Last Saturday

Last Saturday was a lot of fun. After breakfast Roo and I went over to the lake to feed the fish. The fish really liked his big pieces of bread he gave them. When we were ready to leave a duck decided to become his new friend. He had a little bit of bread left and the duck liked it. He kept trying to run up and touch the duck and though I was afraid the duck would attack it just ran away. I love that our neighborhood has a few lakes in it; our friend in Maine would call them ponds.

After hanging out at the lake for a bit we headed over to the farmer's market. It was it's first weekend of the season that it was open. We didn't buy anything since we weren't going home after but I need to remember to bring money the next time we go, and a cooler, so we can get some fresh eggs from the egg co-op. As the season goes on we'll split our time between that farmer's market and the one in the Spotsy commuter lot which is much larger.

After heading to town and getting a gift for our neighbor's sons birthday party the following day, we had lunch and then tried out the new bowling alley. Roo had a good time at the bowling alley but wanted to bowl with ball's based on their color, which was a little challenging with the bumpers up. He was cute and had a good time.

When we got home later that day we decided to have fun playing outside and not do much else. Daddy was a little under the weather so we tried to be nice and let him rest. Bug didn't nap well so I took him to get more seeds and a couple more pots and we had a nice time out.

I really enjoy going out and about with Roo and Bug has been showing even more interest recently in going out with me. I'm looking forward to us all going out and about a lot more this summer. It'll be even better if Bug moves his morning nap to the afternoon and starts taking one nap a day. Ah, the weekends just aren't long enough.

Wow, April Just Flew By!

Looks like I haven't updated since mid-April, and it's hard to believe that it's May already. The second half of April included lots of outdoor work and along the way the adoption of Pillar the caterpillar.

We debated how much outdoor work we were going to do this year because we just re-did our bathroom and the kids bathroom; which look awesome now!

We decided that since we'd put off doing the bottom half of the back yard for so long that this was finally the year that we were going to re-grade it. We got our normal amount of mulch for the bed and around the trees, 10 yards I think and then we ordered 20 yards of dirt. As we were finishing mulching the front yard we realized that there was no way we'd be able to do the grading without a tractor with a scoop on the front. So we rented one of those for a day. And wa la, Daddy finished grading the back in just one day.

The remainder of the day after I got home with the kids, we seeded and then put lots of hay over the seeds.

We discovered that Roo is allergic to hay touching his skin. I had to take him to the doctor on Monday to make sure the rash was from the hay and not his tick bites from the week before. He had a couple of bites that looked worrisome so we got antibiotic for that and prednisone for the rashes on his arms and feet. His rashes are pretty much gone now and the one bite is a lot less red. The area with the bite and the rash was about the size of a baseball on his forearm and was bright red, it looked bad.

That will probably conclude our yard work for the season. I'm planting pots of veggies and herbs because we didn't have the materials to make my garden and decided we don't want to spend any more money on the yard. Roo has been an awesome helper and we planted pumpkins on the side of the house and it turns out that the herbs I planted last year are still growing, so I pruned those a bit and we planted some tomato seeds as well.

Somewhere along the way Roo found Pillar the caterpillar. He made him his friend. He fed him and gave him water and a home. Pillar has since been released back into the wild to be with his family.

Now we just need some rain to get everything to grow!

Catching Up

I'm a little behind with the blogging but have lots to share.  

Over the holidays Juice Jam was in town and Roo and I went to visit with her.  We met up at the mall and took Roo to the play area.  Roo put on his new "Uncle Matt's School" jacket before we left and Roo was excited to meet this friend named Juice Jam.  

We practiced her name in the car and he was really shy when he first met her.  He warmed up quickly and showed off his jumping and sliding skills in the play/germ area.  I think of the mall play area as one big germ infestation.  Juice made fun of me at first and then quickly agreed on my assessment.  After playing in the play area, we walked over to the cookie stand and got a cookie for Roo and a cookie for mommy.  Roo thought mommy's cookie looked much better than his, so I let him have it.  Juice encouraged him to get really messy.  He got an A+ for that effort!  It was great to see Juice and Roo had a blast, we can't wait to hang out again! 

Love Bug had a fever last weekend that we figured was more molars coming in.  3 days later, his fever broke and he was covered in a rash.  Hooray for Roseola.  Nothing huge to worry about and it didn't require a trip to the doctor.  Just made him miserable but all things considered could have been a lot worse.  We didn't do his normal skin regime so once the rash was gone his eczema was pretty bad in a few spots.  It's all looking a lot better now and we can cross Roseola off the list for both boys.

Love Bug's walking has really taken of in the last few weeks.  His balance is getting better every day and he's just as happy as can be walking around.  But, with walking comes those first few walking accidents.  You can see Love Bug's result from his first big accident where he fell and hit the leg of the end table with his head.

I've been testing out a lot of new recipes.  My friend Michele from high school has a great blog where she posts all of her recipes.  She had one for Blueberry Applesauce Muffins.  They use whole wheat flour and only have a tiny bit of oil and sugar in them.  They turned out great and it seems that Love Bug absolutely loves them.  He's been eating one or two per sitting.  I made a double batch of them today so he has them for the week.  This is sure to become a staple in our house and they're really healthy!

One of the biggest events from over the holidays was Baxter's vacation to Uncle Matt's house.  Uncle Matt has his own place now and is trying to figure out if he wants a dog.  We thought Baxter would give him a good test run, daddy also thought that if Uncle Matt really wanted, he could keep Baxter.  Crazy, I know!  Well, it didn't last long.  I really missed B and Roo eventually missed him and then Daddy decided he missed him too.  But worse, Uncle Matt said Baxter would pace around by the door at around 430 in the afternoon every day and when no one would come home he would cry.  Poor Baxter missed his boys!  He's done this with me when I've been alone with him in the afternoon.  No doubt, Baxter definitely thinks he's a human.  

When went and got him from Uncle Matt, who took really good care of him and returned him very nicely groomed.  And when we got home, Roo took some time to clean him a little more and made sure that he got a really warm welcome.  Today he let Baxter into his hangout he made and gave him a big hug.  Baxter wanted nothing more than to escape!  Silly boys!

Oh, and Roo spent the afternoon cleaning all of those chairs in the picture.  He had a blast and they looked great when he was done!

I think that's it for now!

Snowpocalypse 2009

Wow, we got a lot of snow!  Almost 2 ft of snow.  The snow started Friday night around 7pm and didn't end until around 10pm on Saturday night.  Over 24 hours of snow.  And it's beautiful, especially today since it's sunny out.

Roo played a little in the snow yesterday and decided it was a little too cold with the snow still coming down.  He did want to measure it like daddy does with just his normal shoes on, so he tried and thought it was pretty funny to get snow all over him, but quickly came in.

He's been outside today for a few hours now.  I'm actually hoping he'll come in soon because he's tired.  After daddy shoveled us out of the driveway, we went for a short ride to see how bad the roads are.  The state roads aren't looking so great, but they do have 1 passable lane.  The county roads are a little worse, but our neighborhood road is awesome.  A portion of our homeowners dues go to plowing during the snow, definitely worth the money.

Daddy and Roo built an igloo.  It's pretty cool.  And they also built a nice seat in the snow.  The little bug was a little unsure of the snow but he had fun being outside with everyone.  Hooray for a snow day!  Lets cross our fingers that work gets cancelled tomorrow.

Mommy's Little Shopping Helper

Roo has been a really great little helper at the grocery store recently.  We seem to have moved past the little fits he used to have about one particular food or another as we go down each isle to the little guy who puts the food in the basket for mommy.  He's actually a lot of fun to shop with and I'm getting to teach him a lot of new words while we do it.  One weekend, he decided that we should use the stroller as our shopping cart.  As you can imagine, we didn't buy many groceries that weekend!

*Please bare with me on the sideways photos; once I figure out how to rotate them on the Mac I'll fix them.

Good Times...

This weekend was great.  The kids were so much fun; even being cooped up in the house on Sunday because of the rain wasn't that bad.  Enjoy the pics.

This one is great.  Love Bug loves playing with the little piano but has trouble reaching it when it's put away.  Roo got it down for him and then stayed to play with him for a bit.