30/365: Speeding train

Day 30: Saturday, January 30, 2010


Little Bitty has discovered the box full of geotrax trains that haven't been played with in a long time :). We set up a track and he had a great time putting trains together and running them along the track. The lighting wasn't so good so I had the exposure time set longer than usual, and managed to get this shot of him sitting still enough not to be blurry just as the train went zooming down the hill which ended up with a nice effect (I think anyway).

29/365: Candy hearts

Day 29: Friday, January 29, 2010


It's that time of year again! I love, LOVE the Brach's candy hearts (yes, it has to be the Brach's kind, I am picky that way, lol) and of course they are only available once a year. So, I always make a point to buy a bag of them (just one because I am the only one in the family who likes them) when they come out. If I happen to catch them on sale after Valentine's day and before they run out, I might buy another bag since it will be another year before I can buy them again ;).

28/365: Oven

Day 28: Thursday, January 28, 2010


When I called dh Thursday evening on my way home from work, he told me the oven was broken. The oven turned itself on and overheated... so much so that the screws holding it together were melting and the front panel of the door fell off. It would not turn off so he asked our neighbor to come help him pull it out so they could unplug it and turn off the gas going into it. Thankfully he was home when it happened (and thankfully our neighbor was home too!) and was able to do something about it before it started a fire in the house...

27/365: Pack meeting

Day 27: Wednesday, January 27, 2010


Dh actually took this one (maybe that's cheating? but this is something I wanted to remember from that day). This is Bearhug and Cuddlebug at their Cub Scout pack meeting. Both of them had completed three achievements, which means they each earned a progress bead toward their Wolf badge. We convinced Bearhug to go to Scouts that night so he could get his award.

You wouldn't know it from this picture, but it didn't exactly go well... Bearhug was so overstimulated I had to take him out, but we came back in long enough for him to get his award (and then had to take them both out). I missed Cuddlebug's award since I was out in the hallway, but he came up to help me with Bearhug's. Bitty actually managed to stay the longest in Scouts (and he is not even a Cub Scout yet) but only by a few minutes, ended up in the gym trying to keep all three of them in visual range... kind of exhausting! This was our first pack meeting, next time I'll know to take something for Bearhug to do and make arrangements ahead of time for him to go in just long enough to get his award.

26/365: Miles and miles

Day 26: Tuesday, January 26, 2010


I was kind of out of ideas that day... took this at lunch. My car is getting close to 100,000 miles. I drive about 40 miles a day M-F (I rarely drive my car on weekends), so I figure I will probably cross over the 100k mark on or around Tuesday, Feb 9th. Hopefully still has many miles left in it :).

25/365: Cookbook

Day 25: Monday, January 25, 2010


One of Bitty's favorite books is this cookbook that he found in the kitchen drawer. He likes to read the section headers, one of his favorites is this one, "spesoo heps."

24/365: Books

Day 24: January 24, 2010


Bitty brought the chair back out, set up with a stack of Dr. Seuss books and a bowl of crackers :).

23/365: Sit, sit, sit, sit

Day 23: January 23, 2010


It was a rainy day outside. Little Bitty pulled one of the kitchen chairs over to the window, sat down looking out, and started talking (mostly to himself). I heard "da sun iss wainee, sit sit sit sit" and realized he was re-enacting the scene from "The Cat in the Hat" by Dr. Seuss, where the kids are sitting looking out the window at the rainy day and feeling bored.

The sun did not shine.
It was too wet to play.
So we sat in the house
All that cold, cold, wet day.

I sat there with Sally.
We sat there, we two.
And I said, "How I wish
We had something to do!"

Too wet to go out
And too cold to play ball.
So we sat in the house.
We did nothing at all.

So all we could do was to
Sit! Sit! Sit! Sit!
And we did not like it.
Not one little bit.

~Excerpt from "The Cat in the Hat" by Dr. Seuss

22/365: With love

Day 22: January 22, 2010


I took my flowers to work, they make my office smell so nice!

21/365: Rainy

Day 21: January 21, 2010


View through the accumulated rain on the windshield, taken with my camera phone.