Filed under: Health and Wellness
Rob woke up early Saturday morning with a tummy ache. Since then, he has been unable to participate in life as previous. I will give the following direct quotes as evidence of my presumption that while he might have been feeling a little under the weather, he milked it big time.
- “I’m just not motivated to do anything but lie here and watch movies”
- “I cannot carry Harrison down the stairs, I’m already holding a cup AND a napkin” For the record, I believe this is the first time in history Rob has taken his own tea cup downstairs.
- “I cannot stay downstairs, the kids jump on me and I need to rest”
Filed under: Family
When I make breakfast for dinner, we often serve OJ in fancy glasses. That’s really the only use our stem-ware ever gets. Last week we had pizza and coke in fancy glasses and we toasted each other and said what we liked best about them.
Noah said that he likes best about Dad how Dad plays chase, and he likes best about Mom how Mom holds him.
Harrison smiled a lot and said Mom. He can say Mom now and he says it over and over. I never tire of hearing it.
Filed under: Food
I cannot bake. Every cookie I have ever made has turned out flat and hard. I didn’t even sign up for my work cookie exchange because, let’s face it, my cookies suck. I heard a rumor that if you make the batter and refrigerate it for 8 hours, then the cookies will be soft and chewy. Noah and I decided to give it a try.
I ran out of baking soda, and couldn’t use the stinky stuff in the frig, so I went to a neighbor to borrow a teaspoon. She gave me her secret for soft and chewy cookies, and we decided to try her recipie.
The whole family got into making the cookies, and they were so good that Noah and Harry snuck some for breakfast this morning.
Yummo! I’m considering participating in the cookie exchange, they are that good!
Filed under: Family
We had the most awesome Thanksgiving. My brother and sisters were there with all their respective kids. There were no distasters like previous years. No turkey’s on fire, no smoke-filled homes, no Grandma delegated to a mattress in the corner of the room… The kids played nicely and the food was incredible. We had leftovers last night and Noah must have said yummy about 100 times. Harrison has developed a love of cranberry sauce, and Ranger had nary a scrap to enjoy.
Grandpa surround by the kids
Dancing
Noah serving blue cheese
Filed under: Hilarity
Ranger’s such a wonderful dog, and completly a part of the family. You’ll notice he worms his way into most the pictures anyways.
The other night, Ranger tooted, reached his head back there and sniffed a good 5-6 times. I gave him the “gross” look, but he didn’t much care. He’s not like my Jedd (my childhood black lab). Jedd was embarrassed about bodily functions. He would not poop when anyone was watching him, and he was genuinely sorry when he had accidents. Ranger fits more into the family with his openness about all poop related issues.
Ranger, we love you, but we wouldn’t sniff your toots!
Filed under: Family
Rob’s back continues to be sore after 2 trips to the chiropractor and numerous PT sessions with his wife. We have an inversion table of his brothers that we set up. Good fun!
HA! Notice the dog licking his face, and he really can’t do a thing about it.
Noah’s been doing the cold packs and the exercises, so why wouldn’t he do the inversion table too?
Filed under: Kids
I didn’t even try to recreate the photo. To me they look quite different, but very much like brothers. I like them both!
Filed under: Family
We woke up this morning to a couple of beautiful inches of packy snow. Noah and Harrison got to try their new snow shovels. Noah found that bike wheels don’t zoom through snow banks like they do leaves. We built the first snow man, and of course the back hoe loader and dump trucks were out. Did I mention that Rob went snow-moped-ing in our back yard. Makes me wonder what stunts my boys will try next…
They did not want to pose in front of the snowman, but were more than willing to karate kick it to the ground and stomp on it…
No joke, Rob really rode the moped in the back yard. He asked for a 4 wheeler, but I gently reminded him of the 20 year ban on 4 wheelers that I imposed after watching him roll a 4 wheel drive mini car on our honeymoon, in a foreign country, miles from a city, where we didn’t even speak the language well; need I say more?
Filed under: Family
Noah and Harrison idolize Rob, almost as much as the dog. It’s a 3 way hip check fest to get to the back door when Dad gets home. Everything Rob does, Noah and Harrison must do to.
Recently Rob’s had a bum back, he’s been using the heating pad and even the ice pack. Here’s Noah icing his “sore back”
Now, if I could just get Rob to do more cleaning, I could retire as resident maid…
Oh, I just have to add a pic of Noah and Rob doing their back exercises together.
Filed under: Kids
If I were to rank the boys preference of outdoor activites it would be a 3-way tie between biking, playing lumberjack, and moving the sand from one location to another with their various back hoe loaders and dump trucks.
Harrison has figured out how to bike. I must have pushed him up the driveway 30 times the other day so he could zoom down. Only problem is the little bike curves way right, so he is in danger of becoming airborne into the drainage ditch on either side of the driveway (not that that scares him in the slightest)
He looks way cuter in his dorky hat, doesn’t he?
