Driving Saedi to school this morning, Nels told me about every car he saw. Our drive is mostly on busy roads (2-4 lane highways) so there are LOTS of other cars to look at. Towards the end of the drive he ran out of cars but that didn’t stop his commentary.
“Momma car!…….Momma car!…….Momma car!…….Momma car!…………….Momma grass!”
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What Nels sees
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Puddle Splashing Day
Usually you tell kids to not go near puddles because you don’t want them dirty or all wet. One of the best days I had living up here before, when Saedi was little, was when we took advantage of the frequent rain. One evening when we didn’t have anywhere to go and it wasn’t cold, I let her have at it – splash in as many puddles as she wanted. She loved it! It was so much fun.
Now Gavin is the one who can’t stay away from the puddles. I told him he could have a day like Saedi’s when it was warm and we weren’t doing anything.
Today while I was putting the roof-top-box onto the car it started pouring down rain. I was soaked in no time at all. Gavin came out to wanting to help me so when we were done I told him he could put on his rain boots and get as wet as he wanted.
There is a spot in front of our garage where the gutters either leak or just overflow (even though they were supposed to have been cleaned right before we moved in). Gavin stood under the stream for quite some time. He told me, “Mom, look! Rainbows are falling on me!”
When the rain started to let up, he found out that he could jump to grab the branches of the Japanese maple and shake them to make the water from the leaves fall in his face.
When he had shaken all the branches and they were no longer weighted down with water, he couldn’t reach them anymore no matter how high he jumped. So he moved back to the puddles.
When he was thoroughly soaked he was ready to go back inside.
Thanks to his trusty rain boots (that are so cool because they glow in the dark) –
– he said it was the best puddle splashing day ever.
Categories: Gavin, playing, rain
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All ready to play
Today is Saedi’s field day and she is so excited for everyone to see her. So here she is, slathered in sunscreen so don’t mind the sheen. We did her hair in “heidi braids” so you could see purple stripes, and she is proudly wearing her personalized shirt (she said she told her class about it yesterday for their last show-and-tell of the year and they “can’t wait to see it”).
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Plum locks
When I cut and tried to dye Gavin’s hair, I told Saedi I would color hers too if she wanted.
She did want. She is my child after all.
I decided I would do it right before the end of school, so as to not be too much of a distraction. Since field day is tomorrow, we did it tonight.
We colored just the under side. I used a semi-permanent purple (plum) without lightening her natural color, so it ended up being a very subtle change, but she was happy.
Categories: firsts, hair dye, Saedi
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Saedi’s feild day shirt fiasco
The middle of last month Saedi was sent home with a notice that we could order a shirt for field day. At the bottom in bold letters it said that orders would not be accepted after the due date, two weeks later. Also attached to the order sheet was a note from Saedi’s teacher saying that she would voluntarily Tye-dye her class’s shirts so everyone would match, but stand out from the rest of the school. This was pretty much the only time we were sent home a note about something that wasn’t for the very next day (the PTA here was not very organized), and I didn’t fill it out right away.
I realized that the shirt still hadn’t been ordered when we got home from picking Saedi up at school on the last day the orders would be accepted. There was no way I was driving another hour round trip just so I could go back and order her a shirt, she would have to live without it.
Unfortunately when I dropped Saedi off at school the next time, she remembered I hadn’t ordered the shirt and now it was too late. She got upset and started to cry.
I had already planned on asking her teacher if she would Tye-dye a regular shirt so Saedi would at least have something to match, and Saedi thought this was a good idea. I didn’t end up needing to ask though, because Saedi’s teacher sent a note that day saying anyone could bring in a shirt and she would dye it (apparently I wasn’t the only parent who either forgot to order or didn’t want to spend a bunch of money on the ugly school shirt). I even told Saedi that we could decorate hers after it was dyed to look cooler than anyone’s.
Then I got a little ambitious.
The order form that was sent home had a picture of the logo that would be printed on the ordered shirts (their colors were brown, black, and tan).
I decided to paint that! Saedi would still “match” everyone but be totally unique. I like the way it turned out.
We even put her name on it. After I was done with it Saedi told me that where I put her name is where it said STAFF on all the administrators shirts. =)
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Bits of Solvei
Solvei has discovered she loves to be contradictory. At any time, but most often in the car, she will engage this attitude. Most car rides are now filled with “yes…no…yes…no…” and “uh-huh…uhn-uh…uh-huh…uhn-uh…” arguments between her and anyone who will play the counter-part.
Nate has been gone for a couple weeks and isn’t supposed to be back for a few more. Solvei really misses him. These are a few reasons why I know for sure:
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She has realized that I talk to Nate on the phone everyday, so now whenever I am on the phone she asks if she can talk too (“Daddy hello?”) even when it isn’t him I’m talking to.
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Every morning when I get the little ones up and dressed, Solvei asks “Daddy?” with a where-did-it-go expression. I tell her where he is and she says in her saddest and most disappointed tone, “oh.”
Solvei has become a hair twirler – mostly when her hair is in pigtails but sometimes when it’s not. Recently in the car she fell asleep while twirling her hair.
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Identical Twins?
In the bath today I did up Nels’ mo-hawk with shampoo.
Solvei thought it was so funny she wanted me to do it to her. So she got her own faux-hawk to match.
Categories: little things, Nels, Solvei
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Yard work, just a little yard work…
We have spent the entire weekend outside so I could do more yard work.
We started things off in the front yard and I brought out the bubble machine for the kids to play with. They played fine while I mowed but started to get tired of being in the front yard while I was still pruning bushes. I wish I had gotten pictures. Solvei decided (how come it’s always her?) to sit down next to the bubble machine so she could get the bubbles right away. Sitting-next-to turned into sitting-with-the-machine-between-my-legs which became sitting-with-the-machine-in-my-lap which resulted in Solvei sitting in a puddle of bubbles, wet from her waist to her toes (even her socks were wet inside her shoes). So when I was done pruning, the twins got a bath before lunch.
We did find a little visitor on the outside of our garage that fascinated the kids.
I spent all of nap time, most of the evening, and the better part the next day weeding and pruning the irises. It was A LOT of work. The haven’t been thinned out in who knows how long and are very over grown with grass so they are starting to get root rot from not having enough drainage (the internet helps me learn these things).
Before and After
I have come to the conclusion that, based on the condition of the plants and bushes in my yard, and the amount of work I’ve done so far, this yard/landscaping has not been properly maintained in 4-5 years. There is still so much to do……I hate yard work and I am so not a gardener. At least with the irises, I know what they are and can look up how to take care of them. We have a handful of other plants that I have no idea what they are and so I don’t know what to do with them. If anyone can tell me I would be much obliged.
My mystery plants are:
Exhibit a)
Exhibit b)
Exhibit c) –This one is a bush with these flowers, you can kind of see the leaves in the photo
Exhibit d) –This one I think is some kind of garlic, but not sure what
close up of flowers
Exhibit e) –This one I’ve seen growing wild on the side of the roads here so I’m not sure if it was planted on purpose or just showed up.
Categories: flowers, Solvei, yardwork
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Punk Chic
Only three weeks after the fact, I finally got Saedi’s bike (that she got for her birthday) built. In my defense the weather hasn’t been nice enough to ride it anyway, just cause it’s June doesn’t mean mother nature has gotten the message about it being almost summer.
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Dollar deals
I really like the dollar section at Target. We peruse every time we go. Today when we went I found all the kids a pair of snoopy sunglasses. We have a car trip coming up and Solvei and Nels always complain about the “bright” when the sun is in their face, so if they all have sunglasses maybe I will hear less whining while driving when I can’t do anything about it. Since they were all only a dollar, it won’t hurt my feelings if they get broken.
Pretty rockin’ huh?
**Sometime after taking these pictures and before bed that night, Nels lost his glasses. I looked everywhere and couldn’t find them -he was very upset. About a week later when putting the kids to bed, Nels found them in Saedi’s bedside table/cabinet (I think he knew exactly where they were).
Categories: Gavin, Nels, Saedi, Solvei, sunglasses
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