The Things He Does

We haven't been doing much lately. Seriously. I have been scrapbooking like crazy since my work space got all set up and Rob fixed a window on the side of the garage. Nothing exciting to write about there. We are planning a trip this weekend to Minneapolis and I have Bunco on Friday so things are looking a little more lively in the near future. I thought I'd take the opportunity to share what Rex is up to these days.

Where's Rex?



Peekaboo- There he is!



Obviously, peekaboo is still a big hit. (By the way, I did trim up his hair a little since these pictures were taken a few days ago.) He tells Elmo and Vanna "bye" when they say bye at the end of their shows which cracks me up! I have been trying to get a video of it but have not yet been successful. When Rex is finished eating, he says "done" and he uses hi and bye appropriately and waves when he says either. He can make monkey sounds when you say "Monkey" and he also makes the noises to his favorite stuffed animal, Curious George, without any prompting. He stacks all the rings up on the Fisher Price ring stacker thing and can even get them in the right order sometimes. I'm sure there are plenty more fun things he is doing but I can't think of them all right now and Mr. Sleepyhead finally decided to wake up this morning so I better go get him. We just have the best time with him and he is an outstanding little boy.

And on a completely random side note, I just saw Dennis Quaid on tv and man, did he look bad! I have always thought he was a pretty handsome guy but he's had some work done that didn't seem to go too well. Sometimes it is best to just try and age gracefully instead of fighting it. If you don't believe me, just ask Kenny Rogers.

Take A Picture, It'll Last Longer

I think I have owned most of the scrapbooking supplies shown below for at least four years. There are more too that are not even shown here. I took a lot of pictures on a trip to Europe in 2005 and I came home thinking I would make a beautiful scrapbook of my trip so I bought all the supplies. I knew I would get around to it someday so I have moved all the supplies from my old house to apartment to another apartment and to my house now. And now, I am finally getting around to doing something with them.



The biggest issue for me was getting all my photos printed. And by now, it wasn't just pictures from one trip. It's wedding pictures, Rex pictures, vacation pictures and everything else from the last 4 1/2 years of my life. I didn't want to deal with getting 500+ photos printed because that meant a LOT of uploading to Walgreens website. I had the good sense last week to check on the prices Apple has for printing services (no uploading- just order straight from iPhoto) and they were so cheap! Shipping was only $2.99 and the pictures were delivered two days after I ordered them. The next issue was photo albums. I had a couple but needed more. The local arts/crafts/hobby store had all their scrapbooking supplies on sale for 50% off so I picked up the rest of needed. Final problem- a place to work. Rob solved that one by making a huge work table in our office for me.



As you can see by the plan sets on the table, Rob was the first to use the new desk. But after all his hard work, I'd say he deserved it. I still have to move in and get all my stuff set up but I can't wait to finally get my photo albums put together!