Broken Record

Here is yet another "Eric is gone; we're bored; I have morning sickness; Dylan is destroying the house" post.  Yes, you read that right - once again, Eric is gone for another 5 day stint.  We're beginning to think he no longer likes us.  If its not work, its play.  This time he's off deer hunting (he doesn't even like deer hunting - proof that my theory is right) and won't be back until Tuesday.  So D and I are here alone again trying not to die of boredom.  Its colder than cold outside and as you'll see from the pics below, we got a teeny amount of snow.  It was enough to entertain Dylan for a good 10 minutes or so, but then we decided it was way too cold to be standing out there.  Perhaps if there would have been enough snow to say, build a snowman, then maybe.  But we figured it wasn't worth it.  Besides, Dylan is against gloves, so his fingers were about to fall off.  Wind chill is a bad, bad thing.  So, since then, we've been holed up indoors looking at toy catalogs, watching cartoons (Elmo Potty time has been watched 3 times and still has not influenced him enough to make a difference.  I thought we were close today but turned out he already went in his pants. Crap.  Literally.), and Dylan has been slowing trying to kill me and destroy the house.  The morning sickness seems to let up for a few days and then come back with a vengeance for a day to show me who's boss.  Ok, I get it, baby, you are boss.  Just stop making me feel like crap.  Anywho, back to Dylan.  When he's not busy turning on every single light in the house (seriously, EVERY light), he's dragging out all of his toys one by one, playing with them for maybe a minute at the most and then moving on to drag out another toy and repeating the process.  However, this makes for a nice end of the day activity when we are able to eat up a good half hour playing "clean up, clean up."  At least he provides me with entertainment though.  A good naked run after bath time never ceases to amuse me!  And the kiss and hug before bed is always a nice ending to these long days.  I just wish Eric was here to enjoy it all with me.  Oh well.  I know I'm not the only hunting widow out there (Hi Lu Lu!).  Well, hope you are all enjoying your weekend.  Thats it for me.  Its nap time, so I gotta shower and lay down before it's too late!

My, what an adorable little bean you have there!

Or shrimp, or seahorse or baby girl - whatever you want to call her.  Here "she" is!  Measuring right on schedule and heart just a beatin' away!  "Her" head is on the left I believe.  I think the little appendage you see sticking out by the head is one of her arms.  Eric claims one of the others is a penis, but what does he know!  The 2 pics are basically the same, but I thought I'd post them both anyway.  She is still due around June 7th - despite what that first pic says.  Apparently the ultrasound machine is a little wacky sometimes.  Anyway, please oooh and ahhh at her, she likes that.  Oh and she likes praise in the form of comments too, lurkers!  

Elmo trick or treating

Well, once again, Blogger appears to be trying to make me angry - so you'll have to bear with me.  These pictures are in backwards order - the last picture is the first picture, and the first picture was supposed to be last.  I'm going to blame Blogger for the delay in updating this blog.  They need to work on their site.  Cuz its LAME.

Here is Dylan at my Aunt Nancy's house.  He didn't like their big dog, so he was not into trick or treating there.  People should learn that big dogs are not cool.  They are annoying.  And they ruin photo opps - hence, the lack of photos taken here.

D and Channy at Great Gpa Howard's house.  Dylan still hasn't mastered "taking A bite" and shoved the entire piece of candy in his mouth.  See the chocolate-y evidence?

Dylan's first trick or treat experience at Great Gpa Howards.

Walking to G. Gpa Howard's with Auntie Lulu and Channy.

Starting out on his first trick or treating adventure - Elmo!  

I'd type more, but Elmo is on my last nerve at the moment screaming and crying for no reason, yet again.  So for those who are disappointed in the lack of info on the weekend and the last few days - call Sesame Street and have Elmo arrested or put in time out for bad behavior.  

Pumpkalin carving!

Well, we carved pumpkalins last night.  For those not familiar, thats what DD calls pumpkins.  Its too cute to correct, so I don't.  He just has the sweetest little voice.  Hard to resist him! Anyway, here we are carvin' and colorin' away!

DD coloring his pumpkalin

Checking out the inside

Time for a dance break!

Time to carve!

And here is the finished product!  DD was pretty excited to come downstairs this morning and see it again.  He even insisted on giving his pumpkalin a hug!  

First snow

The first snowflakes of the year are falling this morning here at Sullivan Lake.  Nothing is accumulating, thank goodness, but it sure has caught Dylan's attention.  "I want to go out there, Daddy."  "We'll go out there later, Dylan."  "I don't want to go later, Daddy."  Its only 36 degrees out, so I think we'll be stalling on going out for as long as possible.  However.....I think I MIGHT make an exception and go get a newspaper - because I can!  The road is now paved and open for use.  They will be putting another layer down tomorrow (rain prevented them from finishing up on Friday) and I believe they will be striping the road then as well.  Eric is not impressed with the job they did on the entrance to our driveway though.  He is planning to complain if it is not completed more to his liking.  Basically, it appears that they just dumped a little sandy dirt on to each driveway, smoothed it out a bit and then called it good.  Its not very good.  So anyway, they better fix it or Eric is gonna kick some construction butts!  Yeah.  

Both Eric and I were sick this weekend.  Me with morning sickness as usual and Eric with some unknown bug caught on either the airplane back from Connecticut or from one of his gross co-workers.  We can't escape them even when he doesn't physically work with them anymore!  Geez!  So he's been spending most of his time in the bathroom and I've been on the couch.  Dylan has made good use of this time by scouring his favorite toy catalogs over and over and over again.  He particularly loves the Fleet Farm one and you can certainly tell by looking at it.  Its a little ragged around the edges.  He likes to say, "Look it, Mommy!  Look at this!  Look it, Daddy!  Looooook!"  He has even picked out what he wants to buy with his gift card that Auntie Susan gave him for his birthday.  I sense a Target run in our near future!  Woohoo!  If only the morning sickness would grant me a free pass day.  Please, let this happen.  Please.  

Thats it for today.  Keep warm, people.  Winter is coming.  Blah.