A Countdown to 6!!!

The Boy Will Be 6 in 1 DAY! Oh My!

I will always, in part, think of him as my wee boy. He is clearly not so wee anymore.

He is 2 days old here. Isn't he precious??

 

 Look, they are causing trouble sooo early!

Messy eater still too.

 And he STILL lets her dress him up.

Ridding Pinkie Pie down the slide.

Dude!

Got no idea what he's doing here.

Look! I'm up!

 

Sitting with Boompa.

Still sits on sister like this. A lot. Daily. 

So.. My wee baby is 6 in 1 more day! Happy Birthday my big sweet precious boy!

BEAR -The Puppy!

I know it's been a long time since I put pics of the *new* puppy, BUT since I'm currently sitting here with not a whole lot else to do (knee surgery will do that for you apparently) - time has been freed up! These were taken of Bear and Timmy about a week or so ago and the wee guy has already gotten a decent amount bigger. 

Bear working on his "Sit". He actually does it very well for a piece of beef jerky already!

He's just trotting along..

Playing with some bones and toys.

Chewing on a bone. So far, he hasn't torn up anything in the house. Dig holes outside, YES. Roll in the mud, Yes. Tear up anything inside, No!!

Timmy was looking a bit jealous and wanted his picture taken too.

Timmy is a fantastic "Sitter" for beef jerky.

And a ham for a camera. 

Still going at that bone..

The prettiest girl EVER and a great beagle puppy! 

More bone. He likey the bone..

I'm guess we all got the idea about bones now.. :p

1st Snow 2012

While I'm not really sure *most* people consider this snow, in OK we consider this snow. The kids certainly considered it enough snow to go out and play it. Really? It was about an inch and gross and melted off by noon, but who am I to tell them no. So at 8 am they bundled themselves up (I know right! They can totally do it themselves now!!!) and headed out to play and hopefully not eat the nasty snow.

Bread Amazement

You know you make your own bread a little bit TOO much when you go to Walmart and buy a loaf of sandwich bread and the kids both get SUPER excited about it. Then when the boy excitedly says: "Oh, mom can I eat some right when we get home? It looks delicious!" And then as he is carrying the bread to the buggy to put it in and is examining it he stares at it in amazement and practically yells in wonder: "Mom, mom it's already sliced. The bread is already sliced IN the bag! How did they get it already sliced IN the bag??!!? Do you see this, the bread comes ALREADY SLICED!!"

We are in the middle of Walmart and the boy is having an fit of excitement about Sliced Bread.  And yes, people were staring and laughing. There was no hiding that one. I did add the clarifying "When we make it at home, we have to slice it.." But no really, people just flat out thought we were nuts because "the bread comes already sliced in the bag."

And for something completely different:

What could be sadder than:

A sick and sneezy kitten??

2 sick and sneezy kittens!!!


Both Jinx and Squirtle (yes, Squirrel has been renamed to a Pokemon's name.. ) are sad and pathetically sick and sneezy and on antibiotics now. Although they are both super sickeningly cute as they curl up together on someone's (read: my) lap and snuggle to get pets.

A Formal Introduction

It's time for a formal introduction to the 2 newest members of our family.

Meet Squirrel or Squirtle as his name is slowly becoming:

He is about 16 weeks old now. He's the super fuzziest, loviest fellow. He runs and dives into people's laps for love. Literally dives from about 5 foot away. He has recently found his feisty.


And now Jinx. He is our Christmas kitten. There was a brief intro in the previous post, but who doesn't need more pictures now that we've plumped him up a bit and he's settling in so nicely?? He's about 12 weeks old. And yes, while there is an age difference the 2 are the same size. Jinx is gonna be HUGE.

And this is what happens when you put 2 kittens together with a scratch post:

Jinx dangles his long (really, freakishly long) tail down, wiggles it and Squirrel chases it as he climbs the cat toy like a coconut tree. This can go on for HOURS. Really, it does - I *might* have been helping it along with a cat nip mouse on a string.

Toys!

For Christmas, the kids both got gift cards (or money for picking out their own toy) from their Grandpas. They are JUST at that age where this is SUPER cool. A couple of days ago we went to Target and hit their toy Clearance Row. Yes, at 5-1/2 and 7 they KNOW and LOVE the clearance rows. Mattie ended up picking out this HUGE Matchbox brand boat that comes apart, floats, can be redesigned and was 60% off. He also got a couple of Imaginex creature things. That boy LOVES Imaginex toys.  Abby got 2 different BIG sets of Pokemon cards and a Pokemon toy. Both still had money left over.

After much debate, we decided to let them buy their own "weapon". Mostly because the boy REALLY wants to shoot something. Anything really. Wee boy picked out a Nerf gun (and extra amo). The first thing he does with it?? Looks right into it and shoots himself in the eye. The next thing? Looks right back down into it and almost does the same freaking thing! He's now on a "if you do that again" warning for a time out. For SHOOTING HIMSELF IN THE EYE. You would think that they pain aspect would have been enough to stop that from happening again, but nooooo.

Wee girl has opted to get a bow and arrow set. Oddly, Bed, Bath and Beyond (with a coupon of course) carries that for the best price. *Shrug* shows ya how much I know about the Bow and Arrow market. I would have guessed a sporting good store, Toys R Us.. Something like that. But No.. Bed, Bath and Beyond.

We shall see shortly how she wounds herself in this all, as we have yet to go get that. 

But, we figure they're gonna wound themselves somehow. May as well teach them how to maim themselves the least?? Or at least be able to take them to the dr. easily.

Christmas Day 2011

It's Christmas Day 2011

C got me this:

It's a 10ish week old kitten! We've named it Jinx.

 2 VERY excited kids!

A new video game - they each got a new (well, very used and cheap) DS.

Elastic Power Kit! Yay Science.

It's SO HUGE.. 

 Stockings!

Tengrams! 

 It's Lalaloopy..

 POKEMON cards. Wow do they like Pokemon! Thanks Wilcox Family!!!

Books. Books. Boooooks. A certain wee boy MAY have been cheering for books when he saw these.

The living room has officially vomited Christmas. It may never fully recover. But I guess sometimes that's the fun of it all. Well that and enough new toys for the kids to be amused for the next 6 months without complaining they are "Bored".