Random Tidbits

I haven't blogged in forever, and I know my readers have been suffering withdrawal symptoms as they reload my page time and time again with no updates! In all honesty I wonder if anyone other than Blake actually reads what I post - and he just reads it to make sure I'm not humiliating our family any worse than we do on our own. Anyway - here is a random list of updates from the Baysingers.

• Max is babbling up a storm now! He says dada, bubba, baba, bye bye and even poo poo...but not mama. I'm so sad. In my upset state I did successfully get him to say "dada poo poo." I realize he's just mimicking what we say, but I'm still convinced he's a genius!
• Marcus enrolled at Andover this week. It's his first venture outside the private school sector. We always used to threaten him with public school...we shouldn't have done that. He'll do great. It's just that his first and last encounter with the public school system was when I took him to visit my mom while she was at work at my hometown elementary school. When we pulled up to the school, a 6th grade boy was running across the playground with two dodge balls stuffed up his t-shirt pretending to be a woman. Marcus' eyes were wide as saucers and he looked at me and asked, "Is THIS public school?" I didn't even bother to tell him that the boy was the mayor's son!
• Marcus was recently reminding me about the time a few months ago that Mason ran a rope across our street and set up a "toll booth". He had traffic backed up about three cars deep before we discovered his little operation. I don't think he collected any money, but I'm certain one of the neighbors considered calling SRS.
• The toll booth wasn't his last entrepreneurial effort. A few weeks after that, he drug a bunch of stuff out of the house and put it on the front lawn and tried to sell it to people walking by. Honestly - it's not like I don't keep an eye on him. I simply didn't realize what he was doing. And as far as the toll booth incident goes - I was tending to Max (he was still a newborn then) and Mason works incredibly fast!
• Max can crawl now...well - almost. He just goes in reverse! He can get anywhere he needs to go - as long as it's located behind him!
• I'm serving as Women's Ministries Director at our church again. I took a break after having Max, and I'm so excited to be involved there again. It's where God intends for me to serve, and I absolutely love it!
• Blake is still the reigning karaoke champion at our house. His performance of Honky Tonk Badonkadonk is stellar! Unfortunately - Mason picked up a few of the lyrics and sang them to a woman in Gordman's. Nothing like having your 4 year old son tell a stranger to "work her moneymaker". I really need to find that 101 Sunday School Favorites CD.
• Mason will be the ring bearer in his uncle Jason's wedding in September. He's been practicing, and tried to get Marcus to be the flower girl...to no avail. I did have to break the news that he won't be the ring "bear" but the ring "bearer". He was upset because he'd been practicing growling. I'm not convinced that he won't try to work the growl in somewhere during the ceremony anyway.