I am back. Sort of.

Things in life are all topsy-turvy, as I’m sure you know, unless you live somewhere that the recession isn’t reaching its filthy little fingers into your paycheck and wallet. If you are, let me know, and we’re moving there.

But on a happier note, Owen turned 10 months old a few days ago, and he is changing so much! Three days ago he pulled himself up to his feet in his playpen for the first time and now he won’t stop trying to stand up everywhere. He’s already bonked his head/face a few times on the coffee table. Ouch!

Well its for real - we are going to have a white Christmas, and MORE than that we’re going to have the whitest Christmas ever!  The record is a measly 1.5 inches, and we’ve still got at least 15 inches here - 7 inches fell on Sunday night/Monday morning.  I tried to measure how much total there was, but I got stopped by the layer of ice we had on top of the snow we got on… last Wednesday?  The days are mushing together.

We got about 2-3 more inches of snow today.  Things are starting to warm up across the region, but here its still below freezing.  Our garbage can is under the gutters, under a giant icicle (we removed it once already), and it is covered by about 6 inches of ice.  Its just incredible.  They’re forecasting snow tomorrow (and rain), and some snow on Friday too!  Crazy!

Here’s some pictures of the last few days - I am trying to keep track of what day is which, but my brain is slush. Haha a snow reference!

ACK can’t get the picture uploader to work!  I’ll try again later…

edit: Ah ha it works! I upgraded, borked it, and then reuploaded everything and now it works! A Christmas miracle!

No time for commentary, just pictures!

Ahh, isn’t he just squeezable?

For the sake of being honest, here’s the SOCC shot:

I can’t say I blame him. But I didn’t expect his reaction! Once he smelled it and it touched his mouth he gagged and urped up! I figured this might be a coincidence, and so continued to try to get him to eat his peas… but no. When he gagged for the second time I gave up, but not before Ty took some great pictures (with my NEW Nikon D60 he got me for my birthday/Christmas present)!

He’s just freakin’ adorable, even when not eating his vegetables!  I suppose I’ll try pears next.

Sam and his Daddy

I just found out that one of my best friends from high school just had a baby boy, prematurely. Well, in July actually. I ‘keep track’ of him and his family through myspace, but that’s not really accurate as I check myspace approximately five times a year.

Sam was born via c-section on July 16th. He was extremely early (about 9 and a half weeks if my math is correct, so he was born at 30 weeks?) and is still in the NICU, but doing progressively better every day. He is incredibly precious, and his proud papa Frank has put up a blog for Sam - The Sam Experience. It ‘is meant to chronicle the adventures of Sam as he gets better, comes home and grows up.’

My prayers are with them, even if I am soooo late to the party. Thankfully, God has been keeping care of them anyway!

Woo-ee!  Today’s color is Red Salsa.  And man, its bright!!!!!! <–see how many exclamation points it rates?

Red Salsa-icious!

It actually is brighter in person that it looks in the picture.  I’m not sure I can wear this all day - it doesn’t look bad with my dark hair and pale skin (hello Snow White?) but its not a daytime color At All.

Here’s Owen in yesterday’s Apple Berry.  Isn’t he adorable?  I can’t wait to kiss him with THIS color.

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Owen is 10 pounds, 12 ounces, and 23 inches long today! He had his two month check and passed with flying colors. We are not getting him vaccinated, so he was not ‘rewarded’ for doing so well by being stuck with a bunch of needles.

I need to blog more. In other news, I am on my fourth week of work, which means in just 4 more work days I can put in my notice! Hooray!

Well, my little baby is growing up before my eyes. He’s getting so big!

This picture makes him look like such a chub, which he IS, but I’m sure he’s got lots of room to grow and get even chubbier. SO cute! I miss him so much while I’m at work, although it is sort of nice (only sort of) to be free from the three hour nursing schedule for a while.

Keeping an eye on Mommy - he’s getting big so I tried some of his 3-6 month sized clothing on him. He’s not quite big enough yet! This one he got from his Aunt in California, and it fits pretty good except its super long. Ah well, he’ll be wearing it, and fitting it, soon. Its super cute though!

Watching the Penguin’s game with Dad. Lookit him hold up his head! He’s so grown up all of a sudden, what with holding his head up and everything. Okay, I know, he’s still a little baby, but he’s changed so much. And I want him to grow up big and strong, of course, but I kinda want him to stay like this, too. Guess I don’t have a choice in the matter!