Reddiker Woodes

All Grins

For my birthday, FireHoth got my Pipos Baha Cheshire out of ransom and he's just adorable. He'll basically be seen in the Alice Rooms and with the incoming Johnny Depp boy.  But by himself, he's just evil.  Here he is on the new Mini Wheat Stage.  Finally a doll that needs NO CLOTHES.

   

I love his tail, it's even jointed.  What a hoot.

   

   

His fangs just kill me.

   

Ash's Bed

I've had these pictures for about a week or so and really needed to get them up. My good buddy lace52000 form Spoiled Plastic made me the second best set of bedding for Ash's houseboat.  These aren't the best pictures but I'll get better ones once Ash comes back from the spa.

She made four mattress from the material I sent her, and tons of throw pillows.

She even knitted me a great little throw for the deck for those cold chilly nights.

Hoppin' Happy

Along with bedding from lace52000 for Ash, she sent along the cutest little frog for Little Man.  These are so cute and very durable. Even after a couple of weeks, his eyes and little ribbon have still remained on.  I'm not sure of his name, but he's been traveling with us everywhere and has a special place to sleep in the bed.

What do Frogs & Bloomers Have in Common...

... they are all gifts from the mail.  Several weeks ago I asked lace52000 to make another set of bedding for me, for Ash's boat house and it came in along with many other treats.  These are just really quick pictures and about three weeks late.  I still have many on my camera to get uploaded, but Pearl wanted to share quickly.

Thank you so much "D" for the gifts, and we really enjoy the candy.  The little frog, as I've mentioned before, has become very social in the house and around town.

With changing out Claudia and Bethany to Lati Yellows, they are in desperate need of outfits.  Not many, but some.  So I found on Etsy, Little Joni's Dolly site.  She makes very cute little outfits for Latis, and these are very simple and will make the girls pose very easily.  I know that eventually I'll have the girls in dresses, but I wanted something that they can sit in very easily an not be too fluffy to start with.  They will be sitting a lot to start with, so I had her make two custom outfits, one in black and one in white.  They even got matching boots from, Cutiedolly's shop.

But I couldn't leave out Pearl and luckily I was able to get the already made pink bloomer set for her from Joni, and matching red boots.  They will look cute as triplets.  For someone who is sad and melancholily all the time, she's starting to turn into a little fashion diva.

She even received a pair of glasses to read her poetry easier.

Northern Gifts

I love when the mail comes, and hate that we don't get mail on Sunday's. :)  I've been exchanging material and little gifts with lace52000 and she sent me the sweetest dresses for Pearl last week.  I almost hate opening her boxes, because they are just wrapped so sweet and special.

I'm really going to have to step up my game when I send her more material and gifts from here.

Pretty little pearl bracelets and wrapped dresses.

She makes the cutest little pin cushions and this one is going to go in JoAnna's room. Maybe as a footstool.

Took everything upstairs and put on the dolly stage in afternoon light to get better pictures. The little Monsters Inc Mike is for Little Man, and so is the bag of candy. :)

   

Better lighting of the pin cushion.

First dress, beautiful pink and white striped with accompany undies. :) So dainty.

Red dress (which as of this writing, Pearl is wearing and loves it).

And another grouping picture.

Etsy Love

I swear, Etsy will bankrupt me faster than evilBay ever could.  I don't have to wait for auctions to come up, just shop.  I decided I needed a little something, and that was a nice new bag for my little camera.  I was looking around for Lati clothes and other things, and stumbled upon this cute Alice in Wonderland inspired clutch bag.  It's the perfect size for my camera and I can hook it on my belt loop and it's completely protected.  Plus, it's Alice in Wonderland, so it had to come live here.  I think Pearl approves also.

Perfectly lined inside and love the pink/coral/brown colors.

Alice in Wonderland theme.

Wiiiiiiiii

YAHOOOOO, along with getting my membership to the Spa Renewed, I also got a Wii Sports system.  I can't wait to hook this up.  I received a Jillian Michael's work out disk, Animal Crossing City Folk (my poor Nintendo DS has so much dust on it) and Star Wars Legos games.  This comes already loaded with five sports games already.  I'm pretty sure the bowling will be a blast.  If I hook this up right, we might not need the DVD player, and just use this.  There are even programs I can get that will help Little Man for school.  So exciting. I know what I'll be asking Santa for, for next year.  MORE GAMES.

This will be a system that all of us can use.  

Late But Early Christmas Pictures

The past two weeks have just flown by, and I wanted to get these up on Christmas Eve but the goddess just wasn't in my corner that night, (she was too busy eating Godiva chocolate and drinking Berringer wine)  Christmas Eve day, Little man got a brand new table for the living room. It's one that's more his height and easier to maneuver around.  Took me most of the Friday before Christmas to find it online and with an expected delivery date of Christmas Eve, I was overjoyed that it came the Monday before Christmas.  YAHOO FOR FEDEX SHIPPING.  We had intended to give him the table before Christmas anyway, just so he would be so overwhelmed.  The table is 24x24 square with two chairs.  He should be able to stay with it till he's at least six years old or so, depending on how tall he gets. I wanted to make sure that this new table would not only go well with the living room, but when he's outgrown it, I can refurbish it for my dolls. (always thinking)  

Little Man has surpassed playing with Duplos, and has gone right to Daddy's big Star Wars Legos and the like.  I was a little afraid of him using the little blocks because I didn't want him to think that he could swallow them, but he's been really good about not eating them. So with that in mind, the new table had to be retro-fitted for Legos to be played in the living room.  We had gotten four 10x10 green flat square, and glued them to a 24x24 square piece of pegboard, then under that I glued non-skid matting, so the board would stay on the table while he's building the penthouse of tomorrow.  There is one huge plastic bucket, under the table that he knows to clean up with, when finished with playing.  When we aren't playing "Lego's", we can take the board off, and use the table for school work, eating, drawing, cutting and various other pre-K works.  Iron Man waited with anticipation for Little Man to come and Play.

     

Hopefully by the time this post goes up, he will have opened the rest of his presents from Santa.

Christmas morning brought Little Man the gift he's been asking Santa for, for weeks.  A Parking Garage.  Well, he not only got a Parking Garage, but Car Wash, and Gas Station thanks to the family.  He's such a boy.  All of his cars and trucks and trains, now have a proper home.  It even has an elevator.

    

Then off to grandparents house for a few hours and all the craziness that comes with that. Here he is in front of the mounds of presents.  10:00AM in the morning, and onto his second Christmas Cookie.

Then off to give out kisses and hugs.

   

Getting into a stocking that isn't his.

   

And finally the big reveal back at our house later Christmas night.  I don't think that we will need to buy him a car, truck, train or plane for the next year.

The Big Three

Oh, so last Saturday was Little Man's Three year old birthday, and not only with improved social skills, he knows what's going on this time. For two days he was going around singing "Happy Birthday" to himself, and new that family and friends were coming over.  I hadn't really planned a party, but wanted to see some friends that we hadn't seen in a while and his birthday was a great excuse for it.  Maybe next year, he'll get to have some little friends of his over, but this year it was just totally relaxed and spontaneous.

Birthday morning by his sign.  I got this sign on his first birthday party, which was a Happy Feet theme.  I didn't want to get a banner that he couldn't re-use so this one, we can use for the rest of his life, and it'll be fun to take his picture next to it every year.

Waiting for his "peeps".

I actually asked him what he wanted this year for his birthday, and the first things out of his mouth was "blue cupcakes", so that's what we got, and I'm still trying to get the blue off from his skin.

   

But, because he's my boy, and a neat freak, he opted to eat the rest with a fork. Love him.

Had to get a kiss from Nana.

Little Man had to show Nana how to play with the Legos also.

   

Finally, a chance to open up some presents.

   

Cars, Trucks, and Action Figures, what more could he want?

   

An entire race track, that's what.

After daddy set up the track/parking garage, we didn't hear from him for about two hours.  

And it might have been his birthday, but his present to me was falling asleep in the rocker, in my arms like he did the night he was born.  PRICELESS. 

My Easter Present, BAA, Baa?

Well, several weeks ago, we had gone grocery shopping, and went down the holiday aisle.  We were looking for some other little things to put inside of Little Man's basket, when I turned the down the aisle, I saw these GIANT pink and cream colored Lambs.  They were huge, and they just made me laugh and made my day.  I couldn't stop laughing the entire time at the store, and told FireHoth, if he wanted to get me something for Easter, get the GIANT LAMB. Well, Easter morning came and he brought Carson up from the basement.  He's so cute and so soft.  He'll look great in the new room.  I don't really like too many stuffed animals, but every once in a while, one will just catch my eye, and have to come home.

I think he needs a little tag on his ear so everyone knows his name.