MY NEW TOY!

Here she is -
We haven't named her/him yet. The kids have already started calling it "the sub" but I'm not sure if it'll stick.Ever since the baby was born (last June) we've had to travel as a family in two separate vehicles. Now we finally fit in one. No more driving home late at night with a van full of kids by myself. DH can drive - - I am a scary driver after dark.
DH spent all day Saturday cleaning out the garage so that our Suburban could fit.

I want a license plate that says Wahooo because that is what I keep saying to myself!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I am thankful for so many things but I am not going to post about them. I have love-love-loved reading about stuff that everyone else is thankful for.

I am going to mention a few posts that I've meant to write about but haven't -

Post #1 - Boo had surgery. She was brave. She had a big hairy nevus (that's a mole) from the back of her hand removed. We paid lots of bucks for a plastic surgeon to do it hoping that she will have less scarring. She had 21 stitches all of which dissolve except one long one that the surgeon took out last week.

Post #2 - Little B turned 5. I made two cakes (one for family and one for friends). Dirt Bike cake and a fish bowl cake. Thanks K for helping me out with them. B had great fun and was especially excited about his hot wheels cars and track. Ever since his birthday he keeps telling me how he can do things now that he is 5. I think he has decided that his muscles are bigger too. Also, he got a medal at gymnastics for learning how to do a cartwheel. Go B!

Post #3 - My DH turned 40! We sent him on a scavenger hunt (which required me to figure out how to use the GPS). The clues led him to his presents which included a weekend getaway with me. (Thanks Mom and Dad for babysitting).

He hasn't even done anything crazy like a mid-life crisis thing or anything! He teased about jumping out of an airplane (with a parachute of course), but I don't think he feels 40 so why go freaking out about it.

Did I mention that I dragged him to see New Moon on his birthday weekend getaway? I liked the movie much better than Twilight. It was action packed so I think DH liked it too. Baby E did NOT like the werewolves and started fussing everytime they started growling. Freaked her out.

The scariest thought occurred to me yesterday. I was driving the kids home from school. I was behind a boat. Not a real boat, just one of those old cars that are so long that you call it a boat. It was a Crown Victoria - I think - anyway, there were three teenagers in the front and one teenager in the back, then they pulled up to the school and in went three elementary age kids. No seatbelts! At the next light the teenagers have the windows rolled down

yes it is cold here, no I don't know why the windows were rolled down except so they could yell out the window and wave and generally make a spectacle of themselves

then the light turns green and they peel out and I'm thinking wow I wonder if their parents know they are driving so nuts, and then I realize that my oldest is 14 years old and in two years he is going to be driving and then I get really scared. How am I going to know if he is being a good driver when I'm not around? What if he does goofy showing off kinds of things or races his friends like I did in high school (don't tell him, oh and sorry mom).

Now I'm really really scared!

Now I'm really thankful that my son isn't old enough to drive.