My delicate flower

I doubt the grandmas even want to see yet another boring shot of the kids, so I thought I would post this one. Anna was wearing her brand new slightly fancy dress at the park and I thought the only problem would be showing her undies while swinging or something. Nope, she decided to crawl under the pirate ship plaything through some hole dug in the sand. She did this twice before I dragged her away. She was filthy. Then off to school she went!

Happy!

Not a great shot but that face cracks me up.

What's that smell?

Sean was out of town last night so when he called in for his nightly check I informed him that the house smells funny. It's kind of like pickle juice. Now, one of our neighbors had an incident where her children ate and dumped a jar of roasted red peppers on her bedroom carpet, so for mine to trickle pickle juice throughout the house is not an unreasonable fear. But, I didn't see an empty jar or any green spots. It was really quite puzzling until I smashed a ladybug before it snuck into my bed and the odor was released. Bingo, mystery solved. I don't think I can stand 4-6 more weeks of ladybug invasions so I hope the paper is wrong about that. We don't even have that many and they are better than roaches, but it's still annoying.

Sprung Forward

Poor Patrick doesn't remember how "fall back" works and thus he is just remembering that we "sprung forward" last spring. So the normal 7am party is starting at 5am which is completely unacceptable. Megan is up at 6am and that's when she really begins to earn her keep around here. Mornings definitely aren't as rushed these days....

The weather was so great yesterday and we were more than ready to head out by 8:30am, so we went downtown and did all the things I imagine we would do if we bought that cute little stone house that just popped up for sale across from the library. It would be so fun to just be able to get up and walk to the bakery, the library, the park, the preschool, Harry's/Howdy's, the shops, etc. Sean is thrilled that nothing was for sale down there back when we moved here because he really had his heart set on a big media room that you can usually only get out in new construction. We are certainly happy where we are now so I guess we will just drive downtown and park some mornings and enjoy the walk. Unfortunately yesterday we were having so much fun I forgot the furnace guy was coming. Hard to remember that when it's 80 degrees!

Brown Bear Brown Bear

What do you see? I see a red bird looking at me. Oh, we have read this so many times that I can do it in my sleep. Nice that he finally pays attention though and it is a good distraction when he is mad about something.

Perk to being small

You can fit into all sorts of fun places!

Who needs a closet?

Does anyone else have one of these? Yes, the kids are too small to ride shotgun, so instead I pile all the jackets we may or may not need there. And then I do it again the next day and the next, so the pile just grows to the point that it's hard to see over. And don't even get me started on all the extra food we have stored on the floor...