Catching Up

I know, it's been a while. Even Matt chided me for not blogging more in January. But there just wasn't that much new and exciting. We got through the month just enjoying the typical antics of our squishable little tot and her furry sidekick and catching up on our DVRd shows while stuck inside due to the fact that it's January in Wisconsin. Ick.

For some of us, there was definitely a low point in January which was not the re-try of my 29th birthday but instead the Packers losing in the playoffs. I enjoy football but can't say that I support one team (Vikings) or the other (Packers) even though I could legitimately follow either. Matt is working as hard as he can to turn Genevieve into a born and bred Packer fan though, so they spent some quality time together during the last few games of the season.

Turns out a lot of people in this house take comfort in our buddy cheetah (or as G says, Tee-tah)


And also purple donkey


It's like the scene in Forrest Gump where he and little Forrest are fishing together...except in Wisconsin

But when the Green & Gold lost on a pretty crappy play, the tears welled up in Matt's eyes and he collapsed on the floor, consumed by sorrow. Like the little villain she is, here was Genevieve's reaction:

Life quickly returned back to normal after that, which these days means a very chatty little parrot of a girl running around. She's very into giving everything she likes hugs and kisses (and exclaiming 'huk!' 'kiss!'), and I mean everything including her stuffed animals, pages of a book, or her own reflection ("baby! mmmmwah!") . This particular night she was making sure we knew that she had all her body parts accounted for, then she gave some love to her guy Elmo. Except this particular Elmo was on her diaper. Which was clean. Thankfully. PS - naked baby alert!!

Pre-bath, pointing out her butt. Check out that full belly!!! Love it.

Toes (socks are scattered all over the house these days)


Knees (usually pretty surprised to see there are two of them)


"Kiss Emo"


"Huk Emo"

There will be lots more to come this month as we will be in Poplar next weekend for our annual SuperBowl weekend with all of our scattered friends (possibly to include new addition baby Henry, hooray for the Kroenings!!), followed by my trip to NYC for Westminster. Oh, we're also looking at buying a new house, but whatev. Stay tuned, followers!