So it is growing like a weed.....

Well even though no one seems to take the time respond to my new posts I am going forward undeterred. I will not let the lack of response get me down. So I as promised here is the trip to Dallas part deux.

First let me tell you a little about Kristena's grandparents and family. They are a cute little couple in their late 60's??? Kristena's grandmother is in a lot of ways Kristena. As Kristena's grandpa was telling stories about things that she does everything sounds like things that Kristena would do. My favorite example of this is when her grandparents walk into a restaurant and her grandmother looks around and determines that this is not clean enough to eat in. Even if they have already been seated and she has a coupon she will decide she does not want anything to eat. Now as I have been there more than once, this places you in a very awkward position. The waiter has most likely determined that there is trouble in paradise but knows that he is getting something out of the deal because you have already placed a drink order. So the question that looms is do you get up and leave or do you let your wife eat the crackers she stole from the last restaurant out of her purse while you order off of the menu. I found out that Kristena's grandpa would eat and let her eat the crackers in her purse which must mean he wears the pants every once in a while in their house. If you guessed that I would get up and leave in hopes of finding something more suitable you win the big prize and also know who wears the pants round this parts.(like anyone didn't already know)

As for the rest of the family that was there , there were a total of 12 grandchildren there including Kristena on Wednesday. (they actually have 14 grandchildren in total and 2.2 great grandchildren) One of her aunts owns 8 of them(no that's not a typo) and her other aunt has three. The age range is from 26 to 7? Kaitlyn kept referring to them as "The Cousins". This prompted Kristena's aunt Susan to say that made her feel like the "Beverly Hillbillies" coming over with the pitch forks and on their tractors. Actually non of them had pitch forks but I did not see what they were driving. Actually, the cool part was the way that the all just included Kaitlyn and Tyler in whatever they were doing. Now there was a little of the older cousin hazing that I have grown to understand is a rite of passage. But they did it in a very sweet way and Tyler was exhausted from hugging everyone that they told him to. And "the cousins" girlfriends made some time to play with Kaitlyn. They said she was learning how to play "go fish" but Kaitlyn told me about how a straight beats two of a kind so I wonder. Anyway they all made time out of their very busy schedules to spend the evening with us which was great. I tried to think back and make sure I did not say anything to embarrass my wife. Actually I got sucked into a story about a guy that one of the cousins referred to as "Nipples". So anyone who knows me knows I can not let a story about a guy nicknamed "Nipples" go by. So I had to hear it luckily it would appear Kristena's grandmother wanted to hear the story as much as I did. Someday if people respond to the blog more often I will share the "Nipples" story.

The final great story that we have to share is from the morning that we left Dallas to head back to the old Sunshine state. Which by the way is not sunny right now. We are into the rainy season down here. But anyway, it was 3:15 in the morning. I was in the bathroom brushing my teeth. Kristena won't let me in her van unless she actually hears me brush my teeth. Back to the story so here I am scrubbing the 2 hours worth of sleep off of my teeth and I hear Kristena cracking up. So I come out and it would seem that Kaitlyn was helping mommy change Tyler's diaper and she got a full frontal shot of him. This shot prompted her to turn to Kristena and say "Wow Mommy, Tyler's little willy sure is growing like a weed, its bigger than it was yesterday!" Now before you all get the wild idea we have some sort of weird growth chart we don't. But it made us laugh all the way home. Kids do say the darndest things. Tyler is also starting to notice the difference between boys and girls and as Kristena got out of the shower the other day he pointed and made sure she knew where "momma's willy" was. I was hoping our children would not notice anything until they took a biology class in college.

So I hope that you have found our little family to be amusing. On the pregnancy front we have ruled out the following foods for the time being: pizza, peanut butter cookies, pepperoni, hamburgers(that ones killing me) and bananas. The following foods seem to still be in favor: Watermelon, crackers, ice cream and as always anything Mexican. Momma loves her some Mexican food. We will be fortunate if this child does not come out wearing a sombraro and singing like Ricky Martin or JLO. If its a girl and she has JLO's butt it won't be a fun delivery for mom but Kristena won't care as long as they don't get stingy with the epidural. Other than being exhausted everything else with little peanut is going well.(that's my name for the baby not Kristena). Good night to all.