whatever

i have decided to change my christmas break uniform…
to my new Thursday uniform.

after taking the big kids to school
and checking in on the blogs i like…
annie and i made pancakes.
blueberry pancakes.
mmmmmm…..

then a bath at noon.

with ponies.

then an impromptu haircut…
while watching backyardigans

with candy.
i love a fresh little girl haircut.
my kids all have straight-as-a-board hair so their haircuts look so…
blunt?
homemade?
cute.
i’m going to go with cute…but i am partial.

and somewhere in between all that…
some scrappin’.

good day today.

it’s been a wild weekend.
friday night scrabble.
lauren had nothing to do so she played with us.
i only play to be a part of the family…
making a moment…bonding and all that.
i don’t have a scrabble kind of brain.
they play for points.
(it takes forever)
i am lucky if i can make a word let alone put it somewhere worth points.

craig makes killer tapioca pudding.
he has made it for us since we first got married.
it’s one of his specialties.
pancakes is another.
he and i are the only ones who like it it.
which makes it an even better treat.

i taught annie how to play memory.
now we have to play it everyday.

she got a match!
this game was bright and early…
8:00 AM saturday morning i believe.
the sun was just coming up over our neighbor’s house.
she’s getting pretty good.

and even more wild…
we went swimming.

the hot tub was great.
other than everytime i went in it annie would scream and cry
until i’d get back in the pool with her.
i guess if we are going to go swimming close to bedtime on a day without a nap…
that’s what i get.

and wrapped up the weekend
making straw and bead necklaces with my kindergarten sunday school class.
oh yeah…there was also a 10 hour cleaning spree in between games & swimming.

this place is just too exciting.

happy anniversary mom and dad.
hope you have a nice one.

want to know what a 2 year old keeps in her purse?
this is my old purse that i gave to talby…which annie quickly claimed for herself.
she is constantly filling and emptying it with treasures.
this was all inside…

pink sunglasses…baby bottle…tiny radio (purple)…
2 green poker chips…5 DQ gift cards (with no $$ on them)…
a budweiser bottle opener (it’s our neighbor’s – honest)…
plastic pancakes…old powder mirror…broken snowglobe…
a sonic receipt…thousands of dollars (play money)…
2 AAA batteries…a remote finder keychain…$.04….
a broken but repaired eye examiner from a toy doctor’s kit.
the old broken cell phone is missing from this picture because she couldn’t find it at the moment.
it’s back now though.
thank goodness.

we had a fun morning!
we met ms. kristin and lizzie for coffee downtown.

annie took this one of my arm.
talby chose our seat…on the step looking out the window…perfect spot.
the mommies tried to talk between the little girls’ questions and talby’s movie quotes.
the 3 girls took turns jumping off the step.
we were the only people there so we just let them play.
notice the newspaper in the background…how appropiate.

so nice to get out of the house, see friends and drink coffee.
these 2 little girls are going to have so much fun at preschool this year!
kristin…i promise i won’t blog about it every time we get together.

you have got to love remake albums.
especially dora the explorer ones
more than once i have overheard annie singing to herself
“celebrate good times … come on!”

i can’t help but include my memory of that song.
family friends of ours had a cabin on a lake.
we were in the boat & the tape player only had one tape – kool and the gang. so we listened to that song over and over. i think of that every time for the past 20 years. do you remember that lorel?

we had friends over saturday night.
watermelon margaritas – yum yum.
and we played a game called Marry Date or Dump.
you have to choose from the 3 people on your card
which you would marry
which you would date
and which you would dump.
there are other catagories too.
then everyone tries to guess what you’d pick.
it makes for alot of laughs.
one card was *ben affleck *matt damon *brad pitt
it’s a tough game!
ha ha

note to self … tylenol PM works.
whoa.
talby about gave me a heart attack when she came in at 9:00 this morning!
i was out cold.
i was blessed with a big breakfast of blueberry pancakes!
craig you rock. seriously.
even flowers on the table and placemats.
talby had been busy. . . if only she knew how to make coffee.

then we were off to the zoo.
we only four kids to take – this would be easy.
you know you are a bad mom if your kid says “i don’t feel good” and you say “you are fine. walk faster.” and then 5 minutes later he throws up on the sidewalk.
this is not the first time i have done this to a child either!
don’t worry there is no photo.
poor scott.
we came back home and he fell asleep on the couch.

and last but not least
maybe it should have been first
Kim chose me for a daily entry of her blog!!
we don’t know each other but i found her blog while searching for inspiration (like i do almost everyday)
i sent her a note and right away she picked me.
how cool.
i am a happy girl.
thanks Kim! i love all your fun finds.
check her out.
www.todayscreativeblog.blogspot.com
(i don’t know how to make a link yet and my 12 year old isn’t home to teach me)
i put in on my happy things list to the left – daily inspiration.

talby took this picture a month ago.
she just wanted a turn behind the camera.
there were lots of bad ones of course but this one … i love.

i have wanted to start this project for awhile.
but i was nervous.
yesterday i decided to
just do it!
i am letting the kids draw on the bathroom walls.
talby was unsure at first.
she drew a beautiful cat.
then a dinosaur with lots of kids riding on it’s back.
she looked at me and said “is daddy going to be mad?”
(hopefully not)
sean and scott drew more.
i plan on drawing it over with a black marker and maybe painting some of it.
she is working on the giraffe under the light switch.
a very original bathroom.
i love it already.

2 new pages i finished for talby’s book.
the “play” one is a bad pic. – bad lighting i guess.
for the play i painted green
then put letter stickers on
waited for it to dry
(i hate waiting)
then painted the white
THEN pulled off the letters
the ‘be’ words are rub-ons
i was giddy with myself.
i have seen this done many times but hadn’t tried it.
i will have to control myself to not have every title this way from now on.
just picking the patterns for the quilt side of this page made me
happy all afternoon.
i love color and patterns.

this was annie tonight.
she came outside
all on her own
in the plastic dress-up feather puffy high heels
into the driveway.
i said “HI!! what are you doing?”
she answered “i go’d to walmart and got M&M’s”
so matter-of-fact.
as if she really had.
and then we sat & shared imaginary M&M’s.

later we did go to walmart.
all 7 of us.
it was surprisingly pleasant.
they all brought their money & each picked a toy.
everyone was very happy.
(i did find it funny when we were ALL in the women’s underwear department together.)

craig then treated us to his special chocolate chip pancakes for dinner.
yummy.