Real time baby!

Here we are just a few minutes ago enjoying the snow!!!!

Mother, I'm not too sure about this get-up.

Ohhh, I get it now...this white stuff falls, it's cold, you're protecting...hey, what's that silly dog doing?!?!

Enuff!!! Let me inside!!!!

Snow dazzles me...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Christmas Cat-sup

Not only do we have some Christmas catch-up to do, there's Dec. 20th, which would be who's 4 month birthday?

I dunno!

This guy!

Here we are at Christmas time. This was the 22nd...Mike & Christine brought a present for Jake that luckily has an off switch! Jake did attempt to open it himself!

Packer dismal Sunday! Packers lost against the Bears (but are currently spanking the Lions) and we decided to break out the high chair. He does okay in it...still a little tippy! But he was able to sit at the table with us for Christmas eve dinner.

Christmas Eve Daddy saved Jake from going to church. There were up by Gramma & Grampa Sutton for the day while the rest of us went to church and saw Taylor sing in the choir and Abby & Megan be Angels. Really, not behavior Angels, but Christmas Eve Angles.
Back at the house with Aunt Tricia.

Hanging out with Daddy in my adorable outfit waiting patiently for...

...MEAT!!! Gimme gimee!!!

Taylor held still for a couple minutes for a photo op!

Christmas daze

Jake lost the nap battle while Uncle Tony fights on!

Christmas day, wearing some new duds!

Grandma Sutton wakes me up every time! :)

It's my mommy!

Here I am reading Grandpa Sutton my favorite book.

Gramma & Grampa gave me this horse which cracks me up! Or is it Cousin Angie?

Here is my Cousin Nicki!

We all had a great holiday season, and it's not even over yet! For more pictures, see Grampa Buzz's blog! He's got some good stuff! (The link is on the right.)

Happy New Year everyone!!!

Christmas Story

Here is a good story from my friend Jodie. To set it up, she has a 5 year old boy and her fiance has a 7/8 year old boy and 3 year old girl. They have 2 dogs outside and Buddie the dog inside.

"My friend asked me if I was glad Christmas was done and if I had everything
cleaned up and put away. Here is my response: I am sure somewhere through
this you get a chuckle.

Do you realize how much work it is to take everything out of boxes for three
kids? Do you know how much work it is to clean up and put away and keep up
with 3 kids?

There are all those twist ties holding Barbie legs into the box, like they
are going to get out of the box on their own. There are six screws holding
in a 5-inch helicopter into the box and plastic things that are tied in
double knots around the wheels of a remote control truck to try and untie
and cut off and did you know you have to charge it for at LEAST 10 hours
before use? Devastating and shear disaster for a 5 year old!
In order to get a battery out of the box you have to rip all the foam out of
the box or when you walk out of the room to throw something away the kids
think it's fun to rip it all apart and leaving it for me to pick up. THEN I
have to clean up all the little teeny tiny pieces of foam while chasing
after Buddie to get the little foam pieces out of his mouth and then we have
a pile of empty boxes stacked up by the back door and then falling down
again because the kids try to get to the garbage can and their leg hits the
mound of boxes so they all fall over. But don't think they'll pick the
boxes up, they'll yell upstairs to me "The boxes fell that were by the
garbage can!!" Those empty boxes will sit there until next week b/c our
garbage bin is already full of boxes and so is Mark our neighbor man's bin
(because of us).

Then I really love stepping on those little plastic pieces that the price
tags are connected to clothes with, that the kids ripped off their clothes
because they HAVE to try everything on and then they get stuck in the
carpet, which then are stuck in my sock and then as I'm bent over picking
the piece out of my socks I'm being shot at in the butt with foam darts, so
as I stand up to see who is shooting me, I see Buddie run in the opposite
direction with Barbie hair in his mouth and the legs are trailing underneath
him, so as I turn to chase him I fall over Maddie (whom was already going
after him) and then step on a %#^%#% Polly Pocket piece that was laying on
our bedroom floor! So as I am laying on the floor in severe pain with a
Polly Pocket SHOE stuck in my foot, Buddie is laying beside me chewing on
the Barbie's hair and Maddie's crying because as I fell over her...I slapped
her in the face! So then, I look over my shoulder and I get shot in the
middle of my forehead WITH ANOTHER FOAM DART!

During all of this, Chris was completely oblivious because he was on his
computer (in the same room) and didn't hear or see a thing!

Happy Holiday's!!! And don't for a second ever think there is a dull
moment in our home, especially the day after Christmas."

We had an adventure!

First we'll start with just some fun pictures...

Grrr, Argghhh, Look at me!!!

Oh my! Who is that dashing fellow in the mirror!?!?

I did some decorating a few weekends ago. On the left are 2 pictures from Charles' Mom Jan. She is the artist I should clarify! On the right from top to bottom: Mexico right before a storm, California along the coast by that light house we stopped at 2 visits ago and Savannah, technically Tybee Island...looking out to the ocean under the big giant pier.

And here's our adventure! Santa!!! Jake told him he wants a red wagon. And he is partially smiling there! This is at Mayfair Mall, the Roedl girls annual Santa outing. And shopping of course!

Then we took the elevator up, up and away! Mommy had to hit the food court for some caffeine! Who's that down there? The jolly old man himself!

Here is Jake with his cousin Taylor in Chico's. He looks almost as tall as she is! haha!

And this amazing thing...Taylor got a balloon Unicorn and Jake loved it. He laughed at it for hours!

That's it for now! Almost done Christmas shopping and only have a couple things to wrap yet! The great cookie debacle '07 has begun also! We'll all be fat and jolly for the holidays!

Just one picture

This was a present from Jessie, it's so cute and soft! Needless to say he didn't come home in it today, he pee'd thru to the onsie. Dang.

Other news, it's snowing. I only saw one accident on the way home tho, a 3-car mess very close to home. Saturday Jake and I are going to Mayfair Mall to visit with Santa! Gramma, Auntie and Cousin are going to meet us there too...the Roedl girl tradition continues! Yay! (Well, minus the one in Cali!)

Where's my supper!!!

My new blankie

Great Aunt Sandy made me a blankie...I received it the other day with all my statistics on it! It's so cute!


Saturday we got a blizzard! Mom and Dad were going to go to Schaumburg, IL to check out the cool shops, but once they saw a car coming at them in the median, they thought twice and headed to Woodman's...something in the same town and state. Doesn't Mommy look like she's in heaven?

And here's a size comparison for you...here I am on 11/28/07...

...and here I was on 9/19/07. I am laying the same way in the crib thingy almost busting down the wall in the first picture! Hee!

I don't know what else is going on. It's freaking cold outside, but I'm always nice and bundled up in my bundle me deal. We're excited for my first Christmas! If anything, I'll at least smile the whole time!

I'm going to play with Mommy now!

I could watch this 8 million times

I sent an email, but in case you see this first or want to come back and watch it over and over again like I do...here it is.
Merry Elfin' Christmas

Another holiday treat...I noticed a new stop sign on the way to/from daycare the other day after the long holiday weekend. I found it odd as there is one the block before/after. Then at night when I came home I noticed why they added this stop sign. Christmas Lane everyone. Kenosha has Christmas Lane (which Sara commented, I wouldn't want to live on that street because it would be depressing the rest of the year when it wasn't Christmas.) It is about a 2 block long, dead end street. EVERY SINGLE HOUSE HAS LIGHTS ON IT! And not just a strand to fit in, they decorate. It's awesome. Haven't driven down the street yet, but we will! So here is the first measly picture I took last night going thru the new (hopefully temporary) 4-way stop sign on the way home from work/daycare. I will try to do better, I promise. Oh yeah, that is a bad picture, but you kind-of get the idea of one side of the street.

Sick-o's

We're getting better! I took Jake to the doctor yesterday. He's been throwing up about twice a day since last Tuesday night, so enough of that! Just the flu bug, which I learned babies can carry up to two weeks! Ugh! So Pedialyte for him and sleep for everyone! Pedialtyte is amazing...got his tummy uncorked and the toots ensued! We're home today from work to get back on track.

Here's some pictures of the cutey pie.

This adorable outfit was supposed to be his Christmas outfit. Well, Mr Bean Pole has gangly arms and legs and his eyes are popped open because, well, he has a long torso too. (11/18/07)

This picture is going to win us $500 from Mug Rootbeer, I hope. (11/20/07)

Jake had pictures at daycare so he wore his rootin' tootin' good time outfit courtesy of cousin Saul. Here's our home photo shoot. (11/21/07)

I think this is the tootin' good time part.

Too much rootin' and tootin'

Here we are at Gramma & Grampa Roedl's during Turkey time. Porter REFUSES to eat his food out of the bowl....as you can see here, he's having a stare down with the few kernels that didn't get dumped out. (11/23/07)

Little Hero in Training. (11/23/07)

That's it for now! Somebody stunk up the joint so I have to go and take care of that! P.U.!

4:30 a.m.

Yup. That's the time. Been up for about a hour and a half. Finally have succumb to the swing, but how long in the swing before it's safe to pick up and put in bed? Today is going to be a hoot. Ugh.

Thanksgiving weekend....Food was delicious! Company was great! 2 days later? Not so great. Starting saturday everybody started getting sick. Jake was sick too...and thought he was better, but apparently not.

I don't know what else to write, what else do you talk about at 4:30 in the morning?

Here goes it, wish me luck...

Changes

As you may notice I did a little updating tonight! A much classier, stylish setting don't you think? I added a couple links too...it is almost gift giving season ya know!

Addiction

Why can't chocolate chip cookie dough be like Angel Food Cake batter and taste like crap before it's baked? Nooo, it has to be delicious ooey gooey goodness doesn't it. So that's my addiction. I made cookies out in Cali (double batch by hand in a bamboo bowl mind you!) and now I just had to make some more to feed my addiction (double batch with a mixer thank goodness) of both dough and baked cookies...out of the freezer has become my latest crave. And of course to make Greg happy. He asked when there'd be cookies around and I said I just made some in California and he said "that does me no good here in WI!"

California was good, the weather was beautiful for us out there, not so much back here. Jake was an excellent flyer, he even got some wings on our way back. They aren't the cool pins anymore, just some plastic thing. Bummer. So here comes the picture onslaught, enjoy!!!

(don't forget, you can click on the picture to make it bigger! And title is below the picture.)

"I'm leaving on a jet plane, don't know when I'll be back again..."

Our first adventure, Half Moon Bay. Here is one of the landscaping decor places and a small sample of the pots they have. I thought this was cool with the mountains (I almost said hills!) in the background.

There's horses on the beach, there's horses on the beach! I was so excited. We got to see them trot by later too while Jake had his picnic by the ocean.

Here's his first photo at the ocean! It was a bit breezy and a slight chill, Grandma wouldn't let him get out his speedo. :(

Gramma, mom and Jake taken by some weird fella whose first words while we were sitting at the bench was "first one?"

After a day at the ocean and a day at daycare, they were done for.

Hello, Grampa? Uncle Greg? Come save me from your picture taking ladies!

Lounging in our PJ's.

We all went to Dale & Joan's for a delicious Cuban dinner via the 1961 Corvair van. Boys in the front, girls in the back. Yeeehaaaa!

Jake fell asleep (how rude) and got to represent Uncle Charles for awhile.

Back to Front: Dale, Joan, Charles. Dale made us a Cuban dinner, deeeeee-licious!

Dale is making Thanksgiving dinner, Brett (Greg's brother) is making Thanksgiving dinner. I wish we all lived closer so we could have a turkey cook-off...I would gladly be the judge for that, but don't make me pick a winner.

The Roedl girls and that silly boy.

Jake & Joan

Jake & Irise (Irish Jack's girlfriend, but competition is strong from this little man!)

Here we are back home. Jake got a bath the next night and had to bundle up in the atrocious weather! He got some hand-me-downs from his cousin, so has to wear them when he can, hence the halloween attire!

Here we are today! The ultimate Packer Backer!

"Hey Brett, I'm ready to step in when you retire...by the time you retire, I'll be graduating from high school...I'm ready, just give me the call."

Ohkay, I'll just wait over here on my pillow until you call.

Here I am enjoying my 3 favorite things, my swing, Brett...

...and a TOUCHDOWN!!! He was awake at this time, but now he is out again!
They just scored another touchdown...smoking the Vikings 34-0, can't beat that!