January Stuff

What a long, fairly miserable month! I swear someone in the house was sick at least every week, and it was just nasty, cold, gloomy weather for a good portion of the month. There were however a few fun things that happened. Here's a quick run down via pictures, videos, and face book statuses (stasusi?)

Kaiden has officially started really crawling, and the kid is FAST! It makes life much more interesting having a toddler, plus a crawling baby. It also makes it much more difficult to mop or vacuum when the baby likes to chase it around.

He has also started crawling up the stairs. Sadly that also means that he ends up falling down them more often than I'd like.


1-3 Two days ago Noah had a goober that he wanted me to get for him. By the time I got to him he said he had gotten rid of it. I just found it on the wall outside his room.

1-4 Kaiden is chewing on my toe. When I ask him what he's doing, he laughs at me.

1-13 Noah spent a good portion of today filling a laundry basket with K's toys, then dumping them on him.

1-21 Noah pooped on the potty! You know you're a parent when bodily functions are this exciting.

1-27 As he was coloring today Noah said "Look! Blue prints like Bob the Builder. There, voila, perfect!"

1-29 Evidently all that Noah needed to entertain himself today was an electric toothbrush, and some of Zander's underwear.

1-30 Today we bought bunk beds for the boys. Kaiden obviously isn't in it yet, but Noah made the transition flawlessly.

1-31 Just gave K his first haircut. He thought it was hilarious.

Bountiful Baskets

I'm in love with Bountiful Baskets. It's a produce co-op. You pay $15 per basket, you get 6 fruit, 6 veg, and you never really know what you're going to get, but it's always pretty darn fantastic. This is the second basket that I've ordered, and I'm going to continue ordering them every other week.
It also helps that my location is like a 10 minute walk down the street, so I just pack the kiddos up in the jogging stroller, and we go and get a bunch of produce, and take a nice little walk all at once.

Snap, Crackle, Pop

This morning Noah discovered that his Rice Krispy cereal 'talks' to him. He spent the morning listening to it, and occassionally talking back. The smart little kid also grabbed himself a cutting board and a knife so that he could cut up his banana like Mommy and put it on his cereal.

Dinosaur Museum!

We've been wanting to take Noah back to the dinosaur museum for quite a while now. He hasn't been since he was really little, and we thought that he'd enjoy it more now. All day long we were talking about going, and he was really excited. It helps that there's an episode of Caillou where they go to a dinosaur museum, and Noah is currently obsessed with that show.

Zander and I tried really hard to get him to care about the dinosaurs, and fossils, and to read some of the plaques for ourselves, but he just didn't really care much about them. He did however love the displays and activities that were aimed towards his age group.

Lots of food and friends

The 'girls' all convened again today for lunch. Honestly this is one of the happiest things for me. Me and my childhood friends have started getting together every couple of weeks for a fun afternoon out, and it's a BLAST! There's a good amount of time spent catching up on what's been going on in each other's lives, talking about random pointless things, and lots and lots of random OLD memories come up as well. Today we had Emily, Ashley, Kristi, Catherine and me all having lunch together at La Jolla Groves down in the Riverwoods. Fantatsic food, good friends, great time.

I got all of the ornaments off of the Christmas tree this morning, except that I left the angel on top because I couldn't reach it. Noah didn't' like that I left her up there and asked me to take it down. I explained that I couldn't reach it because I'm too short, so he went and got a chair for me.......

Noah's Fortune

This was Noah's fortune tonight:

You will be a great success - both in business and social situations.

How's that for a fantastic fortune to get?