"I wanna play a game, Mom." This is one of Natalie's new favorite pasttimes. She loves to get out Guess Who, Cookin' Cookies, Mousetrap, or several others and try and play a game. She's a crack-up with Guess Who and will tell you write off the bat who she's got. We have a Disney version and she loves to find the princesses. "Look, I got Snow White!...ask me question, Mom."
Monday, February 23
Bryan gave me a rod and picture frames from Rod Works for Christmas and we finally got around to hanging them up. They look great!
Tuesday, February 24
They're here! We got our garden seed order in the mail today! I'm so excited! Although they did arrive with a couple of disappointments...they were out of stock of yellow carrots, Japenese cucumbers, hot peppers, and black cherry tomatoes. Oh well, next year I'll remember to order a little earlier. But as you can see we have quite a collection to keep our garden busy this summer: zucchini, butternut squash, watermelon, 2 kinds lettuce, spinach, peas, 3 kinds of tomatoes, cucumbers, crook neck squash, lemon squash, orange and green peppers, acorn squash, eggplant, 3 kinds of carrots, 2 kinds of pumpkins and some holly hock flowers. Next up is getting the peas, spinach and lettuce started! Wish me luck!
Wednesday, February 25
It was a nice, warm sunny day today. So after lunch we went to Butterfield Park with Jennie, Isabel and Haydn. They enjoyed playing together for about 2 hours! Ben was excited about being brave enough to go down the fire pole by himself and Natalie worried about the bugs who came out to enjoy the sun with us. It was a fun afternoon. It's so nice to have a sister down the street who's a great friend and has kids that are the same age as mine!
Thursday, February 26
As I have posted before, I trade babysitting with my sister Jennie so we can volunteer at the school. Today Hadyn came over and got busy playing with Natalie in her room. I was cleaning the bathrooms and went to check on them and found they had emptied the toy organizer in her closet and dumped all the contents behind the bed and then threw the bins on top...and then added their socks to the pile to finish it off. When I found them, I couldn't help but smile and take a picture! It reminded me of a similar incident that Ben and Isabel had a couple of years ago. We were playing a Jennie's house and we were taking care of Natalie and Haydn (they were babies at the time) and went to check on Ben and Isabel to find that they had taken all of the toys from her closet and dumped them behind her bed. They were about to start on the bookshelf when we found them! Good times!
Friday, February 27
We've been working on a project for Ben's room...a solar system to hang from the ceilng! Here's the almost finished project. He's so excited. He has been declaring for quite some time that he wants to be an astronaut when he grows up and have his own rocket ship that he can explore the planets with. We also got some glow in the dark stars to put up and he wants to get a model rocket to put together and display. We'll post some finalized pictures when we get it done.
Saturday, February 28
Sad day today...we lost our dear pet goldfish, Goldie, today. Ben was most upset. Bryan discovered it and we debated whether we should replace it without him knowing or not. I decided we needed to tell him. When we got the fish 2 months ago, I warned him that goldfish don't live as long as people so he'd understand that it was a short relationship, but none the less he was very upset and cried a lot. I tried to get a picture of his crocodile tears and quivering chin but he wasn't excited about that. However we did get some happy pictures of our trip to the pet store that day. We came home with 2 guppies...Ben's is "Gubby-Gubby" and Natalie's is "Lellow". They are a bit hyper for fish and have been chasing Red around the fishbowl. Hopefully they calm down!
