A Day in the Life

Hi everybody! It's Liz. I know, don't freak out. Have you seen this painting by Norman Rockwell before? I love it. If I were rich, I'd buy it for the boys' room. I just thought I'd borrow the idea and give you a glimpse into my boys' world rather than a REALLY long catch-up post. Here goes.......


A day in the life of Josh:

Wake up and head outside. Help Dad shovel the driveway and sidewalk if there's been snow. Lately, it's been dumping.

All work and no play makes Josh a dull boy.

Head to preschool at Miss Kristi's and make some ridiculously cute craft that you'll demand to keep in your room for the requisite 3 months before finally forgetting you have it and not noticing that your Mom snuck it to the garbage. What?




Eat nothing off your lunch plate and make yourself a cozy bed somewhere in the house (under the crib, in a beanbag, on two kitchen chairs pushed together) just in time to fall asleep.

Wake up and play with friends - usually best friend Jonah. This box is a transformer. When asked what it transforms into, you reply "a box". duh.




Eat dinner. Your favorite being anything with sticky rice. Seriously, did it have to be sticky rice?

Have a bath. Make something to show Daddy. This is an x-ray. Run laps with Charlie around the house for about 20 minutes and then...





Fall fast asleep surrounded by your "creatures".

A day in the life of Charlie:

Wake up happy and eat twice the breakfast that your big brother eats.



Where does all that food go? Your hair?




Head outside to play with your brother. There's a rule in my house; nobody gets real snow clothes until they're at least 2 feet tall.




Play in Joshy's room and read books while he's in preschool. Yes...that is a jet pack 3000.




Play everywhere else and make big messes until Daddy gets home.

Eat dinner with the family (and again eat twice what Josh does) being very careful to use your best table manners.



No it doesn't matter how many times you ask. I'm not going to tell you what's on that finger.



Have a bath. Have a story. Run laps with Josh until you collapse in exhaustion at the very late hour of 7:00.

So there you go. I hope your homes are as dirty and happy as mine. Now I'm going to go collapse in my own bed.

Trip to Overton

A few weeks ago I was able to take a Friday off of work and we made a 3 day weekend trip to Overton. The major activity we did was make a trip into Vegas and see some of the things on the strip that Liz hadn't ever been able to see. We also hit up a Barffet, but we steered clear of the one at the Luxor ( Yemenyade and a Roosta Bee-ah). It was right around the time of Joshy's birthday, so Grammy Jo and Bampa took him to build-a-bear, where we did our best to keep him from picking something hideous. Apart from Vegas, it was mostly just a nice, relaxing trip where we could watch a movie, get in the hot tub, and just take it easy. So, on to the pictures...

Josh was very excited to get to build his own bear.

The initial bear selection was the crucial moment that needed lots of input from us. The Saint Patrick's day bear and the Kitty Cat were very enticing to Joshy.

Choosing an outfit was less dangerous, as you can see, but he changed his mind about 15 times.

In the end it was Batman. When it was time to give the bear a name, Josh said "Batman!".

Charlie was getting bored, but still being good, even though he wasn't the center of attention.

Grammy and Bampa did their best to entertain as we walked through the many casinos.

The last thing we did was visit a fun garden at the Bellagio with giant ants and yard things.

He showed us what those ants were doing. Everyone around laughed out loud.

He loves his Bampa.

And this is how the day ended.

Playing Ketchup

We know we haven't updated in a very long time. Lizzy has started up teaching ballet again, Josh has been steadily gaining in Potty Power, and I've been sick since the trip to Overton ( I got better this week ). Charles is mastering the Exersaucer and coughing for attention. We'll have to do a better job of posting the little things we go through week to week in the future, but for now here's a bunch of pictures we've taken over the past couple of months.

Two happy boys.

Joshy on snow day.

He wanted to give him a hug.

Charlie studying.

Josh loves my old Legos.

Playing "big chess". Josh knows all the pieces including the "Ping Pawns" and the "Rooktangles".

Charlie can only look and wish.

Josh and his tinfoil football helmet. The Heisman pose just isn't the same when you have a grin like that on your face.

And now for a game. What is this a picture of? Scroll down to see the answer.

Made you look!

And just a few of Charlie...

We didn't have any pics of Charlie on Halloween, so here's some we took recently...

Charlie on blessing day.

OK, we had to include this one. That's mom's boot thingy on his head.

All Hallows' Eve

Well, everybody is going to be posting their Halloween stuff, so we thought we'd get a jump on it. Friday we went to the Omniture party and had a blast. Charlie fell asleep and Josh went from area to area loving every minute of it (except for the pirates in the Peter Pan scene and any witch we happened to run into). We went straight from there to Lizzy's extended family party. Liz's costume was a huge hit. When we walked in people started gathering around, laughing in amazement/disgust. There was good food and lots of games for the kids.

Today we took turns taking Josh around the neighborhood. At first he was very excited and was saying "Happy Halloween, Kid!" to everybody we ran into. He liked looking around at all the other costumes he recognized. After a while, though, he kind of pooped out, and we ended up sitting on the porch with him the rest of the night handing out candy. All in all it was a fun weekend. Here's some pics:

Junice from the SNL Lawrence Welk show spoof.

Stuart from Mad TV.

Lizzy's major award.

Sinead O'Connor


Liz made this entire costume, minus the inflatable wings.

Josh will be eating candy for a long time coming (as if he needs any more energy).