MLK JR

as we drove home from school friday, hadley asked me if i knew about Martin Luther King JR. i was so pleased her teachers had addressed this holiday, as i know a lot of these days off school go unnoticed by preschoolers. i was extremely impressed by her grasp of MLK JR and what he stood for. 

hadley told me MLK JR had very dark skin, and lots people with our skin didn't like him, or other dark skinned people just because of their color. hadley thinks this is ridiculous. A. MEN. SISTER.

and she can't believe he got shot. yes, her teachers went there.

then the conversation moved on. snacks, books, playing in the basement, can we go see daddy at work, etc.

"hey, i have a cousin with really dark skin, and i love him a lot."

and then we ate lunch.

i am thankful my girl lives in a time, place and situation where she thinks it is crazy to treat someone any differently because they are different, for any reason. and i am so thankful for sweet justin and the happiness he brings to our family, and for teaching hadley love is blind.

xoxo, al

Preschool!

the anticipation of this day has grown over the last weeks for hadley. she's been working hard to complete her potty training (still working on #2's.) and brushing up on her numbers, letters, nice to meet you's, and pushing hard to get to an early bed time. 

bed time. that is the hard one around here. neither joseph or myself are early to bed or early to rise, and hadley seems to take after us. but, she's been asleep by 9:15 most nights over the last weeks, so i could  count that as good!

anyway! this morning we were up early, eating breakfast and getting dressed, and definitely getting excited!

and as you've guessed, after just one little nudge into the "green room" this little socialite had no problem getting involved and chatting with her class. hadley is going to rock preschool's socks off!

as for us, we didn't even cry;)i thought about it for a few seconds, then i remembered i haven't been home alone in two years, with the exception of that time joseph took hadley out hot wheels hunting long enough for me to vacuum like a year ago.

and then i was fine.

happy school year, everyone!

xoxo, al

a little of this, a little of that!

as you all know, i don't always blog when i say i will. i have dry spells. then i have the spells where i blog every day. that's what i like best. unfortunately, life is a priority, and blogging comes second. this time, though, we can honestly say poop has hit the fan...

baseballcation was an amazing trip, once in a lifetime experience, awesome roadtrip. but holy cow, 8 games in 8 days, almost 2,000 miles and around five hours driving each day can really take a toll on you. i will get caught up with our trip soon, i promise. but i thought i'd offer up my excuse for dropping off the face of the blog world

(for regular updates on what's up with the Gilbuenas, follow me on intsagram! i don't think the button on here works, i will have joseph fix that. meanwhile, we are fromholytoledotoyou.)

so, when we arrived home from our trip, i was dead tired. our house is already in a state of chaos, since we were waiting on a house for nearly months, that then fell through. so, i came back, tried to pack a few more boxes, do a dozen loads of laundry and catch up on life. i was also excitedly planning a baby shower for my toledo and 31 bff, marcy.

meanwhile, our freezer stopped working, and i shuttled most the frozen food into the fridge. but i had a bad feeling about the fridge as well, which was more or less ignored by maintenance. so, we ended up losing all our food, and eventually got a new fridge. 

MEANWHILE, my eye started to bug me just a little. looking back, i was having some trouble focusing while we were on vacation, but i thought i was just tired. but it got progressively worse, although not bad enough for joseph to diagnose pink eye or uveitis. after some ups and downs, it got bad enough he was able to get a clear look at the problem, and diagnose uveitis, which more or less is swelling in the cells or tissue in my eye, in the muscles that allow me to focus. it hurts like snitch. well, my super fabulous dr fixed me up pretty well now, but my left eye is dilated, to help relax the muscles that need to rest to ease the pain. so, i can't focus. the left eye is just a blur. i am typing this with that eye all scrunched up. i am hoping that we are on top of this, and can see great improvement and maybe stop the dilating medication in a few days, and get back to normal. i feel half worthless. 

and in the midst of the eye stuff, hadley got another cold, followed by me. my cough is awful. and i am so bummed that i won't be able to see marcy's sweet 11 pound baby for a few extra days. 

this all sounds pretty terrible, right? i am not being dramatic.

the good news is, we somehow manage to get out once a day, in the evening to go get our precious geocache for the 31 days of geocaching we are doing this month. not only is it so necessary for hadley to have this fun trip out, but it's good for me to, even if i am a hot mess!! today is the 23rd, so today will be our 23rd day in a row of geocaching. yay! i know, we are nerds. 

we are looking forward to hadley's first day of preschool in a week and a half, and also a long overdue trip from my auntie jewel. in just under a month. 

i'll just dump some photos so you know we are still alive and happy, after all that complaining i just did:) 

hadley's invitation to preschool orientation. 

out geocaching

and geocaching

and geocaching...

more geocaching!

geocaching:)

hadley loves to try on glasses.

if my eye hurts, so does bizzle bop's.

we love albuterol, yes we do.

check out hadley's new fishing pole!!
(excuse the ghetto blanket over the window,
i really, REALLY need darkness.)

the dodgers got brian wilson, my least favorite player in major league history.

xoxo, al