The Kids Are Alright
It occurred to me that my two-year-old is probably a little more internet-popular than me, and some folks might just want to check up on the family Kimberly and I are building. Welcome, supplicants, to the new feature aptly called "Family Friday".
Let's start out with some redundant introductions. Here we are a measly 7.5 months ago, returning from a post-wedding getaway to the entertainment Mecca of the mid-South: Branson, Missouri.
There's ol' Kimberly (alternately, KimBuckTu, Kimbo Slice) up top, the Buckmeister in the middle, and Little Turd in the lap. Full disclosure: since this picture, all of our bellies have grown. Brodie eats like a horse out to pasture, Kimberly's eating for six, and I get the table scraps.
Brodie was born October 6, 2008, making him two-and-a-half years old. He's a real toot, but we love him to death. Speaking of toots, he's recently learned to control his tooting mechanism, and is having way too much fun entertaining us with his gaseous expulsions. He's especially fond of announcing the fact that gas has been passed in public, when we'd rather that he were a bit more discrete.
Kimberly is currently pregnant with the Littlest Turd, our first (and, hopefully, only) little girl. Right now we're still unsettled on a name, so serious suggestions can be left for us in the comments. We were totally prepared for another little boy. All of our boxes of baby clothes had been prepared and all of our boy toys were being saved. All the while, God was chuckling at the thought that we could will the gender of our child. To me, one boy and one girl makes the ideal little family. Ding! Done. But Kimberly says she wants more babies; since she's the boss, the jury's still out on what we'll do after this baby is born. I'm working on convincing her that she wants what I want...I'll let you know how that goes.
I mentioned above that we got married this past summer.
The past seven months have been really great for us. Our house was built before we were married, but Kimberly was only in it about a month before the wedding and we've been living here since then. I like to think our house helps my case for only having two children, since we only have three bedrooms.
Kimberly works with her family business, Caruth-Hale Funeral Home, and I'm still finishing up school. In December I will graduate from Henderson State (hopefully cum laude but definitely with Pi Sigma Alpha honors) and officially start Master of Liberal Arts studies at the same university. In January, I'll apply to law school and see what happens. With some work on my part I'll hopefully get a fellowship or scholarship; otherwise, $40-50,000 is a lot to shell out when you're a young family of four.
So there you have it. Our little family in a nutshell. Check back each Friday for updates. Between Kimberly's pregnancy and Brodie's fight against potty-training, I'm sure there will ever be good material.
