Creative. Memories. Bam.

A couple of years ago we bought Chuckles some Legos. We knew he would love them. I mean what boy doesn't? Fast forward (or rewind?) to a year or so ago I really, seriously considered getting rid of them. They had gone unused for all that time. He clearly wasn't the type to be interested.

But much to my surprise and delight here a couple of weeks ago he decided to start using them. He just spent, like, 14 minutes in his room and *bam* he had a car! So I sent him back to make a different vehicle and *bam* he had another! I was truly impressed with his attention to detail. Most of it can't be seen in these horrific pictures:









He has since made a submarine and a dog - we are loving it! Of course, as a kid who loves to be praised he's only too willing to make more stuff :) Stay tuned for more creative memories. Bam...

Speaking of a leash...

So this lady person who feeds me treats and makes strange gestures when I tinkle or poo on the floor read in a book that I ought to learn how to use a leash. So she thought it was a good idea to have me in the kitchen with her while she did the dishes so I could learn it. Ok, so here's the thing - I'm not fond of the leash tied to the barstool business! I kinda tried to figure out a way to remove myself from the situation:




Strangely, the more I tried to flee the shorter the leash got!:




People! I think that's enough for one day:




Sincerely,
Skittles

When you're five....

....life can be a little twisty turvey. Like when you dress for church but put your underwear on backwards. There's a lot of twisting thru the day. Or when you go to Target with said underpants and then you pick up a hand held toy fan just to see how it works and it gets too close to your hair. Well, ok, it gets IN your hair and twists around six inches of it. Mom then becomes turvey as she laughs because she doesn't know what to do except ask for scissors :) Then she gets tired of holding the hand held toy fan while leading you around the store on what looks like a hair leash and makes you hold it - you might get a bit twisty turvey by the end of that ordeal! Finally waiting for the check out lady to finagle with the whole fan/leash because she doesn't want to cut such "pretty hair" but doesn't mind having a line form causes a Mama to get all twisty turvey knowing it just needs to be cut. Whew - yep. When your five life can be a little or a lot twisty turvey!

Space....

....the final frontier. Here we have Captain Chuckles and First Mate Giggles. Their space ship is circling the earth and they are loving the view from their cockpit :)






It is NOT them "helping" Papa Chanoli make raised beds for the garden. Nope - it's not.

From the mouth of babes...

Sorry no pictures - I'm on the conputer that doesn't have any.

But I have to record this: Today I'm blah. So we called in a pizza to be delivered. The Pizza Lady arrived and we all exchanged pleasantries and then we shut the door to gobble down the tender morsels.

Silliness, who's now 3 1/2, and I had this conversation:

Silly: The pizza lady sewes, mama.
Me: What do you mean she sews?
Silly: She sewed.
Me: She sewed? What do you mean?
Silly: She sewed herself.
Me: She sewed herself? (I suppose I need to rethink our conversations? I apparently just repeat all she says....)
Silly: Yup. She sewed herself right here (points to chin)
Me: She sewed her face?
Silly: Yup. She sewed her face.

I confirmed with Papa Chanoli that the Pizza Lady did have a face piercing - her lip! I love how they take what they know to describe things they don't! What's more is that Silliness hasn't been in on any real sewing activities - I wonder where she got that idea? Oh, nevermind she's just brilliant. I've known it all along ;)

Welcome....

.....Skittles!

Still here....

So, I thought you all, if there are any more left of you who read this, ought to know that we still exist! These three are the ones you wonder about - don't think I don't know that! :) Here they are a month or so ago riding bikes in the front.

I also thought it good for documentation for what our front yard used to look like. In some ways it looked better then. Green. It's been all killed now to get rid of weeds in prep for the next stage - tilling and grass seed. The plan is to seed it to make it look nice so we can take some time planting other things. That's the plan. Plans are subject to change so I look forward to seeing what really happens!

So, to sum up: we're alive but our front yard is dead.

Farewell!