Decorating?

One of the 100,000 things I'm working on is picking out and putting together some type of boyish decor for William's new Big Boy Room. I am totally uninspired and don't have any good ideas. All I need is a picture to get me started. Help anyone?


*What I am looking for is a Big Boy Room that will work for a few years without needing to be redecorated. Maybe until he is 10 years old? 13? 18 years old?

None of us follow sports at all which is all I can seem to find. So, boyish but not sporty. Something he will like now and will work for a long time (nothing cartoons). See? What else is there?

Welcome....

Baby Girl! She arrived this morning and the new mama and baby are doing well (and so is the daddy)! Congratulations to Jessica and Chris!






PS I know the name, but I'm waiting for official permission to share (plus I want to make sure I have it spelled right!).

Blocked Duct Work

Do you think this is the reason our house is so cold?

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The cat has found one of the two open vents in our house right now (we shut all the other vents in an effort to keep William's room above 54 degrees)

Music to my Ears

Better than any song I've ever heard is this.

We had our 24 week doctor appointment this morning with my doctor. Everything is looking great and measuring perfectly. Normal, normal, normal... it is a good place to be. We were able to look at the results from the ultrasound done last month which looked perfect as well - which is what we were figuring because no one has called us to report anything differently. I need to go sometime this month from the glucose screening to determine if I have gestational diabetes. If that test comes back positive, Christmas could be a real bummer. Anyone out there want to volunteer to do the diabetic diet with me?

Santa Time!

Our school district puts on a holiday party for preschool aged kids which includes some special time with the big guy himself - for free! The wait was long, but there were some fun activities to keep us busy while we waited. A special thanks to Dada, who came with us even though he is feeling a little under the weather.

One activity: shoveling "snow". William thought this was great. Mama had a hard time breathing with all the flying shovels in the air...
More shoveling. If you look carefully, you'll notice the snow has fallen off the shovel and onto William's right shoulder. He thought this was hilarious...
Throwing "snowballs" through the target. These kids behind William looked super familiar to me. Only after stewing about it for close to 2 hours did I realize where I knew these people from (this is Mookie and Connie from the park)!
Coloring craftiness... this activity lasted only .25676451 seconds before William was done. He was really only interested in coloring on the paper belonging to the little girl to his right. No interest in his own paper despite what this picture looks like.

More craftiness. Again, it looks like William is helping. In reality he is trying to spread glue over every possible surface. We learned tonight the child has a serious love of glue stick. Will do anything to get one. By the way, didn't I make a cute stocking full of toys for myself?
Mama being crafty again and William gluing again. Nothing will distract him from his glue. Note to the Grandparents: even though he loves glue, this does NOT mean he needs to find anything with glue in it underneath the Christmas tree.

And finally it was our turn to sit with Santa. I was so proud - he didn't cry this year either!
Who is this guy? Still not crying...


Although, to be fair, he wasn't exactly happy either!

PS The posting is going to have to slow down here for awhile and I put my cute little elf hat on to get us ready for the holidays....consider yourself warned!

More from the Cell Phone Archieve

Here are some more pictures from my old cell phone. These are from the day we took William home from the hospital (Jan 28, 2007). He is really bundled up because I think the high that day was around 9 degrees. More tomorrow...today was a lot of catching up with mail, bills, e mail, phone messages, laundry, etc.

Birthday, Etc

Friday was a busy day. When we are home visiting, there are a lot of people to see and a lot of things we like to do. Traditionally, the day after Thanksgiving, I put up the Christmas tree at my parent's house. This year it was fun because William thought the tree was AMAZING and fun to help with.

Friday was also Grandpa's birthday, so we had some celebrating to do! We had dinner and then opened presents before John and I took off to see one of my best friends from high school, Jessica. Jessica is due to have her first baby is about two weeks! So, we got in a long adult chat - it might be our last one for a long time!

The first piece of the tree

Look how excited he is! Ohhh!!!! putting up the tree!

Wow! He's never even seen us put up a tree or decorate one (we don't have a tree at our house).

William decorating the Christmas tree with the bungee cords.

Helping Grandpa open his birthday presents

Reading a birthday card with Grandpa

Grandpa reading his card from Ryan