August 19th, 2009

Mom has today off from work. She thought it would be a good time to write a post. We both thank all the nice stuffies who commented on our entry last week. On her LiveJournal, you can reply to each comment—but it doesn’t seem that you can do that here on Blogger.

We live in the Midwest. In Minnesota, there was a tornado today. Our Mom’s sister lives in Minneapolis, and I was worried about her. Apparently no one got hurt. I got worried about the tornado coming our way, but Mom says that tornados don’t travel very far without dying out. We checked our weather on WeatherUnderground and says that there might be thunderstorms, but nothing too fierce. I can handle thunderstorms. I don’t like them very much, but they’re not as scary as tornados! The sky does look kind of scary though, but Mom says that it’s a combination of dusk coming on and the clouds. I’m going to trust her on that!

A few nights ago, Mom uploaded some pictures from the past to share here. Mom has been taking my picture for a long time—probably as long as I have lived with her. These are the best of the photos. I like it when she takes me outside to for photos! Some of the garden photos in the album are from last year. The sunflowers and tomato plants are just as big this year. Maybe I can go outside later for a photo with them and you can see!

August 16th 2009

Mom, Milton, Caleb, and I are listening to an audio book. Apparently, they hire people to read books out loud and record them. We’re listening to the book, Phantom Tollbooth. This was one of Mom’s favorite books as a little girl. I am enjoying it. It is about a little boy, mathematics, words, knowledge, and wisdom. It’s really too complex to explain without giving the plot away.

Listening to an audio book is strange. It sort of makes me tired. Listening to someone talk for so long is very soothing. It kind of makes me tired. But I want to pay attention to the story, so it’s very strange. Mom has another audio book of our favorite author, Kevin Henkes. Maybe we’ll listen to that next. The Phantom Tollbooth is four hours long though. After all that, we’ll be awfully tired—maybe we would just sleep through the Kevin Henkes book. That wouldn’t be a good thing! Maybe we’ll listen to some other things beforehand!

August 12th, 2009

I have been posting a lot lately! I’ve got so many things to share! Today I’ve got two things to share. Caleb, my bear, got some new pants! They’re overalls, and they remind us of trains. I guess they’re not really new—they’re new to us. Mom found them in a toy bag at Savers. Caleb is a wee six inches tall. They don’t make a lot of clothes for bears his size. Well—not a lot of clothes for boy bears his size. Build-a-Bear used to make mini-bear clothes, but they were almost all girl clothes. he’s got a few shirts from some of the less girly outfits. They now make a few little sweaters and the such, but apparently bears that come from Build-a-Bear don’t need to wear pants! So this was a great find! And they fit him, which makes him very happy. (The last pair was kind of tight! He needed to wear a belt to make sure they stayed shut.)

My next thing to share is a beautiful picture of a sunflower that my mom and I took today. The sunflowers are finally all blooming. They are some of my favorite flowers and I am glad when Mom takes me out to the garden to look at them. We don’t really do anything with the sunflowers besides admire them. I’m sure the birds are happy with this decision. They probably enjoy all the sunflower seeds straight from the flower. Mom plants a few different kinds, but there is a whole row of these mammoth sunflowers. Mom likes them because they grow so tall! I like them because they grow so big so fast. We found a life that was bigger then a dinner plate. The stems are thicker then Mom’s fingers—almost thicker then my arm!

August 10th, 2009

Last night, Mom, Milton, Robinson, and I tried on the new aviator jacket, goggles, and helmet. Well, I guess Mom didn’t try it on! The three of us tried it on because it didn’t completely fit any one of us! I fit the jacket. It’s lined and everything. I especially like the scarf that came with it. The helmet’s ear-holes are too small for my ears, and my eyes are too close together for the goggles. I still think I look pretty neat in it. 

Milton tried it on, and he fit the helmet better then me. He has littler ears. He fit the jacket too. He says that he likes the helmet. Mom let him sit in front of the fan, and it looks like he’s being blown away by the wind. It makes the scarf look like it’s flapping in the wind.  His eyes are too close together for the goggles too—but his head seems to be big enough to hold them up. (They just slipped down on my head!)

Finally, Robinson tried it on. His eyes seem to be the right distance apart, but the helmet leaves space on top of his head! After all that trying on, Mom says that we’re lucky that we don’t really mind if it sort of doesn’t really fit the three of us. However, there are plenty more plushies who want to try to wear it! Maybe one of us will fit it right!

August 8th 2009

It’s been a stormy day today. There was a humdinger of a thunderstorm this morning, but by the afternoon it was nice and sunny. But after supper time, it was all gray and dreary again. Now it’s storming again. I don’t like thunderstorms. They don’t scare me as much as keep me awake. This morning, we all woke up despite the fact that we had more time to sleep.

Mom went shopping yesterday and bought me a new outfit from Build-a-Bear. It’s an aviator outfit. I will try it on and get my picture taken soon. It has a leather helmet and aviator glasses. The glasses aren’t quite as cool as the ones that our friend Nate came from Goodwill with. They’re still plenty cool. Mom might go back to Build-a-Bear and buy a t-shirt with an airplane on it.

I thought I would introduce another of our friends today. Shirley is a spring lamb from Build-a-Bear. Mom got her a couple of years ago from the Build-a-Bear store. Shirley is one of Fleur and Chloe’s friends. She like flowers and gardening. We went out to the garden once together, although she wasn’t able to get too dirty since she’s all white!

August 3rd, 2009

Mom hoped that we could go outside and I could climb the tree like I wanted to. But it was way too hot for most of the day. However, she did take me out to the garden to take some pictures! She’s holding me up in the air in the picture—I’m not nearly as tall as a sunflower! I wanted to get further into the garden so you could see the flower better, but she didn’t want to climb into the garden with all the bees. There were many other flowers, so the bees were hard at work. I don’t mind bees, but Mom doesn’t like them.

She says that maybe on Wednesday we can try the tree thing again. I can see the tree I want to climb from our bedroom window. It’s so tempting to go outside when she’s not around, but that would get her very angry! She says that it isn’t safe for little bears like me to go outside without a human. I don’t see what could get me, but maybe there’s something out there that I don’t know about!

Mom says that it’s time to go to bed, so I won’t go on any further. Let’s hope I get to go outside on Wednesday again! Maybe one of my friends can go with!

July 29th 2009

I got to go outside today. Mom had said that we might go out and look at some of the trees, but we ran out of time. Instead, we went sat out on the porch. I got to sit on the new chairs with the comfy seats. It has been rather cool this summer, which makes it good weather for bears covered in fur to sit outside. Mom let me water the plants with her. She says that we might try to go outside tomorrow before she has to go to work. I want to climb a tree!  

Mom also says that I might go to work with her tomorrow. I spend the entire time inside her backpack. I’m there for moral support. She says that it’s been kind of tough for her at work—especially when she has to close. So I might go with. All I do is sit in the backpack next to her on her breaks, but it’s the thought that counts. It’ll all depend on how she feels when she’s got to go to work. Maybe she’ll bring Caleb instead. Caleb fits inside her purse. I like going out though. I’m going to leave the decision up to her.