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Growing Betty

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Sometimes I just sit on the ground and watch Elsie and Betty play their games.  This particular day involved a cowboy hat and a load of towels hanging on the clothesline.  In and out they went, laughing and chattering.  Betty’s personality is quickly emerging as she approaches the big two.


She loves to play.  She just discovered that she loves apples, so now she fits in with the rest of her siblings when they each are chomping on an apple.  In fact, the other day Jack was eating a huge apple and his loose tooth came out and he swallowed it with the apple!  Oops!  He was very nonplussed about it and kept eating his apple.


Her pants are starting to look like flood-water pants, and her shoes barely squeeze on her little feet.  She’s been in size 3 for a long time!

When I asked Nadine what her favorite thing about  Betty is right now, she said, I love it when she puts her hands behind her back and just stands there.  It’s true.  Super cute!  Her favorite song is “Ten Men”, where we act out the story of the ten men that Jesus healed and only one man came back.  Then she brings one hand out and puts up her pointer finger and waves it around while we sing, “Thank you, thank you, Jesus…”  So cute.


When we ask her a question and it’s a yes, she excitedly says, “Da!”  When it’s a no, she shakes her head very fast, tilts her head down, and looks up with no expression on her face, except whatever her big brown eyes say.

A typical afternoon with Betty includes a few changes of shoes, running around with something on her head, and lots of giggling.  She also seems to leave a whirlwind of messes wherever she goes.  I think the main reason she makes messes is so she can clean them up.  She loves to help pick things up, sweep the floor, unload the dishwasher, and put things away.   It’s hard to get upset when I turn around and she’s smiling at me.

Thoughts on Bean-stocks and Showers

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Happiness is picking a tray or two full of tomatoes at the end of September, and making delicious sauce for homemade pizza!  Happiness is also picking fresh basil and making peso for another pizza.  We have had a lot of happy pizza meals this month, using up our fresh ingredients as much as possible.  While the plants are looking droopy and crisp, there is still some orange and red goodness coming from their branches!

The other day while we were picking said tomatoes, Elsie and I found a ton of beans growing on what I thought was just our morning-glory vine!  Turns out Jack grew his bean-stock on our trellis, and we were inundated with beans!

I have about a thousand other things to write about, but I have had about five minutes of free time each day, and usually I spend them just reveling in the fact that I don’t have to do anything.  Right now those five minutes are just about gone.  Now it’s time to clip fingernails, scrub some dirty kids, and see if I can squeeze a shower in there somewhere.  Next to putting away clothes, it’s my least favorite thing to do.  Yes, it’s true.  I actually really dislike taking showers.  I always have.  Ask my sisters.  My oldest sister used to have to drag me to the tub to scrub my hair.  Now I have to really discipline myself to get in the shower.  Probably a large percentage of you will look at me funny the next time you see me, trying to gauge whether or not I’ve showered that day.  I’d like to believe I almost always do, but I pretty much always really hate it.  So, there’s a little unknown fact for you.  It’s probably safe to say that I wouldn’t enjoy bubble bath for Christmas.  However, like many things I’ve outgrown in my life, this is one thing I’m hoping I will one day grow to love and enjoy.  Maybe.  Like beans growing on my morning-glory vine, all things are possible!

 

 

Thursday Quotable’s

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When food is low, but you have one can of whipped cream hidden in the back of the fridge… tada!   Dessert in a can.  The kids had fun squirting it into their mouths.  Elsie preferred spooning it out of the lid.

Elsie says very funny things.  For instance, after watching the older two playing a chess game, she came up to me and said, “I want to play chest!”  Oh my.

Then she came downstairs wearing panties and a sweatshirt.  I asked her why she wasn’t wearing any pants.  “Uh, because I’m hot.”  Then why are you wearing a sweatshirt?  “That’s because I’m cold!”  Of course.

Upon having a little friend over who wanted to jump on the trampoline, Jack said to me, “She’s the customer!”  He proceeded to go jump on the trampoline with her.  The customer is always right!

I’m not the only one lamenting summer’s farewell.  Nadine said sadly to me, “But I haven’t even finished growing my tan skin yet!”

We have started school this week, and everyone has been super excited about the new books, new approach, and new year!  Before we step into our last day of school for this week, I have to share this cute sight that is sharing the kitchen table with me:

  Happy Thursday!

What Really Happened

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Out of all the comments posted, trying to figure out why we were laughing so hard in these pictures, only one person was close to being correct.  Indeed, there was some bathing suit slippage going on for my dear husband.  The poor guy is still wearing the same bathing suit he wore on our honeymoon, over ten years ago.  Let’s just say, it’s lived a good life.

In order to keep it up, he figured out that by handily hooking the elastic band around his neck, it effectively kept up his suit.  He’s a handy guy!

There.  Now your curiosity is abated.  I hope you get a good laugh.  We sure did!  Now I think it’s officially time for some new drawers.

Funny Freeze-Frame Moments

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Betty just makes me chuckle.  Her accessories now include fuzzy hello kitty slippers.  It doesn’t matter if it’s 90 degrees with 99 percent humidity outside, she loves to wear them.

The other thing she loves to do is be with her big sisters.

 

My first attempt at shooting a picture with all three girls in their matching dresses that Grandma made.  Betty kept walking towards me, and I don’t realize how very tall Nadine is, until trying to stage all three of them together.  Every time she would kneel down, so would the other two, which still made for an awkward angle.  I love how Betty gives her cheesiest grin whenever a camera, or a phone, or anything resembling either of those things, is pointed in her direction.

On Sunday, we had a fun family picnic with the Weldons and my sister-in-law’s parents.  It was so much fun!  Betty loved the pool, and actually swam in just swimmies and without me holding her!  She doesn’t mind water in her face.  My all-time favorite moment of the day was putting her into this get-up.  Thanks to Capri for shooting this picture with her camera while I was in the water.  I couldn’t stop laughing!  The swimmies kept her little body from slipping down through the tube, and she just floated around the pool, jabbering away and loving it.

There were other really funny moments, which we’ll leave out of print.  But I’d love to know what you think we’re laughing about.

 

If at least twenty people comment about what they think is so funny, I will tell you.  Those of you who were there, are not allowed to say!

I Almost Stank

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Cleaning at night when everyone is sleeping, is so rewarding.   I have greatly neglected many nooks and crannies in exchange for gardening, swimming,visiting, painting, and the like.  I’ve done a hurried swipe of the counter, or an every-other-day sweep of the floor (that, let me tell you is triple, not double, the amount of dirt if done every day).  Laundry is my sweet spot in house-cleaning, and even when things are busy, I always make time to do laundry.  Except for this week.  Between driving Nadine to girls’ camp, and deciding to tackle the huge job of painting her room while she’s gone… even laundry has gone out the window.   The last load I did has been on the clothesline for two days.  Tonight I decided to go outside and fetch it off the line before the rain came again.  I was a few steps outside when I saw a movement in the dark.  I stomped as loudly as I could over to the sensor light until it flipped on.  I thought I would be looking at a cat.  However, I was staring at the backside of a skunk, its tail starting to raise.  Now, I’ve read enough Curious George to know that if you see that, you run fast.  I booked it into the house and slammed the door.  The clothes could use another rinse in the rain tonight, anyway.

What’s in Your Pocket?

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Well, at the end of the day I picked up Jack’s shorts and thought they felt pretty, um, heavy.  So, I emptied his pockets to find this treasure trove!  Money, chains, nails, sticks, a sock, a rock, keys… wow.  And all day I was wondering why his pants kept falling down!  That boy’s sweet spot is shiny things.  The paper money is pretend, by the way.  He rolls it up really small.  The keys are his, because our real ones kept disappearing.  So, Grandma Weldon made him his own set of old defunct keys.  That, my friend, is a look into Jack’s pockets.