This is why we can be friends

Here is the rare feature "this is why we CAN be friends"...

After responding to my text about the kids today, I got this additional text: 

"Unrelated but interesting note... I just spoke with a man with the last name of Wigglesworth."

This is why we're married.

Tis the season

Tis the season to be merrily marketing... But I think they might have switched recipients on a couple of these direct mail pieces.... 

bright idea

Snowmen and north pole have been a holiday decorating staple for years....see photo below from our Atwood days: 

This year however my dad was awoken in the middle of the night with a "great idea".  He had this giant red light that had ended up in his possession a few years ago....think the kind of light that is on the top of a tall antenna or tower.  And why wouldn't it need to be on the top of the north pole?

So he permanently wired it in the ol' north pole and we no longer have to worry about planes landing in my parents' from yard....

Open Air and Freedom

So I assume this is supposed to be somewhat ridiculous...but I think still warrants a "hmm. Interesting"

What does "open air" even mean??

the trains leaving...

But really.  This was the last weekend of the year for the "little choo choo" in the park.  Parking until April I think....

and Cora FINALLY got to ride with the boys:

But poor Andy....no one would ride with him....

 Oh wait, next ride they ALL wanted to ride with Uncle Andy / Daddy...

she's almost swiss

For the longest time Cora was a  definite "mama's girl".  Who can blame her? I am, in fact, the coolest.

But daddy's been wooing her with frequent walks to look for kitties and puppies and throw rocks in the river; tearing animal pictures out of his cabelas ads for her and eating the lima beans out of her mixed veggies.

  And she has responded -- he is now the preferred facilitator of nose blowing,
  (he is confused and not altogether pleased about this side effect....)

and many other more wonderful things!

I'd say she's pretty close to being Switzerland and it's fun for all! 

Toddler Problems

Sometimes you just have one of those days...where you miss a leg hole and no one notices for a couple of hours...

and it usually ends up fine.  

#toddlerproblems