My Amazing Husband

Most posts on the blog are about the antics of my little ones. Today I am going to boast about the accomplishments of my husband. We put off buying a house for quite a long time and one of the reasons was that we didn't want all our time filled with home projects. They can be so difficult, time consuming and frustrating. But Derek decided to take a couple head on!
When we bought our house it had a large storage area for the garbage cans right in front of the house. Strange. Derek finally dimantled it and used the doors to build a gate for the side of the house that didn't have one. AWESOME! It is so much better than the rigged up baby gate that was there before.
The house without the garbage can holder.



The new gate



He also decided that when we removed the hot tub that we should rebuild the surface of the deck. It was lots more work than we thought it would be (more time consuming), but it looks amazing!
Tearing off the deck

Libby Talks

and talks and talks and talks and talks and talks...There is now a constant stream of verbage coming from her mouth. If we aren't around, she talks to her animals, dolls, imaginary friends, etc. I caught a short glimpse of her reading to her husky doll.

Happy Brithday Libby

Today Libby had her 2nd party for her 2nd birthday. A couple of picture highlights from the two partys.
Blast-off cake made by Grandma Debbi because I had a cold (not to mention that she makes better cakes.)

I don't know if this is an actualy birthday shot, but this is where she opened presents.

Libby putting the birthday hat on Daddy.
The 2 seconds she wore the hat. (It kind of looks like she was smiling, she wasn't, she was crying.)
The birthday "cake" made my me...it is actually "golf balls," a new Libby favorite made of graham crackers, peanut butter, coconut and chocolate. I consider it a balanced meal for Libby :) Thanks Jenn!

Project CIty!

I haven't been able to take time to write for too long...but I have legitimate reasons. We have been in project mode. The first major project was that we got a new computer. It was all part of an iPod switcho with Dave. I didn't really remember all of the work and downloading that goes into getting a new computer, but boy, it is work. I finally think I might have enough stuff up and running to be functional. I still am running my iTunes through the old computer where I have all my playlists, but for the most part we are switched. We are now using the old computer with the TV as our monitor. It serves as our DVD player and our hulu access so we can watch our favorite shows whenever we want to, Burn Notice and Royal Pains :)

Derek built the gate for the side of the house that I have been really wanting! (He did it with only one trip to Home Depot!)

We have also been yanking the hot tub out of the deck and rebuilding. What a project. Here are a couple of pics of the deck stripped down to the joists. We have about 1/2 of the new wood in place and all of it is cut. It has been a project of about a million trips to Home Depot. So far no one has bought our hot tub. Oh how I would like to at least make a little money to offset the cost of redoing the deck! Any takers?

Imagine that??

So many of you may not know this, but I had two imaginary friends Andrea and Celery (I do not know where I got the names). Libby appears to have some too. Hers are Grover and Guy Smiley.

I was reading her a story the other day and I told her to sit near me, and she said "Okay, Guy Smiley, sit right here (indicating next to her)!"

She also told Rachel that we were feeding the dogs yesterday while we were swimming at Emmi's. No dogs in sight. I love her creativity.

Stats

Libby and Sarah had their well baby checks yesterday.

Some interesting stats:
Libby
Weight: 21 lbs. 5%
Height: 32" 8%
Head Circ: 17 3/4" 50%

Sarah
Weight: 18 lbs. 14 oz. 50%
Height 27 3/4" 50%
Head Circ. 17 3/4" 75%

So they have the same size head. But other than that, Sarah is due to overtake Libby any day now in weight. It is hilarious. It was also interesting, Libby (who won't sit still for anything) sat still and was so good for her check up. She wasn't a fan of the shot of course, but as she was crying she said, "I have a tiger bandaid on my leg."

check out dave's pics

Dave took some great shots of Libby on our trip...Check them out on his blog:
http://itsallover.tumblr.com/