Tuesday, July 31, 2007
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Sooo.....we've been back in the States for almost two months. And what have we been doing to keep ourselves busy? We have been...
Introducing The Lige to his family
Elijah is shown here with Grandpa Walker. I think this was the first sucessful Grandpa-Grandson bonding time. For some reason, Elijah was scared of Grandpa Walker at first. It might have something to do with Grandpa suddenly shouting "Got'im out!!" during a baseball game when he was holding the baby, but we're not sure. All we know is that he's gotten used to him now, along with the rest of the family. I think that it was a bit of a shock to him to find out his parents were actually part of the racial majority in their home country. He'd been used to lots of Oriental faces but not so many Caucasians.While Elijah was the first grandchild on the Walker side, he isn't on the Storm side. He was preceded by his cousin Ruth. One of the things I was looking forward to doing the most when we came home was to have the cousins play with each other. They seem to like it quite a lot and have spent hours staring at each other. Well...Elijah stares. Ruth (now 13 months) is a bit more mobile and has done everything from trying to kiss Elijah to almost sitting on him. Purdy Cute.
Looks like the little lady's about to run off with his burb rag.
Well, it's probably okay since he's using her bib. Yummy rice cereal!!!
We have also been...
Vacationing at Gull Lake in Michigan. I felt I married into the right family when my husband came with a family pool. But when two lake cabins in Michigan were also thrown into the bargain, I knew for sure. Here is Lige swimming with Daddy.
And Brooks putting up the sail on the catamaran...
As I mentioned in the last post, we've been living at my family's house for the summer until our house is available again on September 1st. Brooks has been taking Financial Reporting I from Northern Illinois University and working for his dad (who has a remodeling company) on his off days. His goal is to become a CPA, and so he's working on that while he looks for a full-time job in accounting for this fall. He went on several interviews this week and things look very positive so we're excited to see what may happen. (Side note: Taiwan is a pretty casual country so while we brought his suit he never had a reason to wear it. For his interviews I had to find his suit in the suitcases and iron his dress shirt. Man, I forgot how handsome he looks all dressed up! It'd been over a year since I'd seen him that put together!) I've been taking care of the baby, of course, spending time with my mom and my siblings, and also...starting a business of my own. More about that in my next post. In between all these things, we've been helping my parents out at home. Brooks led the project to re-roof the garage this Saturday and earlier put in about 30 feet of fence with my brother Chris, besides other small projects for my mom ("Brooks, would you be so kind as to hang these two pictures for me? ... Wow, he actually measured! I never measure!!") I've helped with house cleaning a little, made some meals, baked some treats, sewn with Laura, and helped Will practice his reading. Everything's been fun and certainly very busy.
Few more pictures:
Elijah in the front seat of our new car. Brooks scouted out a great deal for us and we now own a '93 Toyota Corolla in excellent condition. Possibly the nicest car we will ever own.
Our last car purchase was an '85 Pontiac at a garage sale. 
And here is Elijah with one of his favorite toys...his very own baseball glove. He'll be following in his daddy's footsteps very soon! Brooks dreams of the day when he arrives home from work and Elijah meets him at the door with a "Dad, I wanna play baseball, Dad! Dad! Dad, play baseball with me, Dad!"
A happy wife and a happy mommy,
Emily
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