Spirit Week

A couple weeks ago was spirit week, and because I'm a good mom, I helped the kids dress up.

Monday, Hippie Day
Sarah came home from school and informed me that she wasn't actually a hippie. She was a flower child. And the peace sign is called "the rooster claw." Okay, whatever. I'm a child of the 80's.


The crazy hair day was fun to do. She looked cute. Albeit, crazy.


Noah is a minimalist. A peace sign and hair spikes were enough for him. I offered a vest, headband, Koolaid hair dye...but no.

The other days were less exciting - pajama day, sports day, and...something else less exciting.

In case there was any doubt...

I'm raising monkeys.



Cute gummy, smiley monkeys.

Spree!

As long as I'm on here...

More pictures!

Cute kids:

(See what happens when I try to be all arty? At least they're all smiling...)

Sarah excited for her first day of 3rd grade!


Noah tolerating pictures for first day of 1st grade:

(barely tolerating)

Karen and Caleb at home while the big kids are at school:


Rich cameo on the blog:


Just because I love sleeping babies:

It lives!!!

*hand waving* You don't notice the missing year and a half on this blog...

Pictures!

Caleb eating solids:


Sarah's first project of 3rd grade, the Mexican Axolatl:


Karen's first day of preschool:


Sarah on Friday Fun Day, Clown Day:

(I did that make up. Cause I'm a good mom.)

New niece!!


With the kids (except Caleb - he looked scared in his pic):

(Check it out - Emily trusted Sarah to hold Lils!)

And with Aunt Shannon:

(What's up with my hair? I don't know. It was being funky.)

The End.

Anecdotes for the day

Today was Sarah's last day of first grade. She had fun at the park field trip yesterday, but was much more subdued today. She cried in the car when I picked her up. We'll miss Mrs. T.









Noah is a cutie. The Wii is teaching him to read. Specifically, Animal Crossing. There is a lot of text-based interaction with characters. He still makes me read a lot to him, but he's recognizing more words every day.





Karen makes a good grumpy face on command. Her story for the day: she left her binky on the table at the library while she was making sure she had one of each flyer available. More than one of the really important flyers. Anyway, on the way home, she realized she'd left the binky behind and demanded that Mommy 'go get it at the library so the bad guys don't get my binky!' Fortunately for Mommy, we had a duplicate binky at home.

Noah

Noah didn't get an update on the previous post, so I'll just add a quick note.


Wow, I love this kid. He is so funny, and he thinks about interesting things. Lately, his fixation has been on quantifying everything. "How much is a minute?" "So, 10 minutes is 10 sixty seconds?" "How much is an hour?" "So it's sixty sixty seconds?" And 3 days from now is "tomorrow's tomorrow's tomorrow."

We've also been having interesting discussions about resurrection (When does it happen? Where will we live? When will we see people again?) and accountability ("If I'm bad right now, it doesn't really count, but if I keep being bad, when I get older I'll be used to being bad, and then I'll get in trouble.").

Today we were discussing a pending shopping trip. He wanted to know when we were going, and I wasn't sure. I told him it depended on how long it took to change Karen and get lunch and whether we'd have enough time before Sarah's school concert... Anyway. His response was "I'll take whatever is in life."

I'm not dead yet!

Yes, the blog lives. It's just sadly neglected. What's a good excuse...? Er...we'll blame it on 'having a two-year-old.'

Speaking of two-year-olds... This was a fun project of Karen's. That's vegetable oil, with a healthy dose of olive oil, all over my kitchen floor. She was 'making a birthday cake for Mommy.' And then she realized that it was, in fact, a mess instead of a cake and she got some sponges and rags to clean it up. Points for effort Karen. But that was absolutely disgusting to clean up. The second picture shows how she's lived this long. She's so darn cute. (Especially wearing lots of chapstick all over her face.)

While Noah and Daddy were on the Father Son campout, and Karen was occupied with Blues Clues, Sarah got a sewing lesson. I helped make sure the fabric was straight a couple of times, and I did the square reenforcements on the straps for her, but other than that, she did it herself.

(Hint: It's a tote bag. Not a dress.)

Zoo trip!

Perfect capture of the kids. Sarah hamming it up, Noah trying to avoid pictures, Karen oblivious and patting another child: "Aww. Cute baby!"

New blog

I'm still keeping this blog open for my usual sporadic posting sprees of the kids' hijinx. But I'm also starting a new one with other random stuff. :)

New blog here!

Awesome Freeness!

Or Free Awesomeness...I'm not sure which I like better.

Anyway, this is not a shameless plug, since I don't get anything, but I wanted to pass on a cool freebie. If you go to the Walden Media site, there's a banner in the center of the page for a free calendar and a free copy of the DVD Amazing Grace (Yay Horatio!) for registering at their site.

I'm not sure if it's necessary, but my username there is Euphrasie if you want to put it in the referrer field. But that's probably just for their tracking purposes.