One more picture from April - I just had to

Christopher was getting ready for a bath. Matt went outside to do something in the yard. Christopher got distracted from the idea of the bath and had to go see what Dad was doing. Mom grabbed the camera. And here is the result.

Old MacDonald had a farm...

We've had a few extra critters around here lately. Yard work, spring time - the types of things that bring all sorts of new life around.

Christopher has really gotten into putting on Matt's straw hat and going outside to check on the plants and see if any animals are visiting us.

Not too long after we put plants in the back yard, one of our rosemary bushes became a sanctuary for three baby rabbits. Right here you can see at least two of them.

Here's a better shot of one. They were just hanging out under there for a few days. They didn't run away or even move when we got close, but they were probably too young to know any better. So yeah, there were three. Then the next day there were two...and the next day one...we told Christopher that the mommy had just been coming back to take them home...

Then a pair of birds decided to build a nest on top of our front porch light. Four eggs, and all four babies hatched and lived. You can just see the tops of their fuzzy little heads here. I couldn't really get any pictures of them as they got older because of:
- the momma bird. Standing sentinel over her little brood. The parents both starting getting pretty agressive with people who came up on the front porch once the babies had hatched. They wouldn't actually touch anyone, but they would be really loud and fly pretty close. The babies have now grown up and flown away. So we cleared the nest. Then two days ago, another nest was built. And the cycle begins again.

More March fun - Jimmy & Daisy visit

Jimmy and Daisy graced us with their presence in March, and we were very glad to have them! Christopher was just this close to filing a formal petition to be adopted by them...

We had a picnic at Fountain Hills while they were here, and had to do some silly poses while the fountain was going off. This is Jimmy, "not feeling so well" after we ate lunch...

This is Christopher, "blowing off some steam"..... he struck that pose all on his own.

This one is a little dark, but there is nothing better than some quiet time with Uncle Jimmy, listening to the iPod.

This picture was the first picture I took with my camera phone. Completely unrelated to Jimmy & Daisy's visit. But still undeniably cute.

It's about time for an update....1st quarter 2008

Christopher started sleeping in a "big boy" bed on January 4th! We took the guard rail off about a week later and he's fallen out a few times, but in spite of our wanting to keep him contained in the crib, he was ready for the bed.

Ummm...how to explain this one? Well, Pooter is a big cat with lots of long fur. He tends to pull out clumps of fur and either scatter them like kittens on the carpet around the house, or swallow them. The swallowing part results in nasty furballs which he tries to chuck up on our bed around 3 a.m. So I started shaving his fur. Then the clippers stopped working. It was a couple of days before we got the new clippers, so we had to snap this shot of poor Pooter with his reverse mohawk in the meantime. :)

Grandma Nell gifted us with a very large amount of grapefruit at the beginning of the year, and Christopher got quite good at helping Matt juice them in the mornings.

Bandanas are just cool. He didn't this one off for at least an hour.

Easter came early, but we actually managed to get a picture with the Easter bunny at the mall this year. This is Christopher with his friend Joseph. I actually took this picture on my new camera phone and somehow managed to upload it to my computer! Yay for me!