Love, Lisa