My typical workout

First, I pull Harrison around the yard in a sled. The two sleds I bought last week for $20 total are perhaps my best Harrison purchase to date. He loves being outside, he loves the snow, and perhaps most of all he loves sledding.


Then, I load up the yard cart and get my heart rate up. I'm talkin' Rocky IV style.

And more pictures

Harrison's first Oreo. Damn did he love it. And boy was it messy.


He's been doing this "I don't know / beats me / no idea" gesture lately. He looks to the left, then to the right, then back to the left, and then holds his hands up like this.




Waving continues to be a favorite. I also got Harrison to chase me around the house yesterday, and he would say bye-bye to everything that I did, including the chair, a plant stand, the floor vent, and Sage's ham steak chew toy.

Attacked by the tickle monster.



Singing.

Gentle giant

We've been taking a lot of pictures lately, so it is my duty to blog. Also because Dad lectured me today about how we need to update the blogs more often.

We feel very lucky that Sage is so gentle around Harrison, and accepting of him. Especially considering she is a 140+ pound carnivore that has probably had thoughts of eating him for a between-meal snack. Her tail has whacked him in the face several times, which brought tears, but nothing major.

She always keeps watch over him.

And she puts up with me always messing with her.

Did you know that a dog's mouth is cleaner than a human's? Actually, that isn't true. I just did the research.

Spinach, cartoons and hugs

Harrison graciously accepted a gift of Popeye spinach from Pops for Valentine's Day.


Luckily for Harrison, I also enjoying watching cartoons.


Harrison will usually sprint to the hugger.

Tricked out stuff

Tricked out wrapping job on Danza's V-day gift. Check out that bow I tied! I misjudged the ribbon and cut it way too short.

Tricked out picture frame.

We're loving the snow.


I spent the past few days calling every conceivable store in Bloomington that might carry snow sleds. Sold out...everywhere. And no more shipments arriving this late in the season. BUT ALAS, ALL HOPE WAS NOT LOST. During lunch today, I decided I better drive by Kleindorfer's Hardware & Variety Store, and sure enough they had several sled options sitting out front! I bought a saucer sled for the future, and a tricked out multicolor superspeed tub sled for TODAY!


Tricked out toddler on the fastest sled in the 'hood.

Back up your junk

Our iMac hard drive crashed and was unrepairable. It's currently in the shop to have a new hard drive installed. Luckily, our 20,000+ pictures and videos were backed up daily to an external hard drive so we don't think we've lost any of them. Yes, we have very itchy shutter-fingers and our iPhoto library has grown at a fanatical rate since Harrison was born.

But a word to the wise...get an external hard drive and back-up software and USE IT. If we hadn't, we would have lost many of our photos from Harrison's first 17 months!

The computer should be back this week. And we'll try to catch up on the blog front.