Fascinating

I'm totally fascinated and overjoyed everytime I look at these pictures. I can't wait to meet you Lucy!!!

"This Many"

Max has a funny little quirk at 3 almost 4. He loves to quantify everything. Even if it makes no sense.

"I have this many energy. Just like two. You ran me out of energy."

"I'm a one at a time poopier. I have this many poops a day."

"I have this many bad guys. Like 10 bad guys."

That phrase, "I have this many...." is heard frequently in our house and it never fails to make me smile. Just one of the many quirky facts about Max.

Here is Max at work with daddy.

Lane had to work on Sunday and I was not feeling so hot. Being the awesome super dad that he is, he bundled Max up and took him to work. All in all it was a successful experiment and I got a few hours of quiet time to rest which was priceless!

Lucy's Space - In Progress

We got the crib for Miss Lucy set up and are slowly making progress in transforming part of the bedroom into a space for our new little addition. Here are a couple of pictures of the crib and accessories that are in her area. I still need to make the bed skirt and we are in the process of figuring out how we are going to organize all her stuff. Plus, we have a small carpet on order for in front of her crib and some frames and wall decorations that are needing to be painted and organized. It will be another couple of months before everything is done, slowly but surely we are getting there!

*The owl and striped blanket is from Grandma Flo. The quilt was made for Max by Lane's second cousin, Ethel, who passed away this fall. We loved the quilt so much, we knew we wanted it to be part of Lucy's decor.

The crib is full of my in progress projects. The crib was purchased with the help of Bop and Ebe. We have such generous parents!

No Business Like Snow Business

I admit, I totally stole my title off of Facebook. The Snow puns were flying around like crazy yesterday with the Blizzard of 2011 raging outside and everybody stuck inside trying to entertain themselves.

If I haven't made it clear yet, I'm so SICK of snow. I'm done with winter and I will greet Spring with a huge smile on my face. Max however, is another story. He seems to be loving the snow and is doing fine entertaining himself inside. We made snow ice cream, cotton ball snowmen, played hours of legos, and battled more goblins and bad guys than I knew existed!

"I miss Grandma Flo"

That was Max this morning after I returned from taking Grandma Flo to the airport. He wasn't very happy with me.

Thanks to my mama for taking the time to come visit. We had such fun eating pancakes, playing balloon rockets, and calling "farmer brown". Max certainly loves having his Grandma Flo come to town!

Good Start

Yesterday we were snowed in. Again. Have I mentioned I'm not a fan of winter? I'm ready for spring N-O-W!

Max helped me start on the art projects for Lucy's wall in the room. He was insistent that she really would like me to make Rocket Ships. Partly because Rocket Ships are the only thing Max likes to draw right now and partly because that is what is on HIS wall. I'm not sure he really thought that much of what I eventually made on the canvas, but I've learned 3 year old boys are a hard species to please.

Max helped me paint the letters and paint the solid color on the canvas. He was quite the helper, and we managed to only have paint on the carpet once.

This is what Lucy's artwork is looking like. I need to add some finishing touches to make it look truly complete, but I'm pretty pleased with how it is going.

The question now is to put faces on the animals or not? Lane says faces, I'm not so sure. These are the hard questions in our house right now :)