BEARly making it.

Sometimes I feel like this.

Pissed Off

Poor Baby P.

This whole crawling, turning and sitting thing can be a bit of burden for our poor boy. He can't seem to figure out that he is just too big to be trying to sit under the table.

Poor Bear. It looks like he is hurt in these pictures, but in reality he is just pissed off.

Speaking of pissed off. This is what happened when I wouldn't make peanut more popcorn. She got sent straight to bed with no stories. Well, I thought there would be no stories, but I hear her father in there now. He is so naughty.

She isn't a very pretty crier.

Celebration

The diploma showed up in the mail. It was nice to see it. I might even have it framed. It is funny to see 5 years of work all summed up in one little 8 X 10 certificate. It seems like it should at least be a little bit bigger.

Mr. T. said we could always take it to kinkos....

Crumb

I tried a new technique for making bread and ended up with one of the best crumbs I have had in a long time. The technique was way simpler than how I usually do it. Most of the time, my rustic breads require a starter of sorts that sits over night. For this bread, the whole dough sat over night in the refrigerator. The result was a chewy bread with big pockets of air and a thick crust.

No Playdates

Although you would have thought we were having one considering the number of Baby P's "friends" at the clinic today.

We now have RSV and TWO ear infections. poor bear. Unfortunately, he is not alone.

Luckily, sweet Baby P doesn't have a fever, and I think he might be on the up and up.

Tired Girl

But the flowers help....

i think

Wild Things

Max has nothing on her.

BLUEBERRIES

I have a bit of an obsession with taking pictures of my kids eating and sleeping.

we had sleeping yesterday, so here is eating.

magic Breasts

My breasts are magic. They can put a resolute infant to sleep.

hmm cupcake

Someone gave us a cupcake at the park. Peanut wanted the one with the cherry on top.

8 ounces

I left my milk in my purse last night. That is 8 ounces down the drain. Last week, I dumped 11 ounces down the drain. This is so frusterating.

coming down

Someone was very happy for daddy to be home. It has been really nice to see their relationship develop in the last couple of months. She no longer just calls for me all the time.

Memphis

I went to Memphis with my mom and Jen.

And this other little fellow who refused to nurse negating the whole reason I brought him. I will probably have to pump before I go to sleep. Oh well, at least he wasn't drinking from my stash.

Tip Toe Dance

Madeline is doing the tip toe dance for Jen because she wants her bike back. She had tired of it, but when Jen was on it... WATCH OUT.

I liked taking the kids to the river to ride. Sweet Baby P was on my back while I chased down Peanut.

From my Run

I thought this was an interesting bumper sticker.

it says, i'm for seperation of church and hate.

I am glad for you.

Blogger Challenge

The 21st photo from May. I loved this series. This was taken shortly before Baby P was born. We were finishing work on the kitchen. The weather was beautiful and we were outside enjoying a tofutti cutie before our bath.

Any question why we were outside?

She looks so young there. I challenge anyone else who is interested in the challenge.

Counter Clutter

I ripped into the package expecting to see my diploma. Instead, it was empty and there was no letter explaining why I had an empty folio. When I called, they said they will be printing them next week.

thanks. all that excitement for nothing.

In case you have to Ask....

Not to be used as infant formula.

How literal should I take that?

Cleaning up from Dinner

A Painted Sky

I couldn't beleive the sunrise this morning.

Sunday Supper

My MIL bought a subscription to Gourmet. So here it is, roasted chicken with pancetta and olives.

I bought a giant chicken at Kroger on Manger's special. It was awful. The texture was the absolute worst. Maybe it was because I froze and thawed it so much. Anyway, I am sorry I used it in this dish. Luckily, there was a smaller chicken to accompany it.

bacon and wine. Two of my favorite ingredients.

Birthday Party

i was taking a picture of the cake and didn't realize she was there.

i wish i had gotten her smile.

Hair Cut

This was taken on the iphone so it didn't turn out as well I wanted it to.

Guess what! Another wonderful Day at work

So I was driving to a project site (or I guess, more accurately, I was knitting while my coworker was driving), and I saw this.

Come to find out, it was someone's dream home up in smoke. It sucked. I could see really tall flames coming out of the roof. And being a horrible person, I tried to get a better picture.

So then we came to our job site and I saw this.

and the contractor goes running past me with a phone to his ear saying "I will be with you in a minute. We have a fire."

Seriously. Two fires in one day. That is never what you want to hear you contractor say. Of course the first words out of my mouth were, "We didn't start this did we."

And as a parting gift here is some firefighting.

And thirty minutes later the fire department shows up.

So Big

I like this picture because even though you can't see her face, you can tell she is concentrating. I like that she is in focus and that the world isn't. The world also seems slightly off balance compared to her.

Cupcakes (2 kinds)

"Momma, I want Science Lady Cupcakes."

"These are Science Lady Cupcakes."
"They are?", in a super excited voice. The kind of voice that just heard "These cupcakes have the magical power of Aerial and the whole science lady crew. You can have as much as you want."

Notice the splatters of food all up her sweet face.

The Big Freeze

I stole Mr. T. pictures because mine were taken after dark. Man, this week is going to be BUSY.

SHIT

I had a whole set of pictures where Daisy took peanut for a walk, but this one is way better. Mr. T. is fixing a sewer pipe in the backyard. Notice the full face mask to protect against pieces of flying poo.

It's sunny outside

So we went to the park and took off our shoes.

And I went to on a ride by myself.

Milk and Coffee anyone?

I was just thinking today how boring this is becoming. Thank God for my phone so I can get caught up on the news.

Happy New Year