I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas

Happy 5-Month Birthday to Dutch!

My favorite Christmas song, for those of you who want to know, is "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas." It makes me laugh and smile and I like to sing along really loud when it comes on the radio. Chris tolerates this remarkably and even downloaded the song so I could play it on my ipod.

Anyway, this got me to thinking about Dutch's stuffed animals. He has a lot of weird ones. He has a groundhog (we do live in Pennsylvania), a manatee, a platypus, and his favorite is his lion. He doesn't have a hippo though. That seems very sad to me because when I sing my Christmas song he has no idea what a hippopotamus is and that must make the song very confusing.

He always makes a face like he's confused, and I know it can't be my singing. Right?

Funny Mr. Bo-Bo

Okay so last night I did something that I am paying for today--I lost track of the time writing. At 2am I looked at the clock and yipped. Then I hurried to finish the scene I was working on and was under the covers by 2:30. Dutchie woke up at 6:30, but was asleep again by about 7. Then he woke up for good at about 9 and I put him in his boppy next to me on the bed and tried to convince him to go back to sleep. Here's the funny part:

Bo doesn't like things covering him up usually. He gets really annoyed when Chris throws the blankets over him, gets up, turns around 3 times and lays back down. I don't know what was going on with him this morning but he stuck his paws and his head under the blankets to get to sleep. Just his paws and head. I noticed it when he started snoring. I went to grab the camera but, of course, Bo heard me and thought, "Someone's walking around? Quick! I must follow them!" So I didn't get a picture of it. Reading this back it's probably one of those you-had-to-be-there type of things, but I don't care. I'm posting it anyway.

Happy Thanksgiving

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A Look at the Camera

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A List for Tuesday

Five Things You Might Not Know About Dutch

1. Winking makes him laugh (especially if you wink one eye at a time really fast)
2. He sleeps with his arm splayed out to the sides
3. He has now mastered the back to belly roll, even though YESTERDAY was the first time he had done it!
4. He doesn't understand why I try to feed him rice cereal when formula is so much faster
5. He "talks" ALL THE TIME! I had to take him out of Sunday School because he was being so loud, almost had to take him out of the movie at the museum, and 9 times out of 10 I wake up to him babbling to himself instead of crying. Very vocal baby!

Don't miss the video of him below (and thanks to Morgan who inadvertently led me to the perfect place to put my videos)

Rock'em Sock'em Robots

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Happy Birthday Heidi!

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