Sorry -it has been quite a while since we updated the website! Some great stuff has been going on the last couple of weeks. Let’s recap.

Baby Lindy

We finally found the camera and the latest pictures of Lindy. I thought we were going to completely miss her 7th month of life in pictures.

She is so close to crawling. She had been drooling for a couple weeks and waking up in the night crying -we thought she was teething but then she woke up with a nasty nasty cough -the doctors say it is croup. It lasted 3 days. She is still drooling but she is back to sleeping soundly. One night last week, she woke up EVERY 45 minutes. I felt like we had just brought her home from the hospital.

The end of August was our anticipated date for me to be home with Lindy; since that is not going to happen our arrangements with the nannies will be re-visited since school starts for their kids. The past 5 months have gone so smoothly for us, I completely trust Jan and Karen with Lindy and I know Lindy is having a good time over there. I wish I knew how to thank them.

They have decided to continue one day a week -we have a third family we might be able to count on but we are praying for another solution. Lindy needs more stability than 5 different houses a week!

Lindy has gotten into the habit of humming herself to sleep. It is adorable. She’ll sing these little songs. She is daddy’s little girl -just LIGHTS UP when she sees him. He can get her to stop crying at ANY time with the songs he sings.

Hannah and Work

I was secretly interviewing at another company and was offered the job. It included 2 days a week working from home and a $3,000 raise. I had my resignation letter IN HAND at American Eagle and was telling my Senior Director that I was resigning when she intrupted me and asked me to write a proposal to show her how I could work from home for AE!!! I was STUNNED. I was up until midnight that night writing a 4 page proposal. I felt like I was in college again. Thanks to my sister Liz for proofing the letter for me. Always nice to have a sister who writes for a living.

I turned in the letter, complete with Fortune 500 research and overall stating that I would like to work from home at least 2 days a week. My Sr. Director took the propsal to our Executive Vice President and they came back with a counter-offer to keep me!!!!! yay! I can’t tell you how excited we were; therefore the obscene amount of exclamation points will have to do. I get to work from home 1.5 to 2 days a week and the other days I can work 7-3. I started my first day on Friday and it went REALLY smoothly. I was able to concentrate on work and still put Lindy down for a nap. I thank God for this modern day miracle. I also thank my Sr. Director for going out on a limb for me to keep me.

Dale and Work

This past week, Dale put up the show MidSummer’s Night Dream. It debuted Wednesday evening and ran for the next 3 days. It was a very good production -the kids put a lot of time into memorizing those shakespearian lines. The set was beautiful! Complete with a bridge AND slide. Dale was very excited to direct -he’s been wanting to do this show for a long time. He had it just how he wanted it a week ago, and his boss’ came to watch it and they didn’t understand one bit of it! So, Dale had to re-work everything with his actors to make it more understandable. He was very happy with the end result. A man come up to him one night who watches EVERY Midsummer production that is produced in the city -he likes it that much. He came to watch Dale’s show and was impressed. He had never seen children do it.

Odds and Ends

Our good friends Drew and Lindsay & their two kids boarded a flight today for France for their language study and then they are off to Africa next summer/fall. We will miss them dearly.

For every one thing we fix on the house, something breaks. The kitchen floor buckled this weekend -subfloor and all. We have NO idea what happened. Dale will have to tear up the floor to see what is going on. We will start on the attic with our friend Dave next month -we are looking forward to starting and finishing that project.

Well, that is all for now, I must go to bed. Hopefully this mass posting will make up for the lack of posting this past month.

Last night, we finally broke down and installed one of our window AC units in the kitchen. The humidity around here is amazing. We put sheets up between the living room/kitchen area and dining room so that we are not cooling the part of the house that we don’t use. Looks tacky but I have a vision of making some cutsy sheer curtains.

Dale is working on the fall children’s theatre production, A MidSummers Night Dream. He has 20 some kiddos everyday; directing them, building the set, and orchestrating light and sound. The curtain opens on the 23rd of this month.

We have a fun visitor arriving next week! Can’t WAIT! Kavan and a few of his buddies are driving across the country to visit baseball stadiums and PNC Park in Pittsburgh is one of their stops! I am trying to convince Dale to put the 2nd window AC unit in the guest bedroom for our visitors -we don’t want them to be miserable.

Dale and I predict that miss Lindy will be crawling within the next 2 weeks. We both noticed today that she scootched her torso with her legs (she’s not quite using her arms to move yet). She loves to watch momma clap and tries to join in. She is such a joy.

You’ve probably noticed pictures are few and far between -our camera is broken, so we might miss a few months of her life.  Hopefully it’ll be fixed soon.

It has been quite a few weeks since we’ve written. We have been traveling the country -just got back from Kansas last weekend. April’s husband Justin was coming back from his leave in Japan so all of us Zweigle kids headed home for a mini family reunion -including dad and grandma!! It was odd to have our family “back together” again after what….18 years? We had breakfast at mom’s house: dad, grandma, brent, liz, kavan, april, justin and the kids -kind of crazy but it went perfectly!

We hung out at the lake all day Saturday -Dale and April both got up on the water ski’s their first go. Lindy was a trooper -passed around all day from one person to the other -always seemed to find her way to Uncle Kavan -he was always there waiting to hold the baby.

We made 5 trips to Walmart that trip -it is tradition to see how many times we end up at Walmart in McPherson -literally the only place we hang out. We got to stop by the Sonic and ate some fatty food.

I was disappointed that I only saw 4 people I cared about -I was hoping to run into everyone I graduated with.  Jake and Bobbi were on our list and we ran into them on Sunday at church -how fun to see them. Wish we lived closer -I think we would hang out.

We got a late start back to the airport area but we did get to stop at Lynn and Loren’s house where Andy, Michele, Jason, and Cooper met us. We had a quick visit but enjoyed meeting Cooper -finally!

Check out the family photos that Rich took of us when we were in Minnesota. He has his own studio in his backyard and neighbors house. They turned out really well!