CATCH UP TIME

it has been very busy in this little household. not only with new things happening but also with little boys sprouting all kinds of silliness and fun. so i have decided to just make a mega entry.

first of all, mark has been busy selling things on craig's list so that we could have a few things happen here. we had wanted to go on a holiday for our anniversary but it just wasn't panning out like we hoped. thanks to a lucky sell in just enough time, we managed a weekend getaway that involved a little bit more than staying at home and squeaking through the trees to keep the boys from seeing us at home from my folks' place up the way. so we made it all the way to fresno instead. we had the best time-we knew where everything was, we went to our favorite restaurant, tried a new one that we had been eyeballing, saw a few movies and stayed in a fantastic hotel-all just an hour away! i highly recommend a vacation in your home town!

so on to the silliness and fun of this month, in no particular order:

my favorite odin line of the week:
ummm, mommy, can you clean up all the toys and i will sit down on the couch and watch you do it, um, all by yourself?


first we have odin doing his version of the incredible hulk as taught to him by mark, mixed in with a skeleton cross-eyed face.

the inevitable has happened: a kitten has been found at the camp and is now our new adopted pet. my mom and dad had just that same day set out a trap for an adolescent kitten that they want to tame. instead they caught a tomcat that has been harassing our cat thibodeaux. my dad took the tom to the SPCA, he is a stray that has been too much around anyway. mark found this little cat behind our freezer, it wasn't even on the list of to-be-caught's yet. a lucky discovery.
ronan in mark's shirt, i didn't feel like walking to the bedroom cabin just yet so he got to wear this after his bath. we tied it up in the back and odin thought it was hilarious.
i asked odin to walk ronan to grandma's house, they walked hand in hand the whole way!
kitten getting the thorough veterinary inspection, courtesty of dr. ronan pike. his orifices are clean.
this is the cheese i get every time i say 'smile'. ronan got a haircut, so i had to document that. he looks so sharp! by the way, he has officially made 20.5 pounds. a big deal for him.
enjoying wallace and gromit
one of the other new additions to camptime fun is this go kart that mark picked up through craig's list after selling a different vehicle the day before. he has been wanting one for a long time. we figured we should get it before it got too snowy up here. pre-christmas for mark.




odin 'helped' mark fix the brakes and the seatbelts on the go kart. he was sooo cold!
the first night that kitten stayed we kept him wrapped up. kitten claws! he is very good about everything now. he sits on my shoulder and sleeps on odin's lap. very sweet. odin named him "kitten", he is still so original with his naming....
my dad's half-sister judy stayed for a visit. they enjoyed some mario kart at our place.
bugles, we buy them for the finger stacking fun.
well, the boys got a kitkat at the grocery checkout. that kid had a blast with his treat.
it was so cold the day we brought the go kart home. icy cold. it had been nearly 100 degrees earlier that week. sent all of our skin into shock.
odin made a puppet out of one lonely brown bag i found while cleaning out a drawer in my kitchen
we made peach pie to celebrate a wonderful week of fantastic little boys.