Please, Thank You, and I'm Sorry

Aubrey loves saying please and thank you.

"cereal please mommy"
"thank you mommy"

The other morning we were brushing our teeth when Aubrey sneezed -projecting a giant wad of snot all over her face. I attempted to blow her nose and was greeted not with please and thank you but with a stream of indecipherable yelling. Apparently, she did not want her nose to be blown.

"Aubrey, I have to blow your nose. Otherwise all that grossness is going to run down onto your clean teeth and that's not going to taste very good."

She paused for a moment. ...

"oh, sorry mommy"

I love it when our conversations result in understanding!

Pictures of the New House

I'm not really sure how these pictures are going to show up in the post. They are sort of hiding down at the bottom of my phone, but I wanted to post a few pictures of our new house. Here is the kitchen, the dining room, and the living room. The kitchen is by far my favorite room in the house! The giant butcher block counter island in the center apparently came from an old textile factory in buffalo and you can actually see million knife marks in one corner where the worker would throw the knife after cutting a button. I love the windows in the dining room. Right now we have a huge foldout table I borrowed from my mom in there but I have big plans for Martin and I to make a beautiful farmhouse table this winter. And the living room is super cozy. I an extremely excited about the fireplace and can't wait to start our first fire! Also, if you can't tell - there is a ton of built ins throughout the house. I basically put ALL of my pictures on the built in in the living room so it sort of looks like my camera threw up on that wall but I'm in love with it anyway!!

So ... That's our new house!

Center Urinal

I still don't have Internet access at the new house and, in general, hate posting from my phone... But I also feel like I've been away for waaaay too long and need to get back to updating. Even if its for nothing other than my own sanity.

So a quick story from a great wedding we attended two weeks ago.

Martin: ( returning from the bathroom) you will never believe what just happened in there!
Me: what????
Martin: I walked in and there was a guy using the middle urinal!!
Me: so?
Martin: so, gabe went in the stall. So I had to use the urinal right next to him!
Me: ok??
Martin: you don't do that! It was like he wanted me to see his junk.

And I learned something new that night. You should never take the center urinal.