Babies in winter

The downside to winter babies - they're so wrapped up you forget just how cute their legs and arms are...And we have actually managed to have a baby with rolls on her legs and fat knees this time...

Sticky snow

We got a light dusting of sticky snow overnight. Very hard to clean off your car, but beautiful for the landscape. All gone by 10am.

Milestones

We are moving through those important milestones and achievements in the baby world - poking out tongue, sucking on fingers, trying to suck on other peoples fingers, grabbing hold of interesting things and trying to suck them, licking peoples jumpers (they might taste interesting?), pulling socks off (and sucking them), and today, real progress on getting a foot into that mouth.

Lifes little lessons

Todays lesson: Always check the gully at the bottom of the big hill before you ride down it.

Mr 7 and I went for the worlds shortest bike ride today, gaily heading for the biggest hill first. Problem is the afore mentioned gully is around the corner from the start of the hill, and neither of us tweaked that it would be Full of water owing to that mornings rain.
He was sopping, with a funny expression on his face (couldn't brake due to the slippery path, so rode right into it at full speed). We went home to get into warm clothing. It was a great adventure!

New big boxes!

I think the kids and I outdid ourselves... This is a castle, with a drawbridge (right) and a secret passage out (left). Mr 4 is holding a torch so that Mr 7 can see while he draws flaming torches on the sides of the secret passage.

We love our dishwasher and microwave...

It has been a long week - we noticed that the dishwasher was leaking into the basement ceiling, around the same time the microwave stopped heating food.
Today, the new appliances got installed. I am looking forward to trying them out, especially the dishwasher. I think hubby will be very happy to have the microwave, as he kept on forgetting and trying to microwave food (so then we had to wash up the microwave dish, as well as the pot).

Spitting babies

This was a particularly spectacular spit up, that missed the brand spanking new outfit I had just dressed her in, but unfortunately was a home run on my top.