Miss Them

The rest of my family has been in Minnisota for the last week and a half. I miss them. This morning I asked Joachim if he was ready to come back home, he said 'Not yet Papa, I have to play with Grandma and Granpa.' Cute but a stinker.

A Child's Perspective II

The other night an Allstate commercial came on. Of course their spokesman is the guy who played the president in the first few seasons of 24. Anyway, Joachim saw him on the ad and said, 'That's Brak Obama; he's my friend, yeah.' Thought I would share that story with any left-wingers that read this blog.

What the French Say

Everynight I read a story to Joachim. I usually lay down in his bed with him, and almost everyday I have to ask him to scoot over so I can actually fit on his bed. The other night I asked him to 'Scoot over si vous plait' I explained that 'si vous plait' is what the people in France say for 'please.'

Now Joachim loves his Uncle John, and takes everything he says as truth. So when my brother John tells Joachim that the French say 'Oui oui, ha ha!' Joachim believes it. So when I told him the French say 'si vous plait', he turns to me and says, 'no Papa, the French say 'oui oui, ha ha' complete with the nasel tone so typical of the French and in a way that says "I'm better than you" He really knows the French mentality.

Funny Story

Tonight we ate dinner at my parents house. In fact we do every Tuesday. Fr Jack and Esther come over as well. Anyway, after dinner tonight Joachim was sitting on my lap. He let a big one rip loud. Kari, looking my way said under her breath, "was that Joachim."

Hoping that no one heard Joachim's fart I nodded my head.

Joachim then looked up at me and said, "I burped" pausing for a second, as if something was wrong he corrected himself, "I burped out my butt Papa." I love the way a child's mind works.

Pipes

So I forgot to post anything about our water pipes. When we have our wood stove going the other, forced air, heater does not come on. Part of the force air is directed into the crawl space so the water pipes do not freeze. To counter that, I installed heat tape on the pipes, supposedly it is good to 40 below. Last Saturday it all went wrong. We got back from church and Kari was outside and heard something funny. She went to the pump house and heard water spraying out of the pipes with great force. She yelled at me to go check it out. I panicked. We eventually got the pump and pressure tank turned off and opened up all the faucets in the house. By that time there was about four feet of water under our house. This was about 9pm. We got ahold of a company that could pump out the water and fix the pipes. They were currently at a job site and said it would be a couple of hours. They eventually came by about 1am. By about 3am they were finished. All for only $650.00! Anyway, this weekend I put new heat tape on and re-insulated the pipes. God willing we will not have that problem again. Today was the first day of using the wood stove again.

Macrina

I love this dress on Macrina. She looks so cute. The picture really does not do her justice. Anyway, when Joachim first saw Macrina in this dress he exclaimed, "She is my princess!"

We celebrated Macrina's first birthday at the end of January. She turned one. He got her an ice cream cake from Coldstone. She loved it. She quickly gave up trying to lift the cake to her mouth, so just bent down and brought her mouth to the cake. She got pretty messy. She is pretty much insane as well. Today she climbed into her crib from the floor. She can also climb from her chair, to one of the adult chairs then climbs from the chair to the couch! She hates staying still!

A Child's Perspective

So I was looking at the Drudge Report just now. Joachim was on my lap. We saw a picture of President Obama. Joachim saw the picture and said 'Dats Prezdnt Obama. Obama's silly.' I swear I did not teach him that.
-Ben

SLEEP

For the last week now Joachim has been getting up at 7:30 in the morning, I don't understand what is happening? He has always slept in till at least 9 and now I am having to drag myself out of bed because he has no decency to let his mom sleep. Does he not understand that Women need there beauty sleep????