I haven't posted for awhile. Huh. We got a new door! It is so pretty and the wind doesn't blow in the crack anymore. My Pathetic Doberman barked at it for a whole day until she realized that the door wasn't going to attack us and was here to stay.
We spent our Thanksgiving at our eldest child's other home and had such a lovely time. When Child #4 finished he pie, he held up his plate and said "MORE!" He sounded like a gruff, four year old Oliver Twist.
We spent the rest of the weekend down at Twin Firs, and what a lovely weekend it was... hauling firewood, chopping brush, eating wild huckleberries, listening to the coyotes howling at the full moon... Rustic. We can't wait to get back there.
Child #5 will be two years old this week. I can't wait.
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Why we need another child...
My DH is definitely of balance and needs one more to keep him from falling over...
Friday, November 9, 2007
Lollipop Girl
One for you...
And one for me...
What are friends for?
Of course My Pathetic Doberman took this as an invitation to help herself to any lollipop or lollipop stick she found in a kid's mouth or not. It was like stealing candy from a baby. Okay, it was stealing candy from a baby.
And one for me...
What are friends for?
Of course My Pathetic Doberman took this as an invitation to help herself to any lollipop or lollipop stick she found in a kid's mouth or not. It was like stealing candy from a baby. Okay, it was stealing candy from a baby.
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
R.I.P. Sir Jack
Our Jack Dempsey, Sir Jack, passed away sometime in the night. He has been a member of our clan longer than I have, over six years! He will be missed by us all.
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Happy Halloween!
Child #3 is a fruit bat, I am a witch, and Child #4 is a ghost. I made the boys' costumes myself! The ghost was easy; I bought a white sheet from Goodwill for $2 and cut holes for eyes. The fruit bat was so much harder. He insisted he had to be BROWN because fruit bats are brown. If he believed my not-so-convincing argument that Egyptian fruit bats are black, I would have been able to buy something. But, no! I spent two days last week modifying a cape pattern to meet his standards. Thankfully he wasn't too picky about the ears, which make him look more like a kangaroo!
Our first stop was the public library. Who else would go trick-or-treating at the library besides us? We are only on a first name basis with most of the staff...including our Princess Child #1!
The puppy dog is Child #5.
We spent the evening at my friend (and fellow homeschooler)'s house. We went around her neighborhood since we got attacked by a viscous dog in ours last year. We spent that time teaching our kids social skills you don't learn in public school. Like how to walk up a driveway and not across the flower beds. How to ring the doorbell one time. How to say "Happy Halloween" instead of "Trick or Treat." How to say "Thank you" clearly and cheerfully, no matter if you got a small piece of Tootsie Roll or a giant chocolate bar. And most importantly, staying with an adult on the sidewalk instead of running madly down the street to the next candy stop. I told my kids that I would charge them a piece of candy for every time they ran ahead and left the group. I only had to reach into their candy sacks once! Child #3 offered to hold his best friend's hand so he would stop running ahead (Different moms have different rules. I tend to be meaner than the regular mom. Taking their candy right out of their bags. Like, who would do that besides me?).
After the candy part, we went back and watched Scooby Doo and ate cupcakes and brownies. Mini Me (aka Child #5) put on my witchy stuff and posed for the camera. She figured out the Halloween business pretty quickly and was so cute saying, "Appy 'Een!" She also knew that the orange wrapped squares were most likely Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and to put those in her sack. A girl just like her mother!
Our first stop was the public library. Who else would go trick-or-treating at the library besides us? We are only on a first name basis with most of the staff...including our Princess Child #1!
The puppy dog is Child #5.
We spent the evening at my friend (and fellow homeschooler)'s house. We went around her neighborhood since we got attacked by a viscous dog in ours last year. We spent that time teaching our kids social skills you don't learn in public school. Like how to walk up a driveway and not across the flower beds. How to ring the doorbell one time. How to say "Happy Halloween" instead of "Trick or Treat." How to say "Thank you" clearly and cheerfully, no matter if you got a small piece of Tootsie Roll or a giant chocolate bar. And most importantly, staying with an adult on the sidewalk instead of running madly down the street to the next candy stop. I told my kids that I would charge them a piece of candy for every time they ran ahead and left the group. I only had to reach into their candy sacks once! Child #3 offered to hold his best friend's hand so he would stop running ahead (Different moms have different rules. I tend to be meaner than the regular mom. Taking their candy right out of their bags. Like, who would do that besides me?).
After the candy part, we went back and watched Scooby Doo and ate cupcakes and brownies. Mini Me (aka Child #5) put on my witchy stuff and posed for the camera. She figured out the Halloween business pretty quickly and was so cute saying, "Appy 'Een!" She also knew that the orange wrapped squares were most likely Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and to put those in her sack. A girl just like her mother!
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