Calming The Chaos: January 2009

New Living Room Furniture

Here are some pictures of our new living room furniture. One of my New Year's resolutions was to redecorate my house, so this is one of my projects! I was pretty excited about it! I'm not completely finished with all the minor details yet, but I just got it yesterday.

Helping Mommy Clean

Andrew has found a new love....helping me clean! I couldn't be happier about it, because I love to clean! He enjoys getting a rag and carring it around with a bottle of cleaner (I watch him so he doesn't get into it and it is closed). He is so proud of himself when he does it. He'll dust anything- the walls, the furniture, tables, chairs, the floor, the cats, you name it! Since we were homebound for the last week Andrew and I did some serious cleaning. He was a good helper....most of the time!

Here he is dusting the cabinet in the living room

He wanted to help by cleaning out his bathroom cabinet

Andrew decided to take out the trash

He missed a little bit!

He helped to feed the cats (by throwing their food into their bowls)

He also helped pick up his toys!

Cabin Fever

Here are a few pictures from our Winter Wonderland.

I don't think anyone has been wanting a snow day more then I have, but now that we're going on our second day of house arrest and our third day is inching closer we are going crazy. Andrew was literally running around in circles. He had run everywhere there was to run and gotten into every possible cabinet and drawer that he had nothing else to do but run in circles. The worst part is that he has a runny nose and cough so I don't want to get him out in the frigid cold weather so we are stuck inside the house. I've already gotten on the treadmill for 30 minutes, scrubbed the kitchen cabinets, started scraping microscopic particles of food off the kitchen floor with a knife, and updated my lesson plans until mid-February. Thankfully having all of us in the house for the last two days the floors are starting to need vaccuming so I'm looking forward to that!

Ice Storm

Here are the pictures from the ice storm. So far we've enjoyed our time at home. Jason doesn't have to go to work and school is out so we're just hanging out at home. Hopefully we won't loose power, but we've got the fireplace ready and we turned the heat up to keep the house warmer. Upstairs it is a sweltering 80 degrees. I'm breaking a sweat as I publish this post! I'm supposed to fly out to San Diego tomorrow for a work trip, but I'm thinking that's not going to happen! The weather says that we are supposed to get some snow starting this evening, so maybe I'll have some pretty snow pictures tomorrow!

Sweet Tooth

So most of you know that Andrew has a big time sweet tooth! I think he gets that from me! I decided that I would let him have a cupcake that I made. He ended up eating two of them! He has started saying "eat" when he is hungry. So he kept saying "eat, eat, eat, eat" after he finished the first cupcake. He also said that after he finished the second cupcake, but he didn't get a third!

Faces I Love

Andrew's Thinking Face

Andrew's Curious Face

Andrew's Excited Face (his toy tonight was a bottle of syrup- go figure?)

A New Toy

Andrew found a new toy last night while he was exploring our bathroom. He came out so proud with this plunger. I know it probably seems gross, but it was a very clean plunger. We did wash his hands afterwards and he DID NOT put it in his mouth. He just couldn't part with it!

Exhausted Little Boy

Yesterday we had Andrew's 15 month check up. He is 16 months old, but I didn't realize that he would be 15 months in December and made the appointment for January. I figured it would probably be easier to keep my scheduled appointment then reschedule. Andrew is doing great. He weighs 24 lbs. 2.3 ozs. and is 29" long. His head is also 29 and hasn't grown in the last couple of months which is good since it was so big. On the way home he passed out in the car. He hasn't been taking a nap during the day so he was worn out. I laid him on the couch and he didn't move for thirty minutes until I woke him up.

Pop Knot

Andrew was playing in the living room near the coffee table. He was trying to grab something and tripped over my leg (I feel a little guilty) and he fell over and bumped his head on the coffee table. It left a pretty big knot on his forehead. He was pretty upset. He has a tigger cold pack that we put on his head. Thankfully, his grandad was here to take care of him!

Early Valentine

Today Jason took Andrew with him to run a few errands so I could get some housework done. They were gone for quite a while and I was able to get the kitchen cleaned and part of the house vaccumed. Yea! When they got back I was upstairs checking on blogs because there is this blog that I read, Kelly's Korner, and she is just an awesome person who has struggled with infertility and finally got pregnant with a baby girl named Harper. Harper was born yesterday and has pneumonia. They had to airlift her to Tulsa to St. Francis where she is in the NICU. Things are looking better for her, but she's not completely out of the woods yet. I just feel so bad for their family. They just seem like amazing people. I wish I knew them personally. Check out her blog to read more about them. After I filled them in on what was happening with Kelly, Jason started rambling on about a Valentine gift that he and Andrew had gotten me (obviously on this outing). He kept asking if I wanted it now and I said I didn't care, I could wait. This didn't seem to satisfy him, so he ended up giving me my Valentine- drumroll please- a NEW CAMERA!!!! I had been complaining about mine being to slow at taking pictures. With such an active guy I need one that you hit the button and it takes right then. I also wanted a more professional camera. So it's a Canon Power Shot SX10IS. It just came on the market in November of 08, so it's a new model. So far it's great! Here are some pictures from my photography session today!