new shoes, same feet

A new blog? No, just an old blogger at a new URL. Same boring commentary, same great typos. I am sad to leave my old content but this new address will not need to be password protected which is swell. Give me some time to get all the formatting and design elements in order. For now, this is all I have.

Nothing, just playing Mind Petters alone in the basement

My dad loves me

Jake has completed two weeks of being gluten-free yet he is still in the depression phase of lamenting what he can not have, a matter not improved when his nutritionist gave him copies of Living Without, a sadly named magazine for the GI impaired. She actually wants him to try the FODMAP diet which would make us all suicidal, so we are praying going gluten-free does the trick since we can not "live without" all of the restrictions on the FODMAP . Anyway, he is surviving and bought out the GF section at the market trying to find way to live normally without that annoying wheat gluten.

re-enactment of gluten exposure

why yes, she did eat this whole tub of snow

My momsie was here this weekend to do flowers for a wedding. I took her out on a lady date to the Cheeky Monkey Friday night. We stayed out until 7:15 p.m.!!! Go us! On Saturday, our birth father, Paul, visited for a few hours before he met his blind date. Saturday night we went to Tracy's for Great Grandma Dorothy's Spaghetti & Meatballs. It was nice to spend some time with my family, especially after all that has happened the past few months. Thank you all for the support and help with the kids!

flower ladies take over my dining room

I grew these

my BFF, Hollister

Pito Wito dressed as Snow White

Papa getting some action

Belle & Belle

the sauce in the sacred pot

more food Jake can't have

My daughters are thriving, full of love and funny moments. Henny is talking in sentences and the cutest thing she does is say her full name name in baby talk  "Henny Cate Theltz".  She loves the color "pinky" and can count to two. Nori's vocabulary is as big as ever (someone's should be) and she is excited for our first kindergarten event this week, a potluck and meet & greet.

napping in Gramsie's robe

ready to play

In decorating news, Jake & Andy moved our furniture downstairs to create a real family room in our new basement! It is exciting to actually be down there now. Of course, that means we had to order new stuff for upstairs so we are in the midst of a few weeks of painting and redecorating which is really fun. Our empty living room has now turned in to temporary ballet studio for two ballerinas (Jake & Andy) to practice in.