Today Jonah and I decided to enjoy the
warm weather and eat our lunch
outdoors. While he was finishing his
peanut butter sandwich I got out
the bulbs that arrived in the mail yesterday
and began to plant them
around the porch. We got on a roll and
began scattering seeds in various parts of our yard.
When we decided to do some
work in the back yard Jonah remembered his lunch.
Upon going to retrieve it from
the front we found that we were too late.
A squirrel had discovered it and was sitting
in the middle of the yard enjoying his prize.
He took to a nearby tree when he saw us
and I ran for the camera (but didn't get a close
of enough shot of the thief).
Jonah was
not only frustrated that the squirrel stole his
lunch but he was also unhappy about the
fact that the bully wouldn't smile and "say cheese"!
This squirrel, whom I'm just SURE
is the same annoying squirrel that hangs upside
down to eat all of the seed out of our bird
feeder, was also not afraid to return to get
the rest of the sandwich(which I figured had
already been touched by him anyway...).
Jonah not only ate the sandwich that I made
to replace the one stolen by the squirrel-bully
faster than I have ever seen him eat anything
(so "that squirrel" wouldn't get it) but he also
slept with all of his McD Teen Age Mutant Ninga
Turtles to protect him from "that squirrel" as well!
The Lunch Bully Wouldn't Say Cheese
Easter Long Underwear
This was the year to buy Easter outfits that came with matching long sleeve T-shirts! When I bought Jonah's I thought how we would just save the t-shirt for next fall, but we needed it on Sunday! We were also thankful to find an INDOOR egg hunt where we got to have fun without the wind and extra cold temps!
Jonah informed us before posing for this picture that he was not going to "hold that baby on his lap". But I think this is the closest that he has ever been to his little cousin and he even smiled and TOUCHED her, so I didn't complain!
The Easter Bunny Says Woof
So my carrot cake looks a little more like its from the canine family than it does a rabbit! I rooted through all of little J's Egg Hunt candy to find the facial features only to find that the little packages were misleading. The giant piece of pink gum I was going to use for the nose was really yellow and the gummy lifesavers I was planning on making eyes were in fact gummy rabbits. But we made due and Jonah only stole the nose twice before it was finally time to eat it.
FOUR!
Today Jonah is four, which I cannot believe! Tonight for the first time he picked out his very own birthday dinner. I forgot to warn Big J that we are having hot dogs and mac and cheese for supper tonight...
Jonah can now also chew gum, at least he is allowed to but there doesn't seem
to be much "chewing".
Another milestone that is marked today is that we are DONE with "sippy cups." We have been singing a made-up song for months entitled "Bye-Bye Sippy Cups." He is not very excited but taking it like a "big boy." This weekend we hope to go to a "big store" (IKEA) and and pick out some new big boy cups.
We also have blue hands today after making the final handprint for the front of our pre school scrapbook!
Of course we had a CARS party this weekend with our families complete with racing, a race track cake, and many, many CARS presents! He also learned the official way to open presents (see above picture) where all wrapping and tissue paper are thrown into the air and over your shoulder. A special thanks to my brother for teaching him that skill. Now if you could just teach him how to pedal a bike or zip our coat, that would be much more useful.
Anyway, Fabulous Four, here we come!
Singles Club for Socks
All of the single socks in our house congregate here, in the moose basket in my laundry room.
When we moved I weeded the pairless socks out of our drawers and turned them into rags or discarded them. We've been in our new house for barely 4 months and the basket is full.
I was happy to find a sock that had been missing in little J's dress-up box (my fault, its a little close to his dirty clothes basket, I can understand the confusion).
I searched through the box in hopes of find more socks but was sadly unsuccessful.
I'm really led to believe that it is this house, and not just that "our dryer is eating our socks". My mom says that we have a black hole and I often hear myself saying, "there will be a prize if you find daddy's hat (or your shoe, or the camera cable, or the laptop battery)." Some of these things have been found but some are like the missing socks, lost in our mysterious black hole.
Under the Kitchen Sink
Here it is, my new garbage disposal. I take back most of the things that I've said about my husband not being very handy (many of you may remember an earlier post, entitled
The Washing Machine Saga). It only took him 3 trips to the store and I was without a sink for just half a day! I am not complaining because I missed this modern convience since we've moved into our new house that was without one. He even rushed home on his lunch hour to add the missing pipe so I would have a sink to use when I cooked dinner that night! My hero!
Now our trash smells much fresher and clean-up is much easier.