Still alive and kicking

Well it has been awhile since I actually wrote something, again. I took a sick leave from blogging. I got a "clogged milk duct" (as declared by the doctor) nasty thing AGAIN just a week later after the first one. This time I caught a cold at the exact same time. It was MISERABLE but I lived. I am just glad it wasn't the nasty flu like the one going around. At this same time Koby was injured (most likely some cracked ribs) when he ran into a tree while snowboarding. Then he got my cold. Then Kanoba got the cold although it didn't slow him down one bit. He just had a little cough and runny nose. Pumpkin (I finally decided on a nickname for baby girl for the purpose of this blog) has been congested but seemed to avoid the worst of the cold. Anyhow, it has been a long couple of weeks. Somehow during that time I and my mother and sister managed to pull off a baby shower for my other sister. Good thing we didn't postpone it- she had her baby this last Monday- a little over 3 weeks early! He is a cutie! Anyway, I digress my digressing... it has been a busy few weeks.

Pumpkin had her 2 month appointment a week ago Monday. She is a growing, healthy baby at 12 lbs. 1 oz. and 23 in. long. That puts her around the 76 percentile for both weight and length. She is a bigger baby than Kanoba who was around the 50 percentile in both weight and height. (Is it length or height? Babies don't stand yet...) I am so glad she is doing well despite already having 2 colds. I am glad we have avoided RSV so far...knock on wood. She is such a sweetie and has the cutest smiles. She outright laughed today for the first time.

Kanoba is growing so quickly too. He will have his 3rd birthday in just a few weeks! I can't believe how much he is growing up into a little man. He always says the darndest things and he is ALWAYS into everything. He is extremely independent. I find him helping himself to food in the fridge- he will pull out a meal for himself of cheese, ice cream, yogurt, crackers, and pepperoni (pony-roni) and spread them out on the coffee table and watch PBS cartoons. He is a sweet boy and becoming more sensitive to other's feelings everyday. He is always saying sorry for anything that hurts or upsets me. Sometimes I wish he wouldn't say sorry because I want to be mad at him. :)

I need to finish this post up as it is 12:30 AM. I wanted to end with one of the reasons why I love living where I do. It is because of this:

I love that we have deer that come and eat all the berries off my tree and eat my bushes. Really, I do. I was going to take a picture of all the deer tracks in the snow in my front yard but I didn't get to it and now the snow is melted. I love just looking outside and seeing the hoof prints. I don't so much like the piles of poo droppings. This picture was actually taken outside of Koby's office in the P. river bottoms- he (the deer, not Koby) sat out there all day and occasionally peeked inside to make sure Koby was on task and doing his job. SO AWESOME!!