5,000 hits (and I'm not talking cocaine or heroin...)

Oooh. Did you notice? We are almost at 5,000 hits to this blog. Yippee!

Pat the Bunny

You have to be somewhat patient with the quality of this video, but Vake is LOVING Pat the Bunny these days- he loves to play peek-a-boo with Paul. (For those of you who haven't had a plot refresher lately, Judy and Paul are the protagonists. They do lots of things, patting bunnies, smelling flowers, looking in mirrors, feeling scratchy beards.)

Vake's fave page is peek-a-boo with Paul, followed closely by looking in the mirror like Judy- however, at the end of this video (and much to Daddy's continuing relief) he gets distracted by his football.

Oh Christmas Tree!

So with the advent (no pun intended) of our failed trip to the Pacific Northwest, Eric and I are trying to get the house whipped into a Christmas frenzy.

(Ok, perhaps that's overdue for a rephrase. Eric's holding on as best as he can while I make up for the fact that we did NO holiday decorating...)

So the first thing we needed was a tree. Look at my little holiday pumpkin who had to wear a H-A-T to go out in the snow.
Mommy, I WILL not smile for the camera.

Nope, not going to do it, no matter how many ridiculous things you and Daddy do.

He did think that SNOW was pretty interesting though!

Here's the sight that awaited us at Lowe's. Three trees. Each more pitiful than the last. We picked out the best of the bunch, we think.

It was so cold and so miserable that there wasn't even anyone in the Garden Center that I could corral into taking our family picture.

But Daddy took one of Vake and me and I took one of Dad and the tree.

When we got home, there were some nice people walking by who were happy to take a picture- what a happy family.

I'll follow up with pictures of the decorated tree later today!

This is not exactly what we meant...

...when we said we were dreaming of a White Christmas.

E held with United for an hour and a half after they cancelled our flight to Chicago this morning. When he finally got someone on the line, our options for getting to the West Coast were: standby Monday or a flight to Chicago Wednesday night, then overnight in Chicago, then a flight to Portland Thursday. Maybe we could have done this EXCEPT the two seats were not together. Sucks.

It's Coming...

...the best children's consignment sale in Richmond- Kids' Layne- is having a sale in early February. I've got a poster but it is refusing to upload.

I'll be checking back in with the details...

10 month stats!

I took V to the pediatrician for his second part of the flu vaccines- and I asked them to measure and weigh him just to check in.

He's now officially a member of the 30 pound club- he was 30 pounds 2 ounces. He's also 32.5 inches long- so for the first time he's off the charts for height, too...

And. I'm 62 inches tall. So at 10 months, he's more than half as tall as I am.

Rocky Beats Death! Again!

That's right. The score is now Rocky: 3 Death: 0. I got a terrible call yesterday- Rocky, Grandmary's scrappy little dog (truth be told, he started out life as my dog but after a vacation at Grandmary's house, the two of them loved each other so much I couldn't break them up...) had been attacked at Doggie Day Care and was in emergency surgery.

He's resting comfortably and VERY quietly now.