September 6th, 2019

Hello everybody! How are you? I am okay. Last weekend, we went went to see Mom's sister and her kids. She sent us home with some newborn clothes. Some of them are still a bit too big for me, but I do fit a few of them! I have a new shirt!

I think I look pretty cool in it! What do you think? There doesn't seem to be too much newborn sized clothing out there, so I don't get a lot of new clothes. I still like the Build-a-Bear stuff, but it wears out pretty quickly! New clothes are awesome!

June 28th, 2019

Hello everybody! How are you? I am okay. We have had a pretty good week. Mom has been off from work, so we have been to several places. We went shopping, out to eat, and even to the zoo. I’ve decided we’ll talk about the zoo next week. Mom finally bought me some new clothes when she went shopping! 

I fit newborn baby clothes, and when she goes shopping there rarely seems to be any in that size. But she went on her birthday and there was some outfits! We’ve already managed to get the shirt a little dirty, but I don’t care!

I hope you’re all having a good week! Talk to you next week!

August 10th, 2018

Hello everyone! How are you? I am very tired. It has been a long week, and Mom says we ought to go to bed. I did have one thing that I wanted to share. Mom found me a new shirt!

It’s bright yellow. Mom says I could probably glow in the dark! And it has a bulldog on it She also found me a new sweatshirt but it’s too warm for that yet.
What do you think of my new shirt? Talk to you next week!

January 12th, 2018

Hello everyone! How are you? I am okay. Mom feels better this week. We finally took a picture of my brand new outfit!

Oliver insisted on being in the picture, so we sort of had to edit him out. (Unless you all want to see pictures of Oliver’s butt.)

Mom says I was being obstinate and wouldn’t be completely in focus. (I think it was her camera, but whatever!) There are dinosaurs on my new shirt! I love it! It’s newborn sized, and it fits perfectly. Mom also got some preemie clothes for the AG girls.
I hope you’re all having a great week! Talk to you later!

May 5th, 2017

Hello everyone! How are you? Things are pretty much the same for all of us. Mom did place an order from Build-a-Bear though. I have a brand new shirt!

She saw the t-shirt in an ad on Facebook of all places, and we had to have it! (Although, even though it’s probably only a week old, it’s already pilling, so Mom’s patience for it is dwindling.) Mom has seen shirts for Life is Good at gift stores.
Mom posted this on Instagram, but I thought I would share it here too. In our area of Wisconsin, there is a fish called the lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens). They are living fossils! They’ve been around for 136 MILLION YEARS! One of the places they breed is on the rocks of the Wolf River in a tiny town called Shiocton, Wisconsin. A few days ago, Mom went there to look at the overflowing Wolf River. It turned out that there were still some sturgeon there!

Mom uploaded a video to her Instagram account. I wanted to upload it here, but it won’t let me without uploading it to YouTube first. So here is a link to some ancient fish in action!
Hope you’re having a great day! 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!

February 10th, 2017

Good afternoon! How are you all? I’m all right! We have had a quiet week. Mom bought some things for our new Wellie Wisher friends. The store that Mom works at carries them, so she brought two of them home.

This is Evangeline. These are the new pajamas Mom bought her.

This is Wing. These are the pajamas that Mom bought her. We picked these because of the lady bugs! I thought that Hammie might like them! All this talk about pajamas made me want some new ones. I thought maybe some footie pajamas! Graham has some pretty cool footie pajamas. He even has some with rhinos on them. What pattern do you think I should get?

January 20th, 2017

Hello! How are you all? We’re all right here in Wisconsin. Mom visited eBay this week and bought Caleb some new clothes. One of the outfits is a new version of his dinosaur t-shirt, but the second one is brand new. It is a bright green sweatshirt with the words ‘rawr’ on it.

I wish it came in my size! I love dinosaurs, and I think it’s very dinosaur-ish! The hood is too big for Caleb. (Smallfrys/Buddies have big heads!) Mom did buy Foster and I some new shirts though, so I shouldn’t complain.

We both happen to fit infant size three months, so when they go on clearance, Mom almost always buys us a new shirt. (We still really like Build-a-Bear, but they seem not to keep pretty as long as baby clothes.)

See—more dinosaurs! Mom says it is time to go to bed. She has to work in the morning! Talk to you all later!

February 22nd 2011

It worked! I got to go outside! Well, I got to sit on the porch and watch the birds! Caleb and my new friend, Adelaide, got to come with.

Adelaide is an American Girl Addy doll that Mom found at Goodwill. She is extra special because she has two different colored eyes!

Caleb wants me to tell you all about his new shirt. It’s a Hawaiian shirt, and not really winter gear. He posed for this picture before he went back under the blanket with Adelaide.

He can be a very funny bear sometimes—He’s especially proud of his Boyds Bears pin. Some of his clothes come from Boyds and he thinks that it’s a designer label! Mom tries to explain to him that the clothes come from Goodwill, but he doesn’t want to listen!

I posed for a picture for Mom. It was still rather cold, so we went back inside and had a good nap on the couch!

Just because—another Wisconsin winter picture. This is one of our silver maple trees!

Talk to you all later! I hope you’re having a great day!

January 20th, 2010

In our blogging hiatus, my friends and I were kept very busy. Mom spends some of her free time sitting downstairs. It’s where her computer is and where the dog can reach her. I spend most of the time cuddled up close to her and my friends spend time sitting on top of the couch. We watch Mom and make sure she’s not getting into any trouble. I’m the cuddling bear, and the others keep an eye on what’s happening around us.

A few days ago, I was talking to my friends Oatuling and Marshall Sheldon and we started to discuss pajamas!  Oatuling and his friend Dermule have recently got new PJs. I wanted to share ours, so Mom took our picture. This is what we spent a lot of time doing for the past few weeks!

We all sit around in our PJs! Do any of you have pajamas? Caleb technically has PJs, but rarely wears them because he spends a lot of time outside with Mom. Mine are so nice and warm!

January 14th, 2011

My mom says that I have been a very patient bear. She has been neglecting our posting duties lately. Part of it is recovering from the Christmas crazies at work, and a part of it was buying things on Ebay. She says that she has everyone she wants, so now it’s my turn to come back into the blogging world.
One of the things that Mom has been ordering online is a boy doll named Jake. She bought a few more Liv girl dolls at Target a few days ago and I helped her unbox them. I think that there is a lot of grief in unboxing dolls—teddy bears are so much more simple! She also bought all of the Monster High dolls—she says that she likes them because they’re the children of book characters! (I think she likes them because they come with all sorts of tiny little pieces. Sigh. Moms!)
My birthday was back on Christmas. My mom bought me a lot of clothes and a new cell phone! Mom says that we will take a photo of the new cell phone later!

Caleb and I went with Mom to the dentist office today. She was very nervous. I stayed in the car, but Caleb went inside with her. I’m glad that we can provide that kind of moral support!

I wanted to thank everyone for sending me Christmas cards and the like. I love getting mail. One of the things that Mom has promised me that we are going to do is send more mail out.

September 11th, 2010

The most exciting thing to happen around here in the past few days was that Mom took a bunch of us outside on the porch for to take photographs. Mom has revived her Flickr account to post pictures to various teddy bear and doll groups that she had been previously merely browsing. Some of the people who post on the travel and companion doll lists that she lurks on post such lovely pictures. Some of the pictures that she takes of us are very lovely too!

One of the reasons that Mom wanted to take photos was that we have a new friend. It’s been a while since I’ve introduced anyone here.

This is Majorie, a Read Teddy Small-Fry from Build-a-Bear. Mom has been seeing advertisements for them online for a while, but this is the first time that she got to go to the store and buy one. Marjorie came home with us because most of the clothes that they had were for girl bears. But the two outfits for boy bears came home with us too—because Mom thought that Caleb might be the right size.

And it turned that Mom was right, but just barely. These clothes were VERY tight on Caleb. Technically, I have the exact same sweatshirt, but in big Build-a-Bear size, so we’re going to be twins! Mom says that it is impressive on how the large head made Marjorie seem to be a lot bigger then Caleb. It doesn’t matter though—everyone is happy!

And because the doll photography is the reason that Mom started to go back to Flickr and look, Tilia and Lindera came outside to get their photos taken. Mom had found these two fancy dresses in a grab bag at a thrift store and wanted to make sure they would fit before she started repairing them.

Sigh, I think we’ve talked enough about clothes! (I write this to make Mom happy—she spends a lot of time making sure that we look nice for the photo session!) Fall is beginning where we live. Some of the trees are beginning to turn colors. In the front yard, we have about a dozen or so apple trees. The apples, which don’t get treated with anything to get rid of the bugs, are ripe now.

Are there any signs of your changing seasons? I’m sure Mom will take plenty of pictures of the changing fall leaves once they start in earnest!

July 13th, 2010

Today’s news is a little less dramatic! I have a new shirt! I am mentioning this because it’s a very cool shirt—it has a dinosaur on it! Mom found it at Target in the baby section!

It says ‘munch-a-saurus’! I like the teeth! Nom nom!! Mom says that it is trying to be a T-rex! ROAR!! I do like dinosaurs! Maybe not as much as I like outdoor nature things, but they’re awfully cool to read about in books! It’s hard to imagine that they roamed the same earth that we’re on millions and millions and millions of years ago! Do you like dinosaurs?