Mothers Day 2014: My Handsome Boys

2014 Garden

The first step in container gardening, obtain containers...

Second step obtain dirt and compost, seedlings and add sunshine and dash of water and... Voila! Garden!

December Flipbook: What we've been up to

Art Gallery Questions: What is that? 

(First Thursday Night, Downtown Cola.)

2013 Channukah Photo: The best of the lot... 

 New Hat for Baby! 

Singing: Botanical Gardens Cola

 Hanging out in the cold:

  (this was actually the last week of Nov...)

Doing School:

 Going Pop-up-Camping at Apostle Israel's 

(Signal Mountain, Tenn) 

I got to ride a horse!

Little Lego Lovers

8:00 tonight...

The First of the Month Post:

Riding in the car, overheard from eldest son:

"Sunsets are like a present from the sun right before bedtime."

N.: For as rowdy as he can be, he is such a lover. Twice today he came up hugged my thigh and told me, "I love you, mommy!" And i have no worry with leaving baby in a room with my sweet middle child. He is amazingly gentle with his baby brother, whom he also "loves a lot." 

We are super proud of L. for being excited about reading! He has successfully read the first 4 books in the 'Bob Books'. The independence and pride just shines in his face when he proclaims... "I can read now!" I keep telling him, when he can read he can learn anything!  I'm super proud of that kid! 

Latest imagination inspiration:

My sewing nook transforms into a space shuttle. seriously. the (mild) paper cutter is the throttle, a random felt circle the 'on button', and of course our helmets, gravity boots are found on the book shelf. 

Watch out for when the french doors are closed... there may be aliens about! 

Baby E. is one month old today.  Weighing in at 10 lb 1 oz. 

He spends lots of time sleeping, a moderate amount of time awake and quite a few minutes making more dirty diapers. He's creaky, like an old door... grunts a lot.. and still is a curly ball of newborn sweetness. 

Newest trick.... front and back flips and spins and 'rolling like worms' on the BIG trampoline... 

On moving to the new house: 

The kids have adjusted fairly well. However to sum it up succinctly, L told me the other day, "Mama, I don't have any friends anymore." As that may sound like a gross overestimation, in fact this is close to true. See, he's a social kid. Before we moved he practically lived in the park- everyday, all day. And since we moved the three families he palled around with have also scattered to the wind. Thus his world has shrunk and sadly to this sweet little 5 year old, he has no friends. 

Now that I am back on my feet after having baby #3, I have promised myself to plan playdates with friends as often as I can. Thankfully over the last week and a half we have met friends at the zoo, had friends over to play and have visited the college playground and walked around campus twice. Our social network just simply became a little more widespread. In time we will have routine and friends again. 

I love my kids.

Biggest fans...

Fathers Day 2013

Happy Father's Day to the BEST Father ever,

Love, 

L, N & Baby E 

Just Today...

Spring 2013

Just an ordinary salad

I love it.

Bribing my kids, shamelessly. I mean really- it's like this.

"I'll let you have a piece of (home made healthy) banana pudding pie if you eat your whole plate of (mixed greens, carrots, blue cheese, apple chunks, chicken nugget chunks and apple poppyseed dressing) salad!"

"Yay! (Sure mom!)"

Yes. Yes I did.

:)

The Kefir-stache

Just Being Boys... zoo 2.0

       
                                           

Setting Yoda Free

Ok, so there is back story...

About a month or so ago my children found a baby snake at my moms house. The oldest, decided it was a perfectly sane pet. And what did we do about it? Bought a cage and many crickets. He named it Yoda. He loved him- kinda in that way Lenny loved the rabbit in 'Of Mice and Men'... not the good, safe, gentle love. So, mom limited the interaction to save her sanity and possibly the life of a little green gardner snake. That lasted a little while, however it got cold and Yoda began to psudo-hibernate. (If it goes into hibernation with temperatures not staying low enough the snakes metabolism wont slow enough and it will starve.) I didn't want that on my conscience! So, the catch and release program was installed. Here documents the release.

Driftwood Beach Frolic in pictues

                                                 

                                                 

A New Neighbor

He just came strolling up the road, made a left hand turn under our van, pulled a U-ey passing under the truck and a sharp Right up the hill.. you know, the usual route. He got personally placed back into nature by our friendly 9 year old neighborhood biologist, after a thorough inspection. 

Pesach 2012