Look what's been flying around our house...

We installed a wood burning stove over the summer last year...birds keep flying down the chimney! It happened a few weeks ago too...we heard chirping and it took us FOREVER to figure out where it was coming from. This time I knew right away! Plus, it might have helped that, Chocolate was yapping at the doors of the stove... When I opened the doors the bird flew up and hid for a few minutes until I walked away and pretended to ignore it. Then it flew like mad around the house, and crashed into several windows, as it tried to regain it's freedom. Finally, it found one of the MANY doors I had left open. The bird caused a bit of commotion as I may have been yelling shrilly while trying to contain both the dog and the cat while the bird flew around. A-hem. Anyway, the dog, cat and I all ended up in a pile on the floor by the time Shane came in to see what all the yelling was about.

1st Mariners Game...this season

We made it to our first M's game of the season last weekend to celebrate our friend Brian's graduation from law school. Congratulations Brian! We bought the obligatory "family pack" of licorice, peanuts and cracker jacks on our way into the game. Dinner done. Which, is so gross and hard for me to admit. But, that's the way we roll...

Introducing...A NEPHEW!

T was fascinated with his tiny little newborn ears. She kept telling me to "look how tiny his ears are!" In an excited whisper.

Yep, we finally have a BOY nephew in the family.

Let me just pause and say that we do have TWO boy great-nephews (shout out to Brayden and (little) Shane). But this is the first, and quite possibly only, boy we have in the family.

Welcome to your crazy family Scotty Dean.

Let me clarify, by saying that, I think we are probably the most crazy branch of the family tree. You, will probably have a totally normal, non-crazy life with your branch of the family. Uh, huh...

We are all very excited and already planning all of the boy things we should buy for him. We drove down Saturday morning after he was born on Friday. I was very exicited for this because, well, let's just say I have a thing for newborns. I could barely contain myself. And because there were so many other youngsters (Scotty's big sisters) distracting the other adults I was able to steal Scott and hold him for a good hour with NO interuptions. I thought a couple of times that I should check with his Mom or Dad to make sure they didn't want him back. Then the competitiveness in me kicked in and I thought, "You snooze you loose. Let's see you get out of that bed and get him back. Not gonna happen." Now, as my sister-in-law had just GIVEN BIRTH this probably wasn't the most gracious of thoughts. But, that's the way it went down. I only relinquished my hold on the poor little guy (who is probably going to remember my scent and cry every time I come around in the near future) when my brother-in-law (Scotty's Dad) wanted to say bye before he took the big sisters home for a nap.

More pictures of to come... Shane thinks that newborn babies do not really like it when a flash goes off right in their face. Whatever, Shane. That boy will be glad to have such cute pictures when he is an adult. So, my pictures of just Scotty Dean will have to be taken on the down low when we visit next time.