RanDOm moments from the Fishers

He thinks he is so sneaky! As soon as he realized I was watching him he had the guiltiest look, then hurried and gave me a cheesy smile as an attempt to get away with it...this kid is going to test me in this life, that is for sure.

The first sign of spring finally came to our house!! I am so excited for winter to go AWAY! (and yes, it appears there are weeds right along with my little flower...grr. Stupid grass grows everywhere!)

Hannah got a haircut today and has no top front teeth as of yesterday. (oh, and the tooth fairy didn't show up last night. The nerve of those mystical people. They did this last time too. I'm going to file a formal complaint.)

I absolutely love the look of baby feet in flip flops-this picture is too bright and doesn't do it justice. Just a small appreciation for the simple things in life.

He thinks Hannah's barbie camper is a car to sit in. He will sit in it, close the door and play with her barbies.

March 4: She lost the first of the top front teeth...March 11: She lost the other one and now has no front teeth, she's lost 8 teeth and is only 5 years old!

He is literally into everything-life holds so many mysteries!

He's happy in the morning :)

I'm just not sure I can even explain this--he runs when we get him undressed for his bath and has a fascination with the vacuum, which brings us to the naked housekeeper.


They have a love-hate relationship. They are 5 weeks apart in age and Maddax can be a bully-we're working on it (did not let him get away with this, just FYI). You wouldn't know it from this picture, but he LOVES my niece Alicia. I do have pictures of them playing well together-it happens, on occasion.

Children's museum

A few weeks ago we ventured to the Children's Discovery Museum at the Gateway...on a Saturday. It was all sorts of crazy and the kids picked up some cold that we are still recovering from. But, on the bright side, the kids got to play all over despite the cold weather. I heard that they are having free admission on March 17- St. Patrick's Day. I'm thinking lots of people will be there and it might be worth going on another day and pay $8 instead. But, if you haven't been, it's awesome-give it a shot! and take hand sanitizer

Update, we are still alive...incase you were wondering

So I completely bypassed Christmas in the blog land. Sorry. I'm sure everyone else's Christmas posts satisfied your palette for those types of posts. So, moving on.

We are very busy around these parts, so busy in fact (or some might call it lazy), I still haven't charged my camera that died Christmas morning. I've resorted to using my work camera when I remember, and today I remembered.

So, Maddax is still obsessed with going through all cabinets in the house. (He's also developed an obession for outlets and buttons, and I'm almost sure he's been shocked by an outlet, please don't call DCFS, we are working on it!) He also loves watching the train when it comes by.

Hannah is losing teeth like they are going out of style. She has quite the smile these days:

In a moment of, well, I'm not sure what this moment was, but Kolby brought me home some flowers a week or so ago. I didn't do anything to deserve them, but I've loved looking at them every day :)

(They already hit their peak of prettiness, but they still look OK.)

And lastly, we are thinking about trading in the FJ for a 4-Runner or Pilot. Just keeping our eyes open for a good deal. That about sums it up for us, hopefully my next real post won't be 6 months away.

Look what I did!

So I got the bug to make some changes in the house, winter does these things to people!! I moved the kids bedrooms (switched them, a week ago, but their clothes are still in the original closets...I'll get to it eventually....maybe.) But then their decorations were all wrong, so I was left with NO choice, right?! Right. I had to add some color, give it a new look, something.

So I started with Maddax's room, I thought we'd try some beadboard, it was SUPER easy! I painted the top half of the wall navy blue and ordered a vinyl monogram of his name to put on it. However...now that I have that done, I'm thinking I will have to add beadboard and bigger baseboard to the whole room, it just doesn't look complete with the one wall. The whole "If you give a mouse a cookie" theory has come into play. But wait, there's more--I'm taking that mouse for a whole new ride. Here is the partial product of Maddax's room, once I complete it, I will re-post:

After working my rear off in Maddax's room, the big blank wall in my living room was screaming at me (it's been doing it since we moved in, but I haven't thought of anything worthwhile to do, until now.) I googled. (said like Confessions of a Shopaholic girl accused of googling her story) Then I found this awesome picture and thought, 'I can do that!'

I had Kolby run to the Depot (short for my new fave store, The Home Depot) and he brought me the goods. I measured, cut-by myself I must add- and nailed to the wall with a nailgun. (quick re-cap: I used a miter saw and nail gun, and loved every second of it.) 1 day later, this is the final product:


I like it. I'm not in love with it since the wall still needs SOMETHING. However, remember that little mouse we gave a cookie to, then gave it a miter saw? Well, after painting the molding, we gave it a paintbrush...and now I need to paint all the molding in my house white. Currently it is all monotone. Not my choice. That's the way it was when we bought it, and I thought adding the shutters would give me the contrast my eyes were looking for, and they did, just not enough. So this little mouse will be spending the next few weekends painting molding, but while I'm at it, why not just replace all the baseboards with the bigger ones while I'm at it?....and maybe I will add the crown molding to Hannah's room and paint it, and maybe I will do beadboard in their bathroom too....OH dear, this mouse needs a rest.

Ps: Our entryway has NO light, whatsoever, so I finally got the storm door, which I can ventilate come Springtime, and I can see outside...it brings me happiness, to see sunshine when it is the dead of winter! (Maybe I'm lacking some vitamin D?)

R.I.P. Dorothy Brandon

Dorothy Brandon

June 11, 2008-January 21, 2010

Dorothy, our beloved gold betta fish, passed away at some point over the last week. We are not sure of the exact day because we didn't consistently feed Dorothy Brandon, and sometimes Hannah fed him too much. Dorothy Brandon was purchased for Hannah's 4th birthday while she was in the Elmo phase. (Elmo has a goldfish named Dorothy, but I don't have any luck with goldfish, so we got a betta fish that looked like a gold fish.) Hannah had a loving relationship with Dorothy Brandon for some time, and he even made it through the move... much to our amazement. About a year ago I broke the news to Hannah that Dorothy was actually a boy fish, at which time she re-named him Brandon. That's about it.

Fast forward to today-

Hannah thought since Dorothy Brandon died that it was time to get a dog. I just can't bring myself to commit to such a relationship. So I did some hard thinking and realized that the little Frog-o-sphere at Hallmark would make the perfect pet!

Hannah has lovingly named her twin dwarf african frogs "Andrew." You can read all about the little-to-nothing maintenance they require at Brookstone, because they sell them there too.
(You basically feed them twice a week and change the water a couple of times a year...That seems to be the lowest maintenance pet I've ever heard of. But, incase you know of something even easier, you should probably let me know-just incase Andrews don't turn out to be hardy in the Fisher household.)

We welcome with love Andrew and Andrew, may you last longer than Dorothy Brandon since you two cost 10 times as much as he did.

The End.

In a funk...

I didn't take pictures on Christmas 'cuz I'm basically in a funk where I don't want to deal with it, I just want to live and enjoy it first person. So...maybe at some point I will charge my camera and start taking pictures again, but for now, we are alive, happy, and doing well-

Hope you are too!

Festivities

Hannah begged to make a real gingerbread house...so I bought a kit as costco, that's as real as it's going to get around here. My mom came over and helped her put it together and as soon as they were finished Hannah wanted to eat it. I don't think she gets the idea of leaving it for display...either way, it was immediately stripped of the good candy and the next day Maddax had his helping of the little cottage himself.

In other news, we saw Santa...again. Apparently, we can't get enough. However, Hannah says they aren't the real Santa because his beard is different than the video message. {see previous post.} So I explained he has helpers and you never know if you are seeing the real one or a helper and in the end he get's the message anyway. On a sidenote, Hannah said Santa is a genius because he has elves/helpers that do all his stuff for him-oh my.

And as if there is nothing else going on in my life, Hannah lost yet another tooth, I believe that brings the count to 5. {at least she is now 5 1/2...but I'm pretty sure this is a lot of teeth for her age...?} She has two more that are loose which would leave her with one front tooth...poor kid. I'm planning on getting good pictures before that happens, hope they can hang in there until after Christmas...jk...kind of.

Lastly, Kolby just can't let the Max Hall thing go---he's pretty proud of his new t-shirt.

Hannah's message from Santa!

Click here to see Santa's message for Hannah. Here is Maddax's. It is SO cute! It is a personalized video from Santa acknowledging what she's done this year, what she wants, and what she looks like.

You can also "see" a message from Santa for your kids/spouse/friends----for free!