This and That

The kids getting their morning exercise before eating their breakfast of GREEN EGGS N HAM, which has become a favorite around here!

( Oops! see video at bottom of post)

When the kids have been trapped in the house for too long with only their little mousies for playmates...

things like this happen!!

I had been in the kitchen not 5 min. before and all was well and happy. I was sitting on the couch listening to their happy squeals and Mr. Wise Guy asked if I shouldn't check on them, but I didn't feel like moving from my cozy spot on the couch and they sounded like they were just playing silly stuff together. Apparently the game was "Flip the spoonful of brown sugar and see how far it will fly". Thankfully my brown sugar bin wasn't completely full...

Because when they finished it was completely empty!!!

Now you know why this mommy is so thankful for the warm sunny weather sneaking in on us. I can send the kids out to play and actually get something done.

The garden patch is the spot of choice to dig around in and get DIRTY!

Maybe have a little dirt snack,

And then take turns riding the trike ...

and talking to grandma in the sunshine.

Miss Kate has been busy as ever in the kitchen helping mommy make The Pioneer Woman's cinnamon rolls! They are SOOO yummy!

And helping Mommy and A. Sus make blackberry jelly with all our frozen blackberries. We now have our pantry well stocked with this tasty treat thanks to a lot of help from A. Sus.

It appears someone has been eating it as well as stirring! ;D

And this little beaver has been busy gettin his head all banged up like boys like to do. I'm thinking he may be needing these teeth before too long if he doesn't start treating his own better than he has been.

He chipped his first front tooth before it was hardly through the gums by falling on his face while still only crawling, and has chopped the little stretch of skin between his gums and upper lip too many times to count since he was about 6 month. But this past month he has fallen and cut his gumline up a bit 3 times and has knocked both front teeth slightly loose. One is a little darker but I'm hoping it will revive and tighten up again. The first one was done on a cement sidewalk, the second time he fell out of the crib and 2 days later mangled it up worse by falling on his big metal tonka truck while pushing it about the yard. He also got a great big knock on his noggin that same morning. It appears we're just getting started with the boy bang-ups! I'm getting kinda used to his mouth dripping blood all over the place and trying to rinse it with cold water to stop the bleeding while he's screaming and squirming, and cleaning all the blood spatters off the sink afterwards, but he caught me off gaurd the other morning when, after pulling his shirt over his head in a hurry had set the cut on his gums to bleeding again I rushed him to the sink and set him on the counter. I flipped the faucet on and sat there a moment waiting for it to get as cold as possible. Kate stood looking on, as close as possible since the blood filling his mouth always seems to facinate her, and suddenly and without warning he SNEEZED!! Kate got the worst of it but I got my fair share! She looked down at her shirt in dismay and then survey the damage done to mine as well. Then she proclaimed my exact thoughts ... "YUCK!" and a swipe of her hand over her face to remove the blood spatters. Tay-O thought it was funny. :) When He's asked to show his OWIE he responds with a proud grin. You can't tell how puffy his lip is while he's grinning so big. The only sign is that you can see his inner lip hanging below his outer lip. I didn't dare take a pic while it was nastily fresh and messy because if I pulled his lip up it would start bleeding again. So here is part of his semi healed owie peeking out from a puffy lip that is hiding the rest of the chopped up mess. (I know you all are dying to see it!) ;D

On that sweet note happy day to ya'all!

Here is the video meant for the top...I don't know how to move it.

They spend many a morning and afternoon on rainy days doing this. What cracks me up is the typical Mr. Tay-O meandering around the loop eating his granola bar while Miss Kate is galloping around in high energy accompanied with music. She pushes the button on the happy bear repeatedly until the song she wants is playing, hence the reason she takes a long time to reappear sometimes...she is resetting her music.

Catchin' Up

Once Miss Kate found out how fun it was to be outside she thinks its the best place to be. She doesn't really care if its dark or cold or wet or windy. She will step out on the patio and stand there looking around at whatever she may see of interest...usually birds and come in every now and then for a breather.

The mischievous face of the escapee sneaking out the door.

Enjoying her freedom.


And hiding because she doesn't want to come back in.

Today we spent the morning catching up on housework and after-travel clean-up. Miss Kate was getting one bang-n-bump after another and acting very sleepy in spite of having slept in until 10:00 already. She could barely help me finish baking cookies without collapsing and she'd only been awake for 3 hrs. She'd even helped herself to several pieces of chocolate before I caught her.

This pic actually belongs first but my computer isn't cooperating for me so I can't get it to move. (that is why this post is all hodge-podge and the "Today" part landed right in the middle of the "Catch-Up" part) If you look closely you can see the purple bruise on her cheek. It looks much worse in real life.

When its too windy to play outside we get out the cardboard inside and make fun stuff. A couple weeks ago we did this slide and Miss Kate enjoyed it for several days.It was pretty high so I didn't let her use it without me to help her until we moved it into a corner later in the week. As you can see it took quite a pile of stuff for adequate support.


When its sunny we go walking. Sometimes to the park and sometimes just around Aunt Vi's neighborhood.

And when it's a sunny weekend we do fun stuff with Mr. Wise Guy. Mothers Day weekend was beautiful and we got our garden all planted out at B&B's.

The guys did most of the work and us ladies sat and watched the girls play in the water.

They sat and poured water back and forth for hours.

Cousin A likes to sit in the water...

while Miss Kate just sits beside it.
But they both end up just as wet...

And they both like to drink it, even though it is cloudy with sunscreen and full of floaties.

That was also the day I tried Miss Kates patience with a new hairdo. She did amazingly well, but we haven't done it again since. :)

Out walkin'

Last time we went out walkin it was right after several days of foggy gray weather and we were desperate to get out of the house and get some fresh air. It was a beautiful sunny day although the temp was only up to 24 degrees F. (we didn't know that until after we got home and it took so long to get warm again that mommy decided to check what the temp was) Anyway we walked to walmart to get some milk, which is about 3 mi. away making it a 6 mi jaunt which was fine other than the fact that it was freezing cold out and the side tire of the 3 wheeled jogger stroller was completely flat, making it very hard to steer...we even stopped at Oil can Henry's and had them blow up the tire but it only lasted 30 seconds. And then...on our way home 2 little yappy dogs ran after us and even though we ignored them the bigger one bit mommy before they turned and ran. Mommy was very mad at it. But at least we got out of the house and got some fresh air, AND we didn't have to 'run out and get milk' anymore.

This is all thats left of the doggy bite, a fading bruise and a faint toothmark... it was in a really awkward spot to get a good pic of.

Well, yesterday was beautiful out and quite a bit warmer than our last attempted walk, so Mommy and Aunt. Vi and Aunt Reba and La La and Dolly along with La La's doggy went out for a much more enjoyable walk.

We were told we needed to duck a little to fit in the picture and we sort of over-ducked if there is such a thing. :DMommy had to use the backpack stroller since the jogger one (the BOB) still needed tire repair.

Mommy had me all bundled up with jacket, hat, gloves, and even 2 pairs of pants, and with a pair of La La's sunglasses and my trusty juicebox we were ready to go.Watch yer backside tho folks cause you never know when a mean doggy will sneak up on you and sink his nasty little teeth into a chunk of your leg..

Afterwards we stuck around at Aunt Vi's for awhile and just hung out and played together.
It was great to get out and have some fun together.


In the evening everyone came over to our house for dinner and home-made icecream and hot fudge sauce. Yumm! Thanks for the fun day girls. :)
PS. all photos are courtesy of Vi since I forgot my camera. Thanks abunch Vi.
We'll try and get a post from our weekend company up soon. :)