Making Way For Baby!

So much to do, and well at this point, still a lot of time. We are currently working on clearing out the third bedroom. For those of you who don't know, our home is big enough for a family of four but not much bigger. So we are trying to make room for this baby. We like the size of our home, but it does force us to be creative with our space.There is a lot that can't be done until spring, like painting and moving the cat boxes to the garage (that's a whole different but large project) but before any of those things can take place we have have to find places for all this other..junk. We are pretty good at going through our things and selling or passing on what we no longer have a need, because lets face it, we simply don't have the space to hold on to everything thing! But somehow we still have tons of things that don't really have a home that have landed in the third bedroom catch all.

 

So now what?????

 

I am certain at this point our closet will be come very full and I need to find a place to put all of our gift wrap and bags. And there is still  just stuff. How we acquire it I am not sure, but it needs to go!   I'm very much looking forward to this being a baby's room (can't you tell!) but am at a bit of a stand still. Any ideas?

Christmas Has Passed!

Christmas is such a wonderful time of year, yet another great time to remind us of all the special people in our lives. And we have a lot!!! What has made it an even more spectacular Christmas is now Little Moo is way into it, but better yet not in a "got to have it" kind of way, but everything seemed new and exciting from the lights on houses, to trees and Santa. We had my family here for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day and then Zippercow's family came over throughout the next week. So much fun! We would like to thank everyone for the thoughtful gifts and cards, we have such loving and generous friends and family!

 

I do realize this post is long since due, and I had part of it done and got busy with Little Moo and our 4 month old niece. And boy, do they keep me busy!

 

We hope everyone's new year was just as great!

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Happy Holidays!

Sorry it has been so long! We have great news though! We are expecting baby #2!!!! Unfortunately our whole family has been struck with a yucky cold so I've had barely enough energy to care for Little Moo let alone keep up on everything else. I'm behind on Christmas cards, haven't finished decorating for Christmas, obviously haven't kept up on this blog and a so so many other things need to be done.

Zippercow has been taking great care of me and Little Moo couldn't be more excited about being a big brother. We don't know that he really understands it yet, but we aren't due until around his Birthday so I'm sure you know that is a bit out from now. He's pretty insistent that he is having a little sister but we will have to wait and see!

We hope that everyone is enjoying this wonderful holiday season!

How does YOUR pumpkin smile?

This was the first year we bought big pumpkins and then carved them. It was a lot of fun and while Little Moo seemed uncertain about removing the pumpkin guts (he isn't big on yucky hands) once he saw we were digging around in there too he didn't seem to mind as much. He really got a kick out of pumpkin "lids".  Since this was the first time, he didn't understand why we were doing it, but once he saw them lit up he was pretty excited. Our pumpkins smile like this!

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A Barbalootous Little Moo

In case you didn't know, Little Moo was a Barbaloot for Halloween this year. A Barbaloot is a fictional character from his favorite Dr. Seuss book, The Lorax. He has insisted he wanted to be a Barbaloot for about 6 months now so we decided we could oblige, how hard could it be to find a teddy bear costume right? Well it proved more difficult than originally thought but thanks to the help of both of his grandmas he was the cutest little Barbaloot you ever did see. Zippercow was The Onceler  from the same story (at LM's insistence) and I was a bee (yeah it doesn't fit the theme the other two had going, but I wasn't about to be a furry little guy with a mustache!) You should know that Barbaloots sit under Truffula Trees eating Truffula Fruit (hence the bunch of grapes in his hands). We had a wonderful Halloween and Little Moo really enjoyed himself which is all we can ask for!  Thanks Grams and Grammy for the help with Little Moos costume, it was a success!  Oh, and apparently Barbaloots don't mind snakes!

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New Host

After 7 years we've finally moved to a new and better web host. This is a test to see if everything works!

Up and Down

We've had a pretty rollercoaster week. We had some great news that in short time turned to bad news. We are very sad but still hopeful. And the weather has been incredibly cold, which killed all of my beautiful flowers (so this isn't really as important as the other things that were going on, but I'm trying really hard not to dwell) Yes, the flowers continued to grow into beautiful blooms that made lovely cut flowers! I'm sad that summer has ended and so too have my flowers that were literally late bloomers, but the end of summer means fall and we love fall around here! We went to Green Bluff a couple weekends ago (our official tradition) and there are some great pictures I'll share. Also we are gearing up for Halloween. Not that we do anything particularly special but we are gathering things for costumes. Little Moo is going to be a Barbaloot from the Lorax and Zippercow is going to be the Oncler. Me, I will be a bumble bee which completely doesn't fit in but the other two should be cute! We love this time of year because as people wind down from summer activities we find we get to spend more time with our loved ones. Stay tuned for some great Barbaloot pictures!

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