Slight reduction in workload

Aubrey is quickly becoming a self-feeder. Yeah! She only has her two bottom teeth so far, but can easily get through her whole grain pancakes and grilled cheese. I am loving the free time to do the dishes or to feed the boys while she stays pretty busy. Plus, she is loving it. Tonight's menu: bite sized pieces of sweet potato and banana. Yum! She is a great eater just like the boys and loves all food. Well, she didn't like the Gerber lamb, but who would?

In the Weeds

We just cannot seem to catch up these days. I have been absent from my blog for over a month now and it is hard to get going again. We went to Salt Lake for Easter and Skiing and I was pretty busy getting ready for the trip. Then when we got home after the week of getting back on the time change and up to date on laundry, we found water all over our carpet in the family room in the basement. We were so overwhelmed and had just gotten the kids dressed and diapered to go out for the day that we decided to leave it for that night. Ben spent over 4 hours using a steam cleaner to pull up the water. I think he filled the bucket 14 times. So then I lost my internet connection since the water was where we keep our router. I was just back up on-line this past Wednesday and then our sink in the kitchen stopped up and I had to bail dirty water in order to do dishes. Luckily someone came the next AM to fix. So here we are, not quite sure how to finish the basement. So I have no use of the playroom again this week. Anyways, hopefully this week I can get caught up and post our vacation this week.

Slideshow of Blizzard '08

Snow Day - Blizzard '08

Or at least that is what everyone here in Louisville was calling it all day on Friday. I did not even know schools and offices were closed and went on my merry way desperate to get the kids out of the house to go to open play at the gymnastics center. (Apparently adults are not insured to be on the equipment though, I got in trouble from the teacher for flipping on the trampoline, little did she know I was using the vault back when I was 17 weeks pregnant with Aubrey.)

Ben being from Miami was clueless to the weather, and me being from Michigan I thought I had lived in this type of weather all the time, no big deal. After Ben came home at 7pm, I quickly learned that even his offices closed at 2:30, but he thought everyone was overreacting and stayed at work. When he got home we headed to Outback for dinner and were one of the few cars on the road. We ended up getting around a foot and a half of snow. My sister told me this was more at one time than MI got all year, so I guess we should have been a little more concerned and prepared. Thank goodness for leftovers. I never made it to the grocery store on Friday and by Saturday we were basically snowed in without any groceries. We had steak and ribs for lunch and I made a BBQ chicken salad for dinner. The boys and I practiced using our imagination. We were at California Pizza Kitchen, eating my favorite BBQ salad and drinking Lemonade. I tried to copy their salad with what I had in my fridge.

On to the fun stuff and pictures...

<> The boys and I had a snowball fight in the garage and were laying on the ground laughing when Ben found us.

<> Kyan had the day of his life and was out for 5 hours at a time and his usually potty break would take an hour vs his usual 30 seconds.

<> Ben shoveled snow for the first time, what a funny sight!

<> Aubrey slept through the all the fun.
<> Evan kept laying face down in the snow and was eating it the whole time.

<> Owen only wanted to play in fresh powder and kept walking away to go find clean snow.

<> We made our stairs into a baby sled hill and since we did not have a sled we used the recycling bin top.

What a wonderful snow day together. It all melted 2 days later and now to pack all our ski clothes to head to Salt Lake City for a week of skiing, playing in the snow and visiting Aunt Jenny for Easter Weekend. Let it snow!

Water Cooler Talk

The Oscars:
Boring!!!!! Where were all the REAL celebrities? No Charlize, No TomKat, No Bragelina, No Reese, No Gyllenhal's, No Smiths's, No Leo, No Kiera, No Crowe, and the list goes on and on. I went to E! on-line thinking that the cameras at E!, TV Guide, and ABC must have missed them walking in or something, but there was only 22 photo's to even vote on. Lack of super stars equated to lack of fashion. Maybe they should re-think inviting Miley and Sean Combs instead of true heavyweights to present. There were some highlights, but overall not enough to even make it a show. I liked Kerri Russell and of course Jennifer Garner. I might be biased though because I was such a huge Alias fan.
In the pre-shows that said to look out for colored diamonds and tons of colored dresses, but outside of all the Red dresses there was not that much color excitement. Oh, and the ponytail was so Golden globes 2 years ago! Boo! I am actually boo'ing the Oscars...

American Idol:
So I know this is like 3 weeks ago, but I cannot even explain how upset I am that Josiah Leming was cut out from the top 24 of American Idol. I really liked his first audition and then at Hollywood week when he did "Grace Kelly" I was sold. (I even liked his "Stand by Me.") Ben is so sick of listening to me play his clip on You Tube over and over and over again. Everyone always makes fun of me for picking up accents from where I live, so I totally understand the English accent. So I guess David is my front runner now, and I like the Australian guy too. But if it's not Josiah, I really don't even care....

Lost:
Wow! What a season and how sad that we will only get half of it due to the writers strike. I am so excited that Kate has Aaron and will Jack ever know that he is his nephew, so crazy. I want to go on the obsessed fans sites, but Ben will be mad at me if I read the spoilers and wreck it for him. Since I told the whole kindergarten class about Santa I am guessing I will not be able to contain any information I learn about Lost. I hope the writer's strike does not change the direction they were going, I am willing to wait for the story to be told correctly. So good!

Assembly Line

The only thing more efficient than an assembly line for diaper changes would be for them each to roll over and diaper the kid next to them. I am keeping my fingers crossed that will happen soon!

Late Night at the Office

I was so bored last night waiting for Ben to get home that I wrote him a song, to try to get him to call me. He was pretty wiped out and did not even understand my e-mail. I was pretty bummed out because I thought I was hilarious, but it was midnight so I might have been a little delirious myself.

Tune of Hey there Delilah, by the Plain White Tees:

"Hey there, Benjamin.... What's it like in the Yum building? I'm 20 miles away, but boy, tonight you look so tired, yes you do, earnings release must be getting the best of you, oh well it's true..."

Maybe not so funny, but I still crack myself up.