Sweet Yet Sour

Catching Up

Sunday, December 11th, 2011 | Anna, Henry, Updates

There comes a point when it’s been so long since the last time that I blogged that I feel overwhelmed with the amount of things that I have pictures of and stories about.  That’s where I’ve been for a while, but I’m going to head right in, try to make it as short as possible and catch everyone up on the goings on at our house.

First, I have no pictures of Cash because he’s basically back to his normal self after his toe amputation – sleeping all day on his bed until it’s either time for a walk or time for a meal.  He seems perfectly fine after the loss of his toe – although he’s not liking the booties we got him to protect that toe nub from the elements on his walks.  But he’s a Greyhound, he expresses displeasure so quietly it’s hard to notice at all.

My last post was right before Halloween, so we’ll begin there.  The week before Halloween the kids and I found a yard in our neighborhood with lots of leaves in the grass and they could not resist playing in them:

It’s always such a struggle to get them both to look at the camera!

Following that, over the weekend, Mike and I painted Anna’s room.  My mom came up to watch the kids (thanks mom!) while we painted her room per her request “pink and purple”.  Here we are almost done:

The next day was Halloween and the beginning of a week off from work for Mike – our own little “Staycation”.  We went to the Denver Botanic Gardens and the kids had a great time playing in the children’s garden and having a picnic in the grassy amphitheater.  That evening our nephew came to our house for some trick-or-treating and we managed a few pictures of the three of them before they ran away in search of sugar.  Anna had requested to be a “pink and purple butterfly” (sense a theme here?), Brendan was a mummy (his mom made the costume!) and Henry borrowed Brendan’s old Zebra costume.

A butterfly fairy, a mummy and a zebra walk into a bar…

Anna had been asking for a while to go to work with her Daddy on the bus and the train.  Mike drives most days, but when he has the time he likes to walk two blocks, pick up the bus and then take that to the train station.  From there it’s a short train ride and walk to his office.  So, one morning we packed Anna up with her backpack (full of books), her lunchbag (with a breakfast snack) and Mike up with his backpack and they headed off to work:

After they rode the bus, train and walked to work they had a little breakfast and then I came to get Anna.  She had a great time!

Henry is a good napper (I’m hoping I don’t jinx myself with that), but sometimes he naps so hard that he has some awesome hair afterwards:

I took the opportunity to take a picture of my beloved boys – they’re both so gorgeous!

Anna loves to take pictures with my camera and sometimes she grabs it and takes loads of pictures.  Here are the results of one of her picture taking episodes:

This is either Mike’s Elvis impression or he’s working on a fart…

Nice one eh?

And last, the most artistic of the bunch:

I call this one “Toast”; I’m sure it will be worth millions some day…

Henry can’t take pictures of his food, but he does like to do other things with it, like throwing it, smashing it or putting it in his hair.  He’s watched me plenty of times putting lotion on my face and one day he decided that his ketchup would work as lotion.  I got some good pictures before I stripped him down and put him in the bath:

I think that’s it for now! We’re mostly caught up! More posts later!

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