...to say goodbye to knorrbuzz.  It will still be here for those of you who care to reminisce but will no longer be kept current.  I'm a little saddened to make this announcement as this site has followed our family through the last few years, documenting the early years of our marriage and welcoming both our children.

Over the last ten months or so I have been creating posts in a new wordpress account and then copying them over to knorrbuzz, just waiting for the right moment to make the complete transition.  The new site is not entirely ready but I'm so behind on photo editing and blogging that the extra step of copying the post, as little time as it takes, is wearing on me.

So say hello to My Little Coffee Beans.  From the homepage you may also access my two other sites, My Little Food Spot and My Little Kid Creations.  The former, while not complete, has some great recipes out there.  Don't bother going to the latter.  It's an idea that I just haven't taken the time to work out yet.  I'll let you know when the time is right.

Farewell my buzzy friend!

Our yard April 16, 2011

We are loving our new home and its yard.  Trevor likes to push Charity up and down the drive in his Little Tykes car.  He doesn’t seem to mind riding it himself.

Take the picture already, sheesh

He also enjoys drawing shapes and tracing his hand prints with sidewalk chalk and the hopscotch grid that Derek always seems to draw.  We enjoy watching him toss a stone and do his version of hopping through the squares.  Always good for a laugh.  We recently picked up some patio furniture at The Home Depot so we have been eating many meals outdoors, when we can stand the wind and the heat and when I can tolerate the wasps that zoom by occasionally.  Derek thinks my tensing at the sight of one is hilarious but I just remind him that my fear is justified.  These terrors in the sky have stingers while those creepy crawly snakes he fears are just that.  Creepy crawly.  He’s afraid of a sweet little reptile that does nothing but keep down the population of rodents.  I don’t particularly look forward to meeting a snake, but my point is valid.

In a potty-training craze April 12, 2011

I didn’t think he was ready.  Aside from the first day he got his potty chair about five months ago he has peed on it…um…let’s see…never.  Whenever I would let him run around without a diaper, he would pee and I wouldn’t realize it until I saw a big wet stain.  He never cared that he was wet.  So when Derek put his foot down and said, we’re doing it no matter how long it takes or how many accidents we clean up, I thought, oh boy, this will be fun.  After two days of some accidents and some successes we went five days without any potty accidents (pooping is still a battle).  We then had a few day streak with a few accidents but for another week plus we have been accident free.  He is still hesitant to go in public restrooms but either holds it or sucks it up and touches everything in the, I’m sure, very aseptic lavatories but then will relax enough to relieve himself.

His big new thing accompanying this big new learning adventure that Derek and I have been both battling and finding amusing is that he feels he needs to change his clothes every time he pees.  He loves dressing himself and some of his outfits are rather entertaining.

The 1980s I’m-too-cool-for-two-gloves look, complete with mismatched socks

And later that same day, with one shoe off and one shoe on (not to mention one sock, as well), what I like to call the diddle diddle dumpling

All dressed up for a trip to Sam’s Club, you can see the tag hanging out the front of his swim trunks

Cheese!!

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. ~George Santayana March 27, 2011

We finally made it up to Derek's parents' place.  One thing after another seemed to happen and weeks turned into months.  We hadn't been there since Christmas.  If I didn't know any better I would have said it was Christmas.  Opportunity to take advantage of the last of the big snow.