Sunday Feb 28

The group that put our garden in (Mobile Loaves & Fishes) is working on a little booth to use around town to promote their garden project, and asked if they could profile our family. They also needed staff photos, so a large group came over to the house a few weeks ago and did a photo shoot with a photographer who had donated her time. She just sent me one of the pics tonight:


There are five total, so maybe one of them has everyone's eyes open. But if not, this one's pretty good!

snow!

I'm not sure how it can snow ALL DAY and only accumulate half an inch, but the boys had fun playing, nonetheless. Brad got to come home at lunch, and they all watched Star Wars IV.

Feb 20, 2010

I think I forgot to post something yesterday - sorry for the downtime. Well, one day's not a big deal.....and I'm so on top of everything else, I don't feel too guilty. ahem.

when it was super-crazy-cold, brad iced down the porch ON PURPOSE.
I thought it was the worst idea ever.
the boys thought it was the best idea ever.

So - here's a few nuggets from this week:

Cole loves to sing and dance. And really loves to sing in the car. So on the way to school on Friday, we were listening to the Praise Baby CD, and I realized that every time they sang "holy", Cole was singing "Coley". As in, "Coley, Coley, Coley, Lord God Almighty." Really.

Gray seriously will not stay off the tables. Dining room table. End table. Desk. Coffee Table. I try to stash stools and chairs and other climbing things, but he drags the time-out stool from the dining room to wherever he happens to be climbing that nanosecond. And Lord knows I can't get rid of the time-out stool.

the bench went UNDER the table after I took the picture.
then he used the chairs five minutes later.

Luke is diggin' the Olympics. I'm coming to terms with the fact that I'm going to need to get "ahead of the curve" on his inclination to all things gravity defying. Like go ahead and build a skateboard half pipe in the backyard so he stops building his own ramps with 2 x 4s. (he said he was practicing his "dangerous kid stuff" when I found the ramp up by the compost pile.) And Sean White is the coolest, most gracious kid ever, so at least he'd have a good role model...

prediction: Luke at the 2020 X-Games

Reid has started drawing again. He was just coloring for awhile, but now he's back to drawing space things and bugs. And he's been asking to go one more play dates with class friends - and he asked a quiet boy who gets picked on in class to come play next week. In the car a few days ago, he said, "Mama, I know why so-and-so has started being mean to people." (this boy had previously been really sweet and was friends with Reid, but then started acting mean.) "When he tries to pack his backpack, so-and-so#2 steps on it and laughs at him, and that makes him feel sad, and then he acts mean to other people to try to feel better, but it only makes him more sad." WHAT??!!!?? Have they really been listening to my "why people are bullies" speech. NO. WAY. And, apparently, Reid's been listening to my "you should be friends with people who don't have other friends" speech as well. And he ate his spinach on Tuesday. Is this for real?

the solar system Reid made just for fun in Fredericksburg last week.
yes, that is the asteroid belt represented along with the orbits.

And I actually stayed on top of laundry this week. Until Gray had the biggest antibiotics-from-massive-ear-infection-induced-explosive-diarrea-in-the-high-chair-catastrophe you've ever seen. Ever. Like had to throw the high chair pad away. Like had to wash that particular load of clothes THREE times. Like have to get the carpet cleaned SOON. It took Brad and I working like a well-oiled machine a full 45 minutes to contain and decontaminate all the people and objects involved. So now, somehow, there are 5 loads of dirty laundry stacked up in the garage. Oh well. At least Gray's ear infection is better.

OK - maybe I'll post again tomorrow. Or maybe in May.

the boys helping Tim with the garden.
Oh, did I forget to post about the 30x19 organic garden
installed by Mobile Loaves and Fishes?
maybe next time.....

Brad and Junior putting the garden in. Junior has Cerebral Palsy, and like Tim,
was very recently homeless. And they're going to sell our veggies to earn money
to pay rent in their new community. But that's another post.....