'Green acres is the place to be'

So it's about 6:55 in the morning & I take Murphy out for a potty break, Sam happens to follow me out to the back porch & we see our neighbor in her garden. She waves over Sam & tells him to pick his mom a salad for lunch. He runs back into the kitchen to grab a bag (like a kiddo who has picked a few fresh veggies before) and then ran quickly across the lane & started picking lettuce, spinach & radishes. All of course before the 7 o'clock hour, and all of course, in his batman suit. He was in mid-story when the neighbor called him over after all...

Yum!

In the mail Sam received this super fantastic award from his 1st grade teacher. For the entire school year he didn't have his 'card pulled'...not even once! I mentioned to Rob that with the second kiddo going into Kindergarten this next Fall I would like to encourage her teacher to pull her card, just so we can get it over with. Sam will be crushed when the inevitable day comes that a card pulling has to happen. I am just hopeful Madeline can get it out of the way in the big K...so it's not so daunting. Rob assured me he didn't think it would be a problem. :)

This was the night before (Madeline is sick now-tonsillitis-, we are hoping the antibiotics kick in before we have to cancel her birthday party on Sunday!!!).

She got a birthday package from Grandma Millie. It was pink, perfect & full of great girly things! She LOVES her new spy-note-book, "with blank pages!".

:)

think pink

Madeline informed me this morning that not only is her 5th birthday only 11 days away, but that she really needed a few things for her birthday. So I asked for some examples & thankfully I had a pen handy because once she got started I thought there would be no end to the things she had to have!

"pink balloons

pink princess birthday crown

pink fairies

pink diary
pink pen
pink dress
pink glasses for reading about important things

pink shoes
pink bubble gum
pink baseball cap
pink guitar
pink sheets
pink pillow

pink ladybug watch

pink cell phone for texting

pink cell phone for talking

pink tights with polka dots

pink tights with stripes

pink tights with just pink on them

pink flashlight

pink ladybug stickers for her room

pink pictures of fairies for her room

pink lip gloss

pink make-up brushes

pink hair brush

pink leash so she can walk Murphy by herself

pink camera

pink swimming suit

pink shovel for the park that she won't have to share

pink hippo

pink story books

pink fingernail polish

pink computer but not a toy one a real one

pink sandbox

pink clipboard for her homework

pink purse for her things

pink hair ties and hair pony's that don't hurt

pink ballet shoes

pink tap shoes

pink rain coat

pink umbrella

pink big cooking bowl for making cookies

pink square things to take the cookies out of the oven

pink rake and pink shovel to help daddy

pink helmet so her head is protected

pink hairspray

pink glittery sparkles for her clothes to be sparkly

pink puzzles

pink baseball and pink bat

pink and white soccer ball"

The great Nodaway River Adventure of May 17, 2009

On Sunday the kids had a great idea.

So we went to Mozingo & played in the sand...

Then we went home, packed a picnic & set out on a real live adventure out in the country, following the river to see where it goes...

We're going on a bear hunt...

Uh-Oh! Mud...deep oozy mud; can't go over it...

can't go under it...

better go through it!

HELP!

Don't fall in!

What? Poison ivy? Yikes! don't...touch...anything guys!

Hmmmm, what exactly is this?

Super scary haunted house in the woods...

Super happy explorer Noah Baker

After lots of turns, we ended up at the river again.

Boys in the background scraping mud off their shoes...Madeline

reflecting...

Mother's Day weekend...

Madeline is helping scrape her new hutch (recent yard sale fabulous find).We have scraped & primed...now for the fun part-to be continued!Noah Baker working on his trains. Pretty flowers from my girlfriends (on my recent 33rd)...
Madeline collecting her thoughts during her Mother's Day performance...
"What's up Bub?!"-Wolverine

"Arghhhh!"

here we go...

May storms...

The clouds started moving in yesterday, in the middle of the sunniest day! Pretty soon the wind picked up & it started to rain... then hail....

and like that...it ended!with only a tiny bit of rain drops left in the very last cloud... the kiddos danced until bath time!
Before our summer dance party there was a jam session inside.

Madeline is showing Noah Baker the ropes...

Super green socks, tap shoes & pink capri's...wish I were 4!

Sam the 1st grader reading to us his library book about weather.

& then his paper came home with some fascinating words!

:)

First weekend in May

Fun Fest was this weekend @ Sam's school; it was jam packed full of...well...fun! Madeline & Sam both had their hair sprayed like 'rockers'. Bobby Bearcat & Spoofy

Miss Madeline in Noah's 'farmer hat' after our picnic out at Mozingo.

Noah clutching his farmer hat even as he sleeps...it was a good day.

3-year-olds, guitars & sunshine

Noah Baker & Rob rocking out...NB has his serious face on.

Noah & fellow 3-year-old friend Ali are all giggles.

Shhhhh! Can you keep a secret?!

Madeline has a new strap for her guitar,
it works great!

Best 20 cents I've ever spent...new farmer hat for Noah :)