Home again, home again, jiggity jig

We survived our 2 days without power!!! Yay. We were home this morning packing for another couple days away from home when the power came back and let me tell you I practically peed myself with joy. We were staying at the executive inn downtown. I always assumed that was one of Evansville's nicer hotels and boy was I wrong. Deaconess got us the room since Will was working the last few days and every other hotel in the tristate was booked so there we stayed. I have to stay that Spencer did remarkably well being cooped up like that. He took several baths just for the pure joy for being in the water. For some reason he insisted that the water needed to be only cold water, he shivered the whole time but he was happy.


It took a lot for me to get over my germaphobia and let him get into this disgusting bath tub. Also note his toys: a sippy cup, a travel toothbrush holder and medicine syringe.

By day two we needed to get out so we took a walk around downtown Evansville. For the most part the sidewalks hadn't been scooped so Spencer was up to his knees in snow. What a trooper. 8 blocks in snow and ice.

Needless to say we are happy to be home. Spencer took a 3 and a half hour nap this afternoon. Grant and I slept most of that time too. it was great.

Sledding...Indiana Style

So instead of 4 inches of snow we got about an inch, maybe two covered with a thick sheet of ice. Will told me several times in the middle of the night that it was snowing so the first thing I did this morning was look out the window to see how much we got. What I saw was our Jeep parked in the middle of the street. I guess when Will got home last night he parked all of the way at the top of our driveway (just to be safe) which gave the car all of the momentum it needed to slide into the middle of the street completely blocking Marywood Drive. Our neighbors must love us. I got all bundled up and went out to move the car to the side of the road but when I got out there it was also covered in ice and I couldn't get the driver's side door open. So I climbed in the passenger side started the car and opened the driver's side door from the inside (This way I can use all of that postpartum weight to my advantage). I needed the driver's side door open so I could see where I was driving because the windows were all to covered with ice to open and I was NOT about to scrape them. By the time all was said and done the jeep was parked in the front lawn and I didn't even hit the mailbox (or anything else).

Several hours later I noticed a kid sledding in the yard behind ours and decided Spencer might like sledding...too bad we don't own a sled. So I start looking for something that might work. This is what I came up with.

It's a laundry basket and a belt. At least Spencer couldn't fall out. We took several spins around the yard before the sleet started again and I got all tuckered out. It's nap time now...for everyone...even me.

WWF here we come

Is it bad that I didn't notice the headlock until I was downloading this picture? I was just so happy that both kids were looking at me with their eyes open. Spencer and I are really looking forward to the big snow storm coming in tonight even if that means no day care for him tomorrow.

PS Grant is smiling now but I think it may be a while before I am able to catch it on "film", especially if Spencer is in the picture.

Survival of the fittest

Grant is able to hold his head up really well these days. I really think it's an early adaptation resulting from life with Spencer. His next adaptation should be a harder head if my theory is correct. Time will tell.

Yesterday Spencer got another Christmas present. He got the Duplo Spencer Train from aunt Aya. He loves it!!! Combining block and trains into one toy....genius. The only thing it's missing is dinosaurs.

The best think about new toys is that they buy me large sums of time without Spencer "helping" me with everything. This came in really handy when Grant suddenly erupted an entire feeding all over himself, the couch and me. It was really like a volcano.

This is after everyone was cleaned up. I especially like that no one even bothered to look at me.

Welcome to our blog

I finally got around to starting a blog for Spencer and Grant. It seems like a good way to keep in touch and document the funny things the boys do.
Spencer is very concerned about the whole nursing process. While we were still in the hospital Spencer warned Grant not to bite because biting gets people in trouble. Now Spencer is trying to convince Grant to bite his belly. If anyone has a good way to explain nursing to Spencer let me know. I am at a loss.
Overall I think we are all adjusting well.