Our neighbor Willy gave us a sweet purple Star Wars princess bike. I took Thomas up to the top of the street to test out his new ride.
The training wheels had seen better days…the right one is essentially useless. We did a few laps and Thomas only ate it twice. By the end he was starting to get the hang of peddling and stopping; however, his response time needs serious improvement. He had a good time and and that is all that really matters.
So we are moved into the new house and finally had time to download the pictures and videos from the cameras. Here is a video of Charlotte’s first meal.
Our resolution of blogging more is failing miserably. We promise, once we are done with house remodel hell we will get more active. In the meantime, we did post several videos to youtube a few weeks ago. You can check out the collection here.
As for the title, that is one of Thomas’ favorite things to say right now.
Thomas brought me a present using his moffett forklift and delivery truck tonight. He pulled up the truck and said I have a delivery and pulled out one of his foam blue blocks and said I have a box for you.
Me: What’s in the box?
Thomas: I got you a present.
Me: What is it?
Thomas: A new phone screen.
Me: [Shocked that Thomas knew I broke my phone screen and was on top of it enough to get me a new one] Wow, thanks Thomas! That is a great present. Where did you get it?
Thomas: I got it at Target. I was in the red aisle and I got you a red phone screen.
Me: When did you go to Target?
Thomas: Because they had them there.
Me: How did you get there?
Thomas: I took the mobile crane and went there.
Me: Where did you park the mobile crane?
Thomas: In the other parking lot I guess. [off to play with his mobile crane]
Me: Well thank you very much Thomas.
My phone is still on its last legs, I have a Q on order to replace my Treo, but I am really not looking forward to life without the touchscreen.
It has been very hectic since the last blog post. We survived the holidays and are continuing to live through the never ending house remodel thatI have been spending every free moment either working on or worrying about.
Last weekend I threw caution to the wind and went on the Redfin Whistler trip. It wasn’t as spur of the moment as I normally roll, because Alex and Matt made the plans for the trip several months ago–a time when the idea that we would still be homeless in February seemed preposterous. The spur of the moment part came in learning that we could actually get into our storage unit which resulted in me spending four hours unpacking and repacking the storage units to retrieve my gear.
When I asked Thomas what he thought about my trip he had the following to say
Overall the trip was a blast. We left Seattle Thursday evening, made great time to Whistler. Hit the slopes all day Friday and Saturday and headed home Sunday morning just in time for have Thomas teach me about football via the superbowl.
I swapped out the orange theme picture with the screwdriver picture. As Alex pointed out, the size isn’t quite right for a Wordpress header art which is typically 192 x 740 pixels. We will roll with this image for now, but we are on the lookout for a new image. So let us know if you have any suggestions.
We have been trying to keep up with the requests for new photos as well as get some pictures to send out with holiday cards. Amanda went so far as to go buy a dark velvet-like blanket to simulate the black velvet cloth they use in a photo studio to do a photo shoot of the kids last week.
Here is one of Charlotte demonstrating her impressive neck muscle control
Here is one of Thomas and Charlotte almost looking at the camera:
I came home the other night and Thomas was going on and on about oranges on our blog.
I explained to him that was the way it came by default and that we should pick out a new picture together. He was very excited about his new orange phillips screwdriver that he wanted to have a screwdriver as his picture. We found this really cool picture on flickr.
To which Amanda of all people said we should make this all web2.0 and have people vote on which picture to use. You heard the lady. What should we use? Or should we just stick with the oranges?
We are getting used to Charlotte blowing chunks after every meal, but last night Thomas ratcheted it up a notch with a strong showing at the porcelain god. I picked up some Casa D’Italia heros on the way home from work. Amanda and I shared ours with Thomas. He was more into the pasta salad than the hero. Just as we were wrapping up our meal, he made a b-line for the bathroom and deposited the pasta salad in the toilet. Fortunately he made it almost all in the toilet, but it was no fun seeing him so sick. Fortunately his new found bedroom freedom allowed him to come get us in the middle of the night when he was not feeling well rather than puking all over his crib. His puking spell lasted until earlier this evening, hopefully it is over for now.
