Chris & Naomi Hathaway Home

I know it seems cruel, but honestly, he enjoys it just as much as I do. And it's just too funny to deprive the world of:

Just in case you didn't believe me when I said I was going to graduate school, they mailed me some proof today (it's a Masters of Science in Computer Science, if you can't quite read it):

It's very relieving to finally be finished with school, but at the same time, it's a rather new feeling. All my life, I've had this huge goal of graduating from college that kind of guided my life at a very high level. Now that's over, and I don't have a good concrete goal in clear vision. I'm just working and growing a family and paying off a house; it's enjoyable, but I fear it will get stagnant too quickly.

Okay, enough babbling. I think my next great personal mission in life (excluding family or spiritual goals, those come first by default) is to really turn some of my projects into serious ventures that could possibly take over as our main source of income. I really feel they have the potential (especially AggData, which now gets almost 15,000 visits a month), but I just need to give them the proper attention. Good thing I have such helpful sisters-in-law!

After moving into our new house, we bought a used washer and dryer from a family who was moving out of state. We were very excited to get a front loading washer since we had been using one at the Hathaway's while living in an apartment. Well, lately we have had a couple of surprises inside the washing machine.

First, I saw something sticking out of the rubber seal that keeps water from leaking out of the washer door. I pulled it out and discovered it was a hat! I happen to know someone who loves hats and it turned out to fit his head perfectly. By the way, there were also about 15 of his socks down in the seal.

That is tuna by his nose just in case you were wondering.

Our second surprise was simply a new hiding spot for our little guy. Turns out he also wanted to wash his stuffed puppy. It went through a wash cycle shortly after this picture was taken. He's such a fun, silly boy lately. The things he says now are so so cute! We need to try to capture more on video so we can share it with you.

*Edit by Chris:
Sorry, I can't resist adding one more picture... it's our cute little Jihad...

As we were putting Lincoln to bed he grabbed a wooden stick that had come in a music set and said "gum, boom boom boom!" Uh-oh, he had finally learned about guns in nursery. We were shocked and said "where did you learn that?!" Then he walked over to his drum and started banging on it with the stick. I said "what's that?" He said "Gum!" I said "what does a drum say?" He said "boom boom boom". He's so funny.

I picked up a couple of squirt guns this morning at a garage sale thinking Lincoln and I can have a water fight with them. When he saw them in the bag he said "gasp, rocket ship!" He was excited there were two rocket ships for him to play with. I must say, I was surprised, but not disappointed that he doesn't use weapons on me yet. I then instructed him on squirt gun use, but again was surprised he just wanted to drink the water or feed the plants and said "no, mama" every time I tried to squirt him. I guess we'll have to stick with hose fights.

Garage sales this morning were a bust. The only thing I managed to buy there was a baby doll to practice making smaller clothes. Lincoln of course loved it and sat with it in the car while I unloaded the stuff I had purchased at the fancy mall after the garage sales. I found 2 church shirts for him on clearance at Pottery Barn Kids for $6.97 each. I returned the mistake sandals I bought yesterday while walking in the fancy mall and bought a cheaper and browner pair. Then I bought Chris a belt, also on sale, since his other one broke. When I came back to the car to try to persuade Lincoln to come in the house instead of hanging out in the car in the dark garage all day, I saw this:

I thought it was cute.

Right now his twoness keeps us from getting in the carseat, out of the car, dressed, undressed, and especially diaper changed. For a while it worked to whistle like Captain VonTrapp from the Sound of Music, he would come marching right to me every time. Then, when that stopped working, I started telling him to smash whatever pictures were on the receiving blanket we used to change him. He would come running over to smash it with his bottom as he sat down. Today, the only thing that worked was to tell him I would change his diaper with a laundry basket on my head. I don't think I can do that every time, but it worked for this diaper.

We just wanted to wish all the mother's in our life a Happy Mother's Day. Lincoln had a special message for one we weren't able to be near, but love all the same:

We love you Moms!!

If you haven't noticed yet, we use Smugmug for all of our photos, and now all of our video clips. It's a pay service (we pay ~$60 a year), but it's totally worth every penny. I love having video there, but it's all been using quicktime so far, so it's not as easy to share, and I usually just use Youtube instead. Well, now Smugmug has it's own flash player, so I can embed our videos at much better quality. Here's one from our recent trip to the zoo:

Oh, and if you want to sign up for smugmug, if you use the coupon code "6xl5vlPDdH0No" you can save 5 bucks.

Raelee is going to Utah for 8 weeks. We will miss her and her family. They are really becoming good friends. This picture is of Lincoln and Raelee looking at puppies through holes in the fence in our backyard.