NEWSFLASH!!!!

sadie is on day #2 in her big girl panties!!!!!
go SADIE!
silas said "moo"

how i spend my days.....

so a good friend sent me a link to my newest obsession
yes watching chickens http://www.hencam.com/
so i find chicken watching very relaxing and therapeutic....and why would i need to relax.....let me count the ways
1. silas has his two front teeth coming in
2. sadie wore big girl panties all day and went to school with them
3. silas has learned from his sister that arching his back and screaming will get him almost anything he wants
4. sadie has learned that if she pretend cries that she is hurt someone will respond
5. babe has learned to hold her tinkle for longer periods of time
6. meow meow has learned to ninja attack babe from behind corners
so...to put it mildly our house is very very very busy and full of life
on that note........
we are busy working on various projects
aaorn has pulled ALL the siding off the lean tooooo and will begin our chicken coop construction soon
yes we are getting chickens and maybe a bunny
we are hoping for chickens by sadie's b-day
looking at only 2 or 3 little chickens and maybe one bunny
who really knows but hey why not have the mini farm in cleveland right
and no we are not eating these chickens they are for watching, playing with and fresh eggs
meow meow may have a completely different agenda
i have submitted my final draft for my masters project and am waiting to hear if everything is good if it is next week i submit it and I AM DONE! yes you heard that right DONE
i have one more class that starts in may and ends june 11th......
oh how i can not wait
let's see aside from chickens we are not doing much else
we had a few really nice days and now are in the spring rain phase of cleveland
which just makes everything super super green
are bean sprouts are up to a few inches and our marigolds are sprouting
the ice has melted form the lake and there is a beach!
we have been taking every opportunity to bundle up and get outside and play
sadie loves splashing in the puddles!
that is all for this week

slacker.......

okay technically i am not slacking on the blog.....not really
it has been crazy busy here
just when we thought oh everyone is over being sick
bubby aka silas got VERY VERY sick
poor little guy lost a lot of weight and did nothing but lay around 7 days
but he is doing good
he is eating none stop
and he is trying to eat everything, leaves, dirt, you name it he eats it
which sadie loves because she loves to feed him
okay....so enough sad stories about skinny little bubby
what is up in the land of craggy clevelanders?
nothing much honestly we really are not all that exciting
sadie keeps changing everyday
she is really into the idea of princesses...(which means it is only a matter of time before our house has an explosion of pink!)
in the meantime though she is playing with her cars, chasing after ants, and has declared a fear of spiders
bubby is still trying to figure out the walking thing......the tummy virus though has knocked his attempts down but he standing back and trying once again
he has officially been nicknamed "destructo" and lives up to his name happily
he can say
"cracker"
"oh no"
"da da"
"ma ma"
"thank you" sounds more like "tank u"
the most amazing thing at this point is watching the two of them play together
it took a year but they share and they actually want to play together
it is great! this means mommy can put her feet up (usually for only a minute)
only 2 more weeks till my final masters project is submitted!!!!
which means i am one step closer to being done.....after this one more class and officially i can cross off get two master degrees off my things to do list!!!!
what next?
yes i have thought about a PHD but i think aaron may kill me
we are still staring at the ceiling wondering.....what should we do and how can we do it
it seems simple but like anything in our life it never really is
putting up a ceiling would be easy if it was not our house
but we have lots of projects
so the next on my list
gutters for the lean too and some rain barrels!!!!
well that is all for now - (and yes Jeanne i did this for you sending all our love hope that baby comes soon so you can see your feet again! and yes we will move to paris to help you with your B&B/chickens aaron and i are thinking it would be great to created a Browns themed B&B for all the clevelanders who come to paris you know....all the food would come with toothpicks and be some sort of processed Velveeta cheese spread)