I know it has been awhile since my last update and as always I apologize. Life is has just been whizzing by me at warp speed! I just turned in my report cards for first semester and am now turning my attention to decorating the house for the holidays. BUT before decorating can begin I have to so a major clean up job. I have my regular school day until the 22nd but most of my tutoring will end next week. I have about 2 full weeks off and then another week free of tutoring. During that time I will be packing up yet again and getting ready to move. In reality I won't really move until February but I am packing up and will live in a temporary house until my new place is finished. The place I have found is currently a dump with a capital "D" it has been used as storage for the last 15 years. But the potential is great and the landlady is very kind and willing to work with me to put the place in order. Honestly I like fixer upper kind of places so this should be fun. She gave me a great rate for Maadi standards and is willing to sign a loooong contract so it will be home finally! I will keep ya'll up to date on the process as I have never done such a thing before.
I am bummed about leaving the countryside but am glad we had the time we did and enjoyed it. We can always come out and hang and play now that I have a car so that it cool for the Cabester (Caleb).

Speaking of the little guy he is getting into the Christmas spirit oohing and ahhhing at the lights and terrorizing everyone's tree. This year I am blocking the bass speaker hole before he rediscovers last years fun of hiding my ornaments there. Still not up to his 75 word vocab that the baby bible says he is suppossed to have but we add a word every week or so. So far the English list consists of "MaMa" (addressed not only to me but to every older female whose attention he wants, I am not taking it personally) Cold, baby, up, out, car, hot, and "yeah!". In Arabic "de and da" which is this and that, mum (food) embru (bottle) and a few others that I am not cognizant of. He talks non stop mind you ...I just don't understand. I am hoping that I can get him into preschool for a couple hours a week this next semester to get him socializing more with other kids his age. He is very comfortable going to a few houses that I leave him at regularly but things like Friday school we have not parted well so few hours in preschool should be a real interesting feat...for the teachers.