The Crew Family

A Day Out With Thomas

Jason took Jack to see Thomas the Train last Friday.  Check out some of the pics on the right!

Jason's New Job

Hey everybody - just wanted to update you all Jason's post-MBA job search.  He has been offered a position in the Experienced Commercial Leadership Program at General Electric, and we have decided to take it.  He starts in June.  Thank you all for your incredible support while he has finished Duke - it has been a challenging but incredible experience for us.

Click here for more info on GE ECLP

Lickity Split

I know it has been a while since we have posted anything on the site and now we have posted 3 today. I apologize for the "clumping" but hope you enjoy nonetheless.

Finally, the kids have decided that eating something frozen is not so bad. Which is an improvement over last year where eating a popsicle was evidently just above torture. They have now eaten a couple popsicles each, this spring, and request them pretty much everyday. Of course the flavor (or color, I should say) of choice is red. And the preferred method of eating it is slow. So now I am wondering if pushing this popsicle thing was such a good idea. However, just in case you were wondering, red popsicle does in fact come out of hair, bathing suits, shoes, skin and dog fur!

Word Play

Here's another article/funny that I thought was cute. A daffy dictionary only a mother would understand. By Ron Kelly (Featured in the April edition of Parents magazine)

• The Berber Method: The act of burying your face in the carpet in order to escape the sound of your baby's incessant wailing as he tries to put himself to sleep.
• Bestfeeding: The practice of knowing what foods your finicky toddler will actually eat - and making sure that you've got an ample supply of them.
• Bidtime: The moment bribery enters the picture during your attempts to get your kids to hit the sack.
• C-Ya Section: Any part of the birthing process that prompts the hasty departure of your husband.
• Em-bare-ass-ment: The emotion you feel the first time your toddler decides to run around naked in front of your houseguests.
• Fibling Rivalry: The one-upmanship between your children whenever they are trying to lay the blame on each other.
• The Itsy-Bitsy Speeder: A lightning-quick crawler who gets around so fast on all fours that it seems as if he's got eight legs.
• Juncle Gym: That special male relative whose body also serves as play equipment, on which his nieces and nephews can climb.
• Maternal Instink: The uncanny ability a mom has to determine when a baby's diaper needs to be changed.
• Meternity: The seemingly endless period of responsibilities, beginning with the delivery of your child and ending when he grows up, gets a job, and moves out of the house.
• Nap and Tuck: The surgically precise movements of an exhausted parents who is deftly tucking an already sleeping child into bed so as not to wake her.
• Pacicrier: A magically gifter baby who can cry just as loud with a pacifier in his mouth as he can without it.
• Pepidural: Any helpful, motivational speech delivered to a laboring woman that helps ease her mind.
• Ployground: A recreational area at which your child will try every trick in the book to stay just a few more minutes.
• Sexhaustion: Not tonight, honey.
• Smother-in-Law: A relative who's never shy about going on in detail about everything you're doing wrong as a parent. (Note: it does not say Mother-in-Law!)
• Spring Broke: Your financial state after a trip to Walt Disney World during your kids' school vacation.
• Stiffed Animal: Any one of your child's plush baby toys that's been drooled on, peed on, and spit up on so many times that it's ready to be laid to rest.
• Toylet Teaching: The art of luring your unsuspecting toddler into the bathroom with a favorite toy in hopes that she'll doff the diaper, sit, play, and poop.
• Wetiquette: The proper conduct and procedure to be followed when your child has an accident while on a sleepover.
• Wine-ing: The practice of sipping some chardonnay so you'll stay calm when your kids start complaining that they don't like what you cooked for supper. Again.

We did not write these so they don't necessarily reflect our views.

If Moms took the SAT's

Click on the picture to the left for a funny test found in the April edition of Parenting magazine. The Geometry section is especially close to home for me!