Wednesday, January 27, 2010

(Semi) Wordless Wednesday

3 Months old

2 months old

1 1/2 months old
7 months old

(thanks for the idea Kara)

Friday, January 22, 2010

Our New Addition

Meet Lucy
The Story:
Last Friday Jane came home from school begging us to get a chinchilla (someone had brought one to school.) Every second she was talking about it. I told her we'd go to the pet store to look at one and see how much they cost, etc... Turns out they are expensive and she doesn't get that much allowance- however parakeets were a lot less expensive.On Monday she didn't have school so I looked on Craigs List for a cage- found one for $5, B took the kids to the pet store as part of Family Night and now we own a bird.

This is how Kate napped today- note the sun shining in- LOVE IT!

Monday, January 18, 2010

Saturday is a Special Day...

We had a great weekend!
On Saturday morning we were up at 6:30- because who needs to sleep in?
(Oh, I really would LOVE to sleep in and don't get why they wake up so early on weekends and it's had to get them up on school days. )
We cleaned all morning & went to a yummy lunch with fabulous friends.
B took Bruce on a special date to the science museum.
Jane and I canned pears :
B played Lego's with James:
Then Kate helped me make cookies:We ate a delicious dinner:
We all played Duck Duck Bruce- a cool game Joanna sent us:Kate got dressed to go make a snowman:and went to bed- whew!(James in his crib)

Monday, January 11, 2010

James talking

Our little man loves to talk (and yawn):

Friday, January 8, 2010

Happy 5th Birthday Bruce!!

This cute guy is 5!
The day started off with cheesey eggs for breakfast
then off to preschool...
He had a great day at pre-K and brought sprinkle doughnuts.
We ate a birthday lunch of fries and chicken .

Grandma & Grandpa Damstedt called:
Thanks for the Lego's and clothes!

Grandma Miller called too:
He LOVES the package, especially the pictures in this.

Tonight it's a birthday dinner of hot dogs & cupcakes, more presents, singing, and tomorrow we all get to "bounce" around at his party.

We Love You BRUCE!

Saturday, January 2, 2010

Happy New Year!

Happy 2010 Everyone!We had a very fun New Years eve party complete with delicious dinner and BINGO!
Thanks friends!

We have also had so much fun this week with our dad home with us.
One day we went to the Strong museum with our friends:They have these really cool LEGO sculptures on display:

One day we went to the science museum with this cutie:A few days we had friends over here to play.
We will be sad on Monday- right?(working on it)
* In other news James has now moved to his crib and slept for 6 1/2 hours last night- yeah!

James, meet James

The Story:
My friend Katie has been my friend for almost 7 years now. We each have 4 kids, 2 boys 2 girls (both girl, boy, girl, boy pattern.) When I last saw her she was expecting her baby boy and they were choosing between naming him James or Ryan. I told her we liked Ryan too and we thought that would be fun to have both kids named Ryan. She actually went into labor THE next day and they named him James, 3 months later, we also were deciding between names for our little man and picked James too, but I forgot that's what Katie named theirs- crazy.
So now we each have 2 fun little James's.