Little Moo is now officially off the floor. You may remember a post I did awhile back about his "big boy bed" that was actually the mattress and box spring on the floor. The point of that, of course, was to keep him closer to the floor in case he fell out of bed but this last weekend we bought him a frame to put his big boy bed on and he couldn't be more excited. Mostly because it is red. Here he is on his new bed.And about five seconds later he bounced himself backward smacking his head on the window sill. I was afraid of that. So now you see him with a "boo boo" buddy in his hand (because why would you put it on said boo boo, duh!) still pretty excited about his bed. And who wouldn't be? It's red!!!!

posted by Mama Moo  # 10:08 AM 0 Comments

I finally did it! I have been contemplating just using the same clippers I do for Zippercow on our Little Moo for months now and this month I finally did it. I REALLY like the little boy haircuts we were getting from the professionals, but because of his many cowlicks the haircut would only look good for a day or two and then it just was always sticking up everywhere. While I'm sad he won't have little boy hair anymore  it has been a couple weeks since I've cut Little Moo's hair and it still isn't sticking up! It took him some getting used to, he was very disappointed when he first looked in the mirror because he thought I had changed his hair color but alas, it is just shorter! He's gotten use to it and was excited when Daddy got his last haircut and exclaimed "Daddy your hair is like mine!". So I of course have some pictures but want to say that it was dark and the flash made it look a little thinner in some places than others, but lets face it he does have his Daddy's hairline (poor thing!) There are a few fly-aways so my first attempt wasn't perfect, but I believe the phrase goes "practice makes perfect" or something to that effect.

posted by Mama Moo  # 9:52 AM 1 Comments

So much to do, and well at this point, still a lot of time. We are currently working on clearing out the third bedroom. For those of you who don't know, our home is big enough for a family of four but not much bigger. So we are trying to make room for this baby. We like the size of our home, but it does force us to be creative with our space.There is a lot that can't be done until spring, like painting and moving the cat boxes to the garage (that's a whole different but large project) but before any of those things can take place we have have to find places for all this other..junk. We are pretty good at going through our things and selling or passing on what we no longer have a need, because lets face it, we simply don't have the space to hold on to everything thing! But somehow we still have tons of things that don't really have a home that have landed in the third bedroom catch all.

So now what?????

I am certain at this point our closet will be come very full and I need to find a place to put all of our gift wrap and bags. And there is still  just stuff. How we acquire it I am not sure, but it needs to go!   I'm very much looking forward to this being a baby's room (can't you tell!) but am at a bit of a stand still. Any ideas?

posted by Mama Moo  # 4:12 PM 2 Comments

Christmas is such a wonderful time of year, yet another great time to remind us of all the special people in our lives. And we have a lot!!! What has made it an even more spectacular Christmas is now Little Moo is way into it, but better yet not in a "got to have it" kind of way, but everything seemed new and exciting from the lights on houses, to trees and Santa. We had my family here for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day and then Zippercow's family came over throughout the next week. So much fun! We would like to thank everyone for the thoughtful gifts and cards, we have such loving and generous friends and family!

I do realize this post is long since due, and I had part of it done and got busy with Little Moo and our 4 month old niece. And boy, do they keep me busy!

We hope everyone's new year was just as great!

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posted by Mama Moo  # 4:21 PM 0 Comments

Sorry it has been so long! We have great news though! We are expecting baby #2!!!! Unfortunately our whole family has been struck with a yucky cold so I've had barely enough energy to care for Little Moo let alone keep up on everything else. I'm behind on Christmas cards, haven't finished decorating for Christmas, obviously haven't kept up on this blog and a so so many other things need to be done.

Zippercow has been taking great care of me and Little Moo couldn't be more excited about being a big brother. We don't know that he really understands it yet, but we aren't due until around his Birthday so I'm sure you know that is a bit out from now. He's pretty insistent that he is having a little sister but we will have to wait and see!

We hope that everyone is enjoying this wonderful holiday season!

posted by Mama Moo  # 11:53 AM 0 Comments

This was the first year we bought big pumpkins and then carved them. It was a lot of fun and while Little Moo seemed uncertain about removing the pumpkin guts (he isn't big on yucky hands) once he saw we were digging around in there too he didn't seem to mind as much. He really got a kick out of pumpkin "lids".  Since this was the first time, he didn't understand why we were doing it, but once he saw them lit up he was pretty excited. Our pumpkins smile like this!

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posted by Mama Moo  # 10:54 AM 0 Comments

In case you didn't know, Little Moo was a Barbaloot for Halloween this year. A Barbaloot is a fictional character from his favorite Dr. Seuss book, The Lorax. He has insisted he wanted to be a Barbaloot for about 6 months now so we decided we could oblige, how hard could it be to find a teddy bear costume right? Well it proved more difficult than originally thought but thanks to the help of both of his grandmas he was the cutest little Barbaloot you ever did see. Zippercow was The Onceler  from the same story (at LM's insistence) and I was a bee (yeah it doesn't fit the theme the other two had going, but I wasn't about to be a furry little guy with a mustache!) You should know that Barbaloots sit under Truffula Trees eating Truffula Fruit (hence the bunch of grapes in his hands). We had a wonderful Halloween and Little Moo really enjoyed himself which is all we can ask for!  Thanks Grams and Grammy for the help with Little Moos costume, it was a success!  Oh, and apparently Barbaloots don't mind snakes!

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posted by Mama Moo  # 10:37 AM 0 Comments