The Great Escape

This weekend marked another milestone for Jayden...he volunteered to bring home the class pet, Pumpkin the Guinea Pig. I figured this was a harmless little adventure but then again, I've never had a Guinea Pig.

Pumpkin spent the entire ride home trying to escape the confines of her little cage by biting the metal and pulling it. Luckily for me, we made it home without incident.

Friday night she was on her best behavior even though she was banished to the spare bedroom because she was keeping Jayden awake.

Saturday Jayden and Tony took Pumpkin out for a little affection time and fed her a few extra carrots. Jayden was loving every second of his "play date" with Pumpkin.

Sunday morning I was heading downstairs for a drink of water when I decided I should check in on the little fuzzy thing. Just as I get close enough to focus on the cage (I didn't have contacts or glasses on) I realize she's succeeded in her attempt at escape, the front cage door was wide open! I yell for Tony to come help me find her before the cat does. I actually don't know why I worried about our cat, we put a gate up at the door that she surely can't jump without a trip to the vet for a cortisone shot and this is the same cat that if her toy gets batted outside the reach of her paws, she would rather curl up and take a nap than move the two inches to reclaim the toy. After only a few seconds of searching we find Pumpkin in the closet trying to chew her way through our carpet. Only later would I discover that she had actually chewed her way through a few things in the closet.

Today Jayden and I returned Pumpkin to the class and told the teachers about our very fun filled weekend. Without missing a beat, Jayden volunteered to take her home again whenever Miss Shauna needed someone to do so. At least we didn't kill her.

Catching Up!!

2008 is happily upon us and it's left me asking, "Where did 2007 go?". We haven't updated our blog in six months! I guess we'll start 2008 off with the speed readers recap of the 2nd half of 2007...

Summer was great, although it didn't really feel like we got much summer here in the Pacific Northwest. On one of the few nice days we took a day trip to the coast with our friends Laurie and Kira for a little digging in the sand and playing in the ocean.

Summer also brought one big milestone for Jayden, Potty Training. He mastered it just two weeks before his first day of Preschool. (Nothing like making mom sweat whether or not he was going to be able to start preschool.)

Toward the end of summer Tony and I celebrated our 5th Wedding Anniversary and earlier in August we also discovered that we were expecting our second child!

Fall brought all the usual celebrations, Halloween and pumpking "hunting". A Thanksgiving spent at home, nice and peaceful.

We paid extra attention to celebrate our last Christmas as the three of us. We made a trip to the zoo for Zoo Lights (in 30 degree weather!), Christmas Tree "hunting" (Tony actually managed to cut the tree all the way down this year), baking cookies and assembling gingerbread trains.

Don't even ask about New Years. Whatever happened after 9:30pm is a mystery to us.

So now the New Year has begun and we've begun a new year of excitement and joy. Our little boy is due the first week of April, although he will more than likely be born before April Fools Day. Big Brother Jayden has already attended Big Brother class, and loved every minute of it. He's very excited about the new addition and askes each week "Why my baby "brudder" taking so long to be born?" I can't wait to see the two of them together and all the adventures that will surely follow.

We will be sure to keep this blog updated now that we've rounded the crazy holiday season and have an upcoming new addition to celebrate.