Fred-n-Sara

Did you know it’s National Watermelon month?  Neither did I.  But these polar bears did!  I thought these were too cute to pass up…

See more here.

Our boys have been so good this year that Santa wanted to contact them both!

Calvin’s Message

Oliver’s Message

As we enter the holiday season, Calvin and Oliver wanted to send an email to Santa.  I thought I’d share it with you…

Dear Santa,

Mom and Dad have been reading us Christmas stories and told me that you bring presents to all the good little boys and girls. Mom said that we could write to you and tell you that both Oliver and me (Calvin) have been pretty good this year.  Even though I’m climbing all the furniture and getting into everything I possibly can, I’m still a good boy, says Mom.  My little brother has been pretty good, he’s too little to really get into trouble like I do.  Mom says just give him time, he’ll get into enough trouble later.  Oliver and I came up with some things we’d like for Christmas (Mom added a couple things too):

• Little People play things, like this boat or barn
• Blocks
• Puzzles
• 18 month clothes for winter (Calvin)
• 0-3 or 3-6 month clothes for winter (Oliver)
• Toddler slippers, size 5
• The movie Up
• Books
• Wrist rattles
• Play gym
  

We’ll leave you some milk and cookies on Christmas Eve as a trade for some presents.  Maybe some carrots for the reindeer too.

Love,

Calvin and Oliver

p.s. Please don’t skip our house if Oliver isn’t alseep, he still wakes up a couple times a night because he gets hungry.  Mom promises to keep him out of the living room so you can drop off our presents!

Aren’t they sweet?  Of course, the season is more about giving than receiving, so we’ll be helping the boys understand this as well!

I swear!  I know that I said I wanted to post a few things every week and I’ve not been keeping up with that lately, but I’ve been busy!  As of today, we have less than 2 weeks until my due date.  That means I have probably no more than two and a half weeks left before I am the mother of 2 boys under 2 years old!  Cal was born 2 days past his due date, so I doubt that I will go much past that with this one, although it is possible (please send lots of good thoughts my way… I don’t want to be pregnant for longer than 2 more weeks!!!) that I could go a week or two past my due date still.

So, like I said, I’ve been busy.  Doing what, you ask?  Hmm, some call it nesting while others would simply call it living.  Either way, I (along with Fred and Calvin and even Nina) have been busy getting ready for the arrival of our newest family member:

1. Cleaned up the nursery: Fred and I moved all of Cal’s things out of the nursery (like his clothes and toys) and put all the infant things back in (like the little clothes!).

2. Finished putting together the odds and ends in Cal’s new room (all the decorations are up).

3. Broke Cal of his night time bottle (Yay!! He’s turning into such a big boy!).

4. Washed and stuffed all the new cloth diapers we bought for  Baby J 2.o.

5. Cooking and freezing meals for after our new baby joins us.  Check out this awesome site about freezer meals (aka Once A Month Cooking).

6. Walking and hiking as much as possible (Nina is good at helping with this).

7. Washing all the fabric covered infant accessory surfaces in the washing machine.

8. Working (and making a little money in order to afford living expenses for everyone in our family).

So really, I’ve been busy and haven’t meant to neglect blogging all the updates in the lives of Fred-n-Sara.  I have some other things I’ve wanted to post about, hopefully I’ll get to them soon.  But until then, just know I’m not neglecting my blogger duties on purpose!

Finally, I have fixed the photo album page on our site.  It now contains working links to our new photo page at Shutterfly.

Our photo page doesn’t contain all the pictures that our original photo site at Flikr did, but it does have recent pictures on it, including all the Calvin pictures I have taken (or at least the good ones).  I’m still working on getting all the other pictures up there too.  I try to update it with new pictures as I take them, so check it often to see new pictures of the cutest baby ever!

Speaking of cutest baby ever, here’s two 5 month pictures for you:

Cal is starting to sit up on his own, he still falls over after a few minutes, but he’s working on staying up!

Please ignore the drool spots…he’s drooling like a mad man all the time now!