New Stuff-2 for me & 3 for Fisher

THANK YOU Katie for posting about Google Reader!!! I love it so much and it has totally changed the way I read my blogs!! For those of you who read lots of blogs (like me), this a valuable time-saving tool!! Check it out!

I took another page from Katie's blog the other day too. She's so inspirational ;). I don't know about you, but this is what the bottom of my pantry looks like. 

I REFUSE to throw away the bags I come home with from the grocery store, so they get stuffed into one another and shoved in the bottom of the pantry until the next trip where they (presumably) will be recycled.  Problem is, I NEVER remember to put the bags in my car on my next trip.  I have now joined the ranks of "one of those people" though. On my last trip to Schnucks, they were running a "10 for $10" deal on their canvas grocery bags.

I have to tell you-it felt good to make that purchase and have my groceries filled into those bags-rather than the plastic ones I knew would just end up in the bottom of my pantry. The trick now will be to make a new routine for myself--as soon as the groceries are unloaded, put the canvas bags BACK in the car so they are ready for the next trip. I just know that I feel better knowing that I will no longer have to face "Attack of the Killer Plastic Bags!" every time I open my pantry.

And now for some new stuff from Fisher...

*His new favorite snack seems to be tomatoes. He is currently on his 2nd WHOLE tomato for his morning snack. I guess it's better than wanting cookies...



*He has moved on from yellow as his favorite color. Before, everything by default was "wewo", but now most things seem to be "geen". I say "most things" because sometimes he actually gets some colors right! When he plays with his cars, he seems to consistently name the black, blue, silver and green cars correctly.

*Fisher loves animals. I can't wait to take him to the zoo for the first time this year. It will be such a new experience for him. One of the new things we like to do is "talk about animals". We do this in the car mostly, but he has gotten so good at it, we do it all the time now for entertainment :). It all started with this book.



He loves to read it-and believe me, we've read it a LOT. Now we can say the alphabet-sans book-and he can tell us EVERY animal A to Z! In this video clip, he has the book, but I do have other proof that he can do it without the book (I just can't find the dang cable to hook the video camera up to the computer).  I also realize that some of his words are only understandable by his parents-but trust me-he's saying the names.

And now for some pics of the last year/this year variety...


  
He still loves Nemo!  These 2 are also from the same JC Penney photo shoot.

Here are Lucas and Fisher...sitting in Oscar's dog kennel.

And here they are on Luke's Cars couch.

And at Grandma's in a basket.
   
This year...he still loves to play the hiding game...with a view from above.

     

These were taken last Sunday when we had the weather in the high 7os-before the 10 inches of snow.  He had fun playing in the backyard.