Kim's blog of the mundane

I've been too busy checking Trish's to update mine!

OK Let's see -- got back from Dallas and cut my hair off. It looks better and I plan to let it grow out but now that the hair loss stopped and is filling back in it'll look better long than it did.

There is nothing going on. Seriously. Meg is fine - she took the Dibbles test it's a reading comprehension test and scored a 68 WPM when 20 is the standard for 1st grade. Her teacher said she took a leap too and it's probably closer to 85 now. She has never missed a word on the vocabulary reading tests. And can't comprehend math and numbers to save her life. Forget money too!
Andrew is doing well in school, chomping at the bit to get his drivers license and continuing to grow. James is working, staying clean, and has met a very pretty girl he's nuts over.

Ralph's back is still bad and he's really mad at the Dr. The spine Dr. told Ralph he didn't have a needle long enough to do the epidural right but he wasn't buying them either because Ralph was fat and he should instead charge Ralph 2 times for even attempting it. Of course it didn't work so now he's in a lot of pain again.

But work is going well for both of us.

We are boring.

I really wished I could have gone to Jessica's shower (my nephew Robert's wife) PS Jessica if you are reading this may I suggest the names Daniel and Ian?? My 2 favorites! And the book Beyond Jennifer and Jason (whatever the latest edition is) it gives the best advice about use of syllables, flow, siblings and their names, nicknames, everything. One of the things that was so frustrating to us naming Megan was our last name beginning with O and ending a name with a vowel it makes it run together. Like with Lenington if you end the first name with a L then it'll sound like one long name. Like say Phillip PhilLenington the L's run together. I wanted Gabriella for Megan but Gabby Oberdieck ends up wanting to be Gabby Obiedieck. So we needed a name with a consonants at the end of both the full and nickname. Thus Meg/Megan. Of course you Lenington's don't have the problem we have of having the name dick in your last name making names like Richard, and Nick, Maura out of the question (Maura Oberdieck would end up being More Dick) Anyway it is so much fun naming other people's babies as you don't have to worry keeping it-- they do!

OK That's it like I said I'm boring!