Blattman Chronicles

I’m sure you’re all on the edge of you seats trying to figure out what amazing sight has draw this crowd of onlookers.  The one and only Shamu of course, which you can’t see right now, but I promise is in the pool somewhere.

We did the Sea World thing while my brother and sister in law were in town from Reno.  We had so much fun with Chris and Sara.  Hudson and Annie loved hanging out with the cousins.  Here I don’t know if Hudson actually put his face in the Bat Ray water or it it just happened to splash right at his face.  We never know with Hudson and it worries me to ponder on it too much, because it was probably the first option, I was just too busy fiddling with my camera to notice.

We hit the Shamu show up during lunch and I still haven’t gotten over the Shamu splash chant.  It still makes me feel like a Lamanite in a secret combination everytime they start.Hudson and I had some time to go on the Elmo fish together.  Of course we had to pause for a quick picture.  You have got to love his cheese!

What Hudson gets, Annie now wants too.  She and I rode the fish as well with her behind the drivers seat.  But lunch stayed down so we are calling it a success.

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Hudson informed me today that he wanted a new name. Very casually, he states, “Mom, you can just call me Bob.”  In trying to keep my composure I ask him about Annie.   He responds by telling me that we now need to call Annie Liggy and I am Bligky.
“What about Daddy?” I question.
“We just call Daddy, Daddy.”
Of course, what was I thinking?

She kind of looks like a Liggy, right?

Well, we’re moving again in a week…May 28-30(Anyone want to help…*hint*hint).  I don’t know how I feel about a spread of days to move.  I guess I’ll know when it’s all over.  I’ve been pondering a lot lately on the idea of moving again.  We feel so blessed to get some more room and a more family oriented neighborhood – tickled pink would be the phrase.  I have been uprooted my entire life and find myself once more gathering, sorting and packing.  I had moved 17 times by the time I was 12 and my count to date is 26 times.  I attended kindergarten in Maryland, Germany, Barstow and Ft. Irwin – and I was only in Kintergarten for one year- for those of you wondering.  I was always jealous of those girls who got to grow up having a best friend living next door.  I’ve always wanted to be able to say, “Oh yeah, this is insert name here…we grew up together.”  I was lucky to know someone for 3 or 4 years.   Once again I find myself facing an empty room to say good-bye. Don’t get me wrong, I am not lamenting in any sort of way…just making an observation.  Maybe one of these days soon I will truely be allowed to lay down my roots and let them grow deep.

Hudson has been trying his hand at baseball this last season.  He has had so much fun.  There are only 4 boys in Hudson’s Little Sluggers class so he gets a lot of attention, which I appreciate.  The coach is amazing and the kids all love him.

I had to include these last pictures.  They made me laugh a little.  Series shots of rounding 3rd are always fun, right?

He has finally gotten the hang of sliding.

After a couple of months of hard work and another couple of months of hardly working; my piano is finally finished!  It feels really good to have this piano marked off my list.  I enjoyed working on it when I had the time and I am pretty happy with the results.  Since the piano is so old it actually has real ebony and ivory keys, which I love.  I had to lock the perfectionist in me away while I was working on the project (I do have a tiny one and she has been screaming to get out).  Will keeps reminding me that it is 100 years old and that it will have dings and dents.  I would probably have just as many dings and dents if I was that old too.  I’m just gratful that Will’s sees the dings and dents as character and not flaws.  Oh, to borrow his colored glasses for only a moment…

I will say that if I ever have to laquer again, I will enlist help of someone else because I made a bit of a mess out of that step.  I just got too drippy and bubbly…I’m refering to the laquer not myself, even if those words have also been used to describe me on previous occasions.

If you get to see my piano and ask me about it, I will tell you I love it.  There is just something about things you get to create that makes you love those things even more…like children!!!  Okay, I digress.  Anyway,  I’m done.  So when I tell you it is perfect and I love it I am actually saying, “It’s not perfect, but then again neither am I…far from actually so I guess the piano and I are a perfect fit!”