Friday, March 11, 2011

incentive

oh so close to crawling, baby girl just needs something to reach toward...

3/10

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

warped

the eldest asked me to help him make warp pipes today.  although we did some photos together of sonic and tails going through, i wasn't happy with any of them.

so i did some on my own with shadow.


going in the pipe
and coming out into a new world...

Monday, March 7, 2011

anniversary

baby girl is "wild for [her] dad", and so am i...



























jill & rene 
03.07.1998




Sunday, March 6, 2011

butt words

i'm sad that baby girl has almost outgrown these (and the burgundy pair embroidered with "happiness is mama's milk")...  it's funny to think that there will come a day when i will probably cringe to see words across her butt.


Friday, March 4, 2011

accoutrement

the eldest has spent the last two days creating a whole arsenal of mario gear.  he actually has two pieces that we can't find, and didn't want me to take a picture without them... so i waited until he was asleep.  ;-)






















top row: frog suit, invincibility star & superleaf, 1-up mushroom (i think), yoshi
middle row: super boots, metal mushroom, penguin suit, bee mushroom
bottom: fire flower, propeller mushroom, spring mushroom, ice flower
not pictured: yoshi egg and cape feather



Thursday, March 3, 2011

sit down in your thinking chair...

and think...  think...   thi-eeee-ink!

they are streaming some early seasons of Blues Clues on Netflix right now (which i appreciate, because Steve is awesome. Joe in the later seasons is totally lame. and yes, i actually have an opinion on which one is better.  (on a similar note, i also think that George Carlin is the best conductor ever)).  i actually saw a lot of the early BC episodes on air, when my now 16-year-old nephew was a toddler, so maybe that's why i'm a little partial to the show (and to Steve)...

whatever the reason, it really made me smile when the eldest cut out his own "clues" and had me find them:

the first "paw print", which was on our TV. 
#2, on super mario galaxy 2
#3, on the sonic & tails stuffies



























































he then made me sit down in our recliner and pretend it was our thinking chair, so i could figure out the clues.

which i did, because i'm really smart.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

checking in...

i had well child checkups for the younger son and baby girl yesterday...
it's hard to get a great picture when you don't want to let someone roll off the counter.



















and happy 5 month birthday to my jagunda daughter~  18.12 lbs, 26.75 in long!
(and the 4 yr old big brother was 41 lbs, 42.5 in tall)

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

wash, rinse, repeat

i've cloth diapered all of my kids.  i love it.

























i have used several different kinds, but eventually came back to the awesome Mother-Ease One Size Fitteds (which i use almost exclusively with wool covers).
my current stash is made up of white MEOS diapers that i'd bought originally for my eldest in 2005, sold to a friend when i switched to pocket diapers, and then rebought from her when i switched back.
the colored diapers were originally purchased white and dyed by a friend (before ME started selling their own colored versions), who then sold me her stash when her son potty trained.  i also bought a few more diapers from another friend, which had been dyed by that same mama.


here they are folded:
























yes, i am anal enough that i alternate my whites with the colors, and also which way they face to help the stack stay upright.

oh, and this is only half of my stash...