How do you like my daffodils?

I love daffodils. With Lily's birthday being in March they are even more special to me. I love that they add a bright pop to spring. I also love that they come back every year so I don't have to buy and plant them every year. So this year I decided to add some to my back yard garden seeing as how I'm trying to make it a nice place to spend time and all. So we picked up some bulbs this spring when we were at the hardware store. I planted them right in the front of the garden so they could spread their spring joy and by the time the other flowers bloomed they would be able to yield to them. By the time summer started they still hadn't bloomed. I figured I just planted them too late in the season and they would bloom next year. They kept growing...and growing. There were these beautiful broad leaves. I figured that's what happens when they don't get a chance to bloom. Then Mid-July they bloomed. So how do you like my daffodils?

That's no daffodil you say? Yeah, I figured that out. Just too late to do anything about the nearly 4 foot plant smack dab in the FRONT of my garden. See that little bitty Gerbra Daisy behind it? So sad:-(


I guess I'll be digging them up after the season and moving them to the back of the garden. Next year I think I'll get my Daffodil bulbs somewhere else.

Poor Underutilized Blog

Did you ever ignore your blog for so long you wonder if anyone even looks at it anymore? And if they do are they annoyed with you for not writing?
When I haven't written on my blog in a while really long time I don't really know how to get back to it. When you write daily it's okay to write about plain old every day stuff, but when it's been a month, or two, that doesn't seem to do it. It feels like you need something more substantial to make it worth reading or even writing. Unfortunately(or maybe fortunately) nothing earth shaking is going on with us.
The kids are growing and playing and fighting and teasing and fussing and playing some more. Right now they are having a tea party with all of their baby dolls. Ryan seems to be orchestrating the whole thing. He likes to play "house." Unfortunately for Lily most of his versions of house end up with some explosion or her princesses falling in lava. She doesn't like that part so much.
Not much is going on with me. I'm helping plan some events for church, unpacking from vacation(still), really nervous about this photography workshop I signed up for and wishing one of my friends would sign up, thinking about where my life is headed and what that means for my family...you know the usual stuff.

Play

Yesterday my kids were being goofy. When I told Lily to get he shoes on for gymnastics she came to the door in rain boots and a clown nose. Later she wanted to pick Ryan up at the bus stop as Buzz Lightyear. As soon as Ryan came in he put some of Lily's pink hair stuff on top of his head and the clown nose on his face. Then he tried to juggle 1 ball. They had me laughing anyway.

Today I hear "Roar! I'm going to eat you!" Then I see this ...

Big Bad Wolf coming around the corner.

And from the other corner come Little Red Riding Hood...

Oh, no! He got her!

It's a good thing her dad came and took her out of his stomach...LOL.

Ryan cracks me up. You may notice there are no eye holes in his mask. He can only see because he glued (oh yes, I said glued) his mask so there was a tiny hole at the bridge of his nose where he could peek out.

They are fun kids, especially when they get along.

Never Forget...

Never forget how cute and innocent they are at 3. Yesterday we went to the Orioles' game with Grandmommy and Granddaddy. Lily didn't watch much of the game, but she found ways to amuse herself. At one point she came over the the seat next to me. She situated herself with her back on the seat and her legs up the back. She played for a while tipping her head over the edge and laughing as if it were the funniest thing in the world. Lily has a very contagious laugh, watching her enjoy herself brings a smile to my face almost all the time. She plays some other games with herself, or so I thought. The next thing I know she's looking over at me with a big grin on her face and says, "The people LOVE me!" I guess she was entertaining the people behind us as well;-) It was so funny because she was just innocently trying to say that the people behind us liked her, but it sounded so diva-esque. One might have thought she was a Broadway star the way she made her proclamation with such confidence and feeling;-)

Sweet Lily

Last night we were sitting at the dinner table and out of the blue Lily said, "You want to know somping[something]? I really love Grandma. She's so cute!"

I thought Grandma might like that;-)