week 14 in pictures

sunday’s POTD:

had a lovely dinner w/ some lovely friends at a lovely restaurant… where we sat gabbing for 5 hours!

monday’s POTD:

shane took toby out to experience the rain. he was not a fan. that picture catches him mid-meow to be let back in!

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again with the cat and the dairy products…

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layla and micah turned the sit n’ spin upside down and made it a merry-go-round for polly pockets.

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micah was playing with shane’s cars. I’ve never seen him line them up like this before, but shane used to do it ALL THE TIME. kind of compulsively. walking by and looking in to see this was kind of nostalgic for me!

wednesday’s POTD:

yup, north of us had reports of snow. us? we put on swimsuits and went outside!

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I brought in a basket of clean laundry. it was warm. layla climbed in. micah climbed in. then layla drug the cat in…

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the bouncy ball in the sippy cup.

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as part of layla’s superhero obsession a couple months back, she made herself a life-size paper super suit. she insisted on keeping it all this time, and it was starting to fall apart. I finally suggested we take a picture of it ‘in case’ it got torn or lost, that way she could remember what it looked like. she agreed that it was a good idea. the next day it ‘got lost’ in the recycling. shhh!

the next 3 are all part of friday’s POTD:after 6+months of riding without training wheels on the little (12 inch?) red bike, we FINALLY convinced layla to try out her pink bike. she was convinced it was too big and she was going to fall off, which is why she preferred to stick to the little bike. but we really wanted to get the training wheels back on it so micah can learn to ride. so she finally tried it out, with a little help from shane, and discovered that she’s grown A LOT since the last time she tried to ride it. she had no problem at all, and rode around the library parking lot like a crazy daredevil – taking speed bumps at full speed and flying off curbs. craziness!

shane loves to hook the chariot to his bike and take micah for rides. micah thinks it’s great because shane probably rides in a more ‘interesting’ fashion than dave or I would. micah loves to go over the speed bumps and wind around in crazy circles.

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dave spent saturday cleaning out the garage. that evening, the kids took advantage of the extra open space and had fun on various wheeled things.

saturday’s POTD:

while dave was cleaning the garage, I did some shopping to solve some organization problems. then I came home and organized all of our paperwork and office supplies, then I moved on to the junk drawer:

PHEW!

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first day of school

so, we started school today. this is a big deal because it is OUR first day of official homeschooling. you know, here. at home. most everyone reading this is already aware of the fact that shane has been homeschooled since first grade, but that he has spent the majority of that ‘school’ time, with my mother as his ‘teacher’. this was a fine arrangement, she was willing and more than qualified, and he was learning. but for a variety of reasons, not the least of which being my mother’s current cancer issues, it had become clear that it was time for me to take over. AND,with layla being 4 now, i really wanted to do a little bit more preschool stuff with her. being a little bit of a chicken flake, i (with much urging from my loving husband) decided the best route to go would be with a packaged curriculum. i figured it would be the most time-effective way to cover what we needed to cover, and be somewhat dummy-proof, but at the same time, having the option to supplement with as much

project life–week 18

the three amigos… this trio of the neighbors’ poultry is always in my parents’ yard. and spark way too many “why did the chicken cross the road” jokes. these are the two lilacs I gave my mom for mother’s day two years ago. last year, only one bloomed. looks like this year, both will have some nice flowers! when I get to the bottom of a bag of chips and they’re too small to effectively scoop up salsa, I just dump them in a bowl, pour salsa over them, and eat the whole delicious mess with a spoon. not ashamed. dave got himself a new set of bike tools. everyone had to check it out. first grade music concert. micah had a solo! saturday baseball fun. pitching, homerun derby, bouncy houses, dunk the coach… and of course, eating kettle corn and horsing around.

vomit phobia

most people who know me relatively well are aware of my ridiculous fear of vomit. so essentially, the last year or so has been the embodiment of my worst nightmare. we have now embarked on stomach flu episode 4 of the last 13 months. is that not ridiculous? is that not excessive? what's the deal? should i be concerned? or maybe i'm just paying my dues. shane never had the stomach flu until he was 6, but now we've got it all the time. since may last year, he's now had it 3 times. between january and november of last year, layla had it 3 times, and now we're just waiting to see when she's going to come down with this latest strain. WHAT THE HECK! i never had it this often as a kid. maybe i was just lucky. i don't know. is this normal? how many times can you get this stuff in a certain amount of time before you should think that something is wrong? and how can you prevent it, if at all? i don't really think we have weak immune systems. th

how to make a bad situation worse:

around 7:30 on thursday evening, we had a situation like this: not a good scenario. about 2 hours later, we were in this situation: awesome, right? so how do we get from point A to point B? like this: see the awesome metal ‘edge of death’ on that bowl? yeah. that’s the weapon. in my effort to speedily get the bowl under layla’s face, I actually HIT her in the face with it, and the edge SLICED her upper lip open. yup. right open. it was NOT awesome. I freaked out, of course. she’s still in the middle of feeling terrible. dave was not home yet from a meeting. yeah. mom is majorly freaking out. fortunately, dave walked in the door just as I was sending the “GET HOME NOW!” text. it wasn’t really bleeding a ton, but it was obvious that this was not a band-aid situation. so I called my dad to come and stay with the boys while we took her in to the ER. it’s very nice to have an older kid, so we didn’t have to wait for him to get there before we could leave. but not knowing how long it

Micah’s Birthday

This kid had the audacity to turn 13 yesterday… As was expected, I was a bit of a hot mess about the whole affair. Here’s his “last day to be 12” photo. He ran out of fingers a couple years ago, so taking a page out of Shane’s book, he borrowed a couple of feet from the cat to make 12. But, not too old to choose Lucky Charms for his birthday breakfast. He got his happy birthday facetime call first thing and got to open his gift from Gramma and Skip while they watched… He’s had a boom box on his list this year. You might remember that 2 years ago, it was a Walkman. The obsession with 80s audio continues. Gramma found this one and it seems to fit the bill. Looks totally retro, plays and records tapes but also has radio AND a USB port so he could use some modern tech with it, as well. So, he spent the morning taking advantage of the birthday allowances of not having to do his weekend chores and lifted time limits on video games… all while listening to the radio or one

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