March 22nd, 2011

Things around here have been pretty calm for me, but exciting for my mom. My mom is a real book nerd—and one of her favorite things in the entire world is to meet her favorite authors! (You might remember Neil Gaiman and the House on the Rock.) Well, last week, Mom and one of her friends from work went to Minneapolis, Minnesota to see Jasper Fforde, the author of one of her favorite contemporary fiction works, the Eyre Affair.

This is Mr. Fforde. Mom says he was very funny. Caleb, who traveled with her in her purse, said that he didn’t get a lot of the jokes. Mom said that he probably would have to read the books to understand.

This is my mom with Mr. Fforde. She was kind of nervous and mostly giddy.

This is my mom’s signed copy of his newest novel, One of Our Thursdays is Missing. This made my mom a very happy person indeed!

She has the next few days off from work, so as long as the weather improves, I’m hoping to talk her into another trip outside. Right now Wisconsin is experiencing some very un-spring-like weather. I hope that will change soon. Hope you all are having a good day!

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!

February 12th, 2011

Mom posted this picture on my Flickr account, but I figure I should post it here. You people are the people that my mom would listen to! I want to go OUTSIDE. It’s been ages! (Mom says she has photographic proof that it hasn’t been ages, but I don’t care!) I would put my foot down on this subject, but it doesn’t make too much of an impact when you’re wearing slippers! Mom says that it is still going to probably be too wet to go outside tomorrow. (It’s supposed to be 36* F tomorrow—warm enough so Mom can’t use that as an excuse!)

Sigh. I must be a good little bear! Mom says that we don’t go outside because she’s afraid I’ll get dirty—which would bring on one of the most dreaded things in a plush bear’s life—a bath—so she’s really only thinking of me. Maybe I can at least convince her to let me go out on the porch! I’ll update you all tomorrow or the next day!

February 6th, 2011

It’s still cold here in Wisconsin, although it has been alternating with weather warm enough so Mother Nature dumps snow on us. I don’t mind the snow, but Mom does now that she is driving. I’m often glad that I am a bear and not a human who has to go to work no matter what the weather! This website says that our area has had 46 inches of snow! It looks like we’re a few weeks ahead of our normal snowfall schedule!

What do you all do when the weather turns bad? I wish Mom would let me go outside and play in the snow. She’s usually more likely to want to curl up on the couch with lots of blankets!

We did have a new friend move into our house recently. She is an American Girl Addy, and we’re waiting until Mom washes her hair before we post a picture. Mom found her at Goodwill like most of my Build-a-Bear friends.

I’m going to go now and continue trying to talk my mom into letting me go outside! Talk to you all later!

January 24th, 2011

My mom has been enjoying posting pictures of my plush friends and I on Flickr lately. We both admire the photos that other people take of their plushie friends.

My mom says that the light inside our house isn’t quite as nice as the light outside on a sunny day.

In this picture, you can see that I am very well loved bear. While I don’t think I was ever as fuzzy and soft as Foster, my big brother, my fur does show some wear! On the bigger picture on Flickr, you can also see all the little white hairs embedded into my fur. They’re from Princess, our old English bulldog!

Do any of you show wear? Mom says that it is a badge of honor. One of the people who post to a doll mailing list that she lurks says that it is better to show wear then to spend an eternity sitting on a shelf! What do you think?

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 18th, 2010

Today’s post is about another thing that has caused our previous lack of posting. My mom bought herself a nook-color for Christmas. It’s an e-reader that can sort of be a computer at the same time. She can check her mail, Facebook, etc. with it, but she doesn’t like to type too much because it is tedious. It doesn’t really cut down on my cuddling time, just posting time.

Sometimes, she lets me play with it. It’s much easier to use then her itouch for my big paws.

Some of the time, I like to look at our pretty pictures on it. It’s very clear—even more clear then our computer. Granted, our computer is from 2007 and the nook-color is brand new, so we don’t hold it against the computer!

Other times, I read books on it. Right now, Mom and I are reading a book on geology. It’s interesting how old the rocks are!

And, of course, we have to check our email. We also like to search for words in books that we are interested in.

It’s a nifty device, but I am glad that Mom has returned to helping me blog!