Pasta, anyone?

The kids and I made fresh pasta for dinner tonight. Yum. I love it and the kids do too. They call it making the "longest noodles in the world". I COULD have cut them to a more manageable length, but it's too much fun watching them eat it this way.

Yes, it's a snuggie.

He loves this thing! Somehow he talked Dad into it a couple of months ago. (A. has one too.)

Random update

A. had her first dance class today. She loved it! I took pictures on my phone, but I can't download them! So, photos will have to wait until next time.

Funny thing:
HZ asked me yesterday, " Mom, were you born in a log cabin since you were born such a long time ago?"

Climbing

Here we come, walkin'
Down the street.
We get the funniest looks from
Ev'ry one we meet.
Hey, hey, we're the Monkees
And people say we monkey around.....

Karate kid

HZ started Karate lessons yesterday. He had a great time! He asked me on the way home if he could keep his "costume" on and go help cops fight bad guys. I told him he might need a few more lessons for that.
Here he is practicing his moves.

The snake 'event'

The wildflower center was a nice place visit. Many nice things happened during our trip, but of course I have to talk about the snake. I will be the first to admit that the 'event' was nothing. Why would I get worked up over a nice, long, slithery thing making a B-line towards my child who was sitting so sweetly on a rock wall? Time was in slow motion as it went towards my little one, up the wall beside her and into the grass. Right beside her. Did I mention it was RIGHT beside her? I've said it before in this blog, I'M NO BINDI IRWIN. I do not know the difference between a harmless ribbon snake, coral snake, or cotton mouth. I DO know that I've had to walk down a $40,000 IV in the hospital to some nice lady who was bitten by a poisonous snake. (Completely serious.)
But hey, it wasn't poisonous and A. was never in any danger and I got to be the mommy who overreacted by saying "OH MY GOSH AUBIN DON'T MOVE" and terrified the poor child by yanking her up. Poor thing. The snake didn't traumatize her, I DID! Nothing like a little dose of mama-drama to mess up your kid.

HZ and CSI

I don't have my pictures from this weekend downloaded quite yet, but this picture is from Wednesday when Nana came over. She brought a science kit for the kids which included invisible ink and a blacklight. Huge hit!

Pictures tomorrow

Today we went to a wildflower reserve and tomorrow we are going to a family reunion, so plenty of pictures to put up tomorrow evening.
We had an encounter with a snake today.....hmmmmm.....I think I feel a re-enactment coming on..........

1-2-3-gotcha

Corny life metaphor?

A. and I were sitting on the chair by the window and I noticed that I could see my reflection in her eyes. I wanted to see if I could take a picture of it. Kind of hard!
Can you see me?

Nanna

Nanna came up today and took us out to lunch. Thanks Nanna! It was a gorgeous day and we enjoyed the company.

Hog trough

We've been going to this buffet restaurant with my Grandfather forever. We went when I was pregnant, when they were babies, when they were messy toddlers, and here we are now in the big kid stage.
No, the restaurant name isn't really "hog trough". We just affectionately call it that because of the buffet style. I think my Grandfather thought of it first. The name just kind of stuck.

Beautiful.

The weather. I wish it could be like this forever, but unfortunately the inferno season will be here all too soon. We will certainly enjoy this time while we can!

Grandpa's noops

A.'s nickname is "noops". Actually, she and I call each other "noops". I'm not quite sure how that evolved, but it did. (I recognize that it's kind of an annoying baby talk thing, really. (: ) She says that she is only "Mommy's noops", not Daddy's or Grandpa's. So, we like to playfully tease about it.

Our fun week

We've had a great time this week with Grandpa in town! We were hoping for nice, breezy weather today for family kite day 2010, but it just wasn't meant to be, unfortunately. (At least we were able to break out the kites for at least a little bit today.)

The pictures are from a few things we've done this week. A big highlight for the kiddos was meeting "Miss Rosa" from PBS kids. (She's the lady in all pink with the kids.)

so busy!

I fell off the wagon with my 365 pictures in a row aspirations! Oh, well!

I do have MANY fun pictures to post and share...tomorrow. ( :