Frozen Feathers

The other day I was driving down the street and a little sparrow was taking a brave dip into a chilly puddle on the side of the road. It seemed that the eight other birds surrounding the puddle were daring him into it. He went in beak and head, then ruffled his feathers and they all flew away as I drove past. Funny to see birds bathing in such cold weather.

trickeh kitteh

Today we went to Kimball's brother's house for a nice get-together. They have a really sweet, laid back kitteh. It came around and visited everyone and let Ella pet it and even sat in a chair when it came time for dinner. Kimball said Alex went up to the kitty and pulled the hair on it's side and grabbed it's tail. The whole time, the cat barely noticed or reacted. After all, it lives in a house with three boys, so I guess this was nothing. Later the cat walked up to Kimball and invitingly rolled onto it's back for a nice belly rub. Kimball reached down and started to rub the kitteh when it promptly bit him. Kimball, puzzled, sat there for a few seconds waiting for the cat to release him. When it did he was thoroughly confused. As he told me this story I couldn't stop laughing. What a trickeh kitteh!

So, this would fall under the "massive mistakes" part of my quote to the right. This isn't actually my garage, thank goodness. It's a home that went through a Florida hurricane. Can you believe the wind did that? Crazy. Anyway, today I ran into the house to set the baby down after I had opened the back of my van open for unloading groceries. I heard the garage door (which doesn't have a sensor) closing and ran out as fast as I could. Ella had crawled to the front of the van and pushed the button. She's done it in the past and I've told her not too, but apparently she couldn't resist yet again. Sure enough, the door of the garage was caught on the back door of the van. I finally figured out that I could move the van forward a little to un-hook them, but unfortunately, the garage door got a little bent out of shape. One side is about a foot higher than the other. It's funny because even the handy man said, "This is just one of those memories you can look back and laugh about." That might take awhile. Ella apologized at lunch and said, "I'm sorry mom. I just thought it was a toy. "

explanation

So, I got this cold, which went away after a week as you'd expect, but then I got another one, which decided to get worse instead of better. I finally went in after staying awake coughing for 3 days straight and got antibiotics which worked right away. I got much needed sleep and felt so much better, but unfortunately the medicine left me a bit zombie-ish and I was unable to post! I can't even believe how long it's been! So, after much ado, here are some quick clips of funny, happy moments over the last few weeks.

All Gone

Alex loves his Daddy. Every night when Kimball comes home Alex stays glued to his side. If by chance a door gets shut or Kimball rushes off too quick to tuck the kids in, Alex just loses it! Yesterday he actually came downstairs and sat in the middle of the kitchen floor and wailed. It didn't seem to matter that I was about 10 feet away. Later, he came down and I asked him, "What about Mama? You only want to hug and snuggle Daddy? Where's Mama's snuggles?" Too which he raised both palms and hummed "Ga-gone." Come to think of it, today in the car I told Will that I missed his snuggles and hugs, too. He also told me they were all gone. Hmmm.... We might have to go out and find some more!

Painty

Tonight Ella got to do some painting with her Dad. They were so sweet together and she loved telling him what colors to choose. The next night she told him to tell me just before bed, "I'm so painty and computery and hungry and thirsty and playdohy and when it's wake-up time we can go to church tomorrow!"

They're at it again.

Well, I couldn't resist this video-op when Alex climbed up to the piano and started banging away, quickly followed by Ella. They are quite a pair.

Show and Tell

Will really wanted to show his class how he can play Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star on his violin. I was really proud that he felt confident enough to do that. It's good practice! Isn't that little violin so cute!?

One year and one month

It was exactly a year and a month ago that I set a goal to write down my happiest moments of the day. I think I only missed a week or two out of the whole year. I'm taking time to reflect on this lately. It got me through some really tough times being able to think of at least one moment that was happy or joyful. I'm not sure that I'll try as hard to do a daily moment now, but at least take more pictures and document some of our happiest moments of the week.

That being said, today, Ella pulled the string out of my hooded jacket. I was a little exasperated when I told her it couldn't be fixed, to which she replied, "But you awe a geeenyussss." These little tykes sure can argue sometimes. And of course, the jacket was fixed in a matter of minutes.