We live here!

Our first house... After an apartment, a duplex, another apartment and finally our own house for my family to call home! 

T is for..

Tummy Time! When Baby W requests tummy time with Lil' P, who am I to say no? 

Pattern

I loved this prompt, because it sent me around the house looking for my favorite colorful patterns. Starting in the top left corner and going clockwise-- a wet bag, a wristlet, some diaper covers and part of a baby blanket. 

Adventure

Earlier in the week, Baby W decided his trucks needed a wash... Water, bubbles, trucks and cars turned into a nearly hour-long adventure. Bonus? A really clean bathroom sink ;) 

Eleven O'clock

Anyone who has ever made plans with me knows I'm not the most punctual person. I try, but I'm more often than not five minutes late... So it might come as a surprise that I have a bit of a clock obsession. I'm always in search of the perfect clock and we have clocks in nearly every room of our house. The clock in our living room is one of my very favorites and I just happened to buy it on a Saturday morning Target trip with the other mommies from the blog! 

Ordinary

I would say apple and bananas are pretty ordinary fruits, but they are staples in our house! 

Family

Yesterday I posted about all the laundry four people amass... And here are those four people, my very own little family! 

Doing

With a family of four that includes two children in cloth diapers and a dog, it seems like we are always in some stage of doing laundry... 

Joy!

Lil' P is 7 weeks old, so sleep at night is still rocky. He often gets the talk from daddy, "Why won't you just sleep?!" We'll get back to sleep at night soon... Right??? Until then, joy is a sleeping baby! 

What you do for FUN!

 

I have a few hobbies that I still find time for, allbeit not as often as I'd like to... scrapbooking, running, sewing, decorating.  I have one hobby though, that I still get to enjoy nearly every day... cooking!  I much prefer a homemade meal over something frozen, bought or on-the-go (don't get me wrong, that still happens!) and this is something fun that mrdub and I both enjoy.  We have different tastes in recipes-- he likes quick and simple, I don't mind long ingredient lists, he likes seitan, spice and anything peanutty, I like veggies, coconut and curry.  Our differences usually work out well, because it provides a variety of meals and we never get bored with our food!  So... What do I do for fun?  I cook... I bake... and I eat :) 

About You

Or more appropriately, about ME!  I've always hated socks.  My mom still tells me it was impossible to keep socks on me when I was little.  As long as I can remember, I've been happier barefoot, even in winter!  I still would rather be sockless, but I do have a fun collection of socks and my favorite are seasonal socks!  I figure if I have to wear them, they might as well be fun.  Here's a selection of my sock collection...

 

Clean

 

I used to love buying cleaning products.  I had a big box full.  Now, I try to be more efficient and also more environmentally-friendly.  Most of our cleaning products are Seventh Generation or Method, but I also love cleaning with simple baking soda and vinegar (my recent favorite combo for cleaning the glass top stove).  There's nothing better than a sparkling clean house!

Sign

 

This sign hangs in our kitchen, so it's visible nearly as soon as you step in our back door.  It was a gift last year for (my 1st!) Mother's Day from mrdub.  I love that all the rules are simple things we can do to make each day a little easier and more fun!

Working

 

Like Jen, I have two desks (well, technically three, but I share the third).  I travel between three schools each day and visit 21 classrooms each week-- you can see my pretty color-coded schedule to the right of my monitor!  Today I was working on a few things during my prep... organizing my lesson plans, making a few SMARTboard activities, reviewing student surveys and sorting out paperwork and copies.

I'm too lazy to figure out how to rotate this picture, but here's my cart.  Can't miss me in the halls!  The awesome custodian at one of the schools painted the awesome German eagle on it for me.  I love it!

 

Shoes

When we started the photo challenge, I thought I would try hard not to make every picture about Baby W.  Easier said than done... especially when his shoes are way cuter than mine!  As I mentioned in the "Explore" post, Baby W isn't walking yet and somehow he already has five pairs of size 5 shoes.  Part of me hopes he walks sooner than later so he can get some wear out of all of these shoes! 

Green

 

Back in December, my sister and I decided to sign up for the Lucky Leprachaun 7K.  Being that it was the weekend of Saint Patrick's Day, we figured it would be a sunny day and a fun run.  We convinced my brother and his wife to visit and run with us and mrdub agreed to join in.  Last year we celebrated Saint Patrick's Day with 70 degree temps and sun... this year, not so much.  My picture for today shows our green attire for the run, which is a stark contrast to the white ground!  Temps at the start of the race were in the 20s, it was windy and the roads were slushy.  Not what we had expected, but the race still proved to be a good time... and green beer awaited us a the finish!

9 o'clock

 

9:00 is generally a quiet time in our house.  9:00 AM... Baby W is usually napping.  9:00 PM... Baby W is down for the night, the house is picked up and mrdub and I are relaxing in the living room. 

Explore

Baby W isn't walking yet, but someday he will use these feet to explore the world!

Tasty

One of my favorite restaurants is Comet Cafe.  I love their food and it's one of the few places I always manage to save room for one of their giant cupcakes, my favorite of which so far is Banana Split.  We were over in Bay View to run a few errands last weekend and passed Honeypie on the way home (how convenient!), who happens to serve cupcakes from the same baker.  The selection of cupcakes on Sunday was something like Mexican Chocolate, Red Velvet, Double Chocolate.  Since I gave up chocolate for Lent, I decided rather than go sans cupcake, I would try the Chai cupcake.  I love Chai tea, Chai lattes, I love the spice and flavor of Chai.  I love cupcakes.  So, needless to say, the Chai Cupcake was pleasantly tasty!

Sound

Today's picture had me stumped.  A few easy things came to mind... Baby W's laugh, my iPod, toys, but I wanted to be more creative.  So I cheated.  I looked through my last few weeks of pictures trying to find something that looked like "sound" to me. 

And I found this.  Our street covered with snow.  Snow still floating in the air.  I love the sounds of a snowy day.  The freshly fallen snow seems to mask so much and it's almost quiet as the busy city is forced to slow down.  Once the snow stops, there's the hum of snow blowers, the scrape of shovels, the slow traffic packing down the snow, the crunch of foot steps.  As much as I'm ready for spring, I love the sounds of a snowy day!