Parting Ways

This weekend two hospitals in Richmond went live with the electronic medical record system that Jarom has been building at work, so he hasn’t been around much. Ordinarily this would thrill Alixa, but she and Jenna have both been quite sick, so it hasn’t been the happiest week ever. But there were some significant events. On Saturday the family took a trip to Lowes (I can’t remember the last time Saturday happened without a trip to Lowes. Or Friday. Or Wednesday. You get the point.) This time they came home with a shiny new red lawnmower. This was long overdue, as the lawn was in dire need of a mowing. And by lawn I mean the dandelion patch where our house was built. But hey, weeds need to be kept up too, right? Unfortunately, they had a little trouble starting it after getting it out of the box. As Jarom always does when he has a question about something mechanical, he called his second dad, Jimbo. Not only was Jim able to diagnose and solve the problem in about two seconds, he was also able to do so within sight of the Great Pyramids in Egypt, where he was conducting some business (Jim sells small arms to international terrorists.) It was pretty cool to hear, and made Jarom more than a little jealous as he surveyed the meager boulders in his back yard.

Assorted pictures of Jenna

Even though the yard was seriously overgrown, the real reason that they had to buy the mower was that Jarom needed a new shiny red thing to replace his beloved motorcycle Roxy. That’s right, after four years Jarom finally parted ways with his long-time primary mode of transportation. Now that we have two cars, it just didn’t make much sense to keep it. It was a tough decision to make, because he really loves riding it, but with all the home projects Lix has on her list we could sure use a few extra bucks. The most unfortunate part of it all was that Roxy’s new owner is a girl. Sadly, Jarom has been riding a girl bike. It isn’t that he didn’t know that the bike was small and a starter bike, those are the reasons he bought it in the first place. But it still hurts the ego a little bit.

You will be missed

The other big event of the week was Jenna’s decision to finally start crawling. This is long overdue, and I am almost embarrassed to even mention it since her cousins of the same age are basically already driving and doing advanced mathematics, but the video that Lix shot of it is pretty cute and I wanted to put it up here. We don’t think she is going to crawl very much though, because she already seems reasonably close to walking, and she is far more interested in practicing that by walking around the coffee table than she is in crawling on the ground. I guess this goes back to her snooty attitude. She also won’t feed herself. In fact, if you put food in front of her and she is hungry, she will hand the food to you and open her mouth, waiting for it to be shoveled down her gullet. Maybe she has learned how to read the sign that hangs above her crib and really believes that she is a princess. I’m sure it will only get worse from here.

Jenna waving to the camera on one of her laps around the table

I think it's cute that she tries to clap for herself afterwards. Even her clap is prissy.