Print Worthy

(If I could just figure out how to print out pictures on my new printer.)

Bigger Fish

We spent the night up at Grammy & Grampy Robinson's and Mike and Charlie spent the day at the lake for one last time before the weather turns cold. Either the new fatter worms they have been using are catching bigger fish or the fish that have survived the summer in the lake have gotten bigger, because all the fish they caught today were a pretty decent size:

Update & More Hair Bows

My apologies for the lack of blogging this week; a busy work week last week (working my per diem job after getting off from my 'real' job) kept me busy every night last week and then I came down with a helluva stomach bug friday afternoon which kept me off my feet until yesterday.

Otherwise not too much to report -- Mike traded in Charlie's old DS for the new DS XL which has a bigger screen and is sturdier, and now Charlie is even more firmly "plugged in to the Matrix" as Mike calls it, than before.

I got my latest hairbows from bloomingbows.com
so here is Amelia modeling them:


I am completely in love with the lavender fuzzy one and have made it my ambition to purchase it in atleast several more colors... And as you can tell from the pictures Amelia loves them just as much as I do ;)

A Case Of The Breaks

Yesterday everything in the house decided to break at once; I opened the fridge to start getting breakfast ready and discovered that neither the refrigerator nor freezer were working. This led me to take everything out of the freezer and bring it to the downstairs freezer, drag out the mini fridge we have in one of the basement closets and haul it upsatirs (it is not so "mini" when you are trying to get it up a flight of stairs let me tell you) and pile the contents of the fridge into that, then call the repair man who couldn't come out till today. When Mike got home he unplugged the fridge and plugged it back in again and of course it has been working fine ever since. Oy.

Then the coffee maker started turning itself off and saying it was brewing when it wasn't, things it only seems to do when I am around. So I called Keurig hoping for another coffee maker but unfortunately the lady on the phone did not seem to be in a giving mood because she just had me jam paper clips into it per her instructions; it seemed reasonably okay today but we'll see...

The final straw was when I came downstairs to look up a zip code on my computer and discovered it was overrun with a virus and that I literally couldn't do anything on it. At that point I gave up and went to bed; I heard from Mike this morning that it took him 3 hours to fix.

I think I am going to try to stay away from the rest of our appliances for the week...

Fashion Show

Jessica crocheted Amelia a cute little beanie hat and matching booties after I lamented over the price of a similar crocheted baby hat I had seen online. We got them in the mail yesterday. (Thanks Jessica!) I decided that said items were best modeled with a pink tutu and naked from the waist up, and Amelia was a pretty good sport about the whole thing. When she's 20 and sees these pictures it might be another story...

First Day of School

Charlie looked up from his DS just long enough to say "cheese" this morning as he headed out for his first day in Ms Suzie's Pre-K class:

Lots of Fish, No Pictures

Yesterday was probably our last day of fishing on the lake for the season, and we went out in style! Charlie and Mike caught probably between 40 and 50 fish between them, with some of them actually a fairly decent size. Charlie caught a turtle, and Mike almost caught "Big Bob", the *big* fish we know is lurking in that lake somewhere... Unfortunately, Big Bob broke Charlie's fishing pole in his struggle to get away. Charlie is so far so jazzed about his day fishing that it does not appear to have sunk in that he doesn't actually have a fishing pole anymore. We'll see how *that* realization goes down...

I've Lost My Son To Marvel Super Hero Squad

Amelia Take Her Bouncing Very Seriously

Baby's Got Bows

Having decided that Amelia's lack of hair is not going to stop me from ornamenting her head, I ordered 3 custom hairbow headbands from bloomingbows.com. Here is Amelia modeling them:

Basic Black:


Monogrammed:


Over The Top: