Sunday morning coming down

I decided to skip my run this morning due to a scratchy throat that I just can't kick and some snow and rain. So....we all sat around in our pajamas and relaxed this morning - Mika and Cash too!







Not a whole lot happening out here, just waitin' on Spring. We've been keeping a close eye on Fargo and the floods and are happy to see that the water level is dropping by the day.




Cash is sitting in his highchair at the table with us, which is a nice change from one of us holding him while we try to eat or setting up his papasan chair on the table. Family dinners - yipee! :) He's growing, growing, growing....I think I spied a second tooth coming in, but no guarantees, I think my eyesight is starting to fail me. The first tooth is a definite though, even Brent saw it!




Well, we're off to relax.....we hope everyone is enjoying the last little bit of their weekend!

Dog poo Saturday...our favorite!

Wowee....what an exciting weekend at our house! First, Brent made delicious omelets for breakfast Saturday morning, then we all threw on our warm clothes and shoveled months and months worth of dog poop. Great to read about I'm sure, but hey, it took up quite a bit of time! That's even after Brent put the hurt on it last weekend. Not too thrilled with the outerwear!

I see you...

We managed to get a nice walk in and lunch on the deck before the rain hit and boy did it! Torrential downpour. This morning I went for my run - I am back to training for a marathon (that was the plan last year before our big surprise). I had a great run this morning, but the longer distances I run, the more I realize that I probably am not going to have the time to be running 26 miles at a time. So, even though I'm doing the training for the marathon, I'm thinking that at about half way through I'm just going to settle for the 1/2. We'll see what happens - maybe I'll all of a sudden get a lot faster!

We did a lot of basketball watching as well. Go NC! Both Brent and I have them winning the whole ball of wax. Cash seems to enjoy watching basketball as well, who knows, maybe he'll be playing guard at 6'5" by the time he's in college. With all this talk about how big he's going to be, we're probably just jinxing the poor kid. 5'5"....he'll get the short end of the stick.

Dad & Cash enjoyed some basketball together this afternoon. Cash got a little warm and got his first heat rash, so we let him hang out in just a pair of sweats. He seemed much happier!

Snaggletooth

Just chillin'....

Sleeping on his monkey's butt....

You won't believe it - Cash has his first little toothie coming in. Brent calls him 'Snaggletooth'. You can't see it unless you open his mouth yourself, but if he were to smile, he'd have one pointy little guy on his bottom jaw on the left side!!! Does this mean we're going to have to do more hunting next year? Are we going to double our steak intake??


He's a pro at the thumb sucking now - he takes his entire hand, runs it across his face open handed and catches the thumb on the sweep. We think he'll be right handed....he's much better with that thumb. He does have a few problems here and there (as you can see in the picture), but for the most part it's Cash - 1, Thumb - 0.

Mom and Dad swung in for a Saturday night in Montana. They're headed to Big Timber to pick up Dad's Shiloh Sharps rifle. I would've gone, but heard that Tom Selleck wasn't going to be around for this trip - Mom's keeping her fingers crossed! She'd better get pictures if he shows up! :)

We are having SO much fun with Cash! I can't believe that every day we love him more and more - who would've thought? I think I spent the entire pregnancy thinking about all the things that I wouldn't be able to do anymore and it's the complete opposite. Everything I want to do, I can still do AND we get to add so much more than we ever considered doing! Yep, we were made for parenting.....we're thinking 14 is an acceptable number....I'm going to contact the octuplet mom in CA - I'm sure that she'll have some pointers for me (none for Brent)!!! :) I'd have to really get a purse if that happened.....and a minivan!! Just kidding....one little boy, 3 dogs and 4 chickens are about all we can take right now. If we lose a bird, we'll consider another baby....

I think he may be telling me that I have bad bed head!

The First Bath

I've finally figured out how to post slideshows, so there'll be a lot more coming! I just have to say though, the look on Cash's face makes this first bath look miserable, but I guarantee he never cried and he now really enjoys his baths!

A long overdue slideshow

A trip to Pullman

Okay, so I finally got off my lazy butt and posted some pictures from last weekend when we went to Pullman. Aunt Colleen and Uncle Bob had made reservations at the Hobbs Hotel, so Brent, Cash and I stayed with Great Grandpa!!! We had a wonderful visit and once again Brent got to enjoy the creme de la creme of Pullman.....Cougar Country!!!! I gotta say, I'm surprised at just how many places are closing down in Pullman, it never was all that big to start, but even Taco Time has closed it's doors - you know it's getting bad now.

Cash is so close to laughing and rolling over now. I feel like if I take my eyes off of him for one second I'm going to turn around and he'll have rolled to his belly and I'll have missed it. JW has officially changed his first diaper (he claims that he gagged and fell over, then got back up and 'slapped on a new diaper'). He (Cash, not JW) has also found his thumb....I don't think he's quite figured out that the thumb is actually attached to him and that he is in control yet.

Our new sofa has actually arrived (they originally told us that it would probably be here by Superbowl....hmmm....), so keep an eye out because soon I'll be posting some pictures of the finished basement.

Thanks for the fun visit in Pullman - we'll be back in a month or so!