Merry Christmas!!!!!! Freddy is having a great first Christmas despite his arm. Lucy loves the doll Santa brought her.

Freddy is doing pretty well today. He slept much better than I thought he would last night. The hard part is keeping him from trying to crawl. I think my arm just might fall off, he is heavy!!! I can't put him down for more than a second because he will try to crawl. It is like having a colicky infant but heavier. :/

Freddy will be celebrating his first Christmas with a broken collar bone. :( He fell of the changing table this morning even though I was standing right next to it. We took him to the emergency room where they x-rayed him and his bone is snapped very neatly right in the middle. He has to wear a sling\be wrapped in an ace bandage for the next 2-3 weeks. :( We are supposed to see an orthopedist next week. I am waiting for his pediatrician to call me back with her recomendation of what to do and who to take him to.

That is ASPARAGUS he is going nuts for! He also loves swiss chard. This is not the first time nor will it be the last time that I say this, boys are weird!

Winter wonderland

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Well I was worried that becauwe they went to bed so early last night, maybe they were getting sick. As you can see here they are both their normal silly selves this morning. I guess Lucy was just really overtired, she slept 13 hours! Freddy didnt do as well I think he is getting another tooth. They are both ready for a big day of cookie making with their grandmas, and I am ready to go shopping!

FaLaLaLa

It is 6:20 and both my kids are in bed asleep already! I am too weirded out to be excited. I have more than enough to do to fill the time, but they are asleep? both of them? I am rather nervous about how the night, more specifically the very early morning will go.

More importantly though...

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOLLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here is cousin Chase's school chorus singing at the mall today. Chase is in the second row behind the girl in the pink plaid dress, you probably can't see her but at least you can hear how nice they sound!

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Here is our gingerbread house for this year's contest.

Happy Sinterklaas again!

Happy Sinterklaas!!

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Can I get an elf?

If not an elf maybe a maid? Yeah, a maid would be better. There is of course lots to do but I would rather be on the computer. Well, I would rather be making the cute Christmas decorations I just saw patterns for but, alas, I have no time for frivolity. :) I have three fun Christmas gift projects working now, well sitting because I am on the computer.

Anywho... Freddy is feeling much better, thank goodness! He is still a bit raspy but I think that is just all of the cold stuff breaking up and clearing out. He took the last dose of antibiotic tonight, and has two more days of prednisone left. He has not needed a breathing treatment since Tuesday morning and I hope I never have to give him another one ever!!

I got a bunch of shopping done, and many crafts are at least planned out in my head. :) Yesterday morning was the best ever! While Freddy was napping Lucy and I both worked on Christmas projects and listened to Christmas music. The only thing that could have made it better would have been to have been beside our tree. That is on the agenda for this weekend and we are supposed to get some snow for the occasion. Also on this weekend's agenda is open house at pottery, make our gingerbread house, go to the gingerbread open house, and go to Haley's birthday party (she will be 4!!!!! I can't believe how fast time flies). Plus craft craft craft and hopefully wrap wrap wrap! :)

I had better take care of my banking and bill paying now. Better yet I should get to bed and do bills in the morning after a cup of coffee or two. :)

What a fitting scene to wake up to on December 1st!

Freddy came down with a cold over Thanksgiving. By Saturday he was coughing pretty hard so we decided to take him in to the doctor. Well he was much sicker than anybody thought. He has a double ear infection and his chest was very tight, congested and wheezy. Also he was broken out all over with excema. :( My poor boy! They checked his oxygen and it was 100% which was great so she did not send us to the ER. I had absolutely no idea that he was that sick! They gave him a nebulizer treatment at the office (which is what the picture is of). We were sent home with instructions to do nebulizer treatments at home, a prescription for antibiotics and prednisone, and instructions to put hydrocortisone anywhere he is red, which is all over. Today we went back and he is better but still a bit wheezy. :( He is getting back to his normal self though and he played hard this afternoon, crawling
after Lucy everywhere that she went. He loves to do whatever she is doing. :)

Happy Trolley Day! (yes he is sick :( )

Lucy and Grandma making great-great-grandma Torrence's rolls for Thanksgiving dinner.

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I should be...

doing dishes, playing with Freddy, giving the dog a bath, working on Christmas projects, etc. but I am going to try to type fast instead. :) Freddy said his first word! Well, he has been saying "dada" for a while but this morning he was definitely using it correctly. He was looking right at Dave and saying it, and then when Dave left the room he looked at the doorway and said it again. Why do they always say 'dada' first? Not fair!!

Gobbl gobble!!!!

Freddy, Noah, and Uncle Freddy hanging out at Grandma and BobBob's house.

Lucy is playing some made up card game and told me it isnt appropriate to do too many at once. She said appropriate!!! and used it correctly!!!!!

Isn't she such a nice big sister to share with her brother. :) I have to go wash his sticky face and more closely supervise lollipop eating.

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Lucy really misses Daddy so we made a Daddy. :) hehehe

Freddy seemed unhappy at out Halloween party until he went to sit with Uncle Joe. He apparently needed a manly companion, he was tired of being with the girls. :)

Happy Halloween!!!!!

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Just before I took this video she was yelling "I am unraking the leaves with my feet!" :)

A Long Time Ago...

I used to write stuff about my kids and what we were up to. I think it was called blogging but it has been so long I am just not sure. :P The kids are playing together, I think they are having a tea party, so I am going to try to write.

I will start with a quick round up of what has been keeping us so busy (some of this might be a repeat, bear with me please). Starting at Labor Day, we did the Chicken Wing Thing, my parents were here we visited with Rick, Gina and Noah, we visited with Jim, Julie and Molly, oh yeah and Dave and I had gone to a wedding. This was the first time Freddy did his random throwing up, an act that has been repeated since. Anyway, the week after Labor Day Dave had a cold which he gave to Lucy, very mild no big deal. Lucy then kindly shared with Freddy and I. We were stuffy and didn't feel well but not too big a deal. I got better, Freddy stayed stuffy. I think it was Thursday of the week after he and I are were sick together he spiked a fever. I took him to the doctor's and they said he had an infection and prescribed him some antibiotics. He was doing well, getting better, so the following Wednesday I took him in for his way overdue 6 month check up. The doc said he was perfect (I knew that already but it was nice to have it confirmed). :) That night I gave him his medicine and he tried plums for the first time, which he actually ate, he hadn't been interested in food since he got sick, so I was psyched. However, the next day he broke out in a rash! :( Back to the doctor we went because he had had shots, antibiotics and a new food, and he was covered in little red dots. The doctor decided that it wasn't the shots because he had had them twice before with no reaction and it probably wasn't the plums. That left the antibiotic, which I am allergic to too. So we stopped the medicine and they wrote it down on his chart that he is probably allergic to it. I was told to stop plums for now but try them again in a few weeks and see what happens.

I then spent the weekend running around getting ready for our trip to Massachusetts. Dave took my car to get inspected and we found out it needed to have the gas tank replaced. :/ Fortunately I had taken the car seats out of it before he took it, just in case. On Tuesday I had to borrow Oma's car to take Lucy to get her flu shot (yup, that made 4 trips to the doctor in less than 2 weeks). Then early Wednesday morning we left for MA.

The trip was great! The kids had so much fun playing together! We went to the Aquarium in Boston, and apple picking near J, J and M's house. We also visited my Aunt Ann Marie and Uncle Tim who live one town over from J&J. The hotel was nice, we all went in the pool there so that was fun. The traveling itself even went surprisingly well. We got home late Saturday night and all went straight to bed.

Sunday morning we went to Ganny and Poppa's house and had another tie dye day with the Aunties. This time we did red and green to make shirts for Christmas. To answer your question, yes we are a bit crazy. :) I then did laundry and a bit of grocery shopping and repacked for yet another trip. I just realized I forgot a trip. The week of Freddy's checkup, the three of us went to my parents house overnight. Wow I can't believe I forgot! We met my parents at the Syracuse zoo, then went to their house, stayed the night, got haircuts, and hung out all the next day. I've been so busy I can't even keep up with myself. Okay where was I? Our last trip, we went to Old Forge overnight. Grandpa and Daddy decided they wanted to go look at a cabin that is for sale on Twitchell Lake. Twitchell is where they used to go for a week every summer when Dave was a kid. So we all went up and saw it. There was snow on the ground when we got there so we were freezing but the cabin was really nice. I can't get into describing the whole thing, but I will someday get the pictures I took posted. Their was a pool at that hotel too so Lucy and I got to go swimming, Oma and Freddy chilled on the sidelines and Grandpa and Daddy went back to the cabin to hike around a bit. Fun but exhausting!

We came home on Thursday in time for me to go to pottery class, which I had missed the week before. Then I collapsed into bed and got up in the morning to do laundry again. Yeah! Laundry took up Friday and Saturday we went to visit Dave's cousin and his family. They live about an hour away,and Dave didn't just get to visit he took one of the guys from work with us and they helped Jim replace his furnace. Super fun for them! Lucy, Freddy, Marc, Colby and Luke had a great time playing together and Jen made us some delicious chili for lunch. Since the guys had a job to do we had gone in separate cars so I took the kids home after lunch to make sure they got naps. :) Oh yeah, and Friday night we had Kim over for dinner so Lucy and I baked an apple pie that afternoon.

Sunday we were just going to chill at home but it was so beautiful out we decided to go the pumpkin farm. (I think I posted about that from phone.) Very fun and well worth it. The kids took really long naps after that, which was a good thing for me because Dave had to go to work for awhile. We went grocery shopping that evening and we have been sticking much closer to home since then. On Monday we went to JoAnn's to buy yarn because you never can have too much yarn. :) We also had to get fairy wings for Lucy's Halloween costume. She is going to be a fairy like AbbyKaDabee (spelling? she is a character on Sesame Street). Lucy chose this costume because she discovered the tutu she had gotten for her birthday but never played with before. She wants to wear it always now, well not always Lucy really likes to be naked these days. Fun fun fun around here!

That about sums it up. My parents came on Tuesday afternoon and spent the night, and I have spent the week crocheting like mad to make a birthday present for Dave. I decided a bit late to make him something so I have been working like crazy when he isn't here. Last night I even left early for pottery so that I could sit in the parking lot there and work on it. I am sure Mike (the owner) thought I was crazy, oh well I am! :) I will post a picture of his present after I give it to him Sunday.

This weekend, Dave's birthday weekend, we are going to Beer's of the World to get stuff for him to make hard cider. On Sunday we are going to ZooBoo which sounds cool, there are tons of activities for the kids and the animal exhibits are supposed to be decorated too. Then since that is Dave's actual birthday we are having crab legs and brownies with ice cream for dessert, yum!!

Quickly I will mention the children. :) Freddy has six teeth and might be getting more right now. He is doing pretty well with eating now that he is better, oddly he really likes Swiss chard which is something I craved at the beginning of my pregnancy. Weird. He gets all around by rolling, though he is getting up to all fours and doing that rocking back and forth thing. I think our hard floor is slowing him down, his knees always slide out behind him and he only ends up going backwards. Dave claims that Freddy went forward last night while I was gone, but I don't believe him. I only leave my kids for 2 and a half hours a week to go to pottery, I am with them 24-7 otherwise and I don't think Freddy would do that to me! :) He sits up well of course, he just started waving and he has turned into a terrible flirt! He seems to like young blond women, like our favorite waitress Danielle! He flirts with here so much it is ridiculous! :)

What can I write about Lucy? She is crazy!!!!!! She is 2 and a half which sums it up. She talks a mile a minute, wants to know how everything works, loves to jump and run, plays all kinds of pretend games and today she created an invisible friend! The friend is a new one on me, she has told me about things I couldn't see before like the bear on our stairs (he is catching fish in the water, like in a book we have about bears it shows them fishing at a waterfall for salmon) and Tiger Tiger who lives out side her window in the sky (I think, I am not too sure about that one). But this one she said is her son, (!!!!) a little girl, whose backyard is in our living room. Her playground with swings and a slide is on our couch and the two of them were hungry for a snack earlier. I asked what Lucy wanted and she said her son wanted a fruit roll up. :) It took me a while to realize she wasn't talking about one of her baby dolls. At nap time Lucy said that she (her son) wanted to sleep in her bed with her. I said okay as long as you both go to sleep. It seems to have worked I haven't heard a peep since I tucked them in. :)

I did not get to write all of this in one sitting and it may have gotten so long you can't read it all in one sitting. :) I am done now. My squash is done baking so I have to go take care of it. Some of it will be Freddy food and some is going to make squash ravioli with sage butter sauce that Lucy I and are making for dinner (recipe from this month's Family Fun magazine). I am also using up valuable crochet time!

We spent the whole morning at the pumpkin farm and had a great time! We pet a calf, a couple of sheep, and a goat. We went on a wagon ride, jumped in a pile of hay, dug in some corn, crawled through a tunnel and more that I can't even remember. Both kids loved it and are exhausted now and so am I! Lucy picked out this peanutty pumpkin to take home. We are going to go get a few regular pumpkins later this week from a farmer we know. I think we will spend the week doing Halloween crafts.

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"Freddy? I do not know thees Freddy you speak of. I am Claude. I am, how do you say, foreign exchange baby."

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We are on our way home and I asked Lucy what her favorite part of the trip was, her answer: "Molly." Then she said "I like going on trips to Molly's house." :)

Three boys hanging out looking at a catalog. What type of catalog might entice all three of them you may ask. Why a knife catalog of course.

Good morning from our hotel in MA! Today we are going to the aquarium in Boston. I am really excited because I love aquariums! We will be meeting Aunt Julie and Molly a little later and then we will start our big city adventure. :)

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Three little pumpkins, I mean cousins. Can you guess where we are?

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Lucy just decided she wants to trade mae for a cat because cats dont eat bread (mae ate the piece of bread lucy left on the couch). she is such a funny girl.

What we r doing right now.

That is supposed to be Freddy's hat but she looks so cute in it it might become hers. :)

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Look familiar? Two years ago we took a very similar picture of Lucy. We are at our land this morning to plant some flower bulbs. I will post a picture of Lucy too.

Lucy just mocked me in a sarcastic way. I took tylenol bcause my back hurts and she started going "oh oh" in a fakely sympthetic way! She is a total genius!

I wrote a post about Freddy's doctor's appointment. It posted below the picture of him from this morning.

This smiley boy has a temperature of 102.3 this morning. I am going to call the doctor when they open in an hour and a half. :(

Problems and about the architect

I wrote this post on Tuesday, but when I tried to add a video to it, it didn't work so it didn't get posted. Let me update you on Freddy with this post too. He and I had a cold last week which Daddy had kindly shared with all of us. Lucy, Dave and I got over it fairly quickly. Freddy's stuffiness didn't clear up and yesterday he wasn't acting like himself. I took his temp and it was 99, just enough to make him not feel great. This morning he felt hot so I took his temp again, it was 102.3! So off we went to the doctor. She determined that he has a secondary bacterial infection following his cold and gave us antibiotics. :( This is the first time either of my kids will ever have been on antibiotics. I am sad to break that streak. We got lucky with the doctor two ways, Daddy, Oma, Kim and everyone else in the office kept Lucy so she didn't have to go sit at the doctor's too, and the doctors discussed and decided that Freddy did not need to get a chest x-ray. If he gets worse or still runs a fever on Monday I have to call them back. In a little bit we will give him his first dose of medicine, keep your fingers crossed that he isn't allergic to penicillin like I am.

On top of my worrying about him being sick, I found out this afternoon that Tylenol issued a recall on some of its infant and children's formulas. Sorry to be rude but, WTF!!!!! Freddy is sick so I have been giving him a trusted brand name (not generic because I bought the trusted name) and they announce a recall!!!! I checked all of the medicine we have and it is not on the list but I am still upset about it. Upset enough that Dave got a tearful phone call asking if he was coming home soon.Good thing he works so close huh?

I am calmed down mostly now. I better go clean up and cook dinner. Good thing it is a pottery night, not that I will be able to concentrate with all of this stuff going on but at least I get to get away for awhile.


The post from Tuesday with no video at the end, sorry!

Today we met with an architect and I think we are going to hire her. Very exciting and stressful! As soon as we have a drawing I will scan it and post it. Our house will be very old farmhouse/Adirondack looking with a big porch on the front, rough cut board siding and a metal roof. There is so much to think about and I am way behind Dave because my attention is being taken by other things. Here is a sample of those other things: :)















Here is Freddy having his first taste of jelly at the Diner. Sadly (for Ganny), he didn't like it very much. He doesn't really like to eat much of anything, other than his milkies. His not liking food is stressing me out, I don't want to be his sole source of nourishment any more, he is a big boy it takes a lot to keep up with him! :) We gave him a saltine cracker today and he really liked that so maybe that is the solution, spread all of his food on saltines and trick him into eating it. ;)








I haven't uploaded a video in a long time, I have taken lots but I haven't got them on to the computer. So here is one to show you what Freddy is up to these days. He doesn't crawl yet but he gets what he wants, unless it is directly in front of him. He does a lot of spinning, stretching, scooching backwards and rolling. He just got himself over to his sister's coloring books and is ripping the pages right now actually, brb! Ok situation taken care of but I better stop blogging and get back to work. My craft closet is (still) all torn apart because I am trying to reorganize it. It is scary and the mess is making the back room basically unusable. :(

My new favorite thing to do: watch Lucy push Freddy in the swing. This parenting stuff is a piece of cake once you have two. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Promised Pics

This one is from a while ago, when the big crane came to set the new bulk propane tank. It is a very nice picture of four generations of men.











I don't remember exactly when this was from. Aunt Grace stopped to ask me something and before she knew Lucy had her on the couch reading her a story. Freddy was eavesdropping I think.











Big and little cousins.
















The newest member of the family Noah Nicholas.















Our gorgeous new swing set that Dave built.


















Both kids, but especially Freddy, really like to swing.












Is it time to eat chicken wings yet?
















Freddy entertaining the ladies.















Lucy and Hailey taking a garden stroll, away from the spicy chicken wings.










Saturday night after the wing party Freddy got sick. I don't know what caused it but he hurled his guts out. He looked so sweet afterwards but I had a restless night worrying.











He was totally fine the next day. We spent some time hanging out at our land, my parents were staying there in their RV. Freddy loves to play with grass. He does occasionally try to eat it, but mostly he plays.











There's Lucy and BobBob do what else? Reading stories of course.














She is enjoying the campfire and some quiet after an extremely busy weekend.











Two of the most beautiful girls in the world!










Finally, a tie dye picture. This is all of the stuff I did this time. If you want to see more of it I started a new blog to post details about craft projects. It is called Busy Bees. :) It is still under construction, but I am going to use it to post pictures and details of the many many crafty things we do around here. I don't know how I am going to keep it up since I can barely find time to post on here but I will try to keep juggling everything.

A Real Post

Yes, that's right, I am sitting down at the computer to write this, not posting from my phone. However, I don't have any pictures or videos to post right now, I'm sorry! I haven't been posting much because, well I am busy. ;) I have been using all of my free time to crochet. I am way into crochet these days as you have seen in my previous post about the hats. There are are lots of hats here; I am actually having a hard time concentrating on what I am writing because I am thinking about crocheting. :)

On a side note my kids are full of all kinds of craziness. Lucy is crazy and I mean 2 and a half year old crazy. She tests me on everything, tells elaborate made up stories, is very helpful sometimes, throws fits sometimes, and loves her brother very much. She even has "chores", in the morning she feeds the fish and gives Mae her cookie and at night she helps get Mae her dinner. Oh, and she never stops talking, ever!!!!!!

Freddy is also full of developments. He has two teeth, the front bottom two. They finally broke through last Thursday and Friday after about 6 weeks of bothering him. He is rolling all over the place. Yesterday he was halfway under the couch when I came back into the living room from getting Lucy a snack. When he is really trying to reach a toy that is out in front of him he can almost get it except that he scooches backwards instead. ;) He is getting the hang of eating solids. He eats lots of fruits and veggies, rice cereal and oatmeal. I have to get cooking up some new stuff.

I have been doing way too many crafts lately. I think I mentioned the crochet, and I have been tie-dying with the aunties. We have done it twice so far to perfect our technique so we are going to do it again this coming weekend. I promise to get some pictures of that up soon. Lucy and I have been painting, coloring and doing cooking projects too. I am kind of tired!

Have you seen the picture of my brand new nephew?!?!?! He is sooo cute and tiny! I thought Freddy was big boy before. You should see him next to Noah! I promise to get pictures of that soon too!

It is time for a snack and bed, then off to my parents tomorrow for a haircut.

I guess i have been crocheting too many hats lately, Lucy decided to look on the computer for hat that she could make for Freddy. This is what we could come up with "a beautiful little tiny hat".

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Welcome to the world Noah Nicholas!!!! He was born at 2:21am this morning. Congratulations Rick and Gina!

They are the two cutest boys n the world!!!!! I was making a hat for my due-any-day-now nephew when I decided I would make one for Freddy too. Well then Dave said he needed one too, to match Freddy. :)

Guess what we decided to do this afternoon? The neighbor boys came over to ask to keep an eye their house because they were going camping. They mentioned that they were taking their puppy with them which greatly interested Lucy. She wanted to know where the boys were sleeping and where the puppy was going to sleep. I told her that I thought they were going to sleep in a tent with the puppy. Lucy excitedly replied "that would be fun to sleep in a tent with Mae!" I of course ran straight to the garage and got out our old tent. Ask me tomorrow if we actually sleep in it tonight or just play in it.

I had to take this picture yesterday, they just looked so cute sitting there together. Freddy isn't really big enough to sit in the cart. He slumps over to the side after a few minutes. I carry him in the sling a lot these days. He has outgrown the infant carseat but he can't really sit up. It makes doing anything a bit difficult so for now I am trying to keep errand running, shopping, etc to a minimum. Soon enough he will be sitting well and then (horror) crawling. :) I am in no rush for him to become mobile, but at the same time I can't wait for him to be able to really play.

Dinner time!

These are Lucy's new favorite things: a blue summer dress that I bought at a yard sale and is way too big for her, the wastebasket I just got for her room which she wants to carry around, and some awesome skull and crossbone rain boots.

Today was Laura Ingalls Wilder day at the Genesee Valley Country Museum. The rock candy she is holding was the bribe I needed to get her to put on the bonnet. :) I am going to post another picture of Lucy checking out the oxen. (Freddy slept in his stroller the whole time.)
p.s. Aunt Julie, Lucy was very interested in the yarn spinning and dying demonstration that we saw.