You know you have a large family when your 14-year-old son wonders upstairs in the morning, bleary-eyed, but nonplussed at the unfamiliar 5-year-old sitting at the breakfast table eating cereal. Without batting an eye, Sean asks nonchalantly, "Who's the new kid? Did we adopt him?"
Darrell is my walking friend, Jackie's, little boy. She works occasionally, filling in when other people go on vacation. She's working this week, so Darrell is spending his days with us, learning the joys of playing with dollhouses, and teaching the girls how to work Transformers. I've seen first-hand that Patience is much better at playing with girls than boys. She's loud and rambunctious and sometimes (okay, most times) overpowers any little girl she plays with. Much better matched to playing with boys.
On another note, Don spent most of his Father's Day working. Are you surprised?
After breakfast in bed, he and Dylan went to Radnai's to work on the trees. And when he came home, he decided to knock out one little home improvement project...painting the hallway right outside the laundry room. They were the only white(ish) walls left downstairs and they needed some TLC. We had lots of green from painting Dylan's room...the nice seafoam green color, so Don knocked that yesterday afternoon/evening. It's such a huge improvement.
We did talk to Nathan this weekend. He called at 9:30 our time (12:30 in Virginia) on Saturday evening and we had a nice, long chat. He talked to Dylan and wished him a happy birthday and then they had a conversation about "would Nathan please buy Dylan a car?" And then he called Don on Sunday and wished him a happy Father's Day, as Don was already asleep when Nathan called the night before so he didn't talk with him then. Nathan's doing well, passing every test so far, disappointed that the PT is so unchallenging. This week he has classes and then next week he's underway for the entire week, putting what they've learned so far into practice. That should be a good time! And then, pretty soon after that, they'll be able to start finding out their next duty stations.
Right now Dylan is working at the chicken farm, and Sean is taking the dog for a jog/walk. I love productive teenagers. It makes me want to bake them cupcakes!
More later,
Cathi
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Papa wants to know - did you bake them cupcakes?
Love you!
Yes I did! Chocolate, with white fluffy frosting (the old-fashioned boiled kind). They are very lucky : )
BTW, I was amazed to hear that Dylan wants Nathan to buy him a car! Why on earth would Nathan do that?
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