Knowing Adrianna’s love of drawing pictures, we decided to buy her a whiteboard last night. Greg opened it for her today and she is already making some great art with it.

The people in this picture started out as Jesus, Adrianna and me “when I was little”. The one with the duck on His head is Jesus.

Greg asked her where he [Greg] was in the picture. So then the man with the duck on his head became Daddy.
Greg asked, “I thought that was Jesus?”
She responded, “No, that is you. I was just pretending that it was Jesus.”
Greg came back with, “What if the duck poops on my head?”
Adrianna replied, “It’s just a picture, and pictures don’t poop.”

I just love the blue duck in the nest in the tree, along with its five legs. Her pictures always make me smile.

Another thing that really makes me smile is how often Greg, myself, and Bree are included in her artwork.

Bree is starting to give us little smiles. They are very quick, but each one is met with much exclamation and excitement on our part. Greg captured a sweet little moment between Bree and Adrianna this morning.

I have had a hard time blogging lately, whether it be to a lack of time or motivation or both. Or maybe it is because I often have a baby on my lap (since she prefers to sleep there to anywhere else), making it difficult to type.

But for those of you who are anxious for more pictures of our little Breezy, I recently updated our Flickr account with lots of photos from January. I generally try to upload the previous month’s worth of photos around the beginning of the next month. Or more often if I am ambitious, although that hasn’t been the case recently. The link to our Flickr albums is http://www.flickr.com/photos/noreimerreason/.

One bonus to posting pics there is that they are available at a high resolution size should anyone want to download and print, whereas anything posted to the blog is resized to a low resolution for fast loading which makes them so they aren’t great quality for printing out.

To download a high resolution photo on Flickr:

1. Click on the photo you want
2. You will be brought to that photo’s page. Click on the magnifying glass above the photo for “All Sizes”
3. You will be brought to a larger sized photo. I think the default is “Large”. However, there is one even better resolution than that, called “Original”. If you want to download and/or print, I highly recommend clicking on “Original”.
4. Click on “Download the Original Size” and save to your computer

I will try to get some more regular blog posts going soon…

Adrianna is getting much more confident in her ability to play Super Mario Bros. on the Wii. Instead of always bubbling up, she now moves her character around and jumps on goombas. Her desire to play the game has also increased, so much so that we are already having to set limits.

Adrianna and I played for awhile after school, pausing to take a break for dinner at Red Lobster. While we were eating, she let out a sigh and said, “I wish I was playing Super Mario Bros. RIGHT NOW.”

Last night I got up to change Bree’s diaper (as we do a couple times every night), which generally makes her cry. As I was diapering her up, I heard a half-awake and desperate voice pipe up from the other side of the room, “Find the Paci…FAST!”

Greg and I got a chuckle out of it and reminded Adrianna that she could sleep in the quiet of her own room if she wanted too, but she told us that she’d rather be with us.

When it comes down to it, I really enjoy having the whole family in our room at night too.

This morning while Adrianna was in the shower, she asked me if people could sleep in the shower. I said you should never sleep in water because you could drown. She must have misheard me because later when she excitedly told Greg that she had just taken her first shower, she exclaimed, “And I didn’t even get brown!”

Tonight as we were driving on the interstate, she saw some radio towers with blinking lights on them. Even though she and I had discussed their purpose before, she asked me again what the lights were for. I told her that the lights were so that airplanes could see the towers in the dark to avoid flying into them. Adrianna then confidentally followed that with, “And so they don’t get a rash!” When Greg and I expressed confusion over what she meant by that, she looked to me and said that I had told her about the rash before. We then realized that she meant “crash”.

Before Bree came along, Adrianna only occasionally would play with baby dolls. Lately though, they have been receiving a lot of extra attention and sometimes they have even been joining Teddy Bear at bedtime. Perhaps because Bree also snoozes with us during nighttime feedings?

Don’t you just love her kitty ears that she is wearing?

Now that Bree’s umbilical cord is gone, we were able to give her a real bath tonight. She wasn’t too crazy about it.

Also, be sure to check out the previous post – I updated it tonight to include pictures.

Bree is three weeks old as of yesterday. Just a couple days ago, Greg mentioned that she is already starting to look like a different baby. Her cheeks are getting chubbier and she even is developing a little double chin. The 0-3 month clothes now fit without making her look like she is swimming in them. I guess we shouldn’t be surprised that she is putting on weight considering the amount of time I spend in our glider chair just feeding her.

We were very thrilled when her umbilical cord finally fell off this evening.

Updated on 1/14/09 to add pictures at Aunt Kristi’s request.

We recently purchased the new Super Mario Bros. game for the Wii. If you haven’t played it, it is a lot of fun and allows for four players to play at one time. Another feature of the game is that when your character “dies” on the game you come back to that level in a bubble. Or, for parts of the game that are difficult to navigate through, players can choose to put their character in a bubble and float through while the other players beat that portion.

Shad and Lynette and their exchange student, Yana, spent the weekend with us and we all enjoyed playing. Adrianna wanted to play too. She did her best to try to move and jump her character, but it will be a while before she is really ready for this game. But she was more than happy to place her character into a bubble and just float through most of the levels. It was somehow really cute seeing her be so serious about “playing” and seeing her character float along on the screen.

On Sunday, January 3rd, my 3 year old nephew’s appendix burst. After a long day at the ER in their smallish town (the doctors originally thought he was just having a bladder infection), he finally got a CAT scan. When the doctors there realized what had happened, they rushed him via ambulance to the Denver Children’s hospital. (They were going to do Life Flight but the weather there was too bad.)

I went to visit Aidan, Cindy, and Kendall in the hospital late that night. They wheeled him into surgery while I was there sometime around midnight. For more details about their ordeal, you can read Cindy’s blog.

On Tuesday, my parents picked Layla up from Nikki’s house (a friend of Cindy and Kendall’s) and brought her here to Denver to stay with us. This way, Layla could be closer to Cindy and Kendall and Nikki could also go back to work. We were glad to watch her and Adrianna was very glad to have her playmate back. The girls play really good together most of the time. We did have to play referee a bit, but most of their time together was spent in imaginative play and dress-up clothes. Layla stayed with us from Tuesday through Saturday. It was fun (and hectic) having three little girls to take care of.

And a video of the girls dancing to Lady Gaga.