We Have a Top Tooth People!

We have a Top TooTh! Well Padon does....But! It's broken through as of Feb 11th. Now if its little buddy next door will follow suit....

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What does one do with a chair collection?

Why build giant book shelves and stack them up of course! I love this kind of stuff. I will never have it in my house, well first of all because it is way too small....but I love the shape of art and how it lends to its surroundings.

I found this picture on a fabulous website http://www.jupiterimages.com/. If you ever need pictures of anything check this site out. It has been a fantastic resource for Power Point presentations.

1st SCA Event of the New Year - Ursulmas 2008

Usually SCA events revolve around Walters (Idris) and the Medlested household fighting in mock battles and there are really only a couple events where I have to stick my hand in the air and say, uh yeah, I won't be hanging out in camp this time, I'm going to go live in the Arts and Sciences section. Ursulmas is one of those events. Held every January in the Monroe Evergreen State Fair Grounds it is a public event advertised as a renaisance faire. Last year I got the opportunity to demonstrate hand spinning as "Living History" and for two whole glorious days all I did was spin and spin and spin on my spinning wheel. I was on cloud nine!

So this year I contacted the A & S Autocrate and asked if they needed anyone for Living History again. They remembered me from last year and jumped on the chance to have me demonstrate since I was the only one. Sadly I missed the first half of Saturday because of a programing class I was taking but I got to Monroe as fast as I could, changed into my Garb and plunked myself down to work on some more of my alpaca. I had already spun a lot of it so I spent the rest of Saturday and half of Sunday plying to gether two bobbins of yarn

It was as great as last year! I layed out all my documentation and samples of wool and books and talked to anyone who would listen about the history of the spinning wheel pointing out its parts and showing the processes of spinning.

The best part came when a gal asked me if I was selling any of my yarn. Totally caught of guard I said no, but then stopped and said but I wasn't against selling it. She said "how much for this?" and picks up a tiny skein of chocolate Coopersworth yarn and I shrugged and said "$5?" She said "ok!" happily plunked it in her pocket and ran to her stroller to get my $5 bucks. I just about pee'd myself with the excitement of selling my first product and I had had that sitting around for almost two years! Next timeI think I better put up a for sale sign.

It was such a great time and I think I will have to do this every year. Next public event to demonstrate at? June Faire in Gig Harbor! WooHoo!!!!

To top it off one of the gals running the Arts and Sciences booth gave me a Beaver fur coat to use to make myself, Walter, and Padon SCA garb out of. That was the coolest! Warm hats and cloaks here they come!

Mile Stone - Beginning of the Scoots

So Walter calls me over to say "Chloe look at this!" and Padon was about 4 feet from where I had left him. Our little bean has learned to scoot back wards! And he was so very proud of his accomplishements.

Nothin is going to stop him now. Not even with help from the dog and tips from the Cat.

Another Great Milestone - 1st attempts at crawling

So Walter had plunked Padon down on the couch for a moment and right before our eyes Padon decided he would push himself up on his knees. Not much farther to crawling! He did it a couple times and just enough for us to get play by play pictures. Yeah! What a big boy!
Ok, here we go....Position the arms.....
Pull the knees up....AAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! Just about there!....

It's hard work to use muscles you never knew you had.

Mov'n Onto Solids

- Padon has always been a great eater and at 5 months we were moving him onto baby food mixed with his formula. With his 7 month check up we have been given the go head by his pediatrician to give him just the baby food (bottle of formula on the side) and this has been a fun transition. It has opened up the world towards the arena of tasty eats and so far he has done pretty well with it. He already wants to put everything into his mouth and little by little he is working on how food feels in his mouth that doesn't slide down like a baby milk shake. Aside from the baby food I have made him from yams, sweet potatoes, bananas, green peas, sweet peas, butter nut squash, apples, and carrots this ok to eat solids has led to a wonderful sampling of things like chocolate moose (compliments of my Mom), mashed potatoes, breaded chicken (just gummed), cucumbers (again gummed), couple pieces of pasta, an anchovie stuffed olive (all juice sucked out of until like a little mummified olive), a Sweet Pea (gummed again), and two green beans covered in cream of mushroom soup from a green bean casserole .

He only has two teeth so we have to be careful in what we give him and of course keep a very close eye on him so he doesn't choke but so far he has been a champ and we have found that the only thing he really seems to dislike is apples. Strange, of all the things he has eatten...

What the?!...

So my Mom sent the craziest email today with ads from the 50's. And I'm sure I could find more of these but from her email I just thought these were the most shocking and funny. I'm so glad I grew up in the 80's and 90's...

I hope you can blow this one up but if you can't the article summaries that if you are having trouble with getting your husband to be romantic with you that it may be your personal hygeine and that the only way to correct that would be to douche with Lysol. Yep you read correctly. Are your legs crossed right now? Mine are!

In all my job searching I never thought to look up in the Lard Information Council.

~Actually I just looked them up and found out this add is a spoof from the British humour magazine Viz. They produced it as a T-shirt design. Too Funny~

Zoo Lights at the Point Defiance Zoo

Sarah and I had made plans to get together at the very end of December to make baby food but then I had already made too much for Padon and Gregory was still not too keen on making the transition away from breast milk and formula so we opted out and Sarah offered up the fantastic idea of going to the Point Defiance Zoo for their annual light show instead. And what a great idea it was.

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We bundled up the babies, grabbed our strollers, and made our way to see just what the zoo had to offer in their spectacular light show.

Padon pretty much started to cry when he hit the cold night air but when we started passing people he became more interested on what was going on around him then how cold his cheeks were and the fact he had socks on his hands.

Greg was awesome and just checked out all that there was to see around him.

Right away the lights were spectacular. It must have taken a serious team of people to weave the lights in and out of the foliage and to create the animated light shows of orangutans swinging through trees, penguins sliding down icy hills, and kangaroo's joeys hopping by.

We tried to take our pictures in front of the lights and while the mass of color, light, and dark made them a little blurry it still made some really nice pictures.

It was really cool that they left some of the exhibits open even though signs said the zoo was closed for the animals. We even accidentally went backward through an exhibit and got to see the animals in a place where strollers weren't allowed.

There were massive sharks and tuna swimming by a huge floor to ceiling glass aquarium and at first Padon was interested in the sharks that were showing their teeth but soon he was mesmerized by the reflection of the water on the sand and he wouldn't look anywhere else. We moved onto other rooms and found the petting zoo was still open to visitors. Rightly so the goats were only interested in the free food you could by by the handful for $.25 and no longer were interested in being pet.

Padon looked down on them much in the same way he looks at Roadie and I thought briefly about taking off his sock so he could pet the goat, but it was obvious to me that the goat had reached his threshold for petting for the day and really didn't want anything more than free hand outs. Knowing from my volunteering days at the Woodland Park Zoo that their heads are like concrete blocks I chose to be a responsible parent and I didn't put my baby eye to eye with the grumpy goat just to pet it.

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It was too bad there wasn't more to see but my bean was over tired and by the time we found the car (yes I lost it) and we got the babies in the car they were hungry and not in the mood for anything other than a bottle and bed. Sarah was great and used her fab mom skills to feed both babies while we made our way back to her house.

It was good times and would be fun to do again. If not just to go to the zoo. I love the zoo.

More Fabulous Christmas Pictures

Family members were snap'n pictures all Christmas and often during times when I wasn't able to grab mine so it has been great to get some of them back to see how they turned out.

Stockings were hung beautifully

My Parents Hosted Our Huge Family

Very Importantly Christmas Sox Were Worn on Christmas Day

Jesus Visited

Gifts Were Unwrapped

Even For The Dogs (Thank you Sarah!)

What a Great Dad

Walter had met Sarah and Wayne and I at Bellevue Square to get the Santa pictures taken for Padon and Gregory and I had completely forgotten that they took pictures of Walter and Padon. Walter came prepared for a day of shopping and hung out with Sarah and Wayne as the three of them shopped through the mall. He even got an opportunity to change Padon's diaper in public for the first time at the Children's Play area. He found it a tense and embarrassing experience but with Sarah rooting him on and tiny tots examining his skills he was able to change Padon's diaper with no problem.