After spending a couple hours at J & M's soccer games this morning, we came home ready to tackle some gardening & sewing projects. Talking on the phone to try and locate some raspberry starts, I heard my still-for-another-6-weeks-baby's voice: "Mommy, you dwop me off at socca pwactice?" I quickly finished up the call, walked around the corner and found this cuteness:

Saturday, April 24, 2010
Soccer Season
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Labels: gabriel, puppy dog tails
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Not-so-super powers
Gabe loves to dress up. To his sister's dismay, he's moved on from princess attire, and can regularly be found wearing boyish get-ups. As I was cleaning up costumes he'd flung all over the family room floor, I realized he had yet to discover our stash of capes. Today, I rectified that. I was trying to explain what these costumes were for, sort of stumbling in my description until he looked me in the eye and said, "Superman." Moments later, he fell flat on his face, picked himself up and muttered, "AWW-AWWW!! I tan't fwy!" Thankfully, he attempted take-off from the ground.
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Labels: gabriel, puppy dog tails, superboy
Monday, June 1, 2009
Crazy Hair Day
On their second-to-last day of school, J & M enjoyed a combined field/crazy hair day. Since they wore uniforms to their charter school all year long, the chance to wear t-shirts and wacked-out 'dos was a special treat.
Jonah picked a mohawk/side spikes hairdo While Micah decorated a wig with snowflakes. He won "best crazy hair" for kindergarten, I guess.
...silly boys!
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Labels: boys, puppy dog tails
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Rain, Rain, Go Away
Last night, I sat at the computer playing Word Twist much too late. Suddenly, it sounded as if the roof had come crashing down, allowing the heavens to leak directly onto our front hallway's wood floor. I hesitantly got up, cautiously approaching the offended hall. It took me a moment to find the source of the leak. As my eyes followed the flow, I found my second-oldest standing at the top of the staircase, peeing in a very sleepy daze. He became upset when I pointed out that he was not, in fact, standing in front of the toilet. This morning, he had no memory of the event (although he did find it absolutely hilarious.)
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Labels: micah, potty talk, puppy dog tails
Monday, February 23, 2009
Little Chefs
Jonah has taken to cooking morning breakfast. His specialties are oatmeal and scrambled eggs. The scrambled eggs are quite good; the oatmeal has benefited from a little fine tuning. Turns out, if you don't let the water come to a rolling boil before adding the oatmeal (i'm talking about the real stuff here), a strange consistency happens. Sort of porridge-y. While Clint enjoyed more shut-eye and i showered Sunday morning, Jonah got ambitious. I came downstairs, looked at the pot on the stove, and asked who he'd invited over for breakfast. He explained he just wanted us all to have enough for seconds. Two bowls of porridge for breakfast?? Why, thank you, little buddy!
Micah is famous for his made-to-order sandwiches. They always involve multiple layers and many ingredients. He is his first and (currently) only customer. Last night, he took out three pieces of bread. He slathered the first with an inch-high coating of grape jelly on one side, and about half as much creamed honey on the other. Next layer was covered simply in crunchy peanut butter. Finally, he applied honey and sliced bananas to the top piece. After a few bites, he asked if he could store the rest in the fridge, to be consumed in the far-away future. i suggested he ought to eat a little more, after going to so much trouble. He finished all but five or six bites, then announced, "I feel like I'm going to baaf!" (still working on the "r" annunciation, cute boy!)
Maybe they'll be able to fix an edible meal by the time they are ready to go out on their own... if not, it won't be for lack of trying!! :)
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Labels: boys, cooking, puppy dog tails
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Slugs and Snails and Puppy dog tails
There are a lot of boys in this house. To give you a little sneak peak into everyday life around here, I offer the following conversation:
Me: "J, as soon as you put on your socks and shoes, you can go outside to play...I just folded clean socks and put them in the sock box."
(no one ever thinks to put socks on while in their bedrooms around here, so I've started stocking a box full of them in the laundry room, next to their shoes. Otherwise, they all go sock-less.) Anyhow, back to the conversation...
J: "I put a pair of socks in there too, only I didn't fold them." (pulls out the same pair of dirty socks CR asked him to place in the hamper about an hour earlier.)
Me: "J, that box is only for clean socks. Please don't put your dirty socks in with them."
J: "They're not that dirty. I didn't wear them for very long."
Me: (administered "the look" #45, communicating that I ain't buyin' it)
J: "What? I only wore them for, like, 2 days."
Niiiiiice!!
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Labels: boys, puppy dog tails, sweaty socks