May 03, 2006
Daddy Dances
I just can't resist posting this little snippet. Caleb was way into dancing and Bob was trying to encourage him. I get such a kick out of it each time I had to string a bunch of clips together. I laugh every time I watch it.
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March 10, 2006
Mating Ritual?
Yesterday I saw this outside my kitchen window and was so entertained by it I thought I'd break my blog silence and post it. Its a pretty long video so it may take a little while to see it. But what do you think? Is this mourning doves mating? (video is ~10MB, 7min)
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December 21, 2005
Robot Caleb
In the midst of adjusting to our new life around here, Caleb is enjoying his new blocks from Aunt Emily, Uncle Steve, and Aunt Liz. They were his Christmas present, and Bob put a picture of them on his blog. Anyway, they came with cylinders which Caleb absolutely loves. He's been into putting them on his arms and I've been calling him robot boy. This morning he got the two big ones on and was walking around. He looked absolutely hilarious so I had to share. He even posed for one shot, looking very robot-esk.
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May 18, 2005
Hives
For a lack of anything better to post on let me tell you about my hives. Well I've been itching for almost a week now. I kept thinking, man there's so many bugs biting me! Then yesterday my tongue started hurting. You know like when you burn it on a hot liquid? It feels like that all around the edge and underneath and some on top and its hard to taste anything well. I looked up "itchy, painful tongue" on google and found out that I have hives. (connected these weird "bites" with the tongue thing) So the remedy is to take benedryl, which I did last night, with a bit of a hang over this morning. Anyway, I have no idea how I got these hives. Our best guess is irritation from our very tall grass (which Bob cut last night). Anyone have any ideas or experience with this? I know medical stuff really doesn't make a very fun post. Oh well.
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January 28, 2005
Happy Birthday Sarah
Sarah Barker is one of my best friends. She was in our wedding, we used to live together at the Crosses, and now we get together once a week to check in and see how each other is doing. I'm so thankful for her! We had a little birthday party for her this past Sunday and we gave her this cool candle lantern. The best thing about Sarah's friendship is we can laugh, talk, cry, or be absolutely insane together, basically comfortable. She's in the process of applying to grad schools and when she leaves to study I will feel a great void in my life. But she plans on coming back, and I'm keeping her to that plan. I'm going to miss her so much!
(Be sure to roll your mouse over the picture or you'll miss one of the great reasons for this post. Oh yeah, and if you are interested in getting a very cool candle lantern for yourself we found them at Target. Some of them were huge!)
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January 13, 2005
Nerdy diapering
Oh yeah and I've been meaning to tell you all about a diapering experience the other night. Bob and I have different ways of changing Caleb's diaper. Basically I think its a male/female thing. He takes the diaper off, then wipes, then gets the new diaper out while casually talking to Caleb. Well I was watching him do this the other night and suggested that he'd probably get peed on because he was waiting too long to put the new diaper on. He replied "I haven't gotten peed on since my birthday!" And with impeccable timing Caleb proceeded to soak Bob's jeans, I couldn't stop laughing!
The reason I say its a male/female thing is because I get out the new diaper first, open the tags and have it at the ready. Bob just kind of goes with what's in front of him at the moment, but I have the need to plan ahead to prevent sprayage. I've noticed men and women drive this way too. Men tend to deal with the cars right around them and women tend to look a mile up and start preparing what lane to be in, if they should break, etc etc. Maybe this is why many women are control freaks having the desperate need to plan all that will or might happen. I know these are sweeping generalizations, but I still think its true. (or at least true for us, yes I'm a control freak)
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January 12, 2005
Chinese Mullet
Bob and I both graduated from Covenant and soon after we were married and headed down to St. Elmo. Our first abode as a married couple was living in the upstairs apartment of Jeff and Heather Cross's house (aka Crommune, at the time). We had good times with the Crosses, babysitting every now and then and once in a while playing games.
We now live on Beulah and its a wonderful place to live as well, mostly because we have great neighbors across the street, The Petersons, and we love our house. Well last week I was sitting with Sara on her porch and Jeff and Teddy Cross came up on their bikes. We exchanged a few greetings as I was thinking to myself how fun it is to live in a place where we run into each other in the neighborhood. Then it struck me that something was different about Jeff but I couldn't quite figure it out (he had his helmet on). Well it didn't take long to realize he shaved his head! He's not cut it (except for trimming) in ten years. But this cut is quite a unique one as you see below. Its straight out of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, kind of a Chinese Mullet if you will. I think by now he's shaved the rest, but thought some of you in blogland might enjoy a before and after picture.
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October 28, 2004
Evening Mad Lib
This evening I busted out the Mad Libs again because Bob and I were too tired to do anything else. The best line of the night came out of one entitled "My Music Lesson." The line that made me laugh was "Teacher says I'm a natural tissue box and have a good musical buttcheek." Seriously, we didn't contrive that one, its true.
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Can you tongue fold?
Here I am doing my best im-sheep-anation of a little lamb folding its tongue.
Caleb got this lamb as a baptism gift from Grandpa and Grandma Wiegers. On Sunday night my parents, Bob and I were hanging out trying to keep our eyes open because we were all tired from the busy weekend. We had fun doing some madlibs (remember madlibs? they are great!) and were in a wacky mood. I noticed how this lamb is folding its tongue, not something everyone can do, so we all started folding our tongues. Bob pulls out the camera and voila, me trying to im-sheep-anate this lamb's expression. Everytime my dad looked at the picture he would laugh so hard. So did I nail her or what?!
These were my other attempts to look like her, but my dad and Bob thought they didn't quite capture her expression like the first one. :)
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