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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

randomness. for those of you interested in the banal parts of life (as opposed to, say, black bear in your front yard)

sawyer calls his stuffed frog, "booby." i have no idea where he came up with it, but they have crazy names for a lot of their animals...this one just stuck. funny.
when we're listening to music in the car and it's turned down low, sawyer's way of asking us to turn it up is, "can you please low it up?"
rowan still says, "todeger" when he means "together."
adam is our first child that babbles. he has his very own language and way of speaking and it's clearly intonations that hears from our speaking. he does have many words, and repeats very clearly words that we say to him. but he chooses his babble talk over actual words all the time. for now, i'm not worried. if he's still doing this in a year...i'll begin to worry. i'm trying awfully hard not to talk for him. he is "the baby" afterall!
the boys love our cat, greymalkin. they call her "pet" and follow her obsessively around the house, creating sleep ares for her (piles of blankets) and go through periods where they want to feed her 10 times a day. grey has had a lot of illnesses recently, and she's coming up on her 17th birthday. we're worried how they'll take her passing on.
art time: how long does it last with other people's kids? we do painting, sketching and gluing (we had a bad moment with scissors the other day...sawyer's sworn them off after a small, but nasty, cut he got last week) and all of the art times last about 7 minutes. all that set up and clean up for 7 minutes worth of art? i know this is typical and generally it doesn't bother me...but i'd like it to last longer. eventually. to make the clean up worth it! i'll reintroduce more kid-friendly scissors to sawyer soon and then bring him back to his other scissors when i know he's over his new cutting phobia.
speaking of art time, we made some lovely felt crowns last week. i still need to sew the elastic on them and i think these ones will be a proto-type to a better felted (real wool) crown we'll make later. hopefully when their cousins ramona and astrid visit later this spring. BUT...my sewing machine broke. and my other one? it's extremely fussy. i'm in need of a new one and i can't decide whether i will spring for a good one now (with tax return money) or save for 6 months and get a cheapo one now? advice?

Tuesday, April 29, 2008 8:57:01 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)

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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 9:55:08 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)

Okay, I could not believe that bear. In your yard!!! Are you scared now? I think the bees are awesome and will be so cool to have around. except for the bears. :)

I am totally with you on the art. I imagine us sitting around the table, listening to music and being creative for hours. In reality, it's about 7 minutes here, too. I think one time it lasted longer but I had tied them to their seats so I don't think I can count that. :) But, yeah, I feel you on all that clean up time for 7 minutes!

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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 11:17:01 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)

I love rambling posts! My kids too never seem to last long at the craft. Although, it is nice that Sammi can do some crafts by herself now, like coloring and dot paints. And I have to say, your boys were the last ones at the table doing craft in Sunday school. They LOVED doing those leaf rubbings and were the only ones who did more than one. AND, we talked about the plants and trees in our yard during story time, and your boys definitely got the award for having the most in their yard! I think Rowan said something like, "We have a whole woods full of trees". Anyways, they were delightful to have. :)

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Wednesday, April 30, 2008 1:30:20 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)

love the pic...

Mom

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Wednesday, April 30, 2008 4:07:35 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)

Liz,

Leah still talks about your kitty, greymalkin! She was given a new stuffed kitty for her bierthday. It is grey and very soft and she calls it...greymalkin! Oh, and we ALWAYS have "kitty beds" all over our house too. She also likes to put doll diapers on her kitties, baby doll clothes, and wrap them in blankets. Sometimes they get a bottle or she "nurses" them!

Also, last week Leah cut her own hair with her safety scissors. I didn't know they can do that! Yikes!!

Susanne

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Wednesday, April 30, 2008 2:06:04 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)

7 minutes..

that's good time around here! yeah, ours are like that too. much prep. little work. although, i do give them a structured project first and then turn them loose to do whatever they want with the stuff after "my" project is through. then they get much more use of the time.

i'm lovin' your site!

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