picture post

I figured it was time for a real post since my last two were cartoons and "cats in negative". So here is the past 5 days:




These were taken Sunday, while I was grocery shopping...look closely and you can see that there is chocolate around his mouth. While mom is away, Dad and Baby will play (and eat chocolate!).


Check out those cheeks!


Eli is showing you his teeth...nice gap, buddy!




"Squinty face"!!!

So I got back from getting groceries, and it was bath time...not for Elijah, but for Sadie. Her dermatitis was bad again, and I decided that a bath might be the best remedy. Adam had to watch Elijah so we have no video of the procedure, but here are some pictures from after while she was drying in the bathroom:


Recognize that last picture?? Not her most flattering picture but I think it's funny!

Then there was the ice storm we had. It was terribly icy in the morning hours, but by mid morning, it had turned to snow. We had HUGE snowflakes...they had to have been pushing golf ball size flakes! I took a few pictures of the snow falling...you can sort of see the "hugeness" of the flakes:





The next pictures were taken yesterday. Elijah just started to wear some of his 18 month clothes...they are still huge on him, but we just cuff the pants.


I like the last picture because his legs look SO short!


This is what he does when he's hungry now...he walks over to his chair and starts smacking it. It's pretty cute actually...

Then, after he woke up from his nap, I showed him his Christmas present from Grandma and Grandpa Bright:


We even got the straps situated and at the right height for him:

Oops...I think Sadie thought it was a new chair for her!

Dinner time!
Don't worry...he's not crying. He was making crazy noises by buzzing his lips!




When he eats now, he puts the food in his mouth, and puts his paci back in before he chews...crazy kid!

Well, that is all for now. Hope everyone has a good day.

My day in pictures

This is today:

Our neighbor, , hurt his back , and is off work, and cannot help remove snow. No one else upstairs knows how to make a shovel work. So it is on us this time. No big deal...Adam is working and the baby is sleeping so this was me two hours ago:

I didn't mind at all...it was good exercise. I didn't mind until I looked outside and saw the following in my front yard:

None of the neighborhood children had to go to

today and they all used OUR HILL for their fun.
There was snow all over sidewalks, etc.

It was OK. After all, it was/is still .

So, about 45 minutes ago, I

again...trying to stay ahead of the elements. It is supposed to get cold tonight and turn icy.

I was warming up, and just looked out the window:

AGAIN!!!!!

Now, this is me:

THE END

creepy

Sooo...you wanna see something kinda creepy???













Wait, it's really creepy...when I saw it, it made me catch my breath!












Are you sure? Cuz I don't want to show you if you don't want to see it!













OK, you've been warned...count to ten slowly...

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ten!


That's Sadie...in negative form! I'm creeped out, indeed!

Have a good day!

We got some cute pictures and videos in the past couple days that I really wanted to share with everyone...


This is Sadie's NEW shirt to keep her from licking her scabs (still gross!). She was NOT really happy about it, as I think her expression makes pretty clear! Poor lady! Eventually, we gave in and took it off for awhile...which is when the fun began:


Finnegan in a much too small sweater!


And Hussy looking mighty cute in the sweater!

Later last night, Adam and I were putting plastic on our windows. We were doing Elijah's room and he was hanging out with us and "helping". Elijah likes to "help" me do things in his room by dumping things out, as evidenced in a previous post. So here is Elijah helping us plastic windows:

No, he didn't climb into the basket by himself...Daddy put him there but it was cute nonetheless! And here are some of Daddy with Elijah-in-a-basket:

The second picture is a pretty close picture of his "squinty smile"!

Later, Elijah found the thermometer on his bookshelf and decided to try to eat the case:

Crazy monkey...check out that drool soaked chin he's sporting!

Today is a yucky day...started snowing around noon and it looked so pretty. I thought maybe when Elijah woke up from his nap, we would go outside for awhile. Not a chance...all that nice snow turned to ice, sleet, freezing rain. I know the Iowans can relate...you guys have the same stuff from what I heard on the news! Yuck...so we're all stuck inside, listening to the ice-snow-whatever hit the windows. Elijah is still not completely well. He's super crabby and super clingy. The second part I don't mind. He comes up to me all day long and wants to be snuggled. The crabby part is a little much. It'll pass...

So I've got some more pictures to post...not much else to do today! Actually, I was going to go outside and shovel while Elijah was napping again awhile ago, but our upstairs neighbor took care of it. Larry (the guy upstairs, not the cucumber) even salted everything. Good guy...they might argue a bit too frequently for my liking but they're OK by me!

So, here are the pictures. First, a few from yesterday. Let me explain first that Sadie, my black cat, has been "under the weather" lately. She has a severe case if feline dermatitis! So the first pictures are of the t-shirt we constructed to try to keep her from licking her scabs off (I know, gross, right?)

This was the prototype that Adam made while I was putting Elijah to bed one night. She figured out how to get out of it, however, so Adam cut another sleeve off of one of his shirts and this is what resulted:

We tried to tell her how beautiful she was, and that her shirt was super cool...but later that night when we went to bed, she sneaked into the couch and wriggled out of it again! Crazy Sadie Lady!

So Elijah and I had to take her to the vet yesterday. It was super cold...and Elijah had to get all bundled up for the trip...

...in his new coat, hat and mittens from Grandpa and Grandma Guenther. Actually, the coat is just the liner part of his whole coat. It's super cool...like a Columbia jacket that you zip together or take apart? And the part he has on in the picture is reversible...the inside is fleece, however, and I thought that would be more comfy for him!

So we went to the vet, and Sadie got a shot of cortisone. Elijah got a new toy from the vet:

It's a squishy, stress ball like thing...in the shape of a capsule! Our vet got it from one of the drug companies and he and Elijah played with it in the lobby while I was paying the bill. So Sadie got cortisone and Elijah got a huge, fake pill. Good times!

So on to today. Finnegan was enjoying watching the snow earlier:


and Elijah ate an early dinner a little bit ago:





...mmm, turkey dogs and carrots! It's one of his favorite meals lately...well, at least until he decides to start dropping it on the floor!

If you look, however, he didn't start dropping until he was pretty much done! Good baby-baby!