visiting with fam

last weekend we got to spend some time with family that we don't get to see as often as we would like! we had groups from iowa, east river, and nebraska gather together :)  some of the group went skiing and some of us hung out at a near terry peak cabin and played

the skiiers/boarders  

mom and I got to take a little hike with my aunt and a friend---it was so pretty outside

henry and cousin jolie coloring at the cabin

we also pre-celebrated jolie's second birthday!

the two little cousins quite enjoyed each other's company!

:)

sock puppets

i had the day off on president's day. henry and i had the apartment to ourselves for the afternoon after nana and gunka had to head home after a fun-filled weekend with the fam (of course i have photos and a post coming shortly about all that)  as i was going through the laundry i became aware that we all have several pairs of socks with holes in them.  but sometimes, only one of the pair was bad....so what to do with the single, lonesome, leftover sock?

PUPPETS

:)

i also had a bunch of other leftover craft supplies which the entire living room floor was shortly covered in during the makings of said socks.  we had a lot of fun making some new little friends and henry wore his almost the rest of the day (i made him take it off his sweaty little hand a few times to eat and such). i also made one, and daddy even joined in the fun when he got home from work, so we had an entire sock puppet family :)

 see, his new little sock buddy never left his side.

 making our puppets say hi hi hi hi hi

 our very own puppet show featuring daddy sock and baby sock

hehe :)

*PS*  

soooo, a little update on the whole big boy bed situation.  austin and i were just marveling on how we were so lucky that henry doesn't get out of his be at night....as if he didn't realize he could just climb out whenever he wanted unlike when he was in his crib.  

well, he figured it out.  

we suddenly heard his door open and he came stumbling into the living room all bleary-eyed....two hours past his bed time (hadn't fallen asleep yet)  so we put him back to bed.  he gets back up.  we put him back to bed. he gets back up.  you can see where this is going.  he is so tired that we have reached that amazing point where we are far beyond being simply irrational.  austin thought that if maybe we got into bed and pretended to be asleep he wouldn't want to get up anymore....i was like, yeah right, but sure i'll try whatever.  so we were laying quietly in the dark and we heard his door open, then we heard his feet shuffle across the carpet.  he grunt/climbed his way up into bed right between us, snuggled in under the covers and said: okay, hi.  

fail.

he finally negotiated his father into cuddling with him in his own bed.  

it's going to be a long week.

:)

sew for real :)

remember back in november when i mentioned that i received a sewing machine for christmas and have not had the time....or the necessary guidance :) ..... to really get cooking with it? well, this past week molly was out in the hills and we got some serious sewing done!  she also stole henry from daycare for a day and took him out to great grandpa bob's ranch to play with the ponies!

here we are sewing up some cute pillows for henry's new big boy bed.  they feature the LORAX of course, one of his favorite characters of the moment.  the dr. seuss book has been one of his bed time must haves for several weeks running now.  we are getting pretty excited about the movie, and think we'll take henry to it for his first movie theatre experience  (i know, i know, i was going very slow and let henry sit on my lap for just a tiny bit so he could see it, and he first had to promise that he would keep his little hands to himself...notice how he is holding them against his chest--haha)

 henry in all his dr. seuss lorax glory.  yep, we even have the little stuffed lorax to boot :)  and yay! i am so proud of those pillows! would not have been able to do it without molly :)

 vertical pillow, side one

 and side two.....the text kind of reminds me of another really short person i know....not the mossy part as much as the bossy part :)

 and a close up of the square barbaloot pillow.  

and henry modeling his lorax shorts

 love the pocket :)

i asked henry to stand still for the camera and say cheese......he thought that he would look good if he posed against the wall this way....haha, i have no idea where he got this from

 and later i snuck into his room and took a pic with my phone since it is quieter :)  

big boy bed

last weekend henry inherited his big boy bed....a very big transition that may have led to some tears.......from his mama (i know its kind of ridiculous, but i couldn't help it, he just looked so big in that bed).  i would have posted this a  lot earlier, but we had a rough start of things because the very night that henry tried it out for the first time, his...errrr.....bowels started acting up again :(  but he is good to go again and we were able to switch out the towels for real bed sheets--which henry found to be very exciting.  

here he is "helping" daddy put the bed together

AND this is about a week or so later when i found the time to take some photos....after finding the time to finally finish decorating, followed by some thorough cleaning :)  the room does NOT usually look the way you are about to see it, you know, with all the toys and books placed in their proper spots 

heeeeerrrreeee's henry's room!

(he cordially invites you)

this is the newly established reading nook complete with frames (finally) up on the walls.  we used some spectacular henry artwork, the poster i made for his birhtday, dr. seuss quotes, and some photos to complete the look....along with a big blue H, and the small wood block portraying his silhouette that i made a while back.

 wall pockets for various nicky nacks (gotta love ikea!)

close up of some of the framed quotes :)

 i also thought it would be fun to use little tyke photos of austin and i 

this one of austin is my favorite--taken by a rapid city journalist

 and a photo of me on a trip to the black hills (i thought it appropriate and henry quite enjoys the pony)

organization!

 details

 details

reading with daddy on.......the bed!

we put a side rail up while he is sleeping because he tends to toss and turn quite a bit 

 more details of some of the shelves above his bed

 i embroidered the cute little robot :) it was fun and henry likes to point it out

 his favorite thing to do in the big boy bed

 well.....maybe this is.....but mama instantly quashed it :)

(and yes, that is a batman cape on the back of his shirt--velcroed on :)  he says "super henry" when he wears it)

and here are just a few fun shots i took of the boys as they were playing hide and seek.

counting to five.

we usually skip four.

 1.2.3.5.  

 can i go find him now?

 ahhhhhh!   daddy jumps out from under a blanket on the bed.  don't know how many times we did this, but it never got old.  henry knew he would be under there....but its kind of like waiting for the toast to pop up from the toaster i think...still makes you jump :)  he would giggle soooo hard

ooooooh my goodness how i love this little man

 love. love. love.