Spring!!

So what a wonderful Friday. So beautiful we had a picnic in the backyard - and its not even March!
Ergo Kisses.

Mobile Mae

this little smiley girl is like a ball of muscle. As soon as she hits the floor she is on her belly wriggling around. Today I spotted her up on her knees for a second. we are in for it.

Stick house building

always an opportunist - the ice storm has inspired Linden to make "stick houses" a la 3 little pigs.
And what a lucky boy to have a design consultation with with an architect on his lunch hour.
oh and for those that are wondering - that green mountain is actually ( well at least we are told it is ) a rock waterfall covered in Ivy. Clearly we have some yard work to get to as well.

Evie's new sleeping buddy

So how bad is it?

Don't get me wrong - the house is absolutely amazing. The perfect house. But we are going to be living in chaos for quite some time. Check out our dinning room and living room.
Not only do we not have any time with two kids and John working to unpack but even if we did we don't have any furniture to but all this stuff in. Where on earth was all this crap in our tiny apartment?

The "certain moving company that shall remain nameless" blanket shades are growing on me though.

6 Months Old Today!!!

Birthday girl jumping for joy.
Linden wanted to make her a "big chocolate cake"
And Bubba and Pop helped us celebrate.

Big Boy bed

And amidst all this other confusion Linden got a super cool new bed which he loves. Its honestly one of the cutest things I've ever seen - a little boy in his little bed - and don't forget the purple sheets!

Dump truck

Granka Bob and Kate gave Linden this dump truck for Christmas. Here are a few of the many things it is good for.
Helping Daddy with ice storm clean up:
Little sister removal:

Barishnacov

Trip North

We had a great time in Maine, Vermont and New York state. Fun to visit and play with everyone. Fun to finally celebrate Christmas with my family. . Great to spend some QT with my sister and her kids - on a mini vacation from their new life in Istanbul. Lots of good food and relaxing. And Lots and Lots of snow. Our Yetty (first thing we did was to buy him a snow suit on clearance at Kmart - its a classic):

no visit to Grandma Eve's would be complete without breakfast at The Blue Ben diner - its as tiny as it looks - in an actual dinning car.

Linden finally got to meet my good friend from childhoods litle boy Grayson - they are almost the same age. They had fun trading cars and germs together.


Which leads us to the one downer of the whole trip. we all got the stomach flu. This horrible plague made its way through the entire family and we ended up having a family barf fest the night before we were supposed to leave - we decided to stay a day longer and recuperate.