More family fun....

Grandma Foght and Oliver

All the sisters and their "babies"

"So big!" 

Whenever there are new people to entertain Oliver pulls out

all of his tricks.

Oliver's first St. Patricks Day (for the second time) 

He loves that Daddy. 

Within the last month he has started saying Dadda, and yelling Dadda, and crying Dadda...

Back to blogging...

        I finally found my camera! I now have more blogging to catch up on than I have time for....

         

Uncle H & (W)Lilly

My Irish lad

It's rare that all four of the Melby boys are together, but it just so happened that 

we were able to celebrate a late St. Patrick's Day together.

Here Scott is showing a slideshow of his trip to Egypt. You can see more about it on their

blog (follow the link at the bottom right hand of the page)

Green green everywhere!

Auntie Kristen opening her "crabby-patty" sack of gifts for the nieces

 and nephews.

Ethan was patiently waiting

"So Big!"

Story time with Auntie Kristen. 

S & K Brought the newest addition to their family.....

Pickles

Keira prefers to stick with blue dogs

Oliver getting his hand chewed off

More on the house

Today Mark and my Dad were able to get both the guest room and Oliver's room windows replaced. Now we have to replace the two windows in our room and then it's just a few little things before the electrician can get in there to do everything else.

Does this look like a good idea?

I give you exhibit A:

The windows on most every vehicle I've owned have a habit of getting stuck open.

This is the second time Mark has jimmy-rigged my window so it would shut. I'm not sure what the batteries were for.

It's a good effect.

House updates

Here's the whole family in our upstairs tub                                              

Mark, hard at work. Furring in the rafters and framing our bedroom closet

The view from the Kitchen looking into the Living Room

                                                                      our new back porch

                                           turned into our dining room and breakfast nook
  

                                It's hard to imagine how tall this house is until you've seen it

                                it's towering. It's rumored that someone fell off the roof and died

We're getting closer to moving in every day. I'm looking for volunteers to help with insulation, and painting when we get to that point.

You'll be paid in pizza and soda.  

Luckily it looks like we might have found a drywall contractor that is within our budget. It will save us buckets of time. Close to a month. 

Little Bird

When I was little, in the morning, my mom used to make us a nest.

She would get all the blankets and pillows and circle them around us. So cozy! 

Here Oliver is carrying on the tradition.

Lady bug, lady bug....

Oliver Loves Ladybugs.....

Nearly every day he finds one.  He will stop everything he's doing and get very quiet. 
He'll very gently pick it up or put his hand next to it knowing that it will crawl onto him. Then he'll let it run around on his hand and arm. 

"But not sooo fun" (as Brandi would say) is that they stink every time they get touched.

"A treasure to a little boy does not consist of money, gems or jewelry.  He will find far greater pleasure in the wonder of a rock, pebble, stick or beetle."   - Unknown