What's this one?

Here's a tougher one....

Bird

You should all know this bird, but can you guess what he's thinking?

Entertainment

Other parents stick their kid in front of the TV when they need a minute or two to get something done. I turn on the Roomba! Sufficiently entertains both the kid and the dog for a few minutes AND cleans the floor!

Where are you all?

Where is everyone? Do you guys have jobs or something?

S.N.O.W.D.A.Y. !!!!!!

FINALLY!!!!!!!!!! Snow, snow, and more snow here. I've had trouble getting pictures posted, so hopefully will get those posted soon. I started driving to work this morning and got 2 miles down the road and decided to turn back. Guess I better get those skis on and get out in the woods!

BIRD

What's this?

If you can't get this one....

Dedication

I'm dedicating this post to my dear dog friend Sebastian who passed away a few days ago. He made it to the ripe old age of 15. The only dog I've known who prefers Bach to dog biscuits. Hopefully, he's singing away up there in dog heaven.

Pajama Poll

OK....cast your vote on your favorite PJs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

'nuff said

Happy Birthday Miss A!

I-man's buddy Miss A turned 1 today! Happy Birthday!!!!

Today's bird!

What's this?

Cute stuff to brighten your day

uncle 4 pointed me to this website about CUTE things. Sure to make you smile

"Now accepting applications" or "Today's grade: challenging and playful"

Picked up the boy from daycare today and his eyes were bloodshot he was so frickin' tired. Only slept about 15 minutes and only when held. I really need to move "the magic couch" into daycare. He sleeps on that for 2 hours some days. He also got "challenging" and "playful" marked on his flowsheet today. I'm pretty fed up with our daycare situation and really need to make a change. So, we are now accepting appplications for a part-time nanny. Free room and board (if we've done grocery shopping), cute kid to hang out with, happy dog to keep you company, an aloof cat makes an occasional appearance, woods to take walks across the street. All in scenic N. Indiana. Any takers out there?

I'm going to live a long time

A recent NYT article: A surprising secret to a long life: stay in school

New Year's Eve

Such an exciting event at our house this year. The husband was sick with some GI bug and spent all day on the couch trying to keep water down. He couldn't even eat ice cream! The boy and I got kind of bored. The weather was dreary. Rainy. Grey. Cool. We were supposed to go out and get some much needed shopping/exchanges done. Ugh. I was not motivated to do that on my own. I called my sis by 9am, called my mom by noon or so, watched part of English Patient, I-man and I took a nap. I don't think I even took a photo all day?! I called Aunty Assistant Prof. H (AAPH) at 8pm since I really needed to have a conversation with someone! Always can count on AAPH for a good conversation. She was reading a book and trying to stay up past the midnight fireworks, lest they wake her up from a slumber and keep her up. We talked for 88 minutes.

She is the fastest reader I know. I was hoping she'd give me a synopsis of this month's book club book: Galileo's Daughter. She didn't. I've listened to it on books-on-tape, but haven't been able to get even half-way through the book due to the active little 14.5 lb parasite of mine.

Mad Scientist, Jr.

MAD SCIENTIST, JR.
This was his hairstyle after a long nap....

Photoshop fun

THANKS TO GOOD FRIEND JESS AND PHOTOSHOP WE'VE GOT
THIS COOL PICTURE OF THE BOY

Bird O' the day!

What's this?

Merry Christmas

MERRY CHRISTMAS !!!!!

Merry Christmas Eve

Ike wanted to wish you all a Merry Christmas Eve. He celebrated the day by eating, crawling and climbing, napping for 2 hours, crawling and climbing, crawling after the vacuum cleaner, eating, going for a walk (well...he rode) in the woods, eating, napping for 2.5 hours, and is now playing with some puzzles. He hopes you all have had a good day!

Name that bird!!!!!!!!!!

  

From our window this morning

Sly napping....

 

You can't see his eyes, but the I-man is napping in this picture. He just came from the doctor where he weighs in at a whoppin' 14 lbs 8 oz, I've decided we should change his name to something BIGGER sounding like Bruno or something like that. Anyone else have name suggestions? 

car trip continued

 
 
 
  

Car trip home.....

 
 
 
  

One of Ike's favorite things.......

 

Now that the boy can crawl he can decide where he wants to go. This morning he crawled right over to one of his favorite things...the BIG RED VACUUM. It's SO cool....And the funny thing is that Maggie HATES the vacuum so she runs around when I turn it on. 

If this picture doesn't say GUILTY all over it I don't know what it says....

  

Happy Crawler!!!!

 

This picture about sums up our week.... 

Bird of the week

 
Since the last bird picture brought in a lot of responses I thought I'd try another. What is this? 

THIS is an interesting idea. A couple decides where to move next based on an internet poll?! Check out their blog
< Since then, nearly 3 million votes have been cast. South Bend is among the top three cities with about 500,000 votes. Plano, Texas, led Wednesday night with more than 600,000 votes. Savannah, Ga., is also in the mix.
"The South Bend run is an interesting one because it's one of the few cities we can't really pinpoint where the votes are coming from," de Zayas said. "The last four or five days, it's really kicked into gear."

Heheheeeee....

A dedicated father

 

Here is my bro-in-law sewing on the patches of my nephew's Scout shirt. This was before he knew G'mama was coming over (sewing on the patches for Scouts is usually her job). The nephew woke up that morning and said "FINALLY today I get my Scout shirt".  

Christmas party --bahumbug?

So we have Christmas parties this weekend. Both for my work and The Husband's. We've decided not to go to either. Neither was too much fun last year and we can still use the "we have a baby" excuse. I don't want to go to his and he doesn't want to go to mine....so we are not going to either. Are we being too Scrooge-like?