My Little Golfer


Pumpkin was very excited when he learned that our new neighborhood had its own golf course.  When I found out that they were offering semi-private golf lessons for kids, well, I had to enroll him.  He was excited to go, of course.  He chose golf over soccer and basketball and all other sports being offered in our neighborhood.

In fact, he loved his golf lessons so much that after only his 2nd lesson, he started asking for his own "gear."  (that's golf clubs for those of us not in the know ;).  So I got him his own set of clubs...er, I mean, gear.  And he looks so impossibly cute carrying his little golf bag around, hehe.  He's really excited about playing golf and can't wait to go out on the real course.  I tried explaining to him that neither his dad or I play, but he is insistent that his dad can take him.  It's sweet how he thinks his dad can do just about anything.

Whoop!!

I just found out that I finally finished paying off my undergraduate student loan.  Literally. Just. Found. Out.  Purely by coincidence that I found out too or I would've just kept right on sending payments every month without realizing.  I think my loans may have automatically gone into deferment the first time I enrolled in grad school so I'm sure I missed out on paying at least for a semester or two, but I started paying again once I realized what had happened.  My point is that I've been sending my little $40 to whomever for almost as long as I can remember.  Well, knowing what many of you know about my memory, it probably is as long as I remember and then some, haha.

Our New Life

Just thought it was time for me to actually say something about our new lives rather than writing outdated stuff.  A few posts back, I wrote that our beloved dog Sunshine was killed while staying at my parents' house.  I still miss that dummy, and I know the kids do too.  They both still talk about him at random times throughout our days.  The good news is that Grandma T just got the kids a new puppy.  The bad news is that it is going to take the better part of a year to get this puppy remotely close to being as well-trained as Sunshine was.  Still, I'm excited to meet the little guy.  He's staying with Grandma T until we can pick him up.

Of course, Pumpkin started Kindergarten this year.  He had a rough first week.  Turns out a little girl at his table teased him all week long about (of all things) his water bottle, and she apparently had all the other girls at their table joining in the teasing too.  Probably about all sorts of stupid, inconsequential things, but it mattered to him.  I didn't even pick up on it until the weekend.  We were at Target, and I started wondering why Pumpkin was being so insistent on getting a new water bottle.  When he finally told me, I nearly blew it off as no big deal until he quietly admitted that the girls' teasing made him "feel bad."  That week, another little girl told him on the playground that she would only be his friend if he would get a better haircut because his was "dumb" or something like that.  WTH?

I miss his old school where we never encountered problems like these.  Unlike last year when his class was 90% boys, girls in his class this year far outnumber the boys so I'm starting to wonder whether all this drama is because of the girls (y'know, a girl thing).  From where I'm standing, it sure seems to be.  I asked his teacher to move Pumpkin away from the mean girl and place him at a table with at least one other boy.  She did, and he seems a lot happier now...even though it turns out he's now at the table with the girl from the playground.  {sigh}  Thankfully, she doesn't seem to bother him as much though he still says she's not that nice.

Every so often, I ask about the other little girl, and he says that he never talks to her, even on the playground.  My goal now is to get him to understand that he can still be nice to that little girl even if she isn't nice herself.

Update(s) Below

I'm slowly but surely going back in time to post "updates" on our move from Denver to Houston.  Here in our new house, I'd finally gotten my computer hooked up, Internet going, etc.  A couple days later, I decided it was also time to finally upload all the pictures that had been accumulated in our cameras all summer long plus the pictures and videos from my camera phone.  As (bad) luck would have it, not 2 days later, my computer experienced a memory fart, and all those beautiful pictures and funny videos were lost forever.  I went on facebook to save some of the ones I'd posted there, but it was a fraction of what I lost.  Sadly, my absolute favorite videos of Lys and Pumpkin dancing at the local HEB are among the missing.  I never sent them to anyone else because the files were too big so the only place they'd existed was on my phone...and now nowhere.  Oh well.  I'm bummed, but what can one do.

Anyway, if you're tuning in now, please scroll down and start where our countdown to Houston begins.  That's where I'm doing most of my updating these days.  Soon, I may even actually start posting current stuff.  ;)