September 20th, 2018

Hello everyone! How are you? I am okay, although Mom is kind of tired. There have been a lot of mosquitoes here in Wisconsin. Mom is getting bites all the time. For a while, they were even inside the house. (Mom thinks that she’s on their territory outside—but inside they ought to leave her alone!)

Mom went shopping the week before last and found something pretty cool! She found THREE of my brethren! She had just decided to stop at the thrift store just because, and it turned out to be a great decision! And they were only $2 a piece! These bears are more my size. Foster and the other bears Mom has found on ebay, are a bit bigger then me. Her mom told her that she had just worn me down enough that I was smaller than Foster, but it turns out that we came in two different sizes!

Mom says she doesn’t know what’s going to happen with the three new bears. She always wants backups in case something terrible happens to Foster or I, so they might go away. She doesn’t want to fall for another bear and worry about something happening to them. But they’re here, and that’s pretty cool.

Talk to you next week!

December 8th, 2017

Hello everyone! How are you? I’m okay. Mom got a new camera lens for her Christmas present! It lets her camera do some very fancy things!

Last week was a supermoon. The other lens does not like night photography very much. (Mom thinks it would work if she had a tripod.) This lens doesn’t get a lot of detail, but it’s pretty good!

She also took a picture of my friends and I in front of the Christmas tree. The sparkly stuff in the background is another thing that the new camera lens creates.

Milton and Foster got their turn too.

Next week, I will show you some pictures Mom took of the Christmas tree. I hope you all have a great week!

September 22nd, 2017

Hello everyone! How are you? I’m okay. Mom got transferred back to the embroidery department on Monday at the not-retail job, so that’s some new stuff for her to deal with.

The weather has been nice for the past few days. Yesterday, Milton, Foster, and I spent some time on the porch with Mom. She took pictures of some of her new miniatures, and we took in the scenery! It’s a very comfy bench!

Oliver says hello. He likes this weather too. He helped Mom with her picture taking. He is very good at supervising!
I hope you’re all having a great week!

March 10th, 2017

Hallo everyone! How has your week been? Things have been pretty quiet around here.
Mom said that we couldn’t afford a new TV for the bigger kids, but she gave me something that is pretty close—her old phone!

It doesn’t get any cell phone service, but it works just fine on our wifi! So now we can watch our own Netflix choices! Foster, Milton, Caleb and I were watching Netflix for a while, and then some of our AG friends came to see what we were doing.

Sometimes, human fingers, even if they’re doll sized ones, help, so Shiloh, Adelaide and Mercedes helped us with the apps.

We ended up deciding to listen to some music instead because we all couldn’t see the screen at the same time. We listened to it for a whole hour! I think I like the phone almost better than the idea of a TV! What do you think?
Talk to you next week!

February 24th, 2017

Hello, everybody! How are you all? Things here are still very quiet!
Yesterday, Mom got out of work early. She got home in time to see Graham for a while. She noticed that Graham was wearing the same shirt as me!

Sorry, I’m looking a bit off in this picture, but he just got done hugging us all. But we’re wearing almost the same outfit! Foster is also wearing a shirt that Graham has too. (This is what happens when your mom buys clothes at the same place as someone else’s Mom.) He is very fond of Mom’s hairbrush, but we don’t know why. But it got him to stay still long enough so we could take a picture together, and that worked for Mom!
This week the temperature here in Wisconsin got to 60 degrees Fahrenheit! It is usually about 29 to 16 degrees! (I looked it up!) That meant that on Wednesday, Graham, Oliver, Mom, and I went for a walk. We ended up going to the park! I stayed in the stroller, but Graham went for a swing! He’s old enough now to sit up in a baby swing!

He lost interest in the swing pretty quickly, but it was still cool. We then walked back home. Mom took some pictures on the way back.

It’s supposed to snow this weekend, so the unseasonably warm weather will just be a faint memory!
Tot ziens!

December 30th, 2016

Hello everybody! How did your Christmas go? Ours was pretty low key. Mom did get a new camera, so now you know what’s next—lots of pictures! My friends and I are some of her favorite subjects!

Mom says that this camera has lots more megapixels than the phone or ipad camera. I think I look rather handsome in extra megapixels!

Foster thinks he looks handsome too! We will share more pictures, because Mom really loves her new camera. She has to go to work soon, so we’ll stop this one here!

February 5th, 2016

Mom and I are doing pretty good about this blogging thing. Working ahead helps a lot!
Today I’m going to talk about things that make me happy. What makes you happy? My family and friends make me the most happy! I’m glad I have such great friends—and that my siblings aren’t so bad either! I have Milton, Robinson, Foster, and Caleb to keep me company. We spend a lot of time together in the car when Mom works.

I also love books, ice cream, and bright sunny days. I like tulips and blankets. I also like the color blue! I like going for car rides with Mom. I like pictures of dogs on Mom’s Instagram! Are there any internet things that you like? I spend a lot of time online with Mom.
Hope you all are having a great day!

January 22nd, 2015

So we’re writing this at the end of December. It’s all part of Mom’s plan to make sure that we keep on writing entries. But that means that we’re going to take three weeks to tell you all that we got a new computer for Christmas! It’s got a touch screen that Mom needs to train herself to actually use. It runs Windows 10, which we’re hesitantly all right with.
It means that we got to update to the newest version of Windows Live Writer. It’s open source, and finally updated! The orginial Windows Live Writer hadn’t been updated since 2012, which is practically ancient in the computer world. We’ve only started playing with it, but it’s behaving just as the old version did. So if you’ve got a brand new computer, this version is worth it! (At least right now!) Although Mom can’t get the spell check button to do anything but be grayed out. Hm. Maybe we spoke too soon!

Well, this entry is really about Foster. Foster is my older brother. He was named after a character in a Joseph Conrad short story called Amy Foster! (Just like me!) We’re both Sterling promotional matrix bears. I came from a gardening store, but Foster was found at Goodwill. I was really glad when Mom found him. I did miss him a lot.
His favorite color is yellow. He says that he likes it because it’s bright! He likes leaves that turn bright yellow in the fall, and rubber ducks! He also likes sunflowers and yellow tulips! He likes playing cars with me, and will help the tinies move big things around. He would really like to meet Big Bird someday—he’s a bird and he’s yellow, so that makes Foster really happy!
Talk to you all next week!

May 26th, 2014

The rest of the hug is slowly gathering. Mom has been rescuing them via eBay. They’re living at her sister’s house now in a box. It’s the safest place for them right now, although we all wish we could be together again!

Mom took our pictures yesterday. Well, some of us. We love sitting outside on the porch. Oliver sits with us!

We each got a turn for a picture! It was a very nice day.

Mom says we all need some summer clothes! Maybe some shorts!

Foster, Milton, Robinson and I decided that we were much more focused on getting some ice cream instead! That didn’t require going shopping! I do love ice cream!

Mom says that she will take us outside tomorrow on her next day off. Maybe we can go to the park!

May 4th, 2014

Yet another quick update! Mom found Robinson, Foster, Fleur and Charlotte! Chloe is on her way home right now!

We’ve been spending a lot of time sitting on the couch! We’re glad to be reunited again!

February 22nd, 2014

Mom has been interested in my twitter account again. To read our twitter feeds, Mom uses hootsuite, both on the computer and the iPad. When she used it to read her twitter, she would sometimes look at the button that was mine and remember all the very nice people on there! A few days ago, she clicked on it and all the nice people were still there! I followed some new people and read through lots of tweets! I hope we can keep it up again!

Mom has been making dolly food out of polymer clay. Technically, she's making it for her ball jointed dolls and a different set for the American Girl dolls. The AG sized stuff fits my friends and I too!

It is a nice, quiet morning-- at least as quiet as it can be with Oliver around! Talk to you later!

 

 

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March 8th, 2013

My mom's parents left on their vacation to Alabama. That means that more of my friends can come downstairs and sit with us!

Robinson and Foster appreciate the change in scenery!

March 30th, 2012

Mom, Milton, Foster, Caleb and I went to the mall a few days ago. While we waited in the car, Mom bought us something that she had seen in the Build-a-Bear flyer that we got in the mail.

I am the proud owner of a ‘pawpad!’ My mom loves electronics—and really wishes she could afford an ipad. But this is much more in our price range!
It’s kind of hard to write on, but Mom says that it is the thought that counts!
She also bought me a Build-a-Bear ‘pawtrack,’ sort of a BAB MP3 player. She says I look moody when I’m listening to it!

It plays some Build-a-Bear music—probably like 20 seconds a piece. It’s pretty cute!

It is REALLY loud when you hit one of the buttons though, so I don’t think I’ll be using it too much—at least when Mom’s around! (Mom’s not a big fan of loud noises, unless it’s one of her favorite bands!)
Hope you all are having a great day!

March 13th, 2012

Spring has come—at least for a little while—to Wisconsin! I thought I would share with you the pictures that she took a few days ago. It was 60 degrees Fahrenheit on Sunday, so after she got out of work she took some of us outside for a photography shoot!

 

Caleb has come to terms with the fact that he has to share traveling companion duties with Wren for a while. He told me that it was nice to have someone to talk to while Mom was working!

Foster is happy to get outside. He travels with me to work in Mom’s car sometimes, but we don’t get to go out of the car. It’s sort of tempting to get out, but we don’t want to get lost!

Milton was glad to get out too—he likes looking at the birds! There are a lot of bird feeders in our front yard, so there are plenty of birds to see!

Mom has the next couple days off of work, so I’m hoping that she takes us for a car ride! I know she wants to get her car washed, so I think I’m a shoe-in for that ride! I hope you all are having a great day!

January 17th, 2012

Time for another book review. Mom and I really liked sharing her children’s book collection, and I like picking out my favorites! We decided that we would go on with the book reviews! (She says that we’re probably not going to go outside for pictures any time soon! It’s cold here in Wisconsin!)

Today we are going to share our favorite Sandra Boynton book. It is called Hippos Go Berserk!

Foster read it to us today. It is a counting book. But it RHYMES! It is very bouncy and it has some grown up words in it! (Safe words, but big words!)

And it has Mom’s favorite Sandra Boynton characters--- hippos!

I hope you all are having a great day!