Naboo.....Over and Out!

A celebration of life was held in the downstairs bathroom of the Douglass residence for Naboo the fish. Although we only knew Naboo for 9 days, they were a joyous 9 days. Naboo now moves on to be with its previous bowl mates, Darthy and Grevous. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made the Douglass family vacation fund. There are hopes the vacation money could be used to go snorkeling in the Caribbean and see other fish in their natural environment.

I thought the daffodils really made it a special moment!

R.I.P. Darthy and Grevous

Well we are on death watch. Yesterday morning Darthy died and this morning one of the new fish, Grevous, was found dead. We are now down to just Naboo and she ain't looking so healthy. We have moved her into the small tank......not sure if the new big tank has something wrong with it or not.

The boys took it well, we explained everything to them rather than running out and buying replacements. We have agreed once we figure out whats going on we will get some more fish.

Darthy Has Friends

We have had a Goldfish for the past several months living alone in a 2 gallon tank. Boy2 had gotten a tank and gift certificate for his birthday last May, but we never bought the fish until October.........such bad parents. The fish really looked so lonesome over the past few weeks we decided to get some friends and a bigger tank so they could have more space.

Boy1 and Boy2 are very happy to have more fish, but its Carey and I who just sit in front of tank watching them.......we are probably just reminiscing of all the times we got to go snorkeling during our cruises before Boy1 and Boy2 came along.

Truly Hard Headed

There is no question about it, Boy 2 is hard headed. It is his way or no way. He is independent and will not allow anyone to help him (well unless he is just being lazy). But last night it was taken to a whole new level........a different kind of hardheadedness.

The boys always like to bring their bean bags down from their rooms when we watch movies. Boy 2 threw his to the bottom of the stairs and decided to jump onto it from the 3rd from last step. We of course he went head first. This picture shows the drywall following a collision with Boy 2's head. He was perfectly fine and only ran away because he knew he had been told numerous times to not "play-around" on the stairs.

So Damn Cute

Boy 2 wanted to wear his Sea Dogs hat to bed the other night. We thought nothing of it, expecting to come up when we went to bed and find it on the bed or floor somewhere. Nope, it was right on his mellon and he was fast asleep. I called for Carey to come check this out!

He's so damn cute!

Christmas 2011

On top of putting out cookies and milk for Santa, we also went outside to sprinkle "Reindeer" food we got from our visit to Santa's barn at Beans. The second picture would be much funnier as a video. Boy 2 was yelling into the sky to the Reindeer their "food was ready!"

They had to wait at the top of the stairs until everyone was ready to go down stairs. I keep telling myself these are fake smiles, but they could be taken as rabid dogs ready to attack.

I am the champion.........Santa put bubble bath in my stocking!

Umm.......nobody saw me shove a Christmas Tree Peep in my mouth at 7:20 a.m.

Boy 1 and Boy 2 got a bath kit. Yep.........the man grooming has begun during bath time

Boy 2, Santa must have seen how much you really wanted Lotso-Huggin-Bear when you were at Mickey's House. (It really smells like strawberries like they say in Toy Story 3)

And the big gift was a Wii for the whole family. Boy 1 got Super Mario which has turned into a big hit. Everyone is kinda addicted to the game. Carey and I have been playing just about every night when the boys go to bed.

Lead-Up to Christmas

A couple of things we did this year leading up to Christmas was visit Santa's Barn Yard at LL Beans. Carey's mom works there and Beans does something like this every year. It is only open to employees and their families. They have employees who dress-up as different rolls at different stations and the kids walk through doing different activities. They run it for about 8 hours, in half-hour blocks. I think, she said they had around 4,000 people go through!

Making an ornament and being spun for pin the nose on Rudolph!



Giving the list to Santa

And of course we went and got our Christmas Tree. We found this tree farm in Dresden and decided to give it a try. Well as you will see in the pictures the pickings were very slim. This year was his last year in business so finding a great tree was tough......I mean impossible. Once you have the kids there you really can't pack them up and say we are going somewhere else without a melt down. They don't really care if the tree has a bald spot or not, they love it once its decorated no matter what.

They had a good time being pulled and pulling each other through the field. The toughest part was we had to go to the furthest part of the field for any trees and that means they had to walk the whole way back because the tree was on the cart.