A Ryan Funny

We were walking through the grocery store and Ryan announced dramatically, "Mommy, I have chicken pox!!!" We were coming out of the cold food area, he meant goose bumps.

What is the etiquette?

Does anyone know what the etiquette is when your socially awkward cashier actually stops doing his job to talk to and "play" with your 3 year old who obviously does not want the attention and is visibly uncomfortable? Keeping in mind this is my usual grocery store and I would like to go back.

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.