Genetics!? "Like Papa, Like Grandson"

I am not sure that I need to type any commentary for these pictures. They pretty much speak volumes with out saying a word, but there is no doubt that these two are related. I hope that you get a kick out of them as much as I did. Thanks Jules for the tip off.

From January to June

Ok, so I am going to try and redeem myself from being a slacker in the blogging world. I thought I could do that by making up for lost time the last 5 1/2 months. January was a good month. We spent the new year up in Vermont with our good friends. The boys had a blast sledding in the snow, since we had none here in Boston. It was a pretty warm month. After the new year we started back into the daily grind of school, school and more school.


February was pretty low key. The high light was Owen's first hair cut. He started out with all of these whispy baby hairs and when I was finished he looked like my little toddler. I was full of mixed emotions that I didn't expect to have. I was faced with the fact that I didn't have a baby anymore. Owen had a great time through, he sat really still, well that is for a 22 month old. When I finished cutting and brushing his hair, he stood up on the chair and proclaimed "I am a big boy now"!. It was a liberating moment for him.


March was a stressful month due to mid-terms for Jonathan. He pretty much ate, drank and slept school and we didn't see him much. It was nice to have them over and to have Spring Break. We flew out to Utah for my brother Will's home coming. He was coming home after being in Taiwan for two years. It was fun to see him and see all of my sisters. We also drove up to Idaho to spend a couple of days with Jonathan's parents. The boys had a great time and Isaac made a new friend with one of our old friends children. It was great to see everyone, but it was also nice to be home and back into a routine.


April brought with it two celebrations. Jonathan and I celebrated our 10 year anniversary. He gave me the most beautiful bouquet of roses. And we celebrated Owen's 2nd birthday, "CARS" style. I made a black and white checkered flag cake and we made cars out of cardboard boxes. We had 12 toddlers running around every where and of course it was organized chaos. Owen had a great time which is all that matters. We also celebrated Easter and started to see a bit of sun poking its face out of the clouds.



This month was pretty busy. My cousin and his new wife came out to stay with us for a few days while he was attending a medical conference. Yes, I proudly say that there is a Doctor in the family. :) It was fun to get to know Scott and Kim. I hadn't seen Scott in over 15 years I think it was more like 18. Wow that is a long time. The following weekend we celebrated Isaac's 5th birthday. His theme was "Jedi Boot Camp". We had 14 little boys running around light saber fighting with swords made out of balloons. Yoda was the center of the party since that is who Isaac wanted to be. It was quite the time. I ran in the 2nd annual HBS Partners 1/2 marathon. They gave us the option to run the 1/2 or 1/2 of the 1/2. I thought it best to run 1/2 of the 1/2 so that I would make it back alive, since I hadn't ran that far since high school. Surprisingly I enjoyed it. I was all by myself running along the Charles River. It felt good to be back in my zone and rhythm. The best part was when I got to the end and Jonathan and the boys were there to cheer me on. I was happy to see their faces. I hope to run the whole thing next year. We also planted our garden. The boys are pretty excited about it. We planted cucumbers, watermelon, summer squash, zucchini squash, pumpkins, corn, beans, snap peas, tomatoes and green onions. Our strawberry patch looks promising this year and we are hoping that the blueberry bushes produce in the next year or so. I can't wait to start eating it. Well, now you are pretty much caught up. I promise to do better in the future.

My Cubed Clarkys

I have to say that I have been meaning to do this the last few months, but I have had a huge brain fart as to what to name our family blog. As you can see the fart popped and we are the Clarky Cubed. I guess we are actually Clarky Cubed + One. Oh well.

As for what has been going on around here. Jonathan is slowly emerging from the dark cave of Doctoral Finals. He will be starting his last exam in 2 minutes. I can't tell you the excitement that I feel through out my whole body to know that in a couple of hours his first year will be over and we will be on our way to his dissertation. I have to say that I am very proud of him. Harvard is not nice to their Doctoral students and Jonathan took it like a man. He plowed through every paper, assignment, project and problem set that they threw at him. I can't wait to PARTY in the BAHAMAS!! 15 days and counting!

Isaac is working on finishing up his year at Christ Lutheran Nursery School. He has had so much fun there and has really come out of his shyness shell. I am glad that we decided to send him there. He loves Mrs. Johnson and the rest of the gang. Everyday he comes home with a new song, letter or sign language that he has learned. He is very excited about starting kindergarten in the fall. He also started playing T-ball. It has been a lot of fun for him. He has gotten to play on the same fields that his Uncle Ralphy played on as a kid. I love to watch him grow and learn new ideas and concepts. Isaac never lacks anything to say.

Owen had a mommy and me music class this spring with Kindermusik. He loved it so much he always is singing the songs that we have learned there. Our last class was last Friday and he is pretty sad that he doesn't get to go tomorrow. I think that I will have to have my own little mini class with him to help with the withdrawals. We will be doing it again in the fall. Owen has quite the vocabulary. It cracks me up the words that he knows how to say. It is true that their brains are sponges, he absorbs everything that is going on around him.

As for me, well I have been playing the roll as wife, mommy and small business owner. I have been working on getting my soap business a couple of inches off the ground. I don't want to do too much with it because I want to be wife and mommy most of the time and keep it as my hobby job. I'm thinking of making a web site so when I get that done I will let you know. It will be www.eusoapia.com. I will catch everyone up on our first half of the year happenings when I get a minute.