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."

What to do with kitchen stuff

We've been getting ready for the arrival of the little boy, which has involved rearranging sleeping and play areas.  One of the discussions that came up regards the play kitchen.  The Mayor and Hobbit Wife assumed that would stay downstairs in the boys bedroom, but the hobbitlings informed us that was not so.

In Ela's words, "Seimi told us he's done with kitchen things and has moved on to a military life."

The Mayor and Hobbit Wife have observed that thus far, the military life for Seimi involves much running about the backyard making explosion noises and screaming, "Noooooo!  I'm a soh-jah!"

Physical Air-Pee

Since the Mayor introduced the concept of physical therapy to Michael Delving, the hobbitlings now joyfully clamor for getting physical therapy of their own to deal with real or perceived injuries.  Seimi (who stubbornly refers to airplanes as "air-pees"), will request, "I'll have some physical air-pee and some tickle."

End of 2013 Post (just noticed it wasn't published)

Just to round out the year, here's what we've been up to:

 Ela loved being in the children's choir, as witnessed by her napping, surrounded by sheet music.

After a grueling push at work (crazy project schedules on top of a difficult professional development class), our holiday vacation began on Friday, December 20.  We had circled that date on our calendar for several months and were overjoyed to be greeted with a much-needed snowfall that morning.

The Mayor was delighted to take his first puff on his very own hobbit pipe, a gift from a friend who knows him well.

Family Portrait

Here's a portrait of our growing family (Thanks, Rene' Jessee!)

The Mayor finally figured out why the backyard never needs mowing.  It's mostly pine needles and moss!  Not a bad thing, just an observation after raking up mountains of pine needles he'd swept off the roof.  Michael Delving has a pretty awesome and wild back yard filled with pretty awesome and wild hobbitlings.

Picture Update

Here are some picture updates as we move from Winter to Spring.  Below is a picture of one of the backyard creations.

 Ela the bride and Seimi the bride



 Ela the cook

 

 Boookie the soldier/hunter

 Ela the floral artist

Seimi the minion

One of Ela's garden apartment creations 

 Another part of the garden apartment

 Boookie's movie theater for his Lego guys

 Lego base with telescope

Tank

 Anti aircraft cannon

 Battleship and tanks on the Lego creation shelf

 More Lego tanks

Boookie's landing craft (modeled after the one in the Russian campaign in Call of Duty).  He has been learning the ancient combat skills of the first person shooter game.