Oh My

Well, Daddy is gone for another week to another meeting. So sad for us. BUT Aunt Stacey is here with us! She is Daddy's younger sister, and she is GREAT. She traveled across the world to help me out this week and celebrate many upcoming birthdays in the next few weeks. She's doing really well overcoming jetlag and staying healthy. She's also doing a great job helping me with the boys. I told Daddy on the phone yesterday that if she wasn't here he might not still have 3 sons when he returned. SO glad she's here! We have been blessed with such great family!

So, speaking of having 3 sons... Yesterday we went to the park to meet some other American mommies and kids to play together. It was a great time, really. We had a little picnic there and were just kind of getting packed up and ready to go then Luke... Well, first let me say that the sprinkler system was not quite working right at the park and there were huge puddles all over the place. We had been doing our best to keep the kids out of the water puddles because, you know, who knows what is in that water. So, anyway, we're getting ready to go and I look up to see Luke standing next to the puddle with his pants down (in front of God and everybody) peeing in this huge puddle. Oh My. I proceeded to hurdle the bench and snatch his pants back up and begin the (extremely useful) lecture on how we don't do that in public. In my poor little 3 year old's defense, we actually do let them go (discreetly) at the park because public restrooms are non-existent here. Somehow Luke missed out on the "discreet" part of the process. Not to mention that the other kids had been using that same water earlier to mix with the sand to make sand castles. Like I said, you never know what is in the water. Oh My.