Funny Talk

While at camp a few weeks back, Sebastian and I got to witness the teaching of a 4 year old..to another 4 year old.
August was sitting with his buddy who is about 8 months older than him. This boy has a excellent vocabulary; he talks perfect, and is always a wealth of 4 year old knowledge.
They are sitting across from one another chatting away..
Boy " This is your pointer finger" he holds up his pointer and shows August.
August looks at his fingers and holds up his middle finger instead.
Boy " Oh no, you can use that finger, that one is BAD LUCK!" So they both put the middle fingers up and look at them before going on to the others.. Me and Sebastian are cracking up at how serious the conversation was and how cute they were.
Boy" Now this is your thumb, it means everything is good" So they both hold up their thumbs and smile, so pleased with themselves.
After that we left the boys on the grass to do more important finger talking.

Zoo post

Driving the tractor..

Coming soon!!! Here is a preview :)

What does a Lion do Auggie?

Tired

How can I be tired and hungry when I slept 10 hours last night and I have been eating EVERYTHING!? Maybe the working out I have been doing again? I'm hoping to do a 4 miler today. With all that is going on, running feel cleansing. This can be good and bad. Tearing up on a run is kind of awkward!
I must go outside to enjoy the sun now :)

Summer..

It is coming up! The weather is warm every day, my plants are beginning to bloom and I saw a sneak peak of something to come...

Strawberries!!!! YUM!

Running though the sprinklers and catching sights of butterflies!



August has had some hard times leaving me lately so I decided to do some momma- son time and we made some oatmeal cookies. They turned out super good. We used the recipe from this new baking cookbook that I really like.

I don't have any after photos of the cookies! I got too lazy :)

Love

Love is so much stronger than I give it credit for sometimes. Right now my heart is breaking because I'm losing someone I love so much. She is one of the most kind, and loving person I know. When I was little she would make the best hot chocolate and cinnamon toast I had ever eaten. She also had the most beautiful garden,and when I was small I would love just see all the blooming flowers and run around like I was in some sort of wonderland park. I have so many wonderful memories, I know I'm lucky to have been loved by her. When it comes down to the last moments, love is all that matters.

A month ago today..I blogged.

That is a long time to take off blogging. I don't think I have any followers anymore! OOPS. Life gets in the way sometimes I guess.
School is almost over for the kids. They have some summer stuff planned, but now I'm not sure enough. The girls are fighting like crazy lately. It is really annoying and tires me out!
We went to Rosa's school camp last week. It was one of the best so far. We have been to 3. The kids had a blast, the parents and teachers taught fun classes too. It was beautiful there too, we got the best weather. Even if it was a little too hot, we had nice big trees for shade.

Today I actually got my camera out at the park and took a bunch of photos. My nephew is totally in to Auggie. It is very cute how he tries to copy him and follow him around a bit too.

He had just woken up and was not ready to smile for me.

Sam has amazing strength! I love the look on his face as he hangs there! ha ha I cant beleive how fast he is growing!!

Mama and her girls. Ruby just got the cutest hair cut.
They both wanted mama's lap.

Cousin hugs

Self

I was trying to do self portraits when I was TRYING to do photo a day...Still trying ha ha.

rain rain rain..

The rain is falling and watering my pretty plants. My garden is beginning to fill out and look nice.. Just a few more weeks and it will be really nice.

Ouchie

Don't worry she was all helmeted up during our street venture!

Well the run went pretty well. Rosa had a hard time on the last hill. Her bike is kind of heavy. She did good though. 3.5 miles with hills, that is my girl!
Unfortunately I pulled something in my lower leg. I rolled my ankle in the last block. The weird thing is my ankle doesn't even hurt now, it is my side calf it is SUPER tight and hard to walk. I cant point or flex my foot without pain. Sucks. Oh well. Hopefully it will heal soon.
Here are some photos from the past day or so..

Mr chubby cheeks

Joyous Veda Jo

Jogging

I'm about to go jog with Rosa. She will be riding her bike on the 3.5 mile run. I'm excited! I hope I can not freak out and worry while she is on her bike.. She is a good rider though. Wish us luck!

Crafty

Yeah I'm crafty. I have been doing a lot of crafts lately, but have been too busy/ lazy ha ha to take a photo. I did take one tonight, although from my camera phone, so it is crappy. I made a oil cloth lunch bag for the family. I had this cloth left over lying around and looked up a tutorial online here. But I also found two other ones here, and here. The last one looks easier than the one I used. I do well with picture directions.

Itchy eyes!

I got to work in the yard today, which equals itchy eyes and sneezes. It was nice though, the sun was out, August was on the trampoline , and Veda helped me weed the garden.

Howdy

Today was filled with sugar. Rosa was so excited last night she could barely sleep. She kept waking up worried she had slept too long. They woke up and found their eggs and their baskets and starting the sugar marathon.
Unfortunately for me I have a dumb cold, It sucks. So I have not eaten as much sugar as I had hoped..
All in all it was a good weekend..I got to go out and watch a friend's husband's band, and hang with the family too!

Night-night

Once again the sweet old blanket( AKA Night-night, AKA Lion) is missing. It has been almost a week now. I cant find it anywhere. I'm pretty confident the last time I saw it was Friday ( last week) day time. Then I left and when Sebastian put the kids to bed he couldn't find it. Now for the life of me I can't remember if I took the kids somewhere that afternoon..somewhere he could have left it. Anyhow we are 75% sure it is somewhere in the house. I have fully cleaned out August's room including his closet..under his bed. It is not in there. I know it must be in some strange place that we have not looked...any ideas??

Sun

Goodness I love the sun. It was such a pretty day today. The kids were able to be outside for a long time too.