I finally caught and wrote down what Rowan said, and can repeat it:
Rowan and Milo playing with the play doh at the table together.
Rowan (throws playdoh) : "Milo, I'm losing my temper-cher."
*sheepish grin*
I'm sure I've never said i'm losing my temper(ature) with my little boy!!
He turns FOUR tomorrow. We had the best conferences ever with his two schools this week and last. The best thing I heard? "Rowan is a well-rounded boy." YAY! that's just what we love and want, a balanced boy who can snuggle and read and identify bird calls, and who can kick a ball, run fast and leap high with the rest of them.
He can write his name, with some fun variation in order of letters, and is happy to do handstands and any antics on the couch until i lose my temper. (uh oh.)
:)
Friday, April 17, 2009
Saturday, March 21, 2009
yes we can...
Cue up the Obama song by MF. Check out Michelle here! Local Food arrives in DC, and George cheers for NO beets, the prez doesn't like them. If you remember, I posted about it back a ways, and since then, all over the place people are signing petitions to get a portion of the lawn ripped up and a garden in place.
IT'S Happening! And did you read the pieces in Mother Jones yet about our food system?
In other news around here, the leftover pizza dough that I made is now curled around brown sugar and butter and cinnamon in some cinnamon rolls. yum. We are relishing the end of my Saturday morning class and enjoying every second of my spring break. Aren't you proud of me? Three posts in this week. Just imagine how often you'd hear from me if I weren't constantly freaking out about how i was going to fit all this stuff in. ;)
we are going to get some peas in the ground this week, since yesterday was the first day of spring, and it's time to get going on our garden :) yay, can't wait can't wait can't wait.... spring-summer-fall-the extension of our house to all the square footage OUTSIDE! Then our house is HUGE!
IT'S Happening! And did you read the pieces in Mother Jones yet about our food system?
In other news around here, the leftover pizza dough that I made is now curled around brown sugar and butter and cinnamon in some cinnamon rolls. yum. We are relishing the end of my Saturday morning class and enjoying every second of my spring break. Aren't you proud of me? Three posts in this week. Just imagine how often you'd hear from me if I weren't constantly freaking out about how i was going to fit all this stuff in. ;)
we are going to get some peas in the ground this week, since yesterday was the first day of spring, and it's time to get going on our garden :) yay, can't wait can't wait can't wait.... spring-summer-fall-the extension of our house to all the square footage OUTSIDE! Then our house is HUGE!
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Happy kids
Do I need to explain these pictures? This is happiness. A mini trip to Moab is good for the boys.
[and yes I am aware that marshmallows are extruded, probably at high pressure and high heat. But they don't eat marshmallows every day for breakfast!!!!]
If you go to Moab, find this park in the top picture and make music. It is way fun to hear it and be a part of it.
Pancakes save my life
When I am a nice person, in the daytime and I've forgotten about my night, then I make pancakes. With leftover oatmeal and cooked squash, really anything I think can go un-noticed, no really! They are good.
Then I freeze most of them, and the next morning, or the morning after that when I cannot open my eyes because of my night but my youngest is already screaming for food and pulling the sheets off me in bed, I go out, blindly hand him a frozen one, put more in the toaster oven, and that with apple sauce quiets the beast. Until they are gone. By then, I'm usually more functional.
One of my ongoing agree to disagree conversations with George is about cold cereal. I know, yes, the foundation of the modern breakfast. I happen to think it's not really that great for you, and for that I thank Sally Fallon. In any case, since I do the grocery shopping, I don't buy the stuff, and so--pancakes are my response to food fast in the morning.
And before you ask me, I will make my small case that any "food" that has been ground to a pulp, turned into a slurry, had synthetic vitamins added to it, extruded under high pressure and high heat and then coated with any various sweet thing is not in fact food. It may be a food product. It might be trying to be food. It most certainly is no effing whole grain.
My eyes know what whole grains look like. and they don't look like cheerios. End of case.
And now, a deep and wide THANK YOU to those of you who commented. Shucks, you're making me so happy. I know you are checking in and it makes me feel loved. :)
Then I freeze most of them, and the next morning, or the morning after that when I cannot open my eyes because of my night but my youngest is already screaming for food and pulling the sheets off me in bed, I go out, blindly hand him a frozen one, put more in the toaster oven, and that with apple sauce quiets the beast. Until they are gone. By then, I'm usually more functional.
One of my ongoing agree to disagree conversations with George is about cold cereal. I know, yes, the foundation of the modern breakfast. I happen to think it's not really that great for you, and for that I thank Sally Fallon. In any case, since I do the grocery shopping, I don't buy the stuff, and so--pancakes are my response to food fast in the morning.
And before you ask me, I will make my small case that any "food" that has been ground to a pulp, turned into a slurry, had synthetic vitamins added to it, extruded under high pressure and high heat and then coated with any various sweet thing is not in fact food. It may be a food product. It might be trying to be food. It most certainly is no effing whole grain.
My eyes know what whole grains look like. and they don't look like cheerios. End of case.
And now, a deep and wide THANK YOU to those of you who commented. Shucks, you're making me so happy. I know you are checking in and it makes me feel loved. :)
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Oh, so this is what it feels like
when you begin to realize you're growing up.
1. When your mom goes on a trip to Puerto Rico, and starts talking about what shoes to wear for her zip-line adventure in the rain forest canopy you get unreasonable about her having to buy a new pair of Keens because her tennis shoes aren't going to give her "protection."
2. When your husband goes anywhere (road ride, plane trip, climbing, soccer, work) you say "be safe" and you mean it in the most desperate and true way, because if he's not... then what?
3. When your nineteen month old child balances himself on the edge of the couch by touching the wall under the huge framed picture (that has a sheet of glass covering it), you worry that he may tip over backwards and hurt himself by falling between the couch and the wooden table there. Then he jumps forward, hopefully not onto his brother's head.
4. When same nineteen month old desperately wants to leap between the table and the couch (but can't pick up both feet at the same time yet) his brother bear hugs him and tips them both across the space between said couch and table. You just feel hopeless about this couch, since you've tried EVERY SINGLE possible way to stop them from using it as a jungle gym.
5.When your dad won't stay and eat dinner, you worry if he is going to eat at all, since he's home by himself and has a "lot to do".
6. When you look in the mirror, you're surprised about your face. It doesn't look quite like it used to, the last time you noticed. And you actually can hear the words to that Bonnie Raitt song.
7. Every book, newspaper article, story that mentions someone hurt or dying reminds you of the pain of that person's mother.
8. You see a fender bender, and there is a young girl crying into her cell phone but everyone looks okay. And you remember when that was you just a few years ago, but there weren't really cell phones around yet so you cried all the way home before you made the call.
9. Your dog keeps getting older and is really good company to have near your feet.
1. When your mom goes on a trip to Puerto Rico, and starts talking about what shoes to wear for her zip-line adventure in the rain forest canopy you get unreasonable about her having to buy a new pair of Keens because her tennis shoes aren't going to give her "protection."
2. When your husband goes anywhere (road ride, plane trip, climbing, soccer, work) you say "be safe" and you mean it in the most desperate and true way, because if he's not... then what?
3. When your nineteen month old child balances himself on the edge of the couch by touching the wall under the huge framed picture (that has a sheet of glass covering it), you worry that he may tip over backwards and hurt himself by falling between the couch and the wooden table there. Then he jumps forward, hopefully not onto his brother's head.
4. When same nineteen month old desperately wants to leap between the table and the couch (but can't pick up both feet at the same time yet) his brother bear hugs him and tips them both across the space between said couch and table. You just feel hopeless about this couch, since you've tried EVERY SINGLE possible way to stop them from using it as a jungle gym.
5.When your dad won't stay and eat dinner, you worry if he is going to eat at all, since he's home by himself and has a "lot to do".
6. When you look in the mirror, you're surprised about your face. It doesn't look quite like it used to, the last time you noticed. And you actually can hear the words to that Bonnie Raitt song.
7. Every book, newspaper article, story that mentions someone hurt or dying reminds you of the pain of that person's mother.
8. You see a fender bender, and there is a young girl crying into her cell phone but everyone looks okay. And you remember when that was you just a few years ago, but there weren't really cell phones around yet so you cried all the way home before you made the call.
9. Your dog keeps getting older and is really good company to have near your feet.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Friends
Both Rowan and Milo have had their friends over recently for entertaining. Milo and Maisie are enjoying a little reading together, and Rowan and Zion took the 60 degree Feb day in picnic style.:)
[Yes, that is a clementine from Spain you see above on the picnic table. They are my weakness!]
The new things that have happened in the past few weeks around here:
Rowan learned how to open the car door from the outside, so now i don't have to open it for him OR clip him in!
Milo can climb up onto his bed without the stool!
I made my first batch of vegetable stock. Do NOT ask me why it took me so long to do this very simple thing.
We got the box of legos that Rachael and I had as girls out of storage and now my boys are playing with them obsesively.
I got a class where I "have" to read fiction for homework!! (40 YA books)
We've done two small trips in the car without diapers for Milo!
We finally visited our friends who moved from NY to CSprings, it was long overdue.
Rowan and Milo both got sick, and wiped out a week of plans.
I got to go to the Brown Palace for high tea with the Radicals. That was lovely, thanks girls!!
I walked the exhibition floor of the MidWinter ALA conference, surrounded by publishers and librarians!! That was pretty fun, and I got a bunch of advanced readers copies of YA fiction.
My reading list from the last few weeks
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian S. Alexie (highly recommended)
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants A. Brashares
The Outsiders S.E. Hinton
American Born Chinese
Speak
The Giver L.Lowry
The Shadow of the Wind C.R. Zafon(highly recommended)
Zen and the art of Faking it
The Golden Compass
The New York Times!!! What a great return to the news.
(half of) The Grapes of Wrath (mandatory for all!)
I'm sure I've left a few out.
Rowan learned how to open the car door from the outside, so now i don't have to open it for him OR clip him in!
Milo can climb up onto his bed without the stool!
I made my first batch of vegetable stock. Do NOT ask me why it took me so long to do this very simple thing.
We got the box of legos that Rachael and I had as girls out of storage and now my boys are playing with them obsesively.
I got a class where I "have" to read fiction for homework!! (40 YA books)
We've done two small trips in the car without diapers for Milo!
We finally visited our friends who moved from NY to CSprings, it was long overdue.
Rowan and Milo both got sick, and wiped out a week of plans.
I got to go to the Brown Palace for high tea with the Radicals. That was lovely, thanks girls!!
I walked the exhibition floor of the MidWinter ALA conference, surrounded by publishers and librarians!! That was pretty fun, and I got a bunch of advanced readers copies of YA fiction.
My reading list from the last few weeks
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian S. Alexie (highly recommended)
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants A. Brashares
The Outsiders S.E. Hinton
American Born Chinese
Speak
The Giver L.Lowry
The Shadow of the Wind C.R. Zafon(highly recommended)
Zen and the art of Faking it
The Golden Compass
The New York Times!!! What a great return to the news.
(half of) The Grapes of Wrath (mandatory for all!)
I'm sure I've left a few out.
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