Chick Day 2010!

Today is Friday. It has been a very long week. Both NorthernMommy and NorthernDaddy are fried. Northern Toddler kicked the week off with days off from work for both of us - right as our work schedules exploded. For him, it's nothing more than his umpteenth ear infection. For us, it's yet another obstacle to getting our work done on time. We both made it to the end of the week and got everything done, but just barely. Our only glimmer of hope, our little spark of encouragement was that our little, fluffy, ball-of-fuzz baby chicks would be coming home with us on Friday afternoon.
That's supposed to be a picture of our cute little chicks in the box they came home in. Or, as Northern Toddler told the man at the store, "Put my #$@% chickens in the box!". Apparently, the chicken shop (or hatchery, or whatever it's called) had a bunch of Buff Orp roosters hatch out this week instead of hens, so our box stays empty for another week.
Not a really big deal for NorthernDaddy - we'll get our chickens whenever.
Kind of a bummer for NorthernMommy - she wants chickens NOW!
NorthernToddler is quite perturbed. Everyone else walked out of the Depot with their box of chicks.....there are tons of them inside....why are we leaving with an empty box?! (Normally, I'm all about 'being there' for my son, but I am so glad that I was stuck at work and not in the car on that ride home!) NorthernMommy said that for the entire ride home, all she heard was, "CHIX IN BOX? CHIX IN BOX! CHIX IN BOX, NOW!!!"
So, we leave you, our dear readers, to wait with us until next week - when it will once again be Chick Day 2010.

(Grandma - watch out: you arrive on Chick Day. We cannot guarantee that NB/T will acknowledge your arrival....might want to practice 'cheep'-ing like a little chicken so that you can get his attention!)

Big Truck Day 2010

Big Truck Day 2010

Cold weather? Check. Rain? Check. Big trucks? Um....hold on, lemme look over behind that giant pink cement mixer.....Check!

So, the weather wasn't as nice as it could have been, but at least it wasn't snowing (which it has been all day today. Think about that: it's May 9, 2010 - we should be enjoying warm, sunny weather, and it is still snowing. We're daydreaming about possibly becoming the SouthFloridaBaby clan....I bet it's warm there! NorthernToddler is obsessed with school buses. Absolutely loves them. (He obviously hasn't spent a lot of time riding them to and from a school!) He explored this bus several times. Here he is checking out the fit of the seats.
Hey! Somebody just hit my head with their snowplow!

The only thing we're going to say about the very large piece of equipment pictured below is that, on the drive home, I said something about the giant snowthrower from the airport, and NorthernMommy replied that she didn't recall seeing a snowthrower.....(just how do you miss seeing that?!)

NorthernToddler gets some seat time in an off-road forklift.

No photo, but NorthernToddler went into a Bouncy House for the very first time ever! It wasn't any little bouncy house, either. This thing was huge - it had a two-story slide in it! There were so many kids inside making this thing bounce (I tried to find another word besides 'bounce', but none of them work - it's a bouncy house, after all!) that NorthernMommy had to accompany little man into the melee. After getting tossed from end to end of this thing, they finally made it up the ladder and down the slide. He likes bouncy houses!

The other weird thing was seeing the DJ (sorry - 'radio personality') that was doing the remote broadcast calling his segment in on his phone. We started outside to head home, and saw this guy talking into his cell phone, and could hear that what he was saying into the phone was also coming out of the radio behind us.....kinda odd! Turns out that he calls into the station, the engineer there patches him into the 'on-air' feed, he says his bit, and that's it! Odd to see in action....



And to cap off our Big Truck Day review, a final picture of NorthernToddler. (Cutest little tyke in the world, ain't he?!)

Random Photos

Today is Big Truck Day! While we're waiting for the event to open, here are some totally random and jumbled pictures.

Below, NB/T enjoys the fact that the 17" of snow from last week is gone and practices his T-Ball swing. (He's so good that we're now calling him 'Hammer' in reference to his batting ability.)(Or maybe just in reference to his tendency to bash anything in sight when he is handed a bat!) Better play deep in the outfield - it'll go that far....


Lump? What lump?

Lest any of our dear readers begin to think that we're abusing poor NB/T, he sustained this injury when he slipped while sprinting into the kitchen (don't stand between this kid and the food when it's dinner time!). He slipped and fell flat onto his melon; and got this nice goose-egg in the process. Strange how a flat section of floor is what causes injury when he's normally climbing dangerous things and jumping out of airplanes (you just wait - he'll do it if we let him!) and engaging in all kinds of risky behavior.

Shortly after calming down from the hit to the head, this is Levi after we told him it was bath time. At first glance, it appears that he is smiling and waving around some drumsticks or something, right? Well, look closer. He's actually holding the knives from his kitchen set and doing his kung-fu/karate routine. He had no intention of going to his bath, and was prepared to defend his position to the death! (Luckily, they are only wooden knives and he's only three feet tall - so the situation was resolved with only minor casualties!)