This is what a little boy looks like when he's been sick since 5 a.m. And this is how he looks at his mother taking his picture when he's sick.

He is not amused about me playing with the settings on my camera and using him for my model. He ran back to the bathroom shortly after. I know, bad Mommy.

Random Musings

So, it is too frickin' cold and snowy here and we are all getting cabin fever and are in desperate need of a tropical vacation. In lieu of that, I will instead post some random photos and try and occupy my muddled mind.

Here are Puddy and Soady trying to soak up what sun they can find. They truly do love each other and often lay next to each other - although when you come upon them together, they look at you like you've caught them. I don't think they like anyone to know that they love each other. Especially Soady.

Here is Mark and his girlfriend Sarah. He is truly smitten with her. She's only about 19 years older than him so he will be perfect Cougar Bait material in about 20 years. Sarah's boyfriend has been fore-warned. Mark decided he wanted to bake a cake so Ken helped him and this is the result. It had to be a chocolate cake with pink icing. We don't know why so don't ask. It turned out well and Ken did a good job decorating it. And although Soady seems ready to pounce on the cake, she never actually got any.

Batman stopped by the house the other day. He wore his hot rocker t-shirt too. He is so cool.

I love this picture b/c "Batman's" eyes are dreamy, but I can't help but look at it and think "I need a new counter top."

Rock Star

Here's my rock star.

Xmas and Hockey Night in the MC

O.K. - hold on to your hats, there are a lot of pictures here!

First, here is Puddy, just because he's cute. This is taken with the old camera so we will see if there is a big difference when the new camera pictures come in.

Here is the tree and fireplace, again, with the old camera. Here is Mark after Santa came. I was surprised he kept away from the presents long enough to let me take this picture.

This is the first picture I took with the new camera. We went from 2MP to 10MP. Plus it has all the features - like this picture is taken with the "portrait" setting. I like it. Mark is charging his Nintendo DS. One happy boy.

Here is Mark playing with the Mario Cart Wii game. Fun for everyone.

Mark giving the thumbs-up on the earphones with his DS. This was taken with the "wide screen" feature on the camera. Thumbs-up from me too.

Here is Soady using the "kids and pets" feature. Funny how they lumped those two categories together to make it one . . . I'm just saying.

OK, so I wanted to update on the neighbor's house but didn't want to seem too much like a Looky-Loo with the camera so I was trying to be inconspicuous by taking this shot from my car! HA!

Two weeks is a long time to be off from school so in the hopes of keeping Mark happy and busy, we went to the movies and say Marley and Me (sniff sniff) and took Mark to the play area in the mall afterward.

Last night we went to sister-in-law Sandy's house. They are a hockey family and have a homemade hockey rink in their back yard. Here is Mark outside in the cold. You will see later why he is not on the ice.

Here is the homemade rink. Yeah, it has lights, and boards. I told you they were hockey people!

Here are the brave, hearty men outside by the fire. It is cold and windy at night in January in Michigan. They are so tough aren't they?

This is where the smarter people are, in the garage turned locker room. They are watching the Wings beat up on the Blackhawks on their outdoor rink. Go Wings!!

Here is the rink in action.

And here is Xmas Day in action.