hump day nuggets: little bits of the season in photos and words about the last week
This time of year in Montana everyone talks about staying in and getting out. It’s how our time is spent: staying in with footie jammies, warm beverages, slow cooking and reading followed by getting out with puffy coats, red noses, exploring and playing followed by staying in etc.
It all happens at the pace of snow falling.
:: Weekend walks are a cornerstone of our family. We ditch the cell phones and if we wore watches we’d ditch those too. Margot and Alice set the pace so there many many stops to sniff and count.
And we usually walk in a zigzag pattern across our neighborhood streets.
Andy and I follow, Ruby snug against a body.
:: Sometimes I get a glimpse of Margot as a teenager.
:: I realize I have been talking about cookies a lot lately. Margot didn’t have a lick of sugar until she was one and now she eats cookies several times a week. How many cookies does a normal family eat? I think we eat A LOT of cookies in our house.
:: I know I keep saying this and apologize for my redundancy but her eyes.
:: She fell out of love with him and is now back and head over heels for elmo.
:: Um, that’s an outty.
:: Margot asks all the time to hold Ruby (she has moved on from sister born and now calls her Rubes). Mama, I want to hold her. Hold Rubes please.
:: I haven’t updated my etsy shop in a while…my stuff has actually been selling like mad and it has been hard for me to keep up. I am very grateful for all of the support out there and plan to grow the items I offer this year! I just dropped an armload off at Blackbird Kid Shop and have a few more items in my shop. I will add Montana tees, kid skirts and gauchos soon.
:: Margot and Ruby at 10 weeks.
:: Oh how I wish Margot would wear pigtails. She asks for them many times a day and I always get my hopes up. But, for her, the fun is in the removing what she calls little bracelets.
:: Ruby is so so smiley now. My camera is always on the wrong setting and my photos out of focus because I can’t bare to be looking through my lens instead of into her eyes.
:: We’ve been a bit crispy the last few weeks because Ruby has some congestion and I swear I am a total mucus/respiration rate nut job anymore, waking many times in the night to count breaths and squirt saline up her tiny nostrils. I finally took her into her doc just to be sure nothing had moved to her lungs and sure enough, thankfully, she is fine. And, not only fine but thriving. When we left the hospital, on her three week birthday, peanut was at her birth weight of six and half pounds. Seven weeks later, she has gained three and a half pounds. I am not surprised as she has rarely left the boob since mid-December. Yay for our 10 pounder!
:: I so remember snow stuck to my mittens as a kid. A really great memory of cool, pink cheeks, believing snow was magic and lots of laughter followed by hot chocolate to warm hands and bellies.
You have some favorite childhood winter memories out there?
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That settles it I need to see the kids soon. Margot save gramma a cookie, Rubes save me a smile. Its great to see Margot Bea wearing gramma’s shawl. I see you have a new model Nici. She looks a bit more cooperative than Margot Bea did in the Aida skirt shot. The kiids look great I hope Mama and Papa are doing just as well. Love you all
OK – despite a fairly good grasp of the English lexicon I am, alas, at a loss to find the most perfect word to describe the absolute ADORABLENESS of each and every one of these snaps. As usual, Joan & I are on the exact same page about your newest model – really had to giggle as I thought “Oh good, Ole has at least one year now of a compliant model for her fabulous things” – then laughed again when I saw that Joan had the same thought. Pretty soon you’re gonna have to register Margot’s and Ruby’s smiles as lethal weapons though – too gorgeous!
I was just talking to my husband this morning about snowfall at dusk, with the white competing for the indigo in the sky.
But, seeing these pics I am thrown back to being a child in upstate NY, with large snowfalls and piled up hills leading to rooftops. Made a great landing pad when jumping off said rooftops. Although I also remember having to leave my boots behind stuck in the snow and padding back to the house in my sock feet and snowsuit… š
So great to read about your snowy adventures and boobs and being 10 lbs now (!!) and Elmo and Alice and sniffing and beautiful babe eyes when I’m shuffling between aggravating meetings.
Thanks for centering me.
Now, didn’t you mention a trip to Red Lodge some time soon? Otherwise, I might have to load my lazy bones into the car with Joan for a visit. It’s plum ridiculous I haven’t met Ruby yet.
I did like the video. I had to smile at that.
I love the idea of the Longhorn applique, too. I bet that one flies off the shelves.
Smooches to all of youse.
I LOVE how Margot always looks like she just came in from working in the yard. In a lot of the pictures she has dirty hands, some bruises on her legs, etc. That girl looks like she is getting some stuff accomplished!! As someone who works in landscaping I know what constant dirt under the fingernails is like. You just don’t care or bother to remove it after a while.
Joan and Pam: ha, yes, she is immobile for a while!
Books: I love your memory. How long did it take you to find your boots?
Jean: I did mention RL soon but it keeps getting pushed back…maybe early March?
Finny: I agree it’s always nice to check in on blogs in between annoying meetings! Especially when people interrupt all the time with ‘just real quick…’ heh
Ann: Ah yes. Margot ALWAYS has marker on her hands and bruises on her knees. She definitely does get stuff done!
Nici, Margot & Rubesā¦.this one will be to all three of you because, as per your request Burb, I am recalling favorite childhood winter memoriesā¦.
I loved to play in the snow, still do. I so look forward to cutting our Christmas tree/treat, we still do and there is added pleasure when there is snow on the ground. I have fond memories of making a huge snow fort in about 3rd grade with Jill & Ursula. Always had time for snow angels, remembering I always hated to walk in the snow to make one. I wanted to make the perfect angel with no foot printsā¦.if only āsomethingā could have dropped me in the untouched snow and picked me up again leaving just the snow angel behindā¦.never did accomplish that. Catching big snowflakes on my tongueā¦. snowmen, loved them! We used to take our sleds over to āthe hillā, which is also known as Fairviews in Missoula. We, (sisters, brother and I), would get going so fast sometimes ending on Pattee Creek Driveā¦.not sure my mom would have approved. Tobogganing, my brothers Dick & Skip and I almost killed ourselves on oneā¦Uncle Dick ended up in the emergency room, Uncle Skip and I bailed off before we went into the barbed wire fence. My Uncle Ed had a sleigh and he would pull us on sleds behind itā¦.I remember the bells on the horse harnesses, that was magicā¦..ice skating, it was not my forteā¦but I tried. Praying that the predicted snowstorm would be a whopper and have a school closureā¦it happened, I was going to Lewis & Clark grade school at the time. Tubing on hills and being pulled behind cars, (what were my parents thinking?!!),ā¦.I got kicked out of Snow Bowl when friends and I got busted for going down the Spartan Headwall on inner tubesā¦.not sure my mom would have approved of that one eitherā¦..but greatest winter love of all, yup you guessed itā¦SKIING!
Now about these photosā¦
Margot ~ you are a doll! I am glad to see that Elmo & you are BFFs again! AND I agree one cannot have too many cookies, you wear them well. Mostly I love how you love your baby sisterā¦melts my heartā¦..Please wear pigtails more often. I love you a bushel and a peck.
Ruby, Ruby, Ruby your name just rolls off my tongue! You are all smiles now, the perfect etsy modelā¦all too soon you and your big sis will be making snow angels of your ownā¦you are my sunshine!
Love to you all!
xoxo, Mom/Grammy~Gram
I hear you about the cookies. Theo had his first sugar for his first birthday and he hucked it to the ground, wanting goat cheese and crackers so much more. Fast Forward 2 and 3/4 years and we’re now a crazy cookie, muffin, quick bread bakin’ fam. I love it! Oh, and he traded goat cheese for feta, but that’s a whole different story.
Love the longhorn garb. Theo is known to walk around here saying “Hook ‘Em” on a regular basis. His love for the horns comes more from Texas, though. Blasphemy, I know!
Oh, and I grew up in Florida. I thought it sucked that we couldn’t swim December thru February..that’s my winter memory.
xoxo~k
ps..by the way, ‘hucked’ is just a katie word š
all that snow! It blows my mind. We had to go up to Tahoe for snow, and I fell in love with my first ski instructor. I was four. He skied backwards. You see?
Your girls are so delicious. Avi had that super outie, too. Umbilitis? It went away . . .
Oh, the stress of the mocos and germs and respiratory rates. Glad she is doing so well and chubbing up so nicely. Of course she is!
And I hear you on the cookies. We were the same way about sugar and now Avi is such a cookie monster. Chocolate chip cookies, please, Mommy? is an oft heard phrase. Then I bribed him with a Trader Joe’s cat cookie. And he picks out all the chocolate chips from the trail mix. Sigh.
having the craziest, stupidest work day but yoga at the end of it is my light, as was this post. yay!
Looking forward to visiting your etsy shop soon . . . xo
Ooh winter memories! I grew up in Maine (yessah, I’m a Mainah) so we had plenty of snow in the winter and fantastic sledding hill in our back yard…perfect combination! My dad was a state trooper so sometimes when he’d get home from his shift in the evening, we would be treated to the ever popular “night sledding.” He’d pull a few flares out from the trunk of his cruiser, stick them in the tree trunks that lined one side of the hill, make a jump or two and we’d sled for hours in the dark! A great way for him to bond with my brother and me after being at work all day!
So glad you’re creating wonderful memories for your girls, they will undoubtedly reflect fondly on them for the rest of their lives:) And, you can never have too many cookies.
our little guy is asleep on a bed of lights right now. darn jaundice … and he managed to gain 5 ounces. overnight. apparently i’m all about the whole milk.
we are busy making fun memories now. our kitty-corner backyard neighbor built a sled path that runs from his porch (you have to use a ladder to get on your sled) and curves through the neighbors backyard and runs directly through to the other side of our backyard. so. much. fun. fast. and i’m planning on making my first run tonight. (much more fun after the sun goes down!) – one week post-baby is long enough to wait!
When I think of winter as a kid I remember how dad used to hook our sled up to the back bumper of the chevy with a rope and drive around the block with us dragging behind. don’t think you could get away with that these days. It was always interesting when he put on the breaks – My first intro to the under parts of a vehicle.
He also flooded the back yard one year so we could ice skate. Fun, fun
can’t sleep. so happy i stopped by.
OMgoodness, ruby is breathtaking. seriously, her eyes, your so right. her laughing pics…feel like i can hear her. your pics are so real!
and bug holding ‘rubes’ and ‘little bracelets.’ love.
and when you look at bug and sometimes see her as a teenager…glad you said that. i think peyton has skipped ages 5-12i’m not really into it so i’m hoping the 5 year old returns again soon:)
enjoy the snow. it really is beautiful.
xo
Sisters are the best! I love your beautiful pictures. I remember as a kid digging a snow tunnel and sitting in there all afternoon feeling all snug and cozy. Then hot chocolate.
:)Lisa
I grew up in the Silicon Valley as a kid so there aren’t really any winter-related memories – too bad for me. My husband, however, grew up in Utah and has tons of winter stories to share with me so that’ll have to be good, I suppose.
My sister-in-law’s name is Ruby and we call her Rubes too. I love it, such a pretty name.
Your week in pictures is so much fun. When I need a good dose of girly cuteness I come here! (I’m outnumbered by boys at my home.)
Thanks again for sharing your week.
When I was 11 or 12, a huuuuuge blizzard struck the midwest. Snow drifts as high as our garage. No electricity for about three days. We all piled in the same bed to keep warm: four kids, two adults. We STILL talk about that storm, and all the fun we had digging tunnels and forts as kids.
love those winter pics! miss you guys so. and now i want a cookie…
The nuggets make me so happy.
At 1:54 in the morning.
Ruby’s eyes…oh, heaven.
And love her outie.
“Miss” you. :o)
That little miss Ruby seems to be getting so big, right before my eyes!
My fondest winter memories? Jumping off the top of the swingset (jungle gym) into the snow drifts, playing outside for what seemed like hours, although I’m sure it was much shorter than that :), snow days with no school. I remember having a lot of them – my kids might get one a winter! I really enjoy the snow, the hubby? He’s ready to move someplace where it doesn’t snow.
Happy, happy birthday!
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