well...daddy got a call to return to his job for now. (THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!) what a blazin' roller coaster. we're both emotionally (if i can speak for brian) exhausted, but thankful. hopefully the next few years will be a little more stable. what a ride. i think i've managed to transfer some of the stress to the poor little ones. charlie has been unusally whiney & whimpery these last couple weeks. sorry buddy. hope it is just the current stress & not a new phase for him(us)!! & izzy has had pretty goupy & mucousy stools for a month now. (since feb 3rd to be exact!) i thought it was from a party we went to (kat's) party where he was fed the little animal crackers-the pink & white ones with the dots? but it just never went away. we had it tested at the doctor's in the lab, but it came back with a "clean" bill. maybe if i'm not stressed, it'll get better. i am still nursing~for now. may get down to just night time nursing within a month or so. i nursed charlie until 14 months. izzy's now 13 months. (sniff sniff!) love you all. thanks for the prayers & support.

kitchen chaos~

izzy climbs the pantry too! wonder where he learned that!?

charlie's valentines box

one sock man will bring me his shoes & try to get his hat on (he did here!) all the time. he loves the outside!!! too bad it has been so chilly!!..soon enough it will be warm enough to go outside!!!..(then i'll never get any house work done!!)

all dressed for outside & i can't get out!

putting on his hat..

pah-leese let me outside!
(backwards order, but cute anyway)

we spotted swan lake :) on the north side of kalama!

gg, those are the boxes from the night-stands there on the left! they're now broken down into perfect size houses & a hopscotch game! (this morning grandma mary was over & charlie started bouncing around singing hopscotch, so she drew the squares on the boxes. very cute indeed.

today he's "bruiser" you can barely see the mysterious small bruise right above his nose by his hairline & he's also got another one over his left eyebrow from charlie's head!...

charlie's finger thing i was telling you about...he gets to see a second dermatologist (diff insurance now) next friday. the last doctor said to leave it unless it was troublesome. which it wasn't then (december? november?) but now, ...it breaks open a couple times a week-give or take. we usually keep a bandaid over it. & he babies the crap out of it...but hasn't given any indication it actually hurts. just is an annoyance. he can't bend that finger most the way because of the size of the stinker

blizzard 2011!

isaiah just jonesin' to get out in the snow...

can't go outside? better look to see what's in the pantry!