WELCOME to the new BABY IPLAW!!! ALSO Busy Summer Ahead for Spencer...

First, Iplawguy and his wife welcomed their second child, LadyBirdJohnsonIplawbaby, a few days ago, a second girl. SO AWESOME and by the picture it looks like Mamie Eisenhower IplawToddler could not be happier. CONGRATULATIONS and welcome, and I only hope your Dad gets better at Scrabulous..... KIDDING!!!!! He beats me on a regular basis.


Next, Spencer's preschool is going to have 4 weeks of day camp this year which is GREAT because he just loves his preschool.

SO it will be a week of ART,
then a week of SCIENCE,
then a week of WET & WILD (?)
and then a week of COOKING FOR KIDS.

These will not be all in a row, and they are four weeks in total, from about 9 -1 M-F for the weeks they are held. They have a horseback riding thing too, but I think I would like to wait on that for a bit... We are building this house this summer, doing the mediation, eventually moving again, OFF the goat farm, and you know having to make 200 little tiny decisions about the house every ten minutes. SO I do not need the extra stress of thinking about Spencer on a HORSE. I mean horses are great probably.... he loves animals I know it would be fun for him but NOT THIS SUMMER. I am hanging by a very thin emotional thread these days. I don't need to think about Spencer v. Horse for a month.

Besides I have already signed him up for swimming, and then he is also going to do gymnastics once or twice a week and also KINDER KEMPO which is like Karate or something like it for four year olds. If all that stuff does not keep him busy, he still can play with his blocks...

MY GOODNESS that kid likes to build things. There are these smaller pieces of wood from the house that are in a pile on the front yard They are called Cut offs or off cuts or cut downs or something.... whatever - Spencer grabs a few each time we go over there and he takes them home. Bill sands them a little and ...Boom! Instant blocks to add to his collection... but these are still not enough.... Tonight when he ran out of blocks from his new set from his Grandparents, he used the cut offs and when those were gone, then he looked around and emptied an entire case of 24 little 8 oz water bottles from costco. (We stopped Juice Boxes for his lunches a while back and give him an 8 oz bottle of water now - he does not need all that sugar)

He built like this Water bottle highway all across the family room.... He is SO crazy.

Today we met Nick at the house to discuss plumbing stuff like where we want what...
and then Thursday AM we have to go in and figure out electricity stuff Like where all the lights are gonna be and stuff. For homework, he sent us home with a book of cabinets and pretty soon we have to pick those.. Like Fast.

This all seems like it is the fun part you know or so I thought it would be but it is hard sometimes... Like today we have to AGREE on a style of cabinets. That is the first hurdle...I like more modern stuff in very light colored Maple. Bill likes Cherry and traditional, and a little darker stain. Then we have to figure out what worked before and what kind of drawers and stuff we want this time....Do we want the KNOFE DRAWER back or can we live without it? I thought it was OKAY but we NEVER used that pull out cutting board it comes with. SO forget that. ALso here is another one: We have TONS of silverware I mean TONS.... and its all casual and you hate to throw it out, so we keep washing it and using it.... but then it OVER FLOWS the silverware drawer which is really narrow and small. WHY WHY WHY???? THIS TIME we are gonna have a HUGE silverware drawer to hold ALLLLL the spoons, etc. So anyway... We have to figure out what we liked in the old house and what we want to change... Like our kitchen has Southern Exposure or Western or whatever makes the sun just some BLASTING IN at dinner time. SO like about 5 PM in the kitchen you practically have to wear sunglasses to eat dinner and if you did the blinds, its TOO dark... SO we got a UV COATING on JUST those windows in that area.

Like for ex I hated the LAZY SUSAN. It was like this stupid corner cabinet/ vast wasteland, where pots and lids and bakeware just goes to die.. When the house blew up and we had to empty it for the last time, and after three years of living there we had collected like three bundt cake pans and all kinds of things that just were one day placed into the DEEEEP DARK ABYSS of the LAZY SUSAN and never seen again. Had the house not blown we might not have ever found them. SO its good we get to starts over because NOW I know I do NOT want a LAZY SUSAN again... BUT that I also LOVED my cabinet that held like tall skinny things, like cutting boards and cookie sheets In fact I used it so much that I think I want two of those. I have a LOT of cutting boards.. those you know...hard plastic ones... and I am always chopping things. Pluse they also double as like HOTPADS for the table for hot things....

So we are having to think about all these little changes and stuff and where we want what and I am not COMPLAINING, really but it is a lot more involved than you might think, and sometimes less fun than you think its gonna be. Some days I am not in the mood to go pick out faucets and sinks, I don't want to talk about where the freaking dryer is gonna go.. just put it on the roof if you want to...I am tired of all of this you know? WHo CARES what kind of interior doors to get or where the toilet goes or all of this... I observed a twenty minute conversation about POCKET DOORS v. regular doors the other day.... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz and then they ask me you know "Well what do you think Liz? How do YOU feel about POCKET DOORS??? " and I was like "Well, gentleman, I cannot say that I have formed a concrete position on Pocket Doors. I guess the Pocket Doors predate my involvement in the project, and further research is needed. However my IMPRESSION of Pocket Doors is that they are a pain in the ass and Spencer can get them right open when you are in the restroom and hence in the three years I lived in that house I never once spent any time in there with the door FULLY CLOSED. SO in conclusion, fellows, I am not a fan of the pocket doors........" GAWD just WAKE ME WHEN ITS OVER. And then after all of this I learn that POCKET DOORS are really the only kind of door they CAN put there so we HAVE TO HAVE THEM. SO uh where do I go to get this 20 min of my life back?

And then you have to do like all of this sort of IMAGINING the house that will be, even though we ALREADY LIVED IN IT for three years.... all the while in real life I am on a goat farm with kooky water and you know the stove with three working burners, and all this and its like... it feels like it is taking forever to build this IMAGINARY house that we will NEVER get to live in again. you know? LIke I cannot believe that we are ever gonna really live there...

The other day Bachelor Dude (the landlord) called us and he said that right after we move out he is going to sell the Goat Farm and if we like it he will give us a good price and we can have first crack at it.

WOW.

Bill started talking about how it is an intriguing offer.....and I could not help thinking, "Wow. I 'll bet if you put a couple of guitars in the fireplace they would burn reallllly quickly....." No Bill, we are NOT buying the Goat Farm. Because we have a lovely imaginary house with pocket doors and no knife drawer waiting for us.