museum bits

 a few bits from a fun

outing to the children's museum with friends!

lj

first tooth fairy visit for b

 the tooth fairy made her first visit

to bennett's pillow last week.

he's not even in kindergarten yet!

i'm not ready for that smile to start changing,

but he sure is, can't you tell!

note: tooth fairy generosity and note written while balling my eyes out and while under the influence of one too many glasses of wine...

yard work wands

saturday was all about
sticks, sticks and more sticks!

a family yard work day picking up sticks, branches,

and clearing away brush.

then a whole bunch of rain set in, 

so we continued with our stick theme by bringing 

some inside to make these colorful embroidery wrapped wands.

introducing our chicks

 introducing the newest members of the family...

camilla

alice

hazel

martha

rebecca

dottie

 francis
lucy

we are thrilled to have begun our new 

adventures as backyard chicken farmers!

happy birthday wes - outtakes

i shared the above photo on wes' birthday.

our failed attempt at snapping a fun little happy birthday photo for daddy.  

i thought the episode was best depicted in those 3 pics up there.

but while going through photos today,

 i realized the moments leading up to the point when ella & bennett 

rescued jane by removing the balloons and then losing them up in the tree  

tell a far better story.

i present takes 1-10 of a failed birthday photo shoot...

happy birthday wes!

headbands & sleep

  pictures posted while sitting outside jane's room on the night 

we let her scream and cry herself back to sleep.

what's it called...furberize?

awful word.
this is torture.

so...i'm making myself feel like not such a mean mama by 

looking at the pics from our day together making headbands out of old t-shirts. 

yeah, this was not a good idea.

she's too cute give tough love.

especially with new chic headband look.

but, the girl needs to sleep.
this mama needs to sleep,

or there won't be anything left for more headbands,
 or better said, dinner.