Ozzy's Baby

Years ago, FP gave me this Ugly Doll™
After we got our darling Ozzie, he adopted it as his own. He spends time kneading it, and carries it around the house. Even up and down stairs. I've tried for a long time to capture this love on video, but he has managed to stop as soon as I pull out the camera...until one day:

A nice, warm Ozzie

Sprawled over the heating vent under the buffet. What a life.

Bargain finds in standard measures

one standard breadbox, acquired from goodwill last week:

Now Relia will always know how to measure in bread boxes. And it matches my cookie jar!

I also finally found something a little prettier to contain our cat box. For ten bucks I got this beat up, dusty rattan trunk, cut a hole in one side, and voila! I wish we could keep the darn thing in the basement, but we are terrible about attending to it when we aren't around it. Next project is to put up all of the old hooks I took from my Grandparents farm house on the wall above for coats and bags. I'm afraid to delve into the plaster and lath in hopes of finding a stud or two. It could get quite messy.


On the other side of the foyer, (which I still intend to paint BTW) I also finally found frames for pictures. The the black matte ones I got for $6 each. They were framed stock photos with a faux tarnished silver color. I spray painted them black and yet another voila:


On the same trip I found this ladder shelf for $25. It was still in the box from Target and the only thing wrong with it was that one of the shelves was marked incorrectly so one might put it together backwards. Perfect timing, because Relia has been using my printer as a step stool lately.

The really amazing part was that I fit both the shelf and the trunk in Peder's car!

The Birds

Have finally come! After a month, the birds have finally shown up at our feeder.
It is all I can do to stop myself from waking up Relia right now. Ozzie is pretty excited too.



The two way mirror help's keep Rellie and Ozzie from scaring them off.

more animals

The huggening

FP predicted it would happen in the not too distant future. It did:



I can't believe Ozzie hung around as long as he did.

No more kitty.

Why haven't I taken pictures in this chair before?

They're in cahoots!

I just found Relia, Ozzie & Sana all gathered on the floor by her highchair. One of the cats had gotten her waffle leftovers down and Rellie had the waffle in her hand holding it out to the cats.

Letting go

About three weeks ago (maybe more?) I wanted to close our sun porch up for the winter. I had to up end the couch so I could get to the doors to close. Well it sat that way until today. Ozzie certainly enjoyed it:

Today Peder and I hauled it out to the trash. It was the most comfiest couch ever. I got it, and a matching loveseat, at a garage sale for $80. They were ugly couches with nice, custom made covers on them. Then Peder moved in with his too big, but beautiful couch. Mine got relegated to other parts of the house. Now it has been cat scratched and very sun faded and never gets used, so off it goes.

P.S. I love that Minneapolis will take just about anything in our regular garbage pick up

Me me me

I read other blogs and everyone has stuff to say about current events, issues, cool stuff they find online. Mine is all about me.

What's going on with me?
Not much.

I think some of the novelty of being a mom is wearing off. I'm working on videos, I'm trying to get out for a little while every day. But aside from the joy of staring at Relia as she does all she does, I am kinda bored. That has kept me from writing. I start posts, decide they are boring, and just save them without publishing.

• Relia has been fussy today and wants to nurse a lot. Apparently she heard that she's been doing this whole baby thing wrong and decided to get in step with the other babes. I finally got her to take a bit of a nap in her cradle and all I want to do is sit and watch TV.

• I put in my football picks last night. Peder saw fit to give me some advice, "The favored team usually wins" He thought it was funny that I gave the highest confidence points to the worst team in the league. My reply? "But you didn't see the cute pattern I made with the dots" I think he thought I was serious for a moment. I'm sorry, I'm just in this due to peer pressure. Maybe next year I will think harder about my picks.

Excuse me, I have to go rock a baby...

Okay, I'm back. Babe is in the wrap, and I'm bouncing on the yoga ball.

• We also had a big adventure last night. I had just dropped the babe off at mom and dad's for a little bit so Peder and I could get some stuff in order (figuring out finances) without distraction. Not long after I got home, The sirens went off as Hennepin County was under a tornado watch/warning. My BABY! I knew she was fine, but I had to call anyway to make sure mom and dad hadn't left her out in her car seat so she could get the "full storm experience", or something. They were hunkered in the basement, of course. They even had Relia in her car seat just in case the looming tornadoes made it into the house. I convinced Peder that now that we have a child we are obligated to head to the basement ourselves.

Peder asked me what channel we should watch. WCCO of course. My news channel of choice is KARE. It used to be KSTP, but somehow they turned me off a few years ago. However, when it comes to weather I cannot stray from Channel 4. Do others feel this loyaty? Is it the Paul Douglas factor? When I think weather, I think Paul Douglas. He's been there for me as long as I can remember.
Anyway,
All we got was a ton of rain.

• Ozzie had an adventure too last night. I heard a ripping sound and saw a little kitty butt disappear out the window screen. I screamed "Ozzie!" and began rushing outside. Thank goodness for my calm hubby. I followed him past the fence and watched him dash across the street. Peder had his flashlight and revealed that I'd been following the wrong cat (probably the reason he jumped out in the first place). Back to the back yard to find Ozzie calmly making rounds sniffing everything he could find. Peder and I kept a little distance until we were sure he was more interested in sniffing than keeping out of our reach. Brought him back inside safe and sound.

Grrrrrrreat Grandmas!

Relia, Peder and I traveled to Iowa on Thursday to visit Great Grandma Carole.
Then we headed to Austin to see Grandpa Steve and Great Grandma Erna.



Only one more great grandma left to visit!

Once we got home, we found the cats had decided to show us how to do some baby proofing!