Delaying Action

While the residents of Michael Delving wait for the arrival of the newest hobbit, his siblings are staying busy with important military operations.

Boookie the Special Forces paratrooper, sporting the green beret handed down from father to son for three generations. 

 Taking careful sniper's aim at the enemy.

Baby Bump

Seimi came in from playing outside, ran up to the Hobbit Wife and kissed her knee as she was sitting cross-legged, saying "Hi," then ran back outside.  Apparently he thinks any protrusions from the main Mommie body are his baby brother.

Feet!

Ela's fabulous "Equestria Girls" boots

 Seimi's hobbit feet

Daffodil Engagement Redux

Today marks the 11-year Engage-Aversary for the Hobbit Wife and the Mayor.  It also happens to be Maundy Thursday again (the day of the original engagement).  In honor of this auspicious conjunction (which won't happen again until 2025, then 2087, then 2098), we present Daffodil Engagement Redux:

The innocent, unmarred daffodils

 The Hobbit Wife taping googly eyes on the poor flowers

 The Hobbit Wife looking beautiful as she vandalizes the flowers

 Googlyed daffodils

 Googlyed daffodils

 Googlyed daffodils

 Googlyed Mayor

 Kissy Hobbit Wife

 The Mayor and Hobbit Wife shortly after the proposal

 The ring

Mystery Solved!

Seimi has been getting sick just about every week, but the sickness hasn't spread to siblings.  The mystery was solved today when the Hobbit Wife caught him sucking on the handle of the grocery cart.  Apparently he decided that's a "thing."  He is currently undergoing training in a hygiene reeducation camp.

Mirror, Mirror

Ela got a mirror on Saturday.  As we were heading to the van, Boookie pointed out the name of the mirror and announced, "Hey - Ung Drill, forged from the shards of Mommie's mirror!"

The torch has been successfully passed on to the next generation.

The Bunker

"The Bunker" got its official sign today, along with the first of what will likely be many danger signs posted on the door.  Cutie Kittie (secret identity General Schwartzkat) has been training for airborne assault with his genuine military surplus parachute.  One more jump and he gets his wings.

And here is Cutie Kittie after his fifth successful jump, posing with the hobbitlings.  Teensy meerkat uniform paratrooper wings were backordered at the military surplus store.

Getting Ready

The residents of Michael Delving have been excitedly getting ready for the arrival of Baby Boy, who is allegedly arriving on or about May 2.

 Birthing supplies are all acquired, washed and ready to go...

 The changing table is all stocked up...

 The baby boy clothes are all washed and folded...

The upstairs room has been completely redone.  Below is the room seven years ago.

With the reconfiguration, it is now mostly Ela's bedroom (with one wall painted baby blue.) We're trying out the title of "The Bower" for this room.

Ela is delighted as she begins to comprehend what it means to be the only girl.  She'll have to share with Baby Boy for a few years, but all this is her space.  Space of her very own is one thing that she's never experienced.

The downstairs playroom has been reconfigured as well into "The Bunker."  There are a few more details to take care of, but it's going to be a military-ish room that positively reeks of dude in fairly short order.  The Hobbit Wife has promised Navy-style room inspections to maintain order for the downstairs troops.

Boookie spends a lot of time practicing his trigger finger, and he's always wearing a camouflage something.

That crazed look in Seimi's eyes?  He's loads of fun, but that look is likely to show up with increasing frequency as he's displaced from the baby to the "Medium-Size Boy."