and then there were 4

Somebunny is in LOVE

with being a big sister.

an important announcement

Introducing the newest member of our family, Maxwell James. Maxwell joined our family on December 28, 2011 at 9 lbs, 6 ozs and 20.5 inches long. Contrary to the picture shows, Max is a good, content baby but he does have a hearty head of blond hair and some strong lungs, when he chooses to exercise them. Our hearts are full of joy as we welcome Max and get to know each other.

We might not be around on the blog so much, but when we do make our appearance - we do it in style. Halloween 2011 style, as pictured below with our western themed family members.

"I am not your mom. Wrigley ate your mom."

I am hoping I can find a picture to upload to enhance this wrigley/mackenzie interaction. Mackenzie has recently fallen in love with Barbies and plays with them frequently. Alas, this means that there are often Barbie's laying around our house. And this leaves plenty of opportunity for a certain orally fixated dog to engage in some munching on Barbie. Therefore, we have an overly abundant population of "special need" Barbie's in our car. Barbie's that are missing one or both arms and/or legs. And every time another Barbie suffers a major catastrophe, they are mourned by a certain little girl. Loss of the one and only Ken doll - aka her boyfriend, "Justin Beaver" warranted crying ourselves to sleep one night. However, all Barbies are still loved and played with around here and therefore lead to overhearing the sound byte conversation of one Barbie to another: "hi mom!" "I am not your mom - Wrigley ate your mom. I am your aunt."

sweet feet

a sneak peak at the cute little toes of newest member of our family, set to arrive this winter.

This is specially for Val....

So rewind with me a few monthes back, to spring time preparations.....Grandma Jane decided to try her hand at an Easter egg color schemed tutu. In attempting to perfect the final product, she needed a model.....see photo. The opportunity to march around in a tutu is reminiscent of the classic movie Ace Ventura, as in the touring the mental hospital facility when he plays foot ball with himself, then yells "halftime!" and goes to take a nap on a bench. Parts of that may have been reacted during the tutu finalization......
Fast forward to this past week, when Ace Ventura quotes have been flying around rampatently. Many of the world's problems could be solved simply by quoting good ol' Ace - "if I am not back in 5 minutes.....just wait longer!"