April 1st, 2007

Great news Baseball Season starts tomorrow! Bad news is that the Giants don't play until Tuesday. I have waited this long, 24 hours, is OK. I will get over it.

Weekend off so I set out to make some progress on the remodel plans. Biggest step was Friday the loan was funded. So we have the money in place and are ready to spend a little. Saturday we visited hot tub stores and rock shops. The end result was a whole lot of learning about textures, colors and price per ton of rock. We also learned about ozone filtration systems and which spa form was ideal for our aches and pains.

Sunday I convinced Teddy to join me in test driving my favorite spa. This was mildly embarrassing but the store was very good about it. I just couldn't spend that much money without getting in it and making sure that when I got out I was relaxed and comforted. It was very effective. I put my down payment down and we will have the tub in 4-6 weeks when the slab is ready for it. (one more job done!)

Next week we work on the water fixture and the fire pit. They go at either end of the house. Water in the front, fire in the back by the tub. The blocks to the right are the color of driveway that we picked out this weekend. Still arguing about the pattern. Remember that the house will also be painted in the process so we are not trying to match the house paint.

Gavin is getting bigger every day. We spend about an hour each night with the baby and give the kids a break. They have been very attentive and supportive of the baby which has been great. Teddy is slowly learning more and more about his own finances and how to manage them. I am sure he will have to fail at least a few times but so far he's doing great. He takes his Drivers test on April 11th during spring break and then things will once again change drastically. I think I will be getting a great deal of pressure from both Teddy and Dorothy to get him a car. I am in no rush.

Edward and I went bowling today. This is typical for us on Sunday mornings. He was very good today bowling 105 and 113. The really great news is in that environment he is calm and safe and we had a conversation of what else we could do with those numbers and I helped him learn to calculate the average of what he bowled today. He then calculated the average of what I bowled today. The great leap for him was when I asked him to calculate the average of all of our games he realized that he had to divide the total by 4 instead of just two. I was thrilled to know that he could reason this out. We are going to do more of this on the weekends. I may even see if they can turn off the scoreboard at the bowling alley and I will teach him to do it manually.

Revel got time at the dog park today and played with Bella a four month old female Malamute. She was so cute only 55 lbs we thought at first that she was a Husky. Revel really ignored her at first but when the dogs all got tired it was Revel and Bella who ended up laying next to each other. Where is my camera when I need it? By the time we left the two Mals had all the kids in the park playing with them and petting them.