Peanut and Ho-ha

Tonight Hannah came tip toe-ing through the living room with her hands curled like claws. Watching her, Jeremy asked, "Why are you doing that?"

Hannah started to giggle, embarrassed. "I was trying to sneak up on Ho-ha," she replied.

Ho-ha is her imaginary friend she's had since she was two.

I needed that laugh.

Videos videos everywhere

I wish there was a better way to upload and share videos without having to share them with the world. I tried You Tube's private video feature, however I couldnt figure out how to just allow only my family to view them. Oh well. At anyrate, I finally uploaded two videos I made a couple of months ago piecing together clips and photos from the spring and summer. I do like big-band. But the real reason both clips have big band music as a soundtrack is because it was the only CD's I could find at the time of creation. ;P

Color Day! (May 2006)


Swimming! (June 2006)

Ikea...now that's an idea!

The mr. and I have found a new favorite store: Ikea. It's been a few years since I was at Ikea. I remember going there once as a little kid to get shelves with my folks. I had no idea how cool of a store it would be. There was even a place to drop off the kids where they got their face painted, watched movies, played on some indoor playground equipment, and were, in general, very disappointed when we were done shopping. Yes. We actually shopped in peace. It was great.

We went to Ikea on new years eve day looking for bookshelves, a dresser, and a loft bed for The Boy. His room is very small and we figured putting his bed up high would give us floor space for a dresser. Up to this point, his clothes have been in the hall closet and in under the bed boxes. He had one tiny dresser that barely fit his undies and pajamas. So we found a cool bed and a nice six drawer dresser to fit underneath. We bought two bookshelves for our room that we laid on their sides.








Now, normally, we're not too thrilled about put-together-furniture, but we have found that Ikea furniture is fairly idiot-proof. I say "fairly" because, obviously, they've never met this idiot. When we assembled the bed, I handed the mr the wrong end caps for the bottom of the bed. So when he put the end caps in the tops of the bed, there wasn't a hole for the screws. An hour or so later, he managed to pull the endcaps out (which were very snug) and put them in the right place. BUT in order to do that, we had to disassmble the entire bed. Sigh. Otherwise, it would have gone off without a hitch. The mr., who calls himself anti-handiman, even managed to assemble the bookshelves in our room in about 40 minutes. I was impressed.

The whole furniture purchase is part of a big re-arrange, de-clutter project in the house. The mr. took a week off from work to do it too. Our living room will hopefully feel less crowded after this re-do. I still have to paint the walls and pick up an entertainment center thingy from Sara. My legs and arms are so stiff from hauling things to and fro. Hopefully, by the time the semester starts up again, I'll still be able to walk.