The End of an Era

Here are a few updates for you all to enjoy!

Update #1

On and off for the last 9 years we've had a high chair in our kitchen.  When one baby grew out of it we'd wipe it clean and put it away until the next baby needed it.  That era is over in our home.  The high chair was disinfected and put away for good on Saturday.  Of course we'll be called upon to pull it out from time to time when we have friends, cousins, nieces and nephews visit but our high chair will never be used again by a baby of ours.  As TJ said, "I'm so glad the high chair is out of the kitchen even though its kind of sad."  And then the epiphany for him came and he said, "Its the end of an era honey!"  SAD!

As for Reecey, she feels VERY fancy about her new pink booster seat.

Update #2

My favorite season is Fall into Winter.  Then after Christmas is over I could do without winter and go right into Summer.  Its not really that I hate the winter I just would rather be warm.  Even worse then winter for me, however, is Spring.  I HATE Spring.  Why you ask?  Because one day it looks like this...

(view out my back window on 4/1/09.  Global Warming my BUTT!)

and then 5 days later it looks like this...

(same view out my back window today, 4/6/09)

THAT, my friends, is why I HATE Spring.

Ok, ok.  In all fairness to the season it really is only EARLY Spring that I dislike.  By mid-April/ early-May I feel much better about the season.  The weather has kind of regulated itself, the grass is green, flowers are blooming and there are leaves on the trees!

Update #3 (not really an update, just something interesting)

Speaking of Global Warming here is an interesting article TJ read a few weeks ago in a newspaper.  Some of you have already read it so I apologize for the repetition!

There recently was the death of a 98-year-old lady named Irena Sendler.  During WWII, Irena got permission to work in the Warsaw Ghetto as a Plumbing/Sewer specialist.  She had an ulterior motive...She KNEW what the Nazi's plans were for the Jews, (being German).

Irena smuggled infants out in the bottom of her tool box she carried, and she also carried in the back of her truck a Burlap sack, (for larger kids).  She also had a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto.  The soldiers, of course, wanted nothing to do with the dog, and the barking covered the kids/infant noises.  During her time and course of doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants.

She was caught, an the Nazi's broke both her legs and arms and beat her severely.  Irena kept a reord of the names of all the kids she smuggled out and kept them in a glass jar, buried under a tree in her backyard.

After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived to reunite the family.  Most, of course, had been gassed.  Those kids she helped were placed into foster family homes or adopted.

In 2007 Irena was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize...

She LOST.  Al Gore won for doing a slide show on Global Warming.

UPDATE #4

I think this picture of Reecey is cute so I thought I'd share.  Besides, some of you have been requesting Reece pictures.

UPDATE #5

Natalie is LOVING violin lessons!  Its so fun to hear her improve and she gets so excited when she passes off a scale or song.  Now I hate to brag but as Grandpa Christofferson says, "If it happened it ain't braggin" so here I go...her teacher told me she's so impressed with Natalie's musical ability and that she is catching on really fast!  Good job Nanny!  Keep at it!!!!

ps--I did have a picture of Natalie playing her violin but I just deleted it and don't want to try to put it back up.  Sorry!