Scavenger Hunt Sunday—Animal Cookies, a Little Monkey & a Selfie Shot

 

1. Vanishing Point

Here are some animal cookies vanishing/fading into the distance.

Here is my little man with his cute little grin being the vanishing point of this photo.

2.  Square Crop

Just a square crop of some beautiful baby blues.

3.  “Welcome to the Jungle…”

“we got fun and games.”  I was singing this song a lot this week as I tried to find something jungle themed.  Came upon this cute little monkey—not too jungle like, more circus—but still cute and fun just like the jungle should be right?!

4.  Under

Me standing as close to the sliding glass door as I can under the camera. 

5.  Calm

Little one right out of the tub—happy and calm. 

March 9—A Sick G-ma, Some Markers & a Little Creativity

My Grandma has been recovering from an operation for the last couple of months.  I have been to see her, but she is pretty tired and so we haven’t taken the boys to run circles around her.  We decided a few pictures might brighten her room and hopefully help her mend a little more quickly.

Ian of course went for the superhero motif.  His card read “I hope you fill like a superhero soon!”  Do you see that look of concentration on his face?  I didn’t capture him sticking his tongue out, but when he is really focused on something he sticks the tip of his lounge out—just like his daddy.

Miles drew Grandma a tractor with a hay baler.  He talked and talked about the details of his picture—I didn’t get a photo, but it started as two big circles for tires and a rectangle for the tractor cab.  It turned into a page of dark green John Deere green scribbles.  Wes decided to help out too and you can see his creation below.  Of course his mother was amazed at the ability of his little cubby 1 year old fingers that could take the lid off of the marker and click it onto the bottom! 

Feel better soon Grandma—We love you oodles!

March 8–A Word From Miles

Miles:  “Mommy why your thumb so short.”

Me:  “So I can grab things.”

Miles: “Mommy how you made?”

Me:  “In my mommy’s belly just like you.”

Miles:  “Oh.  I love you.”

Scavenger Hunt Sunday—Furry Bowling Pins, a Messy Face & a Sneaky Request

Took last week off, but here we are with this weeks scavenger hunt photos.

1. Diptych

Did not know what a diptych was but thanks to Google I think we figured it out.  These are the cutest, furriest bowling pins I have ever seen and when Miles was playing with them the other day I thought they were too cute to not photograph.

2.  Book(s)

I absolutely love to read a good book and here are the books occupying my night stand right now.  Oh, and my Kindle quit working after I took this photo—I’m going to try a reboot and hope it works.  Good thing a regular old book can’t just quit on you.

3. Fill in the Blank

“When I think about how happy Wesley is in the port-a-crib, I just have to shake my head that it took me this long to set the thing up.”

Just a note—while I was on the phone for 5 minutes the other day he

played in the toilet water

dumped out a bunch of baby powder

emptied on kitchen drawer one item at a time into the kitchen sink

and then moved a chair in front of the fish tank, got the fish net and  tried to catch the fish!

4.  Taste of Italy

Had spaghetti this week.  As you can tell from Mr. Messy Face it was a total hit.

5.  Reminders

Started to make a menu for next week and when I came back to work on it this is what I found.  My oldest boy Ian thought it was a shopping list and decided to add his own items—“Buy Ian a Wii  PS3 with a game called Toy Story 3!”  Silly sneaky boy!

 

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February 24—Photo Flashback (A Shower, Some Beads & Cupcakes)

So, I haven’t been very good at posting lately except for the weekly scavenger hunt.  I was going to post a rant about IBS, PVC, GERD and all the other acronyms that have decided to plague me. And although I love to listen to and laugh at a good rant I wasn’t so sure everyone else did.  So, in lieu of my rant here are some photos from this past week.

On Saturday I ventured north to go to a baby shower for my SIL Shanna.  Yes—they are having a baby boy!  We were all so surprised and excited to find out they were expecting and even though Shanna said no shower we decided to spoil her anyway. 

Shanna looks barely pregnant and so cute.  Jake tries to hide those smiles, but I knew when he put on the baby blue baby backpack that he just might be a little tiny bit excited about this new little baby coming to rock his world.  Congratulations—can’t wait to meet my new little nephew.

On Monday we awoke to a glorious snowy President’s Day and two little boys without any school to entertain them for the day.  After a late breakfast we loaded all the sleds and snow clothes into the car and headed over the mountain to Nora’s cabin.  We spent the day sledding down the biggest sled run ever, eating treats, and just relaxing.  It was a fabulous day and might need a repeat before all the snow melts.

After a few days away from home we spent Tuesday doing laundry and hanging out at home.  Wesley has been into everything lately and been nicknamed the whirling dervish—he is very fast and quiet.  Anyway due to his new obsession with climbing on things he needs lots of supervised playtime or the house looks like a tornado hit it.  Miles thought he would like the beads and so we spent a good part of the morning stacking beads.

Since discovering I am gluten intolerant I’ve had a hard time finding new and yummy recipes so this week I decided to some new recipes from the Gluten Free Goddess.  Here is my favorite—stuffed peppers.  So tasty, so good, and so full of flavor.  Miles was not a fan, but Wes liked the filling and Ian asked for seconds!

Today Miles and I spent the morning making cupcakes for the Blue & Gold banquet.  Miles is a great helper, but when I went to give him a sample he ate the frosting handed me the cake and said, “I don’t like this part, it is yucky.” (no, it wasn’t gluten free, just the regular good gooey cake mix) What child of mine doesn’t like cake?  Now I do love frosting, but it is about the combination of cake and frosting.  Maybe his taste buds will figure it out as he gets older.

Scavenger Hunt Sunday- February 20 (Chocolate, a Few Fridge Magnets & Some Very Tiny Clothes)

1.  Chocolate

Went to a baby shower for my SIL this weekend and there were lots of chocolate covered yummies.  The top photo is chocolate cinnamon bears—sooo…yummy and the bottom is chocolate covered pretzel rods.  I think you could cover just about anything in chocolate and I would love it.

2.  Numbers

Wes decided to stick all of his letter and number magnets of the fridge the other day.  So glad he had found a toy to play with—lately his schedule consists of climbing on the counter, finding the laptop, emptying any drawer that opens and trying to climb into the fish tank.

3.  Canned Food

Bottled these peaches from our tree this past fall.  They are a breakfast favorite at our house.

4.  Music

Just the standard piano keyboard shot.  Check out that dust!  I bought this piano about 7 years ago when I decided to start teaching piano.  It was paid for with money I had saved up from babysitting when I was a teenager. I love the tone it has and the feel of the keys.

5.  Stack

Cleaned out the closets a few days ago and passed a bunch of little baby clothes onto my SIL.  I love having little ones around the house, but giving away those baby clothes reminds me that we are moving out of the baby stage and have so many fun memories to create with the boys as they get older.

 

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Scavenger Hunt Sunday (on Tuesday)—Cotton Balls, a Mean Green Fighting Machine, & Some Really Cute Booties

Thought I was too late to link up, but just made it.  Here are my shots for this week.

1.  Shadows

Our living room windows face south and in the winter we get this great sunlight for most of the day when it is not overcast.  On this day the boys had the tinkers out and I loved how the heart that Miles made in pre-school and then taped on the window showed up as a cute heart shaped shadow.

2.  Bright White

Kept trying to find things around the house that were “bright” white.  I soon began to realize there is very little white in my house!  So I went for the cotton balls—towels and toilet paper were my other choices.  I love how this shot turned out with the little wisp of cotton coming out of the bowl.

3.  Pattern

These towels are on my washer and dryer and I love the colors and the cute retro flower pattern.

4.  Strong

I asked Miles which superhero was the strongest.  He said the Incredible Hulk and then offered to pose for this picture.  Look at those muscles.

5.  Warmth

These cute slippers showed up in the mail a few days ago for the boys.  My cute MIL made them each a pair for Valentine’s Day.  Miles got red, Ian got blue, and baby Wes got yellow.  Wes loves them and keeps bringing then to me to put them on him.

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