Next Bird Challenge

OK--that was too easy. Who is this?

Return of "NAME THAT BIRD"!!!

We got snow, so the birds are coming to the feeders in droves.
I'll start you out with an easy one

Quiet Monday

I-man and I ventured out of the house this morning. We had some freezing rain over the weekend which made roads tough to travel yesterday. So, we canceled all of our Sunday plans and just stayed home. I watched some Christmas movies, The Husband did some work, I-man took a 3 hour nap. Today we really wanted to get out of the house. We went to the HealthWorks kids museum. We were the ONLY ones there!!!! Guess everyone else is still scared of the roads or something.

Winter Joy!

Artists at work

The boy and I pulled out the water colors today.....Here is our joint creation!

Laziest on the block

So...The Husband and I are officially the laziest on the block. As IF there was any doubt before, it's now official. Our neighbor has now cleaned up the leaves in our yard TWICE just because she is nice and she is retired and she is so thankful to have at least one GOOD neighbor (the drug-dealing dude across the creek is the other neighbor). Unfortunately I don't have a good "before" picture, but I think you can imagine it based on the trees in our yard. Here is the "after" picture. This is 1 day AFTER...so there are some scattered leaves here and there. Yesterday afternoon there was not ONE leaf on the whole driveway. A little scary, if you ask me.

Was this your house?

The houses along the main road by our house are coming down! Just a day or so ago there was a house standing here.

The world has a new color

What are you laughing at?

"Bus"

OK---so the I-man has discovered the song"Wheels on the Bus". Please help us!
It's a pretty annoying song...so I became determined to find the least annoying version of this song. My project this weekend was to browse samples on iTunes to find just that! AND I THINK I FOUND IT!!! Thank you Victor Johnson for making this album: Country Blues for Kids
Take a listen. You might even like it!!!

What color is that?

If you ask the I-man that question he will tell you PURPLE! He doesn't even need to LOOK at what you are asking...he knows it's purple. Everything is purple. Purple cars, purple toes, purple ball. It makes us laugh..but how do we know he isn't right?

Playground safety

Does this slide look safe for a 1 1/2 year old? Does this slide look safe for a 30 + year old? I should say NOT, but what does the 1 1/2 year old want to climb the whole time we are at the park? The friggin' stairs of said slide. Doesn't want to slide down, just wants to climb the steps to the top. I do not like this slide.

Cool Toys!

I LOVE this site Back to Basics Toys.
Who else had this...the Evel Knievel Super Stunt Set!!!!!

Accountable even in someone else's dream?

So, what do you think? The other night The Husband made a cameo appearance in my dream. I-man and I were driving to meet him for lunch, in the dream, and called him to let him know we were on our way. He said "OK. Can we make it a quick lunch?"

This response irritated me! Why couldn't he have called and just said he was busy that day and we should meet up another day. I mean we were driving all the way over to HIS work to have lunch with HIM and he acts like it's a big inconvenience to have a nice lunch with us!?!?

The Husband claims that he's not responsible for what he does/says in MY dream, but I beg to differ. What do you think?

Dog walk: the dialog!

OK!!! We now have a new feature to the Dog Walk series! The dialog! On Sunday morning we all went on the dog walk (well, except the cat). There was running commentary the whole way by the youngest member of the group. There was LOTS of pointing, too.

Pointing and saying..."Guck! Guck" (truck)
"mmm!" (I'm not sure how to write this...it sounds something like the peeps from a guinea pig)
"ower" (flower)
"doggies"
"mmmm!"
"cars, cars"
"Mama's, mmmm! Dada's"
"Doggies"
"Guck"
"rocks"
" slide" "all done"

It's October.....

Do YOU have your Halloween costume picked out?

Product recognition

So the other day I was about to put the I-man into the car and I opened the front car door to put my bag down. He spots an old Starbucks cup sitting in the holder next to the driver's side and points to it saying "Dada, Dada".

I've given in....

Most of you know what a mess our yard is. Shady, patchy, and full of crappy out-of-control ground cover. Well....I've finally had it with a patch of dirt next to the driveway where we used to have a woodpile. What to plant there....hmmm....I hate to confess that I've given in and bought some Hostas. The Walmart of plants. Here are my plants and below is the area where I hope to plant.

Back home

I-man and I are back home after a week vacation. We went to Minnesota (to the lake, of course) where we had fun jumping on a trampoline with cousins. We also went to Kentucky where we had fun sliding down the big dog and riding a pony with his cousin. We are back home, now. Not too happy about it!!!!!!!!!

Cars

I-man is a car guy. This started a few weeks ago and now he'll demand for one of us to push cars around with him on the floor or on the ottoman. Here's a photo of a few of them the other day. I was thinking of getting him a doll and tea set to balance him out a little bit.