Christmas in February

Finally, the long awaited, long neglected christmas pic post:

Esther in a box and Esther in Boots

Oh, yeah... and Ben too.

Esther's New Shoes (for Sri Lanka)

Esther's brushes her 6 teeth.

Finally, a new post

One of Esther's favorite games is to take her shoes off her feet and put them on her hands. Then she will either crawl around on all fours and growl... or she will attempt to pick things up, in this case she just picked up her doll and threw it in the cardboard box. And this face obviously says, "And what is not normal about that, mom?"

It's been almost a month...

I'm sorry i haven't been posting. I've been extremely busy at work and at home...

Work is driving me so crazy right now that i actually broke out in hives on friday while working from home (which you would think would be less stressful) due to an extremely frustrating phone conference.

In other news, we have purchased our tickets to Sri Lanka. We're leaving end of May and getting back mid June. I'm so excited/nervous/anxious... everyone on the plane is going to hate us...

but maybe it'll be worth it when Esther sees the Elephants.

I promise to post something decent soon.

Dinner with Aunt Jessica and Uncle Eric

In other news it's snowing here - i love that snow can make even a parking lot look magical.
And also i ate my lunch already but i'm still hungry.

wiggity wigity wednesdays came back for a visit

our weekly dinners have been moved all over the calendar. This week found us with a wednesday meal of roast chicken, black-eyed peas with bacon, asparagus, and salad. yum, yum. And then it was time to read a story and go to bed, full but happy.

Oh Casey, My Casey

It's crazy how people use their babies to shamelessly advertise their brother-in-law's bands on the internet. More The Code Here.

actually, this is my hoodied toddler climbing the stairs. Which has two implications
1) This is incredibly dangerous and one day she will do it without supervision and fall and crack her head and i'm an irresponsible mother.
2) Send it baby-girl!!!! Mommy's on Belay!

(Hoodie, care of Casey Jones and Badu or Andrew Tamaskavic or however the hell you spell his wacky-ass last name.)

Ok, so they're not x-mas pics

So, putting up pics is my way of avoiding putting any real thought into my posts. There are plenty of things i would like to post about, real things...

Such as, why are geeky girls never portrayed as being part of geeky girl groups in the media but always as loners (I recently read an article in BITCH about this and i'm intrigued).

or perhaps,

A contest: the weirdest place you've ever (or been privvy to someone else) breastfed.

or um...

A list: my christmas presents

or um...

How freakin' insane i am to be (many of you already know this but some of you may not) considering taking Esther to Sri Lanka this spring. Also: if you have something negative or a warning about my taking a toddler on a 24 hour sojourn including a 12hr overnight flight to a 3rd world country please keep it to yourself.

That tantalizing piece said: Here are some pictures of my baby trying to dress herself.






And this is my baby in a dress. I know shocking, eh? I really do dress her like a girl sometimes. This time it was my father's birthday (happy birthday Dadda!!!) and i thought he'd get a kick out of it.





And my charming husband hamming it up while doing the dishes.



Oh yeah. And spaghetti face has messy hair.

More on Christmas, but the excitement of the day

Just a couple pictures of our early morning festivities at my parents' house.

My brother, Jeremiah and Cecelia
My Dad, the only one who looks truly awake in all these pictures, notice he he's also the only one holding a mug of coffee.... hrmmmm.
Esther making "mean face" and my soon to be brudda-in-law, Andrew... aka: Badu.
This is me catching the christmas tree as it fell over almost smushing Esther. Although, she was the one pulling on it... we had to wire it to a nail in the wall after this point.
And the Christmas litter... not referring to Esther of course, simply the wrappings that she is making her way though.

There will be more pictures to follow but these are the ones of my camera, which had a full card (oops!) Also, there aren't any pics of Casey or my mom. So those will hopefully be in the next batch.

Hope everyone had wonderful holidays and is recovering nicely.

For West - Cause we love her!!!! and SHE LOVES US!!!

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you...

Esther has a new best friend: