OK, I really wish I had a picture ready to load right now, but if I wait for that to happen, it will be sometime next month before I post at all, and it's already been two months. Is anyone even checking this blog? I'm sorry.
The digging began today. We are adding a dining room and entry to the back of our ranch. I think I finally believed today that it's going to happen. Easy to do considering the back hoe sitting in our backyard. The kids and I watched the happenings from our kitchen window. They scraped off topsoil, moved cement sidewalk and scooped up clothes line poles. It was very exciting. They come to dig the basement on Monday. J spent a good portion of the morning standing on the trunk of the maple tree that came down on Tuesday, video taping the back hoe. The tree trunk may become wood floors in our dining room and kitchen. Anyone have wood flooring in their kitchen? Do you like it?
OK, I'm going to try to get some pictures up...
Oh, and yes they cut through the phone line in the process, but the phone company was right out to fix it. So far so good!
Friday, July 17, 2009
Thursday, April 23, 2009
beans, noses, toilets, socks and microwaves...Oh my!
No pictures to share this time, though you'll understand why when you read this. This will be my word picture of life in a busy family. I hope you'll find it as humorous as we did!
It started on Tuesday when Aaron found the bag of beans on the counter that his older brothers have as a part of their science kit. They had planned to sprout them in a plastic cup and add them to the garden next month. Jonah wanted to protect the beans, so picked them up and put them away. I thought I'd appease Aaron by giving him his own container of beans and keep him in his high chair while I cleaned up the breakfast dishes. It was a great idea until I looked over and saw him squishing up his nose and making a funny sound when he breathed. Yep, he'd stuffed a dry navy bean up his nose. This is a first for me. So seasoned Mom or not, I called the doctor's office and asked to talk to a nurse preparing myself to hurry all the kids into the car and head for the clinic. But, no, the nurse assured me that these things almost always come out on their own and suggested I press on the clear nostril and encourage him to blow. So, I set him on his changing table, looked him in the eye and showed him how to blow out his nose over and over and over... and sure enough, that bean did fall out. Whew, it was 8:45 AM and I'd already avoided a catastrophe.
Later that afternoon, I decided to make cookies because the weather outside was crummy, again and the kids were done early with school. I almost never make cookies- and now I remember why. We were still baking when Aaron woke up. He's fanatic about a good cookie and wouldn't leave the stove alone. I worried he'd burn himself, so we put it all away until later in the evening. After supper (Ron was working late) I tried again, but Aaron was still all over us at the stove, so I put him in the tub with Ella and asked one of the boys to take over the coookie baking. Boy (who shall remain nameless) was doing a great job with the cookies, until I came in to check and heard the microwave running with nothing in it. (He thought he was using it as a timer) We now own a dead microwave- the second one in two years.
Then Wednesday, while I'm making supper, I hear Aaron flushing the toilet in the bathroom and my mother alarm goes off (The doors to the bathrooms are babyproofed, unless a sibling leaves one open of course) So, I run in and there he holding one of his socks over the toilet. The other one was nowhere to be found....
This is what we in our household like to call.. The price of doin' business. :) (Thankfully the permanent damage was only to the microwave. Not Aaron or the sewer system!)
Have a great weekend y'all.
It started on Tuesday when Aaron found the bag of beans on the counter that his older brothers have as a part of their science kit. They had planned to sprout them in a plastic cup and add them to the garden next month. Jonah wanted to protect the beans, so picked them up and put them away. I thought I'd appease Aaron by giving him his own container of beans and keep him in his high chair while I cleaned up the breakfast dishes. It was a great idea until I looked over and saw him squishing up his nose and making a funny sound when he breathed. Yep, he'd stuffed a dry navy bean up his nose. This is a first for me. So seasoned Mom or not, I called the doctor's office and asked to talk to a nurse preparing myself to hurry all the kids into the car and head for the clinic. But, no, the nurse assured me that these things almost always come out on their own and suggested I press on the clear nostril and encourage him to blow. So, I set him on his changing table, looked him in the eye and showed him how to blow out his nose over and over and over... and sure enough, that bean did fall out. Whew, it was 8:45 AM and I'd already avoided a catastrophe.
Later that afternoon, I decided to make cookies because the weather outside was crummy, again and the kids were done early with school. I almost never make cookies- and now I remember why. We were still baking when Aaron woke up. He's fanatic about a good cookie and wouldn't leave the stove alone. I worried he'd burn himself, so we put it all away until later in the evening. After supper (Ron was working late) I tried again, but Aaron was still all over us at the stove, so I put him in the tub with Ella and asked one of the boys to take over the coookie baking. Boy (who shall remain nameless) was doing a great job with the cookies, until I came in to check and heard the microwave running with nothing in it. (He thought he was using it as a timer) We now own a dead microwave- the second one in two years.
Then Wednesday, while I'm making supper, I hear Aaron flushing the toilet in the bathroom and my mother alarm goes off (The doors to the bathrooms are babyproofed, unless a sibling leaves one open of course) So, I run in and there he holding one of his socks over the toilet. The other one was nowhere to be found....
This is what we in our household like to call.. The price of doin' business. :) (Thankfully the permanent damage was only to the microwave. Not Aaron or the sewer system!)
Have a great weekend y'all.
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Ballet recital
Ella had her second ballet recital last week. Mom and Dad came to see it. She was so excited about the whole event, she woke up in the middle of the night after the recital and told Grandma "Thank you so much for saying I did a good job" (grandma was having a sleep over with Ella). And here's a little video of their performance.Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Birthdays
Ron and Ella had their first joint birthday celebration this year, brought on by necessity due to Ron traveling this coming weekend. It's neat in a way, because we had hoped she might be born on his birthday. However, our babies do not come early, and Ella came along in her own time on March 7th. So, three out of four years, their birthdays are one week apart- the fourth being leap year. Instead of two birthday dinners, Ron choose the meal, and Ella chose the cake. Chocolate cake with Chocolate frosting. She did the bulk of the decorating on her own.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Educational fair
Jonah's project was in electronics, he built a circuit from tin foil, rubberbands, a clothespin and a lightbulb. I thought it was pretty cool. His question at the fair was, "How do you use a simple circuit to send an SOS signal." He'll answer that in the video...
educational fair
We headed to our first homeschool educational fair in February. Isaiah decided the week before the fair that he would like to make a volcano. No problem, I thought, sounds like the perfect project for an 8 year old boy and I have lots of baking soda and vinegar. We googled homemade volcaoes. I suggested making one of paper mache, he really wanted to make one out of clay. So we took off to the store for 10 pounds of flour and 3 pounds of salt and later that day we had...
The clay sort of slid down the bottle we placed in the middle- a consequence of doing it all at once instead of in stages, but we had only 6 days before the fair and it needed time to dry. Isaiah wrote up a nice little informative sheet and we gathered everyone around for our explosion. And it didn't work. :( We searched the church's pantry for more baking soda and vinegar, and it still didn't have enough oomph to overflow the bottle. So we sprinked baking soda all over the volcano and dumped vinegar over that (Isaiah's idea) so at least it had the effect of a volcano. Oh well, live and learn. Next time we'll start earlier and have time for a practice run before the big event. I have to say Isaiah stayed very calm throughout the entire thing and didn't loose his cool over a falled project. For that, I was quite proud of him.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
DIY GUY
Aaron the DIY GUY nabbed a pair of scissors the minute he found my Ferrero Rocher candies at Christmas. He seldom asks for anything, mainly because he can find a way to do it himself. Today, his new trick was climbing the washing machine using his bare toes to grip and push himself up the side. We're thinking we should install a rock climbing wall in our basement!
Don't worry Mommy promptly absconded with the scissors and placed them somewhere even higher than before. Is that a good thing?
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