court cases

Well, last week I sat down to do a blog entry only to discover that blogger had a message "this site has been forbidden by the courts!" What???? My connection with friends and family has been blocked by the courts?? I checked on the local newspaper site and discovered that because of several people streaming football (soccer) coverage on their blogger accounts (coverage owned by the local television station), the courts decided to ban blogger all over the country. From the news article: "There are more than 600,000 Tk. bloggers actively using Blogger and some 18 million users from Tky. visited pages hosted by the site last month"  Wow! I am probably not the only one who is a little put out.  We are able to now post from a different server, but all videos are again blocked. So still photos only until further notice. 

prego brain and snow

After several years of working on 2 little snow bookmarks frantically between Thanksgiving and Christmas, I decided this month that I would quickly finish the last 4 before the baby comes. If you have never cross-stitched, you need to know that each pattern has symbols representing different colors...a little like paint by number. So, I dove into this lovely bookmark-thinking the color choices were a bit odd, but it would probably work out in the end. As I started my last 6 stitches, I thought to myself, why would a snowman have a flesh-colored carrot nose? I checked the pattern again and lo and behold...I read the wrong codes for the entire bookmark! Indeed a yellow-colored snowman was not intended by the kit makers....they seemed to want a white and light blue one! Normally this discovery would dissolve into a flood of tears at 36 weeks of pregnancy.  But I am too exhausted to cry...so instead Rick suggested we keep this as a funny ornament for our tree to laugh at for years...the year our daughter was born and Mom made a yellow-snow snowman.

Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow!

Hooray! What an exciting morning to wake up and see a blizzard outside!! Our first one of winter. A bit difficult for it to accumulate on these city streets, but we're anxious to see how the day progresses....if it grows or shrinks. Either way, it is quite cold today!

 

The view out our kitchen window:

Green one

Micah has been obsessed with the color green since October. It is the only color he can say (though he can point to most that you name) and it is the color of choice for diapers, mom's socks, trains, dishes, silverware, etc. We've stopped putting the green dishes in the dishwasher because they don't make it through a wash cycle before demand strikes again. Typically we try to convince Micah that another color dish is just as good. Last night we just decided to go all out and have a green dish, bowl, cup, spoon, and green yogurt! You can't imagine the delight. This picture is only a glimpse of the pure bliss experienced by all.

Ink blots

 We ran out of granola cereal yesterday, so pancakes it was. Micah was delighted to find a horse in his syrup! Do you see it? "neigh neigh!" we heard through the end of the meal....until the syrup distorted to a blob again and it was all over.

Creativity in activity time...

Well, this was the activity Micah thought would be fun Tuesday night. Putting on Mom's $14 "UGGs" and practicing walking around the house. He did fairly well given that they go up to his waist! I love our local bazaar! 

Cuteness of the day

Many people have asked what Micah thinks about the baby coming. We may have gained a bit of insight this past weekend. When a friend from church gave me some baby clothes, I told Micah they were for his baby sister. He immediately pointed to my belly.

This morning when we read Dr. Seuss' Hop on Pop, there is a page that says "Father, Mother, Sister, Brother". When Dad asked where sister was, Micah patted his own belly.

So, you tell me! :)