All Done

Despite all the snow Nick still has spring fever with his boat project.  He peruses boat books and boat postings every day.  Currently the image below is a close representation on his goal for our boat when it is all done.

We will see how close he gets.  I bet it will be even better!

Yum!

Pip Pip is such a fan of, well everything!  She really takes in the world around her through those beautiful big eyes.  For at least a month now she has been obsessed with whatever you are eating.  She will follow the food from your plate to your mouth, try to snatch food off your plate and grab snacks from G's hands.  So we have started her a few weeks early on a bit of baby food from time to time.  She really seems to like it.  So far tomato is the only thing she hasn't been so sure about.

It is really funny to watch as she is often overcome with the excitement and newness of the whole thing:

Snow Day

For the first time in the almost six years I have worked for my company, we had a snow day yesterday.  Anyone who works in customer service knows there is never a true snow day for you.  I spent the early morning on text and email wrangling the troops and we patched together at least the business customer service piece yesterday.  It was rough.

But, I had the cutest cube mate ever!

Since I was at home Nick and G got a chance to go out and enjoy the snow some.  Last nap of the day for Pip Pip I even made it out to join in the fun.

The snow continued all night and we probably have 6 inches on the ground this morning and it is still coming down.  It is really gorgeous light and fluffy snow.  It is supposed to warm up and turn to rain tomorrow.  We will be sad to see it go. 

Have a boat that just might float

Nick has been on a boat quest for quite some time now.  His research had led him most recently to deciding that perhaps he could build his own plywood boat.  There were a few in process projects being sold off on Craigslist but nothing quite right.  And then he found this beauty!  He will have to come back and correct all these details, but it is a 15 foot plywood boat complete with a tilt trailer and goes great with a motor he was given.

There was no "proper" before shot taken but here you can get the idea.  Nick has already gutted it and is in the process of removing all the old paint.  The plan is then to replace any rotten pieces, epoxy the hull, repaint it and of course deck it out with new seating, storage and wooden accents.  I am sure it will be amazing!  Stay tuned.

Gunnar thinks we should name it Iron, short for Iron Man.  Imagine that!

TMNT

We frequent a resale shop in Boring called Upscale Resale and the owner there is just impossibly nice!  We went there last weekend as Pip Pip has outgrown all her 6 month jammies (aka all she ever wears) and of course Gunnar just had to find something he couldn't live without.  I really do (Nick, stop shaking your head) try to not give him everything he wants all the time so I was explaining we only came for clothes for Piper today etc etc when the shop owner offered to let him have one thing for being such a good boy.  Oh geez!  Well, the object of his affection was a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle sleeping bag.  He loves it of course!  Nick got some really funny pics of him snuggled in it:

He keeps mentioning that he is ready to go camping now that he has this sleeping bag which is so funny as it reminds of a memory from my childhood.  We took a family trip to Colorado and did some camping.  I too was prepared with my purple and pink Thumbelina sleeping bag.  Well you can imagine how cold it got during that mountain night!  Sure enough, by morning I was in the big sleeping bag all nice and warm with mom while dad shivered under his Thumbelina sleeping bag!  I am pretty sure we only camped that one night.

Piper Five Months

I can't believe baby girl is heading full force to being half a year old.  Seems impossible!  I cannot express what a great baby she is and how fun it is to watch her grow.  She loves her big brother so much and cannot wait to give him a run for his money.  Or more likely his food!  She has a pretty good grasp on sitting up these days and has sampled a few foods as we gear up to start solids in a couple weeks.

Here is Gunnar helping us out with FIVE when she hit 5 months:

Christmas Catch Up

By my lack of posts I am sure you can imagine how quickly time is flying around here!  We are definitely full swing into life with two.  Double the...trouble?!

Christmas was wonderful!  The kids were super spoiled of course and it was really special that Nick's dad was able to take a brief leave from NYC to rejoin the family as well.  Nick's brother even made it down from Seattle for a few days to extra spoil everyone!