New Things For The Second Child

Second Child= Hand Me Downs

That's just how it is. Since pink isn't his color, he does get new clothes. New clothes aren't too exciting since he is a boy and a baby. In his world, clothes are just something to cover with food, soak with water and slow him down on the hardwoods. He would do without them if he had it his way. The majority of his toys, dishes, baby gear were Miss Greta's so when he gets something new he gets pretty excited.... Today he got two new things that made him squeal.

A Thomas The Train inflatable ball pit. Balls were flying!!His favorite thing is crawling in and out of it.

The second..his new Toy Story snow boots. He has no idea that Toy Story is a movie or what it's all about. He just likes their pictures on his new snazzy boots. He loves them. He does good standing but he found crawling is a bit difficult..
Good for you buddy. Glad you enjoyed some new things.

Today

(Greta's thankful Book is done)

(Fieldin busy Cooking in his kitchen)

(Lots of Greta Turkey Art)

I kept the kids in today to try to rest them up. No errands or outdoor exploration. Just a quiet day at home. It didn't take long to realize NONE of us are very good with relaxing. The kids were cooped up, following me at my heels, getting into mischief, begging for playdates, etc. It's been a day of pandemonium. Forget relaxing. Relaxing is more work. Tomorrow we will get outdoors or all this "resting" is going to wipe me out....

Rainy Day Blues..Literally

So it turns out my baby boy shares my love of jazz and big band music. I am sure I have written before on how he loves to groove and dance. As of late, he really gets going when he hears jazz music and the Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack. I spent some time this morning downloading some new rainy day tunes, a little Lionel Hampton, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald and Bing Crosby, because he is the man...Can't wait to share with Fieldin.
Of course Greta wasn't forgotten. She announced over breakfast this morning that she is now old enough to be a "Christmas Caroler Person"(neighbors watch out!) She then serenaded us with some Thomas the Train Christmas classics, Greta style. So for my girl, I downloaded another of my favorites, The Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

Nothing better on a rainy day then a warm mug of tea, coffee and cocoa (In my case, all of them) and some good tunes. Family movie tonight is Peter Pan to remind us of Disneyworld. Maybe some movie night knitting for me... Happy Sunday everyone.

Saturday

Just noticed...my last post on this blog was number 200!! That is alot of droning on and on and on. :)

(New shirts so I don't get them mixed up)
(Fieldy watching the sunrise. He loves seeing the world out the window now)

This Saturday:
We drove 15 miles out of town for a good soy mocha and the kids favorite shortbread cookies.
I spent way too much time on the computer working on a project...blah..
I forgot to eat lunch some how so now I am eating a piece of pumpkin pie to make up for it.
I got some Christmas shopping done.
I actually plugged in the iron.
I wanted to spend more time with the kids...thank goodness for Sundays.
I didn't make any phone calls, even though I should have.
I enjoyed listening to the rain.
I finished all my laundry but not the dishes.
I am sad that the Cougs lost...again.
We drove the looong way home so the baby could sleep awhile longer. Poor guy has a cold.
I'm not sure if anyone fed the fish.
I remembered to take my vitamin.
I touched my knitting for a few minutes.
This Saturday is over.

Hope you all are having a good weekend!

This And That

Thought I would post a picture of us on Halloween. We missed everyone this year on Halloween. Wearing a costume in 90 degree weather just didn't feel the same...:)
We are getting back to normal schedule. The baby is cruising all over the place. Moving small furniture to the next piece of furniture so he can keep going. He has made himself a little walking course. He stands at the front window now looking at cars and trees, it reminds me so much of Greta a few years ago. So cute.
Miss Greta is in art project overload after being deprived during vacation. Our house is now covered in Thanksgiving turkey art.
If you'd like to see some of our vacation pics. Hit the flickr link on the right. Feel free to comment on them too!

Have a great weekend everyone!

13 Months

Pudger(as Greta calls him) is 13 months old! Here is what I know about Fieldy at 13 months:
People stop me everyday to comment on his extremely white curly hair, he stopped using a bottle 2 weeks after his first birthday(mommy and daddy don't miss cleaning them!), he stands and cruises around furniture and he is trying to walk and getting very close, He is still into everything!, yesterday he said "sister" while talking to Greta and she was so excited, he is fearless of theme park rides, the ocean, great danes and everything else, he likes prunes but chicken and anything cheesy is his favorite, he is fast, he has such a funny laugh...and cry, he growls and roars at animals, he still pretends he is a pirate, he is VERY attached to Jeff, he likes to color with crayons and cries if he sees other kids with crayons and he doesn't have any, "oh No!" is still his most used words, he still adores trees and Miss Greta, he likes to hold hands, he is a very good traveller and he likes his milk heated for 20 seconds.

Back From The Happiest Place On Earth....

(Miss Greta last Wednesday when she was Princess for A Day)

We are back from 11 days at Disneyworld and the heat of Florida! We had a very nice time but I have to say I was happy to put a scarf on late last night :) I am a West coaster for sure. Today Jeff heads back to work and we resume our normal schedule without puppets, spinning tea cups and all the magic. I will have more photos soon. Missed you all.