Living our Life

It's been pretty mellow around here lately.  Ingrid finished up her summer Montessori program.  The weather has been nice, not too hot.  Otis is growing and learning new things.  He loves cold carrots to chew on. They make him insanely happy.  His teeth have still not shown themselves.

He no longer needs the baby tub, thank god. I am all for getting rid of large plastic baby items!  He's also starting to wave.  It's adorable.

Pre-season football has started.  Unfortunately.  I hate football.  Brendan watches it all the time.  I am left with no TV and no husband.  Curses to you, NFL!  Although Ingrid looks pretty cute in her Packer's jersey...

She got a double bed this week!  A friend was giving their guest bed away to make room for baby #2, so we snatched it up.  Ingrid looks so small in her huge bed!  And how lucky of her to have all that room.  I didn't have any larger than a twin bed until I was 19!  A friend said she and her husband had a twin bed for a year after they moved in together!  And here is my little 3 year old, spread out in all the luxury.  Lucky lucky.

Go Pack Go!

I really don't care about football but yesterday we had fun.  I made the kids these shirts:

I made soup, we watched the game, Brendan paced around.  When there was a touchdown Brendan would jump and yell, which Ingrid found very exciting.  She made him get up and jump around with her well after the game was over.  It was a fun family afternoon, and the Packers won and are off to the Super Bowl!!  I think Otis is a good luck charm.  Brendan jokingly said he's going to use our tax return to get tickets, ha!  As if we don't have a million more pressing things to spend money on.

Like moving.  Hopefully soon, people!  Brendan's off to Missouri for an interview this week.  And hopefully soon he'll be getting asked to go to another one in Milwaukee, fingers crossed he gets this one and we can move home again!!  So maybe we'll just watch the Super Bowl on tv instead of flying to Texas, okay, honey?

Vibrating Chairs and Football

Yesterday we finally got batteries for Otis' vibrating bouncy seat.   He was so funny when we turned it on!  He was all wide eyed and quiet, totally occupied for a long time! 

 

He is getting to be such a big kid, or so I think.  I am used to the wee five pound peanut, so seeing him two pounds heavier makes me think he's huge.  Then I see a full term baby and I laugh at how small he really is!  We went to Urban Toddler the other day and there was a baby that was a month older and about six pounds heavier.  He's still got a ways to go.  He is just starting to fit into his newborn clothes, but still is swimming in some of them :)

Well, I'm off to go play with felt.  The Packers are playing a big game today so I'm making the kids shirts.  We have to show our Wisconsin pride!  Anyone who has known me for a long time knows how strange this is.  I never was into sports, never watched anything, never knew who the teams were.  Then I met Brendan and now through osmosis I have some knowledge of sports.  If you'd have told me ten years ago that I would be making Packer shirts for my kids, I would've laughed my ass off.  But alas, we grow, we change.  I still couldn't tell you what the hell is going on in a football game, but I know that today at 3pm the Packers are playing the Bears.  That is way more than I would've known before!