Silent Sunday

{photo taken 11.17.10}

"The Name's Buck"

Tonight, Daddy and Jack were rough-housing on the couch before bedtime.  Jack is getting over another bout of bronchiolitis and a double-ear infection, but the Albuterol that he takes via the nebulizer makes him VERY hyper for about thirty minutes after his breathing treatments.  Hence the rough-housing:)

Ever since Jack was very little, when he gets really excited and into the moment, he bites...HARD.  At first, it only seemed to happen to me, but lately it's also been happening to Daddy.  Of course, whenever this happens we have a chat about how it's not nice to bite people and that it hurts, but it just seems that he just gets all this crazy-energy that he feels he just can't let out...I don't know how else to explain it.  Tonight, while playing, Jack bit Daddy on the shoulder.  Daddy reminded Jack that it's not nice to bite, and they went along their merry-way.  A few seconds later, Jack asked, "Can I bite?"  Ha!  Very funny and adorable, and of course, he got a "no," but we were rather impressed he took the time to think that through first:)

The playing continued, bite-free I might add, and Jack was climbing along the back of the sofa the way he's seen Cuddlebug do a thousand times.  While pushing off from Daddy's shoulders, we heard him cry out, "The name's Buck!"  We laughed so hard.  For those of you who don't know, Buck is a rather crazy character from an Ice Age movie that Jack refers to as Dinosaurs.  We just love when he randomly pulls out lines from his movies to use appropriately in his playtime - such a bright, little man!

Before and After

Before Thanksgiving, Brad and I took on a rather huge project concerning our master bedroom.  When we bought our house, I fell in love with everything about it - except for the periwinkle blue paint that covered the entire master bedroom.  I wanted to paint it before we moved in, it was that bad - but that didn't happen.    And then we moved in and everything just got so busy, so we lived with the horrible, blue color for well over a year.

Then, it was time.  See for yourself...what do you think?

BEFORE

AFTER

{notice the Buzz costume hanging on Brad's valet}

So, what do you think?  We're loving the warm colors - very relaxing, very grown-up.  I'm especially loving that it's not periwinkle blue!

A Snowy Night

When Papa Bear came home early from work tonight because of the snow, Jack was very excited to rush to the garage door to see Daddy.  Unfortunately, Daddy's car got caught up on the driveway, but we took this turn of events and turned it into some snowy nighttime fun:)

My two boys, shoveling the driveway

All Bundled Up

Daddy and Jack

Mommy and Jack

Playing with the doggies

Running through the snow

And now, for my absolute two favorites from this evening...

{look at that smile}

Here's to hoping for a snow day tomorrow:)

AWOL

So I realize I've been missing lately from the blog (aside from trying to keep up with my Wordless Wednesday and Silent Sunday posts), but I promise - it's with good reason.

Obviously, Christmas was super-busy, and while I meant to post more about it, I didn't have a chance before I got really, really sick.  Flu-sick.  And it. was. horrible.  Thought I might die horrible.  I can't remember the last time that I was that sick, but all I know is I was too sick to shower for four days (perhaps that gives you a little insight as to how sick I was).  Lucky for me, my super-hubby did a wonderful job caring for our little man and bringing me fluids and food that I worked really hard to keep down.  Needless to say, our New Year's was less than spectacular.

I missed the first work day of the new year and made it back to work the next day, to lots of comments to how pale I seemed.  What seems like a nice way to say that you must not be feeling well does not really feel so nice at that moment:)  I was pale to start with people - I know that I look like death - I've been throwing up for days...what can I do?

Anyway, I did start feeling better, but I'm still trying to get completely over the head-cold part of everything.  And getting back into the swing of going to work every day after the break.  Seriously...it's been a slow crawl back to the land of the living.  I just took down my Christmas decorations this past weekend - thanks to my mom's wonderful help!  The house is finally back to normal...

and with that, I promise that I will get back to blogging more regularly too.  You'll see!

Silent Sunday

Wordless Wednesday