Last night we were entertained when mom wrote us from Texas needing Troy to make her wireless Internet work. Sometimes people still call from his old job to find out what he thinks about a particular problem or ask if he can help with their computer issues. He is doing tech-support from Haiti. Why not?`
Today, Troy is doing grocery shopping for 19 people all by himself. Is that a man or is that a man? I kept offering to come into town with him, he kept assuring me he could do it. He is the total package. Sorry ladies. He is. Go ahead and hate me. ;-)
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We have started paying attention to Noah's vocabulary. In recent weeks he has been speaking like a six year old. His current favorites are "abomination" and "actually."
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The other night he came in and asked what we were having for dinner. I said "tacos." He said. "Oooooh Tacos, noooo I don't want Taco's." I did not say a word, I just gave him a look ... but it must have been a scary look because the next thing out of his mouth was, "Actually, tacos sound good - yeah really good." We forget he is two sometimes, it is easy to do when he thinks of himself as five or twelve.
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The new phases of parenting we are entering, are just weird. Balancing parenting a two-year-old, pre-schoolers, a pre-teen, and a very mature teenager makes us feel like freaks of nature. In many ways we are freaks of nature. One minute I am potty training one and the next minute I am discussing student-loans and college applications with another. Potty training is so easy.
This has easily been the strangest year of my life. It seems impossible that 2006 is over already, it feels like we blinked and it was gone.
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Moving here has been awesome and scary and challenging and so fun, all at once. 2006 will go down as our most exciting year, that is for sure. Plus, it will go down as the year Troy became 'Super-duper-well-rounded, name it, I'll do it - man.'
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Happy Wednesday,
Tara
