I'm gonna be a grandma...

I just checked- Megan hasn't written about this yet, so I get dibs. It's my story anyway, even if it is about her kid. ;)

We all know that four year olds say some weird crap. Almost all know that MY 4 year old wins the weirdest crap contest hands down. Much to Claire's great dismay, she has been de-throned.

Last night, I was doing drop off duties for VBS. We picked up Carson on our way, and she proceeded to chatter non-stop for the entire fifteen minute ride. To be honest, as one who is accustomed to non-stop kid chatter, I was only half listening. I happened to tune it at this precise moment: "And when I am a grown up, I can marry Dex. And then I will have a baby in my tummy. But after two babies, Dex will have a shot in his private parts that really really hurts so that we can't have anymore babies."

Wow.

Not only does she have plans for my kid's future, she has plans for his reproductive organs...

Really, this means two things for me:

1. Yay! Megan and I will be related!

2. Brad has been complaining about his vasectomy waaaayyyyyyy too much. Come on, it didn't hurt that bad.

Megan had pick-up duties. I won't even tell you what MY kid said on that ride. Megan, your turn. Go ahead and tell the payback story.

Zoom Zoom

I bought a car.

I am too lazy to go out and take pictures of the actual car right now, but it looks like this:

(I love how this last picture makes it look so teeny!)

It's a Mazda 5, which is technically a mini-van disguised as a car. The van was falling to pieces and barely worth it's weight in scrap metal. With that in mind, and with a nod to current gas prices...we went shopping.

I had lots of issues with buying a car and they were mainly related to the having to pay for it part. We have never had a car payment. As in, never. Now we do, but it is a relatively low one, so I am trying not to hyperventilate. Mission failure.

But, with the amount of money we will save in gas (a lot!!) and in repairs (even more!!!) I think we will be able to pull it off. We bought the cheapest decent car we could, and we really pissed off the sales guy with our bickering over $10 a month. Hey, it's $10 a month to you, buddy, but it's thousands of dollars over the life of the loan.

The kids like it- they named it speedy. But I suppose after the mean green gas-and-antifreeze guzzling machine, even a bicycle would seem speedy...

Silas

Silas Nicole Williams was born yesterday at 2:53 pm. She weighed 7 lbs 15 ozs and was 20.5" long. Congratulations, Megan and Brad. She is beautiful.