April 18, 2012

• The Collective Miscellaneous of My Life

  So. Um.  There is this soup called White Bean and Kale soup that is very yummy.  I was hungry for it.  It calls for a pound of Kale. I decided to be “sneaky mommy” and blend the kale into little pieces to get Zion to eat it better.  Um.  Do you know how much kale is in a pound of kale?  Like, the entire bag is a pound.  So I blend and blend and blend…and then we have Green Sludge for supper.

  

  HAAAA!!!  It was so green.  The funny part was that neither Tim or I said a word; we just sort of exchanged squinty glances and then looked away, and the boys happily ate Green Soup.  Although they only had one bowl, and I dumped the rest.  It was just too sludge-y.  

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  I have noticed that when a new box of Band-Aids walk into the house, there is a veritable explosion of wounds around the house.  I had bought a decidedly boring box of them this last go around, thinking perhaps they would be less inspiration for bandage-craving children, but they seem to be riding high in popularity around here regardless of their flesh-colored blandness.  The other day as I was working in the kitchen, Zion was very quiet over on the couch in the office, and when I happened to pause and peer in at him, I discovered this:

   

  Why yes, that is about twenty band-aids, carefully applied to bilateral shins.  Hummm.  

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  I think that Layla looks like a Gerber Baby in this picture.

   

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  “Ohhhhh, ‘H’its a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor…won’t you be mine…won’t you be mine…?”

  

  Gorgeous days around here these past few days.  Barefoot boys outside, pounding the grass with running footsteps, soaking up the sun.  Just like a mommy likes it.  Israel carefully constructed this sign for the backyard the other day, with my spelling assistance.  

   

  He really enjoys writing words as I spell them out to him.  This was attached to a jump rope and strung up on the back porch in front of the screen door.  

  Layla has also felt the siren call of the outdoors.

   

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  I found this dress at Old Navy this season for Layla and simply just HAD to have it.  I just love it.  

   

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   I feel like Gabe gets the short end of the picture stick around here lately because he’s not home as much.  Here he is on Easter Sunday:

   

  He had a school program the week before Easter break, and his first grade class sang in it.  They did a great job.  He was supposed to wear a white shirt and tie; I had to go buy a tie for him.  He made me smile to watch him; he was on the front row and kept “falling” off of the risers, and had to turn around to look at who was behind him, and squint out at the audience and wiggle and squirm.  Just Gabe.  He did a great job singing.  

  Here he is sitting happily with his class before the program started.

  

  

  This is his first grade class:

  

  This is him singing with the K-6th grades:

  

  

  We were initially sitting near him on the bleachers,

  

  but I was out in the foyer for a lot of the time with Ms. Wiggle Worm, who needed to busily crawl.  She had some other crawl/totter/scamper buddies out there with her.  Here she is practicing her standing:

   

  She fell fast asleep before we left.

  

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  Lately I’ve been teaching the boys a few new games; we’ve played Uno, all of us together, and then I got some regular card decks to teach Gabe Egyptian Rat Killer.  I loved playing that with my friends in middle school, and still really like it.  We’re in the middle of a stretched out game, since it can take a while to finish, being as that I am delaying some of my doubles slaps to let him catch on and have a chance.  I LOVE having a buddy to play cards with me!!  It’s just good times.

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  Lately Israel has been asking to take some pictures with my camera.  Here’s two lately of me, in all my wild-haired, sweatshirt clothed, be-spectacled glory.

   

  

  Isn’t motherhood becoming on me?  

  I’m still wearing my glasses because of this ratty pink eye that never seems to quiiiiiite leave.  It could have something to do with the fact that I keep forgetting to use my antibiotic drops on a proper schedule, but whatever.  Horribly annoying, the whole mess.

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