By the way...

Did I mention that it's beyond cold here? It's been consistently in the negatives all week. This am it was -18. Tomorrow is supposed to be colder.

And here's something interesting. Only 8 states have banned the selling of recalled items. And those states do not include Wisconsin, Iowa or Colorado (Josh & Anne)... and apparently, Wal-Mart has a policy of continuing to sell recalled items (such as toys and bibs with high lead content). Nice eh?

Silly pics

Just thought I would share some silly pictures with everyone...

If you look close you can see that Duncan and Beatrice have opposite ends of the ladder in their mouths! Duncan rolled his truck over for her to play with him, and she just leaned over and put her mouth on the ladder - he thought it looked like a good idea.

Duncan somehow managed to squeeze his little legs between the playyard and the couch. What a goofball.
I guess this one isn't silly - but it's cute.

Duncan took off like a crazy boy and made both Dad and Beatrice laugh!
Here's the silly boy! Look at that hair...
Check out this bedhead!!
Me keeping Beatrice warm :) It almost looks like she has a mohawk going on here...

Maria is still pretty glued to the internet these days. She's been busy watching any and every movie she can online! And I let her do a myspace page so that she can keep in touch with her cousins...

She finished 4th in her spelling bee at school today! She's really a great speller! She made it to the school-wide spelling bee last year too.

Trip to QC part 2 :)

Newsflash... Mike amazingly posted a new blog!! http://demarrupnorth.blogspot.com

We all had a great time in the QC! Even though it was bitter cold!! It was maybe -2 there, which amazingly felt colder than the -20 weather up here! It was about -20 here shortly after we got home. Luckily the weather was great for our trip home (except for the coldness of course).

Got some good pictures while we were there. Unfortunately my camera never made it out of my purse at Fay's house! :( I made sure to hunt it up and take it there! And then I got so busy visiting that I didn't get it out to take any pics :(
Here are some of the pictures I did take ;)

Duncan drinking his juice box out of the pocket of the bib

Ally and Riley playing with Beatrice ~ she looks a little scared in the first picture ;)

Duncan and Riley eating fruit snacks

Emma and Maria had too much fun playing with Riley's kitchen
My cousin Brad's new baby, Henry, with his Grandpa Terry holding him. He's a month younger than Beatrice - he's a big boy.
Ally's baby bump playing guitar hero! ;)
Riley in the baby bouncer
What a cutie ;)
Aunt Tiffany holding Beatrice
Grandma Marcia holding Beatrice The girls taking a break from swimming in the spa :)
Dad and Baby :) how cute

Beatrice getting cousin Abbi :)

Trip to QC

We had a fun drive to Iowa with all the damn snow...

luckily Beatrice is a great driver ;)
Lounging around in the motel room after breakfast...



We all slept really good, except for Maria, who Duncan kept kicking...

Pics finally working ;)

So, here's a bunch more pictures for your enjoyment ;)

Beatrice digging the boppy pillow

Duncan joining her in the boppy pillow
Aw cute, she's got her arm around him :)
Duncan spoon feeding JoJo some yogurt.
Double diaper change anyone?

Aw
She's getting his hair :)


Duncan lining up his meat

No, he's not OCD! :)

Pictures, pictures...

I've been trying for 2 days now to post a bunch of new pictures... but apparently blogger is experiencing some issues ~ probably just when I'm trying to post pictures ;)
Anyway, I was able to get two of them loaded up, so here they are...

Beatrice Likes her new Gym :)

Duncan and Beatrice have been doing a lot of hanging out together lately. She thinks he's hysterically funny - even when he's not doing anything! Here they are checking out one of his cars.

I have a bunch more with these two - of course we haven't seen a whole lot of Maria since we got the computer hooked up with the internet upstairs ;) I was surprised when she asked to play the gamecube this morning... so she was actually hanging out with us most of the day...

Well, I will be posting the rest of the pictures within the next couple of days ;)

Where did Duncan go?

Duncan started doing this at dinner last night - and I wished I would have jumped up and got the video camera, but then he started doing it again at lunch today :) Hilarious!

Christmas Picture Repost :)

Here it goes again :) I was quite hasty with deleting the post... turns out I could have just deleted the comment... but it was late and I was mad ;) oh well... here's some of the pics in a slideshow.

The New Year ;)

Hope everyone is having a good year so far! Things are going pretty good here.

We got a wireless router and all got wireless cards for our various devices ;) I can check email and such from my pda - kind of in a limited way, but it's been really nice to be able to check email from the kitchen. We got Maria a palmtop (cross between a laptop and a pda) for christmas with a wireless card - we've been having problems getting it to work properly, so Mike hooked up his old laptop upstairs for her with the wireless card and we haven't seen her since ;) she's pretty happy about being on the internet finally! She gets to look up Zac Efron and all those teenaged Disney boys! :)

Opening Christmas presents with Aunt Renee

Dad's turn :)
Static is so fun! :) (If you click on the picture you can see her hair better sticking to the chair better) :)

Duncan got his table back (the x-mas tree was on it) but then got it taken away within a couple of hours --- he's a climber!

Baby Beatrice is still lovin' the new exersaucer :)

So much so that she even fell asleep in it last night!!

Jo Jo decided to take over Sally's doggie bed! what a goof! they ended up having a huge fight over it... while the babies were sleeping of course!