ready or not

here we come, vacation. i'm not quite sure what to expect for a 12 hour car ride with a 6 month old. she travels well but i mean, come on, how much can we expect of her? we are headed to lake michigan on thursday. and i am ready to go. Levi is going to "camp wienken" this week, he heads to my folks house to spend time with that side of the family while i pack us up here and clean the house before we leave. this is my mission: to come home to a CLEAN house after vacation. that to me is one of the worst feelings, to come back all sad that the vacation is over to a cluttered, dusty, crazy house. so we're trying to avoid post vaca depression.

Levi plays with his play mobil castle right now with Todd. he likes to intertwine the david and goliath story into the king and queen scenario. it's pretty cute. his other serious interest is space ships/astronauts. other than a drummer, he wants to be an astronaut. we're pretty excited about that, set your aspirations high, little man. we're working on a few things with him, one being his constant drumming and beatboxing. he's got a rhythm in his head a lot of the time, and becomes quite focused at church whenever the musicians are playing. he's in the zone. but we're trying to teach him that people are more important than music and drumming. it seems ridiculous, but we're also working on self control with him. self control for a 3 year old? yea, i don't think so. but when he drums on anything other than a drum, he has to hold his arms up above his head as discipline. it just was becoming too excessive. since we started doing this, his accessory drumming has slowed down quite a bit and his capacity to play (other things) has taken off. pretty funny. i write this now as I hear todd saying, "no drumming" to Levi in the kitchen. are we brutal parents? is this too harsh? i don't know, we're giving it a try. poor little Levi, he just has the rhythm in his head and fingers.

Della started cereal in the evenings, but i'm not pushing solids, what a pain. she's pretty big for being strictly on fluids. and she's very, very sweet. and beautiful. but i'm partial, i know. her hair is still all crazy, you try to tame it but you can't. just starting to pull it up in the front for now. she is looking forward to sitting up, just trying to a little, but not quite there.

okay, gotta go pack some more. i'm simply ecstatic.