Rowan's Big Boy Bed.

If I posted this already, I apologize, I thought I posted it, but I think it was just on Facebook. We recently ordered Rowan a Big Boy Bed for his 4th birthday. We ordered parts of it online, on a new web site we found called Wayfair.com. The mattress was one of the parts we ordered through them, but they sent us a Full Size Futon mattress instead of a Twin Size Bed mattress. It arrived in a duffle bag and it was impressive to see how it shipped, but when I realized I got the wrong thing I was worried how on earth I would ship it back!

Well, I talked to someone at the company and they said, don't worry about it! It was our mistake, you KEEP that $150+ mattress (more expensive than the mattress we ordered!) and sell or donate it and we will send the right one. Great customer service! So we put an air mattress on his bed frame until the new one arrived. This time, I took pictures and video of how they ship it and how it turns into a real mattress! Here's the process! (PS we sent the futon mattress off to college with the neighbor girl!)

 Comes in a duffle bag...

 Wrapped TIGHTLY in plastic...

 Cut the plastic and get out of the way cuz....POP! Out comes a mattress!

 Finished Big Boy Bed! A little hard to make this one, with the drawers, the quilt has to be tucked in. Going to take a while before he figures out how to make his bed by himself, but storage was a must :)

Birthday Bash

Ok, I forgot, I'm doing the Swan thing NEXT weekend, so more pics to come. Yeah! But here's the photos promised of my mom's birthday party! We started the morning with most of us going to do a Mobile Pack for Feed My Starving Children at Zacky's school, then we all went to our house (closest to Zack's school) for lunch and cake and presents! We even got a Mom Approved Photo :) She hates getting her pic taken as much as I do!

Zack had my camera most of the party and all those photos turned out something like the third pic above. Blurry and WAY too close up ;)

Random Filler

I know...you're saying, c'mon Molly, where's the blog? You're slacking...Yup. I agree with you. It's this winter, I am trapped in my house far more than I would like and even then I don't have the energy to take pictures of the same ol' things every day. Maybe I should go take a picture of the snow bank at the end of my driveway that's taller than I am...but that's depressing. Never fear, loyal readers (all 3 of you?), we are celebrating my mom's birthday and I am also taking some friends to see the Swans in Monticello this weekend, so there will be picture posts soon! I promise!

In the meantime, think warm thoughts, and remember SPRING TRAINING has begun! GO TWINS!

Happy Birthday Mom!

Huge hugs and love to my mama today! Thank you for teaching me how to be a better mom, for loving unconditionally and making holidays and every day so special! Love you bunches Mom!

Prairie Falcon?

Another somewhat rare find in this part of Minnesota, I found this guy on the way to work yesterday and I to go back today to get a picture. He's not in a good place to stop and take pictures so I had to snap a few quick and go. Wish I had better shots, but according to my sister's real live bird nerd friend, this is a Prairie Falcon...also a little out of his norm because of the extreme winter.

More Snow Owl Fun!

Ok, since I am kinda raising my kids to be bird nerds too, I wanted to get Riley up to Ramsey to see the Snowy Owl before he migrates North again. Since Josh had President's Day off and Rowan had a doctor visit (4 year well-child check-up, nothing to report there!), we were out and about Monday and decided to head up and see if we could spot him. He was perched on the last of a row of houses, right near the road so we got some great pics. Or I should say Josh did...I think all the pictures I kept were his! Just a recap: For non-bird peeps who think I'm crazy. It's pretty rare for Snowy Owls to migrate this far south in the winter. And pretty cool ~ Just saying!

Rowan's 4-year Stats

Not sure the nurse who was measuring Rowan knew how to read the machine, but according to her, Rowan is 43.5 inches (grew 6 inches since last year?) and 37.5 lbs. I feel like both of those could be a little off, but the doc seemed ok with those readings. He didn't tell me the percentiles, but he usually measures right in the 50% on both heigh and weight. He's happy and healthy and has cows in one ear and horses in the other. Also, he had one shot and took it like a trooper. NO tears! Yikes. I don't think he quite knew what hit him. But the promise of DQ perked him right up!