Brock

Meet Brock. Alestair's friend. This is just after we went to the Childern's Museum here in Everett and Brock got to stay for part of the night. It was hillarious! Brock and Alestair together plan and then carry out how to take apart the house. After dinner they both went to the laundry room door in the corner of the kitchen and wispered to each other (see picture). When I tried to take a picture Brock stood still and Alestair tried to attack...pictured. When it came to bed time. Both boys talked to each other for a good 45min. It was like back in the day having sleep overs or pretty much every night in my house with Kristy and Stacy in the same room. I had to go into the room about 3 times and tell them to go to sleep. Brock was very good and would lay down as soon as he heard me at the door while Alestair would be standing up and just point to Brock and say "Rock?" like "Brock's here I don't need to sleep". It was fun just the same.

A very unsightly picture of Emmett as a pumpkin

Yes that is right we painted him...or his bump on me.

We thought Alestair would have a good time with this but he really did not like having paint on him at all. Robert ended up doing all the painting with Alestair looking very upset that "baby" was getting painted. I know this picture makes my belly look huge but realize that Robert took the picture and it is a bit distorted.

Update on Baby 2

We have decided on a name and I am not allowing changes since it stresses me and makes me feel unprepared. These are unacceptable feeling for me. His name is Emmett Baird Butler. Unless he turns out to be a girl in which case her name will be Fay something but pretty sure he is a boy...my boys flash. I had a check up today and everything is going well. Contruary to how gigantic I feel I am gaining perfectly and Emmett seems to be as well. He likes to show off and do flips everytime they listen to his heart. I was also told that this is my second to last 4 weeks apart appointment. After the glucose testing at the next appointment I will not only have to not give my blood to them but also go to having appointments 2 weeks apart. I am a bit nervous, but will be much happier when I get to hold Emmett out rather than in. He moves more than Alestair did and it doesn't always feel so nice. We also got Emmett a bassinett that I have cleaned up and it looks really cute. I made some space in our room for him and it looks cute as well.

First Library Card

Alestair got his first library card today! They let him pick the picture on the card and sign his paper (they don't need to you to sign the card since its a computer system now). They also took his picture and gave him a little book bag that matches his book worm card. He was very excited.

It doesn't look like he is happy here but I caught him trying to sneak into my room. This is the first book he checked out from the library. Its is a board book that has little animation pictures on every page.

On Janruary First 2010

We had low-key New Year's Day. After staying up all night with friends playing games; we all slept in a bit. :) After Alestair and I woke up and ate breakfast Robert had a plan. We would make homemade ice cream! That we did! It was vanilla and tasted sooo good! Very close second to homemade snow ice cream. Alestair would have nothing to do with it. He just wanted the ice. We also did a few puzzles online to avoid the puzzle muncher. As you can see Alestair was quite excited about this. He loves to watch us put the puzzles together. If you want to do this too we use jigzone.com There are a ton of options for choosing puzzle pictures and the size/amount of pieces and shape.

Drawing-Very Serious Business

Santa is REAL

Just in case some of you were not aware how real Santa is: While growing up my family with six children Santa always had a hard time finding spots for the gifts so he would end up putting one box of one person's gifts hidden, wrapped up in my mom's closet. I assumed this was just because of the amount of space but this year having Christmas with just our family we found that Santa did the same thing! Seriously he hid four(4) gifts for the family in my closet. So Spooky! We found them and now have "Horton Hears a Who", Beatrix Potter Collection on DVD, and "101 Dalmations" special edition. Alestair also got a new outfit out of this Hidden Santa find. I think Santa has this planned! I will keep you posted on next year...