Gender Identification

For the past several weeks we thought Carter was constantly saying, "I'm a boy!" Being the supportive parents that we are we would affirm his gender identification - of course his big brother just laughed at him. HOWEVER....this weekend the light bulb went on and we realized he has actually been saying "All aboard." I know - amazing....how could we have been confused. I guess he must have picked up the saying from his Thomas books. Who knows!

Logan started gymnastics this week with 4 other boys. He is the only 5 year old in the class and thinks it is pretty cool that he gets to be in class with the 6 year olds. After his first session tonight, he talked to Shawn on the phone (in San Francisco - AGAIN!), and talked a mile a minute about everything he learned.

The other exciting news in our house is that we are taking advantage of Shawn's mom who is having a garage sale in a couple of weeks. We didn't think we were the collection type, but so far we have unloaded (2) SUV loads of stuff to sell. It is amazing how much stuff you accumulate with kids. We are selling all the baby stuff - read between the lines on that one if you are curious about the stork visiting our house again - as well as tons of nick nacks. We figure if the State Dept comes calling we will need to downgrade our belongings anyway - mine as well do it now. Most of the stuff has been collecting dust in the basement. Sara was even able to FINALLY talk Shawn into throwing his undergraduate text books in the recycling - figure 17 year old text books don't have much value anymore....YES - 17 years ago we started our first year at GAC! Yikes!

It is only Monday, but we are already looking forward to the weekend. Our plans this weekend include: dinner with friends on Friday, a wedding on Saturday (one of Shawn's former youth group kids in Forest Lake is getting married - she was only 13 when we first met her - YES, we are feeling a little old), then we may go to the cabin on Sunday/Monday before Shawn flys out again to Denver next week.

Happy early Father's Day to all the dads out there......