We miss Kimmie

While you were away, Kim, we asked the grandkids to say a word or two. Please view the following video and pay special attention to the tender way Liza avoids looking at the camera! Ha. Hope your day is good.

numba' four, atcha' door

How many days til June 9th?

Party, IKEA style

You know it's time for a Wilson party when the street is transformed into a Subaru used car lot, and when the window looks like this.

(Pay no attention to the unfinished addition room behind the glass. At least Dad's jeans are down now.)

P.S. We didn't have to label Becca's because hers was the one with crusty OJ in the bottom.

Kitty in the corner (of Jordy's garage)

Last week Mark got a phone call. He took it to the bedroom, so I couldn't hear. After he hung up he called Sage and Eliza to come look at something on the computer with him. When I snuck up behind them to get in on the big secret, I found them oohing and aahing at this picture: AND discussing which cat they'd like to bring home.
Which was followed by our morning prayer where Sage prayed "Thank you that we can probably see and pet the kitties sometime."
I can't wait to return the favor when Micah gets older.

Happy birthday, Rich

I know you are so happy to see this picture again, Rich.

Rich holding Lily in front of the Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem.
Rich at the Louvre.
Rich in front of some nasty skulls in a museum in Paris.

Rich and the Christmas Eiffel tower in blue.

Rich and a frog. In Paris. I better stop narrating because I'm out of my league now.


After Rich left for college nine months ago, Sage and Eliza continually asked when we would next see him. Each time we pulled up at Mom and Dad's, they would ask, "Is Richie going to scare us this time?" And when they saw his blue car they would get excited (even when it was on a jack in the driveway). In fact, Sage regularly compared other blue cars on the road to Rich's. "That blue one is like Richie's, but it doesn't have a rack on top." or "That one doesn't have four doors like Richie's."

Rich may ride a mean motorcycle, but he is a huge softie with his nieces.



They can hardly believe the good news that he is back for the summer.
And that he is the big 1-9 today. Happy birthday, little bro. Is it time for a Ruby River repeat? Or a closet clean out, with free services provided by me?!?

I hope you have a good celebration, Rich. But just remember to not eat too much oily cookie dough today. Or ride on a chair that's being pulled behind a truck. Or make a homemade bomb. Etc.

Matching

Match the nickname(s) with the babies below:
A. Blub face
B. Beach ball head
C. Mongrel
D. Bobble head
E. Chunker cheeks

1. Cindy

2. Lily

3. Amy

Answers: All of the above. Thanks, mostly, to Krista and Kim.

Don't forget Mele-kaliki-Micah/Micah(l) Jordan, who is well on his way to chunker cheeks.

Woodburical Nomenclature

Based on recent posts, a certain family member will soon be in need of good baby names.

Today is your lucky day. Since I had 6 1/2 hours to scroll through lists of soldiers, anyway, I decided to use my archival research to bless you too.

The result? A whole list of authentic British names just for you (and Woodbury #3).
Take your pick!

Dalrymple
Ternon
Warham
Hugh
Job
Valentine
Terrance
Francis
Hercules
Noah
Archibald
Fredrick
Lauchlan
Hurd
Bernard
Aliden
Bogher
Cornelius
Edmund
Hamlet
Bartholomy
Barnaby

Still waiting

So far, nobody has guessed the right answer to this question.

the last Jerusalem update (possibly)

Talent Show

Heath got asked to play the cello part ... (no sweat) ... to a song she didn't know (a little harder) ... and without any written music (uh, what??). Of course, she did stellarly regardless. Next time you ask her to perform, though, some sheet music would be nice.


Kim blew away the crowd by reciting "Paul Revere's Ride" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. With 13 stanzas, 130 lines, and 986 words, this poem is a beast. And most of us didn't even know half the words she was spouting off!! Way to go Kim.



The happy couple.

a hot kiss

So much for no public displays of affection in the Holy Land, eh?