Obie's Word of the Day

Obie's word of the day: Bye-bye, Poopie. (That's right, Potty Training is going GREAT!)

A Busy Week

Here is a little glimpse of all the things we had to do this week. Actually, I don't have any pictures from Maggie's Art Camp, so it's not "all the things" we had to do this week, but several of them. On Wednesday the girls and I got to take a spin on the local paddle boat, The Pearl of the Lake, as part of the summer reading program. The girls were very excited to go on a boat ride, especially since we drive by the boat everytime we go to lake city and they always sigh from the back seat, "I wish I could ride on that boat!" One life goal down!

Riding on a boat, even for just half an hour, made me seasick. I spent the evening with a headache! But the girls enjoyed the first few minutes of it before they got bored and hungry.

This weekend was the Lake City Water Ski Days festival. We took the kids into town on Saturday and looked the event over, got a big lemonade and a funnel cake, and let the kids ride a few rides and spend a dollar to bounce in the inflatable house.

Riding around on the carousel for three minutes also made me seasick. I also got a mean sunburn on my neck. I'm quite a sorry case.

And today was the wrap-up for Vacation Bible School. Here are Maggie and Bee with all of their food themed crafts that they made this past week. They each stood up with their class and sang three songs and said their memory verses. Then they got to proudly display their things to all of the congregation. Beatrice is still trying to gnaw her way through her stale froot loop necklace!

Next week we still have some things to do for the reading program, but it will be much slower. And with zero humidity and temps in the upper 70's, I'm looking forward to a nice relaxing week!

I'm also planning not to get seasick.

Obie's Word of the Day

Obie's word of the day: Notebook. (Thanks, Blues Clues!!)

Obie's Word of the Day

Obie's word of the day: There you go. (Pronounces Deh jee goh and usually said as he's handing someone something they may want - like a toy - or may not want - like that chewed up piece of meat he just spit out.)

Obie's Word of the Day

Obie's word of the day: Watch. (As in watch as I climb to the top of the couch and roll off, or watch as I fling myself down in the bathtub and create a tsunami!!)

Obie's Word of the Day

Obie's word of the day is: Please. (Pronounced peeesh.)

Toad Games

This week is a busy week. Maggie has Art Camp in the mornings, both girls have VBS in the afternoons, and all three kids have numerous events for the Library's Summer Reading Program (most exciting of those: a ride on the local paddle boat tomorrow!!). While that means a lot of running around and gallons of gas zooming out of the minivan, it also means that for two hours in the morning Beatrice gets to be the biggest girl in the house. (And for two and a half hours in the afternoon, I get to put Obie down for a nap and be childless!! Childless!!!) Beatrice is a girl who really likes her space. She loves her brother and sister, but you can tell that she really enjoys, relishes even, the time she gets to play just by herself with her imagination. She hosts Pet Shop Tea Parties, rescues Zelda from the dungeon, joins the circus, or just gathers up every stuffed cat in the house (all nine million of them) and lines them up and has them all carry on intricate, squeeky-voiced conversations. Her imagination is boundless and those cat conversations are usually hilarious!

So yesterday she was spending her morning quality alone time outside and I didn't bother to check on her. She's safe here, she knows the rules and boundaries, and I don't worry too much. When she finally came in for a snack I asked her what she'd been doing. "Playing toad games," she said. My girls can find a toad within 2.5 seconds of going out into the yard. So I asked her, "Oh, did you find a new toad," because the one from the previous day was left out in the sun and even though we'd had a lengthy conversation that morning about how to take care of toads, where not to leave them, when to let them go, how they are our friends and good for our garden, and how it makes mommy really, really angry when they let a toad die from negligence, I didn't really trust that Beatrice had remembered all of that conversation. She said, "No, with the dead one." I said, "Ew. Go wash your hands." And I didn't think much more about it, except possibly that I needed to go find the dead toad and drop it in the mulch pile.

An hour later when we went to get Maggie from class, I popped out the door to find this waiting for me on the sidewalk:

Toad Games, indeed.

*Sigh*

Obie's Word of the Day

Obie has hit the stage in toddler development where he learns a new word almost everyday - sometimes several new words in one day. In the past week I've noticed him saying bubble, spicy, cold, choo choo, book and many others I can't think of right now. I thought I'd try to document the new words he's learning so that one day I can tell him all about how smart he was.

Without further ad0, Obie's word of the day is: Apple

Friday Foto

It's time for the summer reading program at our library. The theme is "Splash Into Reading" and one of the projects was to make a paper bag fish. You can see that Maggie made a shark and Beatrice made a princess fish. And Obie really likes saying, "Cheese!!!"

Friday Foto

Eating popsicles and playing Nines with Grandma Supan.