Sorry for another video- this one is mainly for Steve

This and That

I've been meaning to blog the last few days since my dad is in Spokane for some training and I know he checks our blogs daily.  My plan was to pressure Rachael and Lisa into posting everyday this week with me so we could give him plenty of reading material.  He left Sunday night, and by Monday evening, my mom and I were having dinner with him, in Spokane.  There went day one- no posting, I traveled instead.

I didn't post on Tuesday, I was too busy shopping (in Spokane).  Sorry, dad, there went day two. 

Wednesday's post may happen.  I have 6 minutes until it's officially Thursday.

Over dinner, he told us that him and another guy sat in the back of class and he showed him our blogs.
Gotta love a dad who's proud of his daughters blogs!

So, without anything particularly important to blog about, I'm just going to make it a bit of 'this and that'.

I can't get enough of this kid's drawings.  I really need to finish taking pictures of some of my favorites so that I can document them.  He's doing awesome at reading and writing, his journals crack me up.  I'm so impressed with his ability to sound things out and hope that he loves to read as much as I do.

 

 

                                                         "Mad at Dad"  by Spencer, age 5

I'm not sure what it is about this picture, but Jason and I love it.

You're right, Mom.  He does look just like Little Quack.

And since nothing features Sophie better than a video, I'm crossing my fingers that blogger will let me upload one....

Another Sophie Video

Another Sophie Video, Take 2

Part One of the Princess Series

I'm going to have to break this up into more than one post so I can effectively document her love of princesses without a princess overdose for the rest of us.

This weeks obsession-

Snow White Costume and Shoes

 

 

Three mornings in a row, I've been woken-up by a little girl shoving her costume in my face asking for help to put it on, over her jammies.

During bath time, the costume had to sit on the counter so she could 'watch it'.

It was put on as her outermost layer of clothing after her bath.

It went with us in the car to her Doctor's appt.

She put on a few performances while dressed up for family when they came to visit.

More than once, she suffered from mistaken identity, like when she told me that Snow White was sitting on the couch ready to watch a show. 

We had a crisis on the fourth straight day of wearing her shoes.  I was at the kitchen sink when I heard the weeping and wailing of a broken hearted little girl across the driveway in our grandma's yard.  I looked out to see her carrying a piece of a shoe in each hand.  One of them had literally snapped in half.  Apparently little princess shoes can't handle the strain of constant wearing and trekking through grass. 



R.I.P Snow White Shoes....you will be missed.

Video for Part One of the Princess Series

A Few Perfect Minutes

A small, and very much needed, miracle occured in our house this afternoon. 

The sun was shining, Disney music was quietly playing, and everyone was calmly and quietly engrossed in their own things...

For a glorious 40 minutes, I sat and played on Jason's computer, while being entertained by the sights and sounds of my kids being healthy, normal, imaginative children. 

And for those 40 minutes, I took back everything I said during the rest of the day about wanting to sell them to the circus (that's code for a lot of things I can't or shouldn't repeat).

And during the time it took me to write this post (about 30 minutes), I've cleaned up two spilled water messes, physically pulled Sophie off of Spencer, threatened to send Spencer to his room for back talking, been accused of "never giving us candy!", pulled Carson off the table twice, and have listened to nothing but screaming and crying. 

Ah, the glorious days of being a stay at home mom.