a home

seeing these makes me happy...

In Levi's room there are these random shelves built into the wall. I presume, a small taste of what this home looked like years ago. I pondered them for a while, left them empty, but they sit right above Levi's changing table. then, one day it occurred to me, diapers!

I love this little place. It makes me smile everytime I look at it.

monkey see

monkey do!

Levi's halloween costume came in the mail today. He is going to be a monkey, so fitting, being that he is a monkey, and I call him monkey. I of course had to try it on him, and he of course proceeded to scream like a banchee er... monkey.

Hopefully he decides he likes it by halloween. We keeping asking him...

Levi, what does a monkey say?

He just stares at us.

We're hoping for..

"ooh ooh ahh ahh"

Flip

Our FLIP video camera had an accident.
Partially mama bears fault, partially the unknown gremlin's fault. (who i presume to be levi)

I had plugged it in and was downloading videos onto the computer,and when I finished, I had forgotten to uplug it. Our camera plugs directly into the camera off of the USB that's attached. We went on with our lives, until the next day, when I noticed our computer was off, and then noticed the tower was tipped sideways... and then realized that our video camera was still plugged in, but somehow it didn't move with the tower, and it twisted and turned the USB cable all around... we got it back in place, but it won't recognize the camera in the computer.

The only consoling fact is that we bought the FLIP because it wasn't crazy expensive, and we didn't want something to happen to a more expensive camera we might have bought.

argh.

RIP Flip.

On Zip!

Minus the inital step off the platform, it was a blast!

why i love my life

Because really?

Is there a better place to store your remote, than in the bottom of the train?

why i call him monkey

This afternoon Levi woke up from his nap, and immediately brought me his shoes. He wanted them on his feet, I put them on, finding it rather funny since all he was wearing was his diaper. He then proceeded to climb on his train.

He was so proud of himself, that, and he was laughing at me because I was making funny noises to get him to look at the camera. Pretty studly in his diaper and shoes, huh?

got milk?

A piano student of mine's family owns a dairy farm. Recently, they have decided to start selling their milk. Selling "raw milk" is kind of tricky business, as you can't officially "sell" it, but you can allow people to buy "shares" into your cows, and "buy" it that way. After much talk, Mike and I decided to go ahead with it. Today our first gallon o' milk came.

It has such great nutritional value, not to mention be able to have cream for whipping cream, I'm even toying with maybe making cheese? Liz Kamper, can you give me tips on this?
I'm excited about the possibilities of it, and we love love love that we can buy locally, and support our local dairy farms.

On a separate note, I took this pic at the lake the other day,
and I just really liked how it turned out.

ear infection

Levi has been sick since early Friday morning. Or at least that's my theory. He didn't run a fever until late Friday afternoon. (Isn't that always the case?) His fever was decently high around 102. We had a rough night Friday, and Saturday morning he was extremely fussy. At first he had no fever, and then gradually, as the day progressed his fever went up. He woke up in the middle of his nap with a fever of 103. We got him calmed down, gave him some motrin, and got him back to sleep.

Mike and I started thinking about what was going on, and I started wondering...

ear infection?

He's had a few in the past, but never ran a fever. I started googling, and read that a cold is a precursor to ear infections, which he has\had. We started debating, walk-in, or no. We finally decided to go, because who wants their ear hurting like that for several days? We were afraid if we kept waiting it would only get worse, and I start working on Monday, which obviously would not be an ideal time to take him to the doctor. We took him to the medplus clinic, and they were fantastic with him! I was nervous just because they obviously aren't pediatricians, but the nurse was really great, as well as the dr. We were in and out of there in about a 1\2 hour. I told them my suspicions, and they took one look in his ears, and said.. yup, mama was right.

We had thought our copay for medplus was $50, but it was only $20. AWESOME, because that's what we would have paid to visit our pediatrician. The dr. wrote a Rx for Amoxicillin, and we drove quickly to Meijer. It was about 5:40, and the pharmacy closes at 6. We got in, got it filled, and the best part about Meijer is that they filled Amoxicillin for free, that,and they filled it ridiculously fast because they were about to close.

We were so thankful we went, and Levi slept like a rock last night.

Thank you scientists for mold! :)

sick

levi woke up and was way more than fussy for over 4 hours this morning.

i finally got him to sleep.

he woke up with a fever of 102.3

that's about how our day has gone.

puddle jumping

yesterday we got rain all morning, when it finally stopped, levi and i went outside and did some puddling jumping! we had a great time.