Big girl's bed......

We talked about it and decided that it was time for the crib to go. Well technically Carolyn decided, and then I approved it when she told me "Clarissa's new bed is waiting at the Sears outlet, go and pick it up!" and I did. Ok it wasn't actually like that at all, but it sounds more entertaining than "We talked about it and decided that it was time for the crib to go." don't you think??? Did I just get myself in trouble with my incredibly beautiful wife???? Did I just save myself???? Huh???? "No it's too late to save yourself Rob. Not even your silver tongued nuggets of sweetness are going save you."

Hmmmm did I have a point before I went off on my nonsensical rambling???? Oh yes, the big bed switch....well we weren't sure how Clarissa would do with the whole thing. She doesn't do well with disruption to her world as she likes and is used to it, and she is somewhat...ok very possesive of her things these days. So my strategy was to enlist her services (and her tool kit) to help Daddy construct the bed. It worked like a charm!!! She was quite proud that she helped to build it,



and she immediately took a huge liking to her "big girl bed".





The thing that we hadn't quite factored into our plan of brilliance was the fact that she can now get up at anytime (read 3:30am) and come into our bed and take over...pretty much putting an end to Daddy's sleeptime, while her and Mommy snooze away joyfully.....

Nanna and Poppa brought her a great bubble blowing lawnmower that Clarissa is loving playing with!!!!



The new deck is built....

now let's have some weather that will allow us to use it....somewhere between the constant downpours and 35000 celcius would be good....

Oh well I guess that is enough of my gold for now......

More than a month?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Yep I know......it has been more than a month since I have posted. So many things have happened that I don't even remember anymore. I will have to work on that. Oh well how about this to smooth things over.....


or this......


or this.......


or this......



I know you don't want pictures.....you want me to share more of my deep thoughts and tidbits of wisdom..........ya well good luck with that these days. I do have lots to say, I just don't have the energy to say it. I will get there though....and you will be blown away by it all. I promise.

One thing that I can think of that went on around here is that Clarissa helped Daddy to make a big pot of meat sauce when we hosted the golf guys (and gals) season opener dinner.







She also got her first bike for Easter and she loves it.



Ok...we should be good for now. I will be back soon.....yes...I will.....