Still loves to paint!
Friday, January 30, 2015
Christmas 2014
Christmas Eve meal
Owen with his 'Red Remote Control Helicopter' (Oh for a nickel for each time I heard that phrase before Christmas morning!)
Eden inspecting her glow-in-the-dark Crazy Aaron's Thinking Putty
A warm Christmas!
Wagon rides
60 degrees on Christmas?! The snow was a little late... :)
Catchup
I just experienced a horrific evening with my children; the kind that makes you wonder if you've done anything right as a parent at all, and fear that the entire rest of the world knows something you don't about children and how to care for them and love them properly. A truly rough debacle. Anyway, rather than lay a major guilt trip on them (which is really just my frustration at my own parental ineptitude), I am hitting the photos and reminding myself of better moments, while catching up on unrecorded moments. Hope it takes the edge off!
3rd bday breakfast
Princess for a day
Birthday supper
Cake!
Gifts. If the amount of Hello Kitty items that the child received were lined up edge to edge, they might reach to California...ugh! Probably not good. But boy, was she PLEASED!
Xmas Eve and back from church
3rd bday breakfast
Princess for a day
Birthday supper
Cake!
Gifts. If the amount of Hello Kitty items that the child received were lined up edge to edge, they might reach to California...ugh! Probably not good. But boy, was she PLEASED!
Xmas Eve and back from church
Eden 3yrs
37"
30lb 10oz.
No fan of needles! Repeat of 1 yr. inability to draw blood. Repeat of phlebotomist outcry, "Wow, she is a STRONG twister!"
30lb 10oz.
No fan of needles! Repeat of 1 yr. inability to draw blood. Repeat of phlebotomist outcry, "Wow, she is a STRONG twister!"
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Snowpocalypse
Judging by the excitement around here, you'd think New Englanders had never weathered a blizzard! But when you're hearing predictions of three feet of snow and 60mph wind, well, it does send you to the store for some milk, bread and eggs (I usually pride myself in not engaging in the pre-snow grocery run. After all, the streets are cleared in < 24hrs!). Anyway, it *has* been quite a dump, with at least 6-8 inches having fallen just a couple of days prior. It's really fun to have everyone home, and the whole day in front of us to enjoy the snow. The kids bounded out of bed, squealing as if it were Christmas morning. I barely got a half-breakfast in them before they were suiting up. (Incidentally, the three year old can put on her own snow pants, and Owen needs no help at all with anything, including gloves! We have arrived!!) We have managed to rear some genuine winter-lovers...this year we've already been sledding and ice skating more than a handful of times, and they never tire (including Eden...she is tough! She rolls down the sledding hill and climbs back up for more!). Eden goes skiing for her first time next week and I'm betting it will be a hit, too.
Snowman from the snow a few days ago:
And it's still going...through end of today, so we hear. Reuel did the first round of snowblowing and will have to redo after it's over! We are grateful we still have electricity (some coastal areas didn't fare as well) and a warm house from which to enjoy living in a snow globe.
Snowman from the snow a few days ago:
Our bedroom windows! That's snow! (There's a roof below the windows)
Reuel gave the kids spoons and poured snow cone syrup on the yard snow. They were beyond pleased with this invention :)
And it's still going...through end of today, so we hear. Reuel did the first round of snowblowing and will have to redo after it's over! We are grateful we still have electricity (some coastal areas didn't fare as well) and a warm house from which to enjoy living in a snow globe.
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Minecraft
True-to-my-memory conversation:
O: MOM I HAVE TO TELL YOU SOMETHING!!!!
Me: Yeeesss?
O: You will NEVER believe it.
Me: Try me.
O: I figured out how to do something and I cannot even believe it. I made a sword and it was diamond and then I put EVERY enchantment on it that is possible. OK, well at least every enchantment you can get with an enchanting table. There are like 5 more but I don't know how to do those, but still it is SUPER enchanted and it is amazing. It has like 1,354 damage power. CAN YOU EVEN BELIEVE THAT???
Me: Wow. [Mind began to wander on about word 3 of that paragraph]
O: Do you understand Mom? Do you know how much damage power that is? Usually it takes a lot of hits to kill a cow but I super-enchanted a sword and you can kill a cow with ONE HIT. And you don't just kill it, because the sword has the throw back enchantment and the cow gets launched back when you hit it. And then it burns up in fire!! [Laughs with glee!]
Me: Oh, wow. [Attempts to care about what child cares about for good of relationship. Hard work.] Why do you kill cows anyway? Why can't you just play without killing them?
O: MOM, of course, you get leather and meat from them. But with a super-enchanted sword the meat you get is COOKED MEAT!!! That is so cool. And usually you get one to two leather from a cow. But with this special sword you get zero to four leather!! [Pause. Switch to serious tone.] Mom. If you had to pick between getting definitely one or two leather, or zero to four leather which would you get?
Me: [What am I making for supper tonight? How can I go grocery shopping constantly and never feel like I have something to make for supper?]
O: MOM!
Me: [I am a highly educated maid. A robot maid. I walk around all day picking up after people. It feels like nearly all I do. And try to train these children to pick up after themselves, which doesn't seem to stick. If real robot maids came on the market and I could afford one, would I get one? Would it ruin the already declining character of the average human being to never have to pick up after themselves? Or would it just allow me to have a better attitude? I mean, I don't choose to use a washboard to scrub my clothes even though I would have better tricep tone if I did. Where is that line between using conveniences and being lazy? I have to decide this before robot maids come on the market because right now, I want one.]
O: MOM! That is so hard to decide isn't it? I mean you could KNOW you'll get two or three pieces of leather, or you MIGHT get four, but you might get zero. WHICH WOULD YOU CHOOSE?
Me: Oh buddy, I don't know, that's a hard decision.
O: But mom, WHICH would you choose, you have to answer!!
Me: Oh I see, a bird in the hand or two in the bush.
O: What???
Me: I think I would just keep the cow.
O: NO!!!! You're not answering my question.
Me: I guess that enchanted sword is pretty cool and I would take a risk to get 4 leather just so I'd get to use it, because I figured out how to make it and that's pretty exciting.
O: Yeah, me too.
We're all asking the same questions, eh?
O: MOM I HAVE TO TELL YOU SOMETHING!!!!
Me: Yeeesss?
O: You will NEVER believe it.
Me: Try me.
O: I figured out how to do something and I cannot even believe it. I made a sword and it was diamond and then I put EVERY enchantment on it that is possible. OK, well at least every enchantment you can get with an enchanting table. There are like 5 more but I don't know how to do those, but still it is SUPER enchanted and it is amazing. It has like 1,354 damage power. CAN YOU EVEN BELIEVE THAT???
Me: Wow. [Mind began to wander on about word 3 of that paragraph]
O: Do you understand Mom? Do you know how much damage power that is? Usually it takes a lot of hits to kill a cow but I super-enchanted a sword and you can kill a cow with ONE HIT. And you don't just kill it, because the sword has the throw back enchantment and the cow gets launched back when you hit it. And then it burns up in fire!! [Laughs with glee!]
Me: Oh, wow. [Attempts to care about what child cares about for good of relationship. Hard work.] Why do you kill cows anyway? Why can't you just play without killing them?
O: MOM, of course, you get leather and meat from them. But with a super-enchanted sword the meat you get is COOKED MEAT!!! That is so cool. And usually you get one to two leather from a cow. But with this special sword you get zero to four leather!! [Pause. Switch to serious tone.] Mom. If you had to pick between getting definitely one or two leather, or zero to four leather which would you get?
Me: [What am I making for supper tonight? How can I go grocery shopping constantly and never feel like I have something to make for supper?]
O: MOM!
Me: [I am a highly educated maid. A robot maid. I walk around all day picking up after people. It feels like nearly all I do. And try to train these children to pick up after themselves, which doesn't seem to stick. If real robot maids came on the market and I could afford one, would I get one? Would it ruin the already declining character of the average human being to never have to pick up after themselves? Or would it just allow me to have a better attitude? I mean, I don't choose to use a washboard to scrub my clothes even though I would have better tricep tone if I did. Where is that line between using conveniences and being lazy? I have to decide this before robot maids come on the market because right now, I want one.]
O: MOM! That is so hard to decide isn't it? I mean you could KNOW you'll get two or three pieces of leather, or you MIGHT get four, but you might get zero. WHICH WOULD YOU CHOOSE?
Me: Oh buddy, I don't know, that's a hard decision.
O: But mom, WHICH would you choose, you have to answer!!
Me: Oh I see, a bird in the hand or two in the bush.
O: What???
Me: I think I would just keep the cow.
O: NO!!!! You're not answering my question.
Me: I guess that enchanted sword is pretty cool and I would take a risk to get 4 leather just so I'd get to use it, because I figured out how to make it and that's pretty exciting.
O: Yeah, me too.
We're all asking the same questions, eh?
What could be better?
What could be better than math with a view, and with a cookie snack to boot? (I'm sure the boys could choose something...without hesitation...) Enjoying these precious days and the adventures they bring.
"Asher, give me a fierce face" :
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