Random pictures that I love

From some time in April...?  Maybe May?  or June?

Why you shouldn't jump on the couch.

I replaced that all by myself.

Dozer Henry scooted Ruby all of the way across the kitchen floor.

I just love this picture.  Shirt.  Underwear.  Froggy boots.

Sick but cute Henry.

I do not know when this picture was taken, but it was after Mother's Day because those flowers are hanging there.  But this is a very spring/summery Henry picture.

More Easter Cuteness

In Easter clothes made especially for them by G.G.

Easter

This year we dyed eggs with Rubye and Emily.  Emily and I did tie dyed eggs where you wrap a silk tie around an egg and boil them.  The pattern transfers to the egg.

Henry had fun hunting Easter eggs this year.  

The other reason I haven't been into blogging this year

We are having a baby!!  She is due March 15.  (Beware the ides of March!)

That is the other reason I haven't blogged in a while.  If the computer was working, the light from my monitor made my stomach turn.  I preserved my tolerance of computer lighting for work and paying bills.

Now I can keep food down and I am hungry all of the time!  I feel as though my chin is growing as fast as my stomach.  I am getting to be as big as the side of a barn and I still have SEVERAL weeks to go.  Months, even.  The first 3 months I couldn't eat fruits and veggies.  Chicken nuggets and Taco Bell bean burritos (no onions) were my best friend.  Now I want nothing but fruit (and cream cheese and frequently pepperoni).  Too bad most fruit is out of season.  I've ended up snacking on more bad for me things at work or giving into the cream cheese and pepperoni cravings.  Not good!

We are all excited about our little girl coming to join us.  Henry is excited.  He was convinced he was getting a sister from the beginning.  I think he thinks all babies are "grirls".  Almost every morning he climbs in bed with me and says "Mama.  Let's talk about sumpin'.  What kind of baby my gonna have?  A fruit baby?  A ball baby?  A __(whatever goofy is on his mind)__ baby?"  

Technical Difficulties

Soon is a long time.

(September)

This has been a rough year for blogging for me.  Two of my biggest problems have been technical issues.  It started with our camera breaking.  And our computer breaking.  And our computer breaking again.  I still do not know how you kill a hard drive in just over 90 days.  (The warranty was only 90 days.)  I am finally getting all of the pictures from our borrowed camera as well as our new camera.

Now that cameras and computer are functioning all at the same time (Maybe I shouldn't say that out loud.  Wouldn't want to jinx myself.), bills and all other computer related activities are caught up, and I feel like I have a moment to transfer pictures and post a few them, I will.

(Present day)

Wanting to get all of the posts in chronological order, I have been working on catch up posts and hope to post one a day(ish) for at least a week.  I am excited that when I go to make this years Butterfield family journal, there will actually be something to read!

MIA (again)

Almost two years ago I posted this.  I thought I was MIA then.  That post came after a month in which I blogged 4 times.  That's as much I have blogged this year.  This is for a variety of reasons.  I never actually made the blog private.  Still might in the future, but haven't yet. 

I have nothing for today.  We got a new camera and I still haven't figured out how to get pictures from the camera to the computer without doing it the old school way (removing the memory card and sticking it in the computer).  I don't even want to talk about doing it with a cord.  I just wanted to say that we are still alive and I still think about the blog.  Just rarely look at it.  Soon, though.  Soon...

Popapiddles

Henry is not feeling so well today.  Today was supposed to be grocery day and really had to be buy gas day.  He got a nap and a bath and said he was feeling better and seemed to be doing better, so I decided to head to Costco for gas.  Up until this little adventure, I thought he just had a cold and really needed to eat a bowl of oatmeal or something (to relieve his tummy issues).  Let's just shorten this story and say an over ambitious mother ended up standing at the front door of Costco covered in watermelon (and who knows what else) that was eaten hours before...

Luckily I parked beside a large vehicle that served as the 4th side of our parking lot "changing room".  And luckily little boys can ride in car seats in the buff.  And luckily I had an extra sweater in the car.  Yeah.  Hopefully no one was paying too much attention to what was going on...

Poor Henry.  :(

Anyways, before I forget, Henry had lots of "pop-a-piddles" for supper.  Pop-a-piddles!!  Popcicles for those of you that don't speak Henry.  We have been practicing each syllable and he says it really well until he says it normal speed and all together.  And I am okay with that.  I think popapiddles is pretty cute.