Kids Perspectives

Ava's highest praise of a meal is when she says, "It's better than pancakes!"  Pancakes and peanut butter and jelly are her two standard favorites.  

Jack said, "Good thing we're having soup today.  It'll help Ava's hoarse breath."   What he meant was that with Ava's cold and losing her voice, soup will help her.  Ha.  That's not what we got out of it!  We laughed and laughed and now he's old enough to be embarrassed, so he didn't appreciate it like we did.  

We were headed to a meeting the other day at a different church, and I happened to call it an appointment.  Ava said, "Ow we getting shots?"  What?  No!  She still talks about the appointment where we didn't get shots.  Kids perspectives are so funny.  Ha!

Saying something like, "Quit pushing each other's buttons" really breaks up an almost argument.  They both stop and try to figure out where in the world are people's buttons and how am I pushing them?

On our friends' motorcycle 

Smith's Greenhouse

We came home with a broccoli plant and a tomato plant, but the odds of us actually being able to enjoy anything that we grow just aren't good.  I'm so much more comfortable eating things other people have grown and nurtured.  But they're not dead yet, so we will see this through until either we have to throw them out or we can give them away.  Again I don't have high hopes for us getting anything actually edible from them.  But who knows?  At least we had a fun time digging in the dirt.  

Full bloom!

And it smells great!  It's been fun to see everything green up and to see trees with the new green buds and some with flowers.  I love this time of year when it feels like you can finally get outside comfortably most every day!  Fairmont is waking up.  The birds are chirping.  All the time.  They're happy too.  

Tooth #5!

Random

Game time for the youth kids.  My phone died, so I didn't get any of the kids playing, but it was fun and fierce!  They had a great time, and we are happy to have such a good group of kids. 

I guess Ava was a bit cold. 

Girl time

Another Metro Women's Center volunteer day.  We filled a couple of hundred bottles for the Amazing Grace Walk coming up soon.  

Hot!! Yay!

I heard the first "I'm hot" complaint the other day.  So we started out painting the driveway with our bucket of water, and it digressed from there...

Crafty!

I am such a non-crafty person that I always feel the need to show off anything I do myself.  I did this!  It's embarrassing that something so simple feels like such an accomplishment, but I have other strengths, right?  RIGHT? Anyway, I always want to buy these "Mr & Mrs" banners when I see them in Anoka or at the little shops, but never want to spend $20 on them.  I bought the banner for $7 and had the stencils but have never used them.  I bought the little burlap flowers for $2 at the Target dollar spot.  So $9!  Not bad!!