Garrett's birthday

(February 2003, 9 months old)

Somewhere along the way my little guy turned 7. My first thought is of all the psychology research about the first 8 years being the most critical in development and influential in a child's life. So I guess that means one more year to cram as much in as we can, and undo any damage we may have done, huh?

Really though, he's one pretty fantastic kid in a million different ways, and we love him so much and are so proud of him.

California Weekend

I spent the weekend in Redlands for the wedding of my adorable friend, Cara. Cara stayed with us in Brazil for several weeks last year, at which point this little romance began via Facebook. It was fun to be there to witness the union I predicted 12 months ago. The wedding was beautiful. It turned into quite the girls' weekend with a sister, sister-in-law, and a neice all meeting up at my Mom's for the blessed event. Somewhere between all the wedding activities, we managed to fit in a visit to our favorite nail salon, eating at Cuca's and In-N-Out, and shopping way more than any of us probably should have. It was fantastic! Next time Erin and Bobbie have to join us.

mom, Kerri, Jenny, Sadie, me

It really was such a nice weekend to get away, even though I'm pretty sure I got less sleep than I have in a long time. I'm having a hard time getting back into life as usual. I fell asleep during my Pilates routine this morning in the middle of my living room floor.

the results show

the votes:

Lydia- Girl

Ethan-Boy

Garrett-either

And the winner is....

Ethan

It seems that Lydia and I are destined to be outnumbered, but being Glausers and all, did we ever have much of a chance for it being any other way?

Lydia will get over it soon enough, after all it's still a baby that will need a new diaper every few hours and she's all over that. Plus she now has free reign on my buckets of baby girl clothes for her dolls.

Our little guy:

JON SCHMIDT with LOVE STORY meets VIVA LA VIDA

This is AWESOME.

Love, love, love it.

Love Love Story.

Love Viva la Vida.

Love Jon Schmidt.

I'm so downloading the MP3 and sheet music as soon as they're available here.

Or maybe I'll just buy his new album coming out this summer. I'm due for some new Jon Schmidt anyway.

In the meantime, we'll keep it on replay here.