Hello world!

Hello world! It's been a long time. I hope you haven't forgotten about us! As you can imagine, it's hard to get on here when you have two small children running around! My mother-in-law took Harrison for a few days though, so I have a bit of free time! And what I am I doing with my free time? Blogging! That's sad, isn't it?! Ha ha. Anyway, Harrison is having the time of his life at "Mimi's" house. He was so excited to stay with her that the morning he was supposed to go there (he wasn't leaving until after dinner) he woke up really early and emptied out his entire dresser and brought all of his clothes downstairs and piled them on a chair along with all sorts of other "neccessities" that a little 3 year old boy needs on a trip such as several canned goods, a whole stack of books and some hand soap! He then went and got me and told me that he had packed! He also got completely dressed all by himself for the first time! And apparently he was doing so well getting his clothes on that he just kept going because he ended up with 3 or 4 shirts on and wouldn't let me take them off! (If I were a good mother, or good Verhagen anyway, I would've taken a picture of all of these events. but of course I didn't, so you'll just have to use your imagination!)

Harrison has also become quite the helper around the house lately. He does a really good job helping me vaccuum and helping with dishes and laundry and picking up his things. The other day he called me from the other room to show me what a good helper he was being, well I walked in to see that the tv stand was completely white on top! He was so proud of the "cleaning" that he had done! I asked him to show me what he had cleaned with and pulled out Billy's deodorant from under the table!! It took me forever to get the white gunk out of all the cracks of the table!!

In other news.... we finally got a digital camera!!!! Now if I can only figure out how to work the darn thing I can start posting pictures! No, I haven't forgotten that I still owe you pictures from apple picking, the pumkin patch, halloween, Thanksgiving, Harrison's birthday, and Christmas! YIKES! I guess I need to get working on that! =O I will be posting pictures soon of our "rainy day party" that we had last week. (That's "soon" as in regular people time, not in Joan-posting time! LOL) Those of you who check Julie's blog have already seen them, but it's all I've got! Work with me!