Another March Update

Last week, the hobbits of Michael Delving celebrated St. Patrick's Day. The Ela hobblitling and the Hobbit Wife got their nails painted orange to celebrate the day.

The Ela hobbitling walked around for days afterward showing off her hands and saying, "See? Is so pity!"

Last Friday was the fifth anniversary for the Mayor and the Hobbit Wife. They have made big plans to take a trip this summer, so the event was kept low-key. The whole family went down to ride the South Lake Union Streetcar (not to be confused with the South Lake Union Trolley). A fun time was had by all, but especially the Boookie, who loved riding the train down to Westlake Center, where he got to eat pizza and watch the monorail. As a special anniversary gift, knowing full well that the fifth anniversary is Wood, the Mayor went ahead and bought the Hobbit Wife...Metal. The picture below shows the bottom element of the Hobbit Wife's oven earlier in the week. The Mayor had awoken to discover bright orange flames filling the oven. Apparently, the oven element had burned through - did anyone know that oven elements could burn? The Hobbit Wife has assured the Mayor that his gift of Metal is entirely appropriate for the Wood anniversary.
Speaking of wood, on Saturday the Mayor built himself a cart for under-the-stairs storage. One doesn't attend Crosspoint Church for this long without learning all about carts!

The Ides of March

Michael Delving has seen more fun and relaxing lately, giving the residents time to do important things like making Duplo space helmets, ...
...putting olives on our fingers, ...
... and wearing our hair in very small ponytails!
The Mayor spent all day Saturday building his workbench and pegboard. This is the Mayor's very first work area that is his very own. He keeps disappearing to the basement for undefined errands, just to go stand in the shop.
The Mayor now has a place to hang his sword and shield from Afghanistan. He received an iPod dock from his company as a 5-year anniversary gift, and is enjoying filling his space with his music.

1Q 2009

Here are highlights from the last months at Michael Delving. Let's see - in December we had Christmas...
The hobbits got presents like a baby doll from Auntie...
Legos from Grampz and Grammy...
Automoblox from Uncle Matty...
Earlier this year, Auntie moved out of the basement, which means that the hobbits now get their own huge playroom!
GranDma and Apu gave the hobbits a tent/tepee/tunnels playset for the new playroom!
With the extra space in the basement, the Mayor decided he could finally fulfill a lifelong dream to have his own shop area, which started out looking like this:
The Mayor enlisted Boookie's assistance for painting.
What was the Mayor thinking? The shop is now painted from floor to ceiling in "Man Cave Gray," and is waiting for the Mayor to build his workbench.
For the Mayor's birthday, he got a 2-person unlimited annual pass to the Space Needle - $30 web special!
And finally, last weekend, the Mayor rented a flatbed truck from Handy Andy...
...and with Uncle Matty's assistance, disassembled and brought home a huge playset from a friend's backyard. This is not the first time the guys have seen this particular playset, having built it in about six years ago for another family! The Mayor felt a peculiar sense of goblin-like joy at recovering his handiwork!

Snow Day!

Here are the hobbitlings sort-of enjoying being outside in the cold sunshine.
And really enjoying hot chocolate in the warm indoors.
Enjoying every last drop of rich, creamy chocolate sunshine.
The Mayor was home from work today due to the snow. The Mayor sliced up last summer's wading pool to make this winter's sled. The Mayor is excessively proud of his creation.

Pre-Christmas Post

Again, just getting caught up on posts.

Pre-Thanksgiving Update

The Mayor is just going to get caught up with pictures.

No Camera!

Here's Ela enjoying her loot from trick-or-treating.
Here's Boookie with his pumpkin (grown for him by our neighbors). He went as a tow truck for Halloween, but unfortunately we didn't get any good pictures!

Here's what we've been up to since last post:
* Synchronized morning potty time for Boookie and Ela. This morning witnessed great success on both the big potty and the little potty.
* Boookie now has three imaginary friends. There are now two Little Boys (still no name for either). There is also a Little Girl (!) When asked about her name, he gets embarrassed and tries to change the subject. We suspect our lad has his first crush, and we think we know who she is, too.
* Ela was told on the way home from church that she would have to wait to get a drink of water. She looked out the window with a forlorn expression and was overheard talking sadly to herself, "No tag, No wadee." What a little drama princess!
* Boookie went to the Husky football game with Auntie and the Mayor. He ate snacks the first quarter, ran around the second quarter, screamed "GO HUSKIES" the third quarter, and slept the fourth quarter. He didn't miss much during his nap as the Huskies collapsed again.