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seamus is in a funny stage where she seems to be comparing things. this morning we had everyone in the bed and eric told seamus she was all warm and cozy. she then turned to sirus and said "sirus warm and cozy, too" she the said "sirus eating" because he was but eric said, no, sirus is sucking on a boob. so seamus repeated "sucking on a boob". ahhh, my child is so well versed.
we will go for the family jog again tonight unless eric is injured. he woke up this morning with his back totally tweaked and the slipped on the ice and fell on his arse while crossing the street this morning. hopefully he is ok. he has a race on sunday so hopefully hje is ok by then at least.
we went to sushi land for lunch today where the sushi comes by on a conveyer belt. its cheap and tasty. we used to go to this place called the eating factory which was an all you can eat sushi buffet like place but it closed down. it grossed me out alittle that it was called the eating factory but i got over it.
i was thinking the other day that i have been either pregnant and/or nursing a baby every day since may of 2003. that means it has been almost 3 years since i have known what it is like to be normal. i forget what it is like! i can only imagine.

family jog

so yesterday when i got home from work seamus noticed i had a bruise on my leg. she said mommy ouchie. then she said seamus ouchie too and lifted her pant leg up to her knee to show me. i didn't see any ouchie on her but i made a fuss anyway since i thought it was cute. then the family went out on a family jog. eric picked up a double jogging stroller the other day so that everyone can come along and so that pushing the kids would slow him down enough to stay at my pace. sirus fell asleep and seamus talked the whole time. it was dark out on the trail and it was raining but we had fun. we started out where i had left off - 14 minutes and it went well. by the time march 12 comes around we will be ready for the st patricks day dash. both seamus and sirus will come with us which i think seamus will really like. she seems to think its pretty neat that sirus gets to sit next to her as it is.
as i was getting ready for work this morning seamus told me several times no boots on the carpet which is correct but i never went on the carpet in my boots, i guess she was just warning me. she is a funny one.

february fun

Lots happened in February. Valentines Day for instance. For Valentines Day Sirus got a new red shirt with a big blob of slobber on the front of it. Apparantly that is funny.

Seamus got a valentines day outfit, too, but she is much more mobile and therefore it is much more difficult to get a photo of.


Also in February is Eric's brithday. He turned 32. I made him this hotdog cake:

Everyone wanted some of the hotdog cake.

Eric liked it because he could pick it up and eat it with one hand.

Seamus liked it because it was cake.


It has been very chilly but sunny out. we went and test drove some more cars yesterday. test driving cars is both so much fun and very depressing at the same time. i will likely be driving the pontiac forever. sigh....

it snowed the other day

so on monday night when we went to bed there was some crazy lightning and thunder. i don't like those things at all and i wanted to go grab the babies and stick them in bed with us. but i didn't. in the morning when i woke up there was snow on the ground! not a lot but enough that there was maybe an inch on my car. good fun right there. this week its suposedly going to be the coldest week in 10 years.
i picked up my orthotics this morning and can't fit them into the shoes i have on today. this is never going to work, but i will see what i can do about it.
sirus has been sleeping quite well the past few nights - waking up only at around 230 or 3 and then again at 530 or 6. that is perfect for right now. i would be more then happy if he managed to keep it this way for a while.
so i think we ahve the new car figured out, now we just have to wait to the cash muney to roll in. should be rolling in the beginning of march.
this morning seamus drew a circle which she does quite often but something about this circle she was very excited about. she came running over to me saying "i drew a circle".
grandma says that sirus rolled back to front yesterday which is pretty exciting but then seamus of course came and rolled him back to how he was to begin with. he is getting so strong. last night he was lifting himself up on his hands and managed to get his knees under him a bit so that his whole tummy was off the ground for a little bit. he did this for quite some time and it resulted in him scooting backwards a few feet.
seamus has become quite the acrobat. she will lay on the couch and slide backwards off so that her head is on the floor then she will kick her feet over. also, if eric lays on the floor on his stomach and has his knees bent, she will climb up onto his feet and "super man". she will then scoot herself forward and sumersault off of his feel. she flings herself all over the place.
ok, so that is all!

eric had the vision

so, i found some photos of our house from before we moved in. what were we thinking? eric reminded me though, that i was totally gaga over the house when we first got it but now looking at the photos i can see just how much work eric has done. totally unreal.
here are some of the kichen before and after.
these two are taken from pretty much the exact same angle. the window in the before photo was turned into a door that will go out onto a patio. the stairs were flipped so now they go down from accross that door when in the before it was just a wall.

in the photo below, you can see that we moved the fridge over, opened up a doorway into the living room where the fridge was, and put the downward stairs in where that corner wall is.

these ones you can see how there used to be a kitchen nook. eric closed that up but left a passthrough, moved the sink into the corner with the windows and created a bunch more counter and cupard space. the nook was so small it was barely usable. we could fit a small table in there but with two people sitting at it, it was cramped.


there is still some finish work that need to be done, like around the windows and some trim like stuff, but it blows me away to see what eric has done!

major poundage

so, the kiddos went to the doctors today, seamus for her 2yr check up and sirus for his 4 month. sirus is now 16 lbs 12oz and 25.25 inches long. he is 75th% all around including his noggin. seamus is 30 pounds and 35 inches tall, 75% for height and 80% for weight. ther doctor said she was having a tough time examining seamus's tummy because seamus's abs of steel wouldn't let her poke around. seamus got one shot and didn't even cry! not even one little bit. the snoopy bandaide helped though. sirus got 4 shots and cried a little but not very much at all. seamus commented that he had stckers on his legs just like she did. eric put her hair in cute little pony tails and she wore the new outfit grandma got her for her birthday. after the appointment eric took seamus and sirus to cold stone creamery for seamus's free birthday creation! i came to work.

big weekend

Sirus was all bundled up to go get seamus's haircut. it was super windy that day and he was super concerned!
seamus did really well during the hair cut. she sat perfectly still but was more then ready to get out of the chair when it was done.on sunday we had a birthday party for seamus. she turned two and is ready for some cake!

seamus got a funny cow-in-the-box that she was suprised by every time it popped out!

eric built this slide in the back yard for seamus and her cousins. they must have gone down that slide at least 100 times each.
first co-ed bath time.
and sirus just recently found his feet!

cement be gone

last week the people who are tearing up our road took pitty on eric and came and hauled away all of our cement. they saw him stacking giant cement chunks in the driveway and came and told him that if he managed to get it all to the road and dump it with their cement debris that they would haul it away. after 4 or 5 wheel barrel loads they came back with a tracktor and 5 guys to load it all in one trip. this was a huge deal since it would have cost about $2000 to get rid of it all. this is seamus and the cement this summer.
I also thought i would post some before photos of the remodel, well, i guess they are in progress photos. here is our family room and here it is now. i posted the after photos back in december, but its fun to see them next to the in progress photos here.


and our bedroom:

here is our stairwell. the stairs come down from there, when they used to come down from the other side.
I will have to post more after photos and some photos from seamus's bday party when i upload them!

go hawks

so the seahawks will be playing in the superbowl this weekend. if they weren't playing i would likely not be interested in it at all, but maybe i would be just a little since the steelers are in it. i will watch the game this year.
seamus turns 2 on super bowl sunday. we are not having a superbowl birthday party but instead will have a hello kitty birthday party and then some football watching action afterwards. i am excited for seamus to turn two. we are having a small party this year with just family but some of her cousins are coming and seamus loves to play with her cousins.
seamus is getting her first haircut tomorrow in preparation for her big day. i have trimmed her bangs and the most recent trim was really very bad so hopefully they can fix it. this is a big weekend and i am all excited.
sirus has found his feet. he doesn't play with them too much since he always has jammies on but as soon as those jammies are off those feet are in his hands.
everyone goes to the doctor on tuesday for checkups and shot! oh my!