New Appliances

We finally got new appliances, and could not be happier. We've been living with our old and cranky electric stove, broken dishwasher and small microwave since we moved in. We've upgraded and are both just in love with our new toys. We are now the proud owners of GE Cafe series gas stove, microhood and dishwasher. It's so nice to have these pretties in our home. Our stove has a double over, and bottom drawer can be used as a warming drawer. The microhood is just plum cool. It's super huge and does lots of fancy things. Our dishwasher is so cool - who knew you could load it up with dishsoap and it would wash load after load and then will tell you when you need to add more soap. It's so quiet, too. We can't beleive how quiet this thing is. Now that we've got these fancy new appliances the rest of our kitchen looks so outdated. Ah, does it ever end? We also plan on doing counters, but not sure when that will happen. I think we'll also look into refinishing our cabinets - give them a boost.

Time Keeps On Tickin'

Here we are!

We got so busy,I'm just finding some time now to check back in and update what's going on in our lives.

We finally sent out our holiday news letters (today) - haha.

NoNo isn't crawling yet. He seems interested some days, but most of the time he'd rather stand. He's even walked a little with a kids walker. We think he might skip crawling and go straight to walking. He's got 6 teeth now, and loves to eat and is getting the hang of feeding himself. He's talking - of course DaDa was the first thing he's said. It's very sweet. He also still gives the best hugs ever - although sometimes he forgets that your face is 'yours', and he tries to take if off.

Lambs is doing just great. She's still potty training, but more seriously now. She also just got her very first haircut. It was really cute. She enjoyed it just as much as I did. We've got a pic and some of her clippings to put in the babybook. She's doing great in school. Jr. Preschool really keeps her going and she's making some really good friends.

Speaking of baby books - OMG they are so hard to keep up with. I still have to put the writsbands in the books. I keep coming across them and tell myself - yikes, I better get these in those books before I loose them - and a week later, I say the same thing. ARG. I would love a few hours, some sissors, glue stick and some pictures. I could get both the kids books in order and up to date. Then the challenge would be to keep it up - in a few months I'll be behind again, oh how the pattern goes.

Watermelon Looses the Battle

I picked up a watermelon from the market last night. After chopping it up I decided to nurse NoNo while eating some. NoNo was so interested in it, he would pull my hand toward his mouth, tounge hanging out just waiting for a taste. I sat him up and let him have a little taste, which then turned into about a half hour of him 'tasting' it. He got really upset when I took it away. This morning I took him shopping for those little mess food bags, I said I'd never use - never say never, right? We got home and filled it with watermelon and he went to town. I can't wait to try other melons, now.

Pumping in the Garage

I took NoNo out with me this moring to run some errands. Lambs stayed home to hang out with daddy. I guess he had a few things to do in the garage, some he and Lambs spent a little time in the garage. To keep her busy, we always let her play with baby bottles on tables in the garage, which allows us to get thongs dpne. Aaron looked away for a minute o two and when he go her back in is sights this is what he found. He asked her what she was doing and she told him she was pumping her milk. HAHA. She just unzipped her jammies and started 'pumping' -haha.

She was happy to have daddy take a picture of her, too. Such a proud mamma.

My 'Owbie Toe'

My wife takes it as a personal affront that I have not yet contributed to the family blog, so I thought I might share the recent adventures of my right big toe.

It started last week in the form a partially ingrown toenail. Such occurrences are not uncommon for me and I figured it would run it's course and be good as new after a few days.

I was wrong. Monday was when I first noticed the puss oozing out from alongside my toenail. I saw it as a good sign, that the malignant fluid causing the swelling had finally escaped. As the days progressed, so did the amount of puss emitted. Walking became painful, and I decided it was finally time to see a medical professional.

At the Highlands Urgent Care Clinic, I was pampered with the finest treatment. First, a local anesthetic was administered by sticking a 16-gauge needle directly into the most sensitive area on my swollen toe... OUCH! This was followed by a 1/2" long incision along the side of my nail, and evacuation of the all resident fluid. Then the kind doctor scraped away the offending foreign material that had caused this predicament in the first place. As a final bonus, he also scraped away some additional nail growth the didn't belong. By now the anesthetic was starting to wear off, luckily all the was left was the bandage. Driving home was a real treat, as my toe had finally realized the abuse it had been subjected to.

The throbbing has finally subsided, thanks in part to pain medication, but primarily due to kisses from my daughter to make my 'owbie toe' feel better.

A Spit Bath, of Course

I'm home with my sweet little people today, just hanging out waiting for Layla to come over with baby Gabe. Nolan decides it'stime to nurse, yet again, just as Lambs is begging to watch Dora. NoNo settles in to nurse, and Lambs snuggles next to me to watch Dora. A few minutes later I notice Lambs lovingly stroking NoNo's head. As I pay a little more attention, I notice that she's spitting on her hand and rubbing it on NoNo's head. I asked her what she was doing as she simply said 'mommy I'm giving NoNo a bath to get him clean', and spit on her hand and kept 'bathing' him. HAHA - I had to laugh out loud, then suggest NoNo was all clean and she stopped. It was so cute.

Ah, I love my sweet babies.

Big Man Standing

NoNo slept last night. That's right - you heard it here - NoNo slept last night. I was so wonderful. He went to sleep around 8pm, woke at 1am to nurse, again at 2am to be topped off then back to sleep until around 5am. Aaron got up with him, they played a while, he ate again, and took a ride in the swing for a while and napped again. I am so happy he slept. We slept. Eveyone slept. Ah, little things bring us such joy. I post this happy face pic of our big man standing with a little help from daddy.