Long distance is for the birds.

Apparently there is something related to long distance relationships that I am supposed to figure out in this life that I am just not getting. God keeps saying "nice try Jan and Matt... but lets just go another round to see if you can do better."  For those not in the loop Matt has to do a drilling rotation as part of his 3 year company training program at Devon and so he is currently stationed on a few drilling rigs 3 hours NE of Houston for 6 months. This long distance stretch is our lucky number 7 attempt we get at it... and if I wasn't sure it would send me into a beeline for the Hagen Daas I would calculate the number of  months total. (which at rough estimate is somewhere around 47 or 48 months). Thinking about all these months makes me wonder why it is that I'm not any better at it by now. Is it romantic that I still get homesick for Matt's company when we are apart for even a day or two? Or am I just being a "big baby" (which is what he so lovingly called me on the phone last night right before I dramatically hung up on him)...  Who knows. All I know is that yet again I am counting down days, and doing it more like a grouchy chick than a graceful Swan.

Bad Habits

We have a few bad habits developing in our house...

Early mornings combined with lazy parenting earns Wheels a free pass in mom and dad's bed. He thinks it is awesome, and gets especially excited when Murphy gets to come up on the bed too.

Thumbs have been discovered... which lets face it, is so cute at this age we have to cut him some slack for a few months at least. 

We have also fallen victim to the bad habit that is baby consumerism. Case in point... Wheeler has 2 mobiles. We got the first mobile solely because it was cute and matched the decor in  his nursery only to discover that 30 seconds of winding only produced 2 minutes of music. The second mobile is a hideous non-matching beast that plays 20 uninterrupted minutes of beautiful Bach, Mozart and Beethoven. He loves them both, and we are suckers. 

Springtime

Our spring this year roared in like a busy lion! March Maddness and the sweet 16 games in Houston brought the Leavitt boys for a "guys weekend", followed up by a spring break visit from Auntie Jill and Ella. Wheeler hit his 3 month mark and decided to jump all sorts of guns by starting to teeth, learning to use a walker and roll over from his back to front. And Matt started a drilling rotation in NE Texas sending him out of town during the week for the next several months. Here are some pictures if our crazy last few weeks!

Thanks to Grandma Terry the indoctrination of College Hoops started early in our house. :) 

  

Easter bluebonnets with cousin Ella.

... and Murphy of course. 

At the butterfly museum.

  And the zoo...

 

And lots of playtime with cousin Ella!