It was a perfectly gorgeous day. And that little girl is almost seven months now, and she’s going nuts, pulling herself up on the furniture. She falls a lot, and she HATES a bumped head–makes her scream in outrage. But in the little car she’s safe, can do all her stunts without hurting herself. We […]
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We made a trip to Menard’s tonight to buy stain for the fence, Julia, her dad, and me, and we found this Simpson’s Halloween decoration and it’s fun. We ran cords around to a window to plug it in. The little kids were so excited about putting up the Halloween decorations today. I brought up
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We spent the weekend at my parents’ place in Wisconsin. It was a beautiful fall weekend, a little cold, but not too much. The chickens: Dan showing b.g. all the tractors in the barn Here he is showing Tim how to hold a golf club. Normally Tim smacks the ground ahead of the ball so
Here’s a before picture. This was taken at the lake a few weeks ago–no idea what she’s doing. And here’s the haircut. We went there and the girls looked through magazines until they found a picture of Emma Watson. When the guy came over, she told him that’s how she wanted her hair. He peered
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This girl is very, very mobile this week. Today she crawled from her safe little blanket in the family room out to the kitchen–just where a person wants a precious, beautiful baby, right? Going around the dirty floors. (Stay on your blanket, p.j.) No. Boring on the blanket. She was almost to the dog water
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Tonight I was at school conferences with James. We were not in bathing suits. It’s become cold! We had on sweaters. We met his teachers. They all are personable and positive, in general and also specifically about James and the classes. This is all good. I talked to a couple of Maria’s teachers too, and
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We spent it doing what we do. Last night there were two kids still up after midnight, with a movie player in the quilts playing Toy Story II, two Nintendo DS thingies, and waaaay too much shrieking and thumping and carrying on. I was disgusted. Being all giddy and hilarious at 10:00 is one thing,
The baby girl is crawling. Monday it was gorgeous and warm, and James has survived his first weeks at school okay. Here he’s doing something with a ball on the roof to amuse the nephew. When I was looking for a place to set the baby down while I watered the flowers, I spotted the
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click the pictuer above twice to enlarge. hear the grasshoppers, smell the grass. It was a spectacular morning. Bright sunshine, quiet, warm breeze. They wanted to know if they could swim after breakfast, and I couldn’t think of a reason why not. The whole morning was sparkly like this, absolutely gorgeous. Oh, onward to Monday.
Here’s the project that we’re working on. My parents remodeled, and gave us their old deck, so we’re going to put it up at the cabin. Before this summer ends, that deck is going to be up. But first the concrete pads to set the posts on have to be installed. The kids were into
