waiting for the AC man...

Its been over a week. We were promised that our new ac unit would be here by now. But nope. TODAY they have to send someone out to verify that the old unit was a fire hazard and then it'll take another week to order the unit we're told. I'm a little nervous about them coming to check it out today since i'll have to turn it back on and sparks were definitely flying last time. But we are enjoying the cooler weather - hope it stays. But thank you Debbie and Rod. They lent us their window unit and we all seem to go into that room and stand in front of the air conditioning. We put it in our dinning room and have fans blowing it down the hall, into the living room, and into the kitchen. Its amazing what a difference it makes. Brent is convinced we won't need our air conditioning once they finally get it to us since fall will be here :) but I'm more worried about our furnace. It needs to be replaced and I'm thinking we can survive being hot - not sure if it dies this winter if we can wait a few weeks for heat! Here colin and brent are eating popsicles. I overheard Brent telling Colin that when he's older they'll do this and talk about the meaning of life together outside. Colin looked at Brent and said "ba-ba pache dada" which means trucks dada. He loves his ba-ba-pache as he has lovingly named his trucks. He puts them to bed at night, wakes them up in the morning. Thanks Jesus in his prayers for ba-ba-pache. So trucks are very important to him. At the pool the other day a girl asked Colin if he wanted to play (she really just wanted to play with his boat but wouldnt let him play with her dolls....) but Colin was so excited to be asked to play that he shouted "ba-ba-pache - me house" he wanted her to come home and play with his trucks at his house. Sweet boy.Colin loves to dance to music in the kitchen. I love this picture. He gets so into it. Lets hope he doesn't develop his parents sense of rhythm. Colin loves to play photographer. I put our broken digital camera on our tripod for him and he will turn it on (it still turns on and off and does everything but take the picture - great for him to play with) but he'll tell me to say "cheese" and want me to do different poses and makes clicking sounds when he takes the picture.

Bo-bo? perhaps. But not this time. Colin scraped his arm and needed a bandaid and wanted me to put another one on his head. Of course the real bo-bo's bandaid was ripped off as soon as it was put on but the fake bo-bo on his head stayed on the entire day. We couldnt believe it. Tears were shed when we took it off for his bath that night.

And one more story: yesterday colin and I were sitting down making our grocery list and I asked him if there was anything we needed at the store and he mentioned some things that i had forgotten. Like his apple juice. And he then got a sly look on his face and said AJ. His aunt and uncle's dog. He wanted me to bring AJ home with us from the store. So I told him we couldnt buy AJ. AJ was in CA. So he thought for a moment and said re-re. (regis) so I had to explain that you can't just go to the store and bring people home. So re-re and AJ please come visit soon :)

Oh and one more. Last night in his prayers he not only thanked Jesus for ba-ba-pache. "da ta desus ba-ba-pache" but for pe-ta-pee = (uncle opie) So thank you Jesus for Uncle Opie.