Pictures, pictures

I love seeing my boys surrounded by books.  Must be the teacher in me.  Or the almost librarian. 

Happy Accident

Our backyard is a butterfly garden!  Un-eaten apples for snack, coupled with a good rain has given us all sorts of friends!  We've seen 10 to 20 eating at once, but they seem to be camera shy. ;)

Arbor Day

Mama and the boys

Anyone seen my sheep?

Adventures with SpiderMan

Just another Tuesday...

Momo stopped by this afternoon for a quick visit.  Family in town.  Novel, no?

Laptop or Recliner? You Decide.

Alternative Caption: I'm beat. Glad they finally got a chair my size.

Toe Typing!

I'll show you all the raisins in my mouth if you don't make me move. Deal? Deal!?!

Life Lately

Why I Need to Run

The M&M's just left after a few days of helping out.  They claim they weren't too handy, but after keeping the freezer stocked with Bluebell, I've got no complaints.

Couch potato to 5k has been percolating in my brain recently.  I think I'm going to heal up for a while longer, then go for it.  Anyone out there tried it before?  I really am not a runner, so I suppose at the end (high hopes for finishing, here) I'll tell you that if I can do it, anyone can. 

Equal Parts Delight, Repulsion, and Fascination

We're talking worms, here people. 

The repulsion is mostly on my part.

Jon has been gardening/landscaping up a storm.  I've done a less than stellar job documenting all his projects with before and after pictures, but I will tell you that it has involved lots of digging and worm hunting by a certain little guy. 

We've got a cutie little garden consisting of lettuce, spinach, beets, and carrots.  I'm hoping my calling it a cutie little garden does not down play the manly efforts that have gone into actual food growing in our yard.  We also now have a rock border surrounding two different flower beds (complete with flowers!), a weeded yard (hand-weeded, folks), and variety of new welcoming plants on our front steps.

Meanwhile, S-Man has been absorbed in the task of finding and corralling his little friends.  I have to bite my lip when it seems the crawlers know that death is imminent and somehow escaped S-Man's watch to his complete bafflement.  Last night I heard my favorite line yet, "Uh oh..... two worms now."

  

Holy Exploding Diapers, Batman!

I am better.  S-Man is recovering from another ruptured ear drum, although you would never know it.  It's Lil'O that is a mess.  You know those blogs that you read where the mom is always dishelved, kids are puking, and poop is who knows where?  And then you laugh and laugh, because you can totally relate.  Sorry to say, it turns out I'm not one of those people who can blog about 10 loads of laundry and raging fevers in a fun, up-beat, comical way.  Bummer. 

Good thing I've got excellent help around here.