27 September 2014

Tonight Rose Pink and I went to the General Women's Meeting of our church together.  I really enjoyed going with her.  She complained about having too many friends there - she didn't know who to talk to.  She's just like her mother - I don't do well when more than one of my friends is around either.  Not a crowd person!  On the way home, she said, "My eyelids are so heavy they feel like they have ten-pound weights on them.  Well, maybe five pounds."

26 September 2014

Something Bobo says a lot lately: "DO IT!" meaning, I do it, not you.

Something he used to do but doesn't any more: when getting ready for bed, he'd get his diaper changed and then stand on the bed and hold my fingers and jump up and down like a crazy baby.  Now he's too big to need Mama's assistance for jumping - he just jumps on the bed by himself like a crazy baby.

25 September 2014

 End of summer.  Some of the fruits of the garden - they are so vibrantly colored.

 Our sole pumpkin this year.  Unfortunately it spoiled before we could do anything with it.

 Rose Pink made up dolls just like Grandma taught her from the flowers on the tree next door.  She added an extra petal and this doll is carrying a fan.

Fall means soccer starts!  Rose Pink is number eight.  Her previous team dissolved so she's no longer a Honeybee, she's a Griffon.  Gryphon?  Griffin?  Not sure how it's spelled.

Her games and practices give the rest of us time to play outside, at least while the weather's still nice.

Tonight at practice we teamed up with another family and played 'capture the castle' on the playground while Rose Pink was chasing balls with her team.  My throat is sore from shouting "You shall not pass!"

22 September 2014

Sometimes cuteness just cannot be denied.  Bobo wants to be like Mom and floss.

16 Sept 2014

Some favorite songs of Bobo's lately: Bringing Home a Baby Bumblebee, and Itsy Bitsy Spider, which he calls, 'Psider'.  When he does the actions with me, his psider always leaps from the top of the waterspout and shouts, Yah!

He and I had a good wrestle at a friend's house on their carpeted floor.  We used to wrestle more when we had carpeted floors at home.

15 September 2014

Nut Brown, at dinner:  Mom, you're my favorite type of meat.

Me: I am? 

Nut Brown: Yes, because you're all made of meat and you're my favorite!

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Rose Pink, in the car: Have you ever had a little pinch where something zipped by and bit you?  That's a Kuka Luka biting you.

Bobo: Homp Homp.

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Mr. Brown woke me in the middle of the night the other night and said, "Having completed that task, what does the party do now?"  I mumbled something, being not quite awake, and he said, "Great.  The party moves down the hall further into .... " and fell silent.  He was playing D&D with me in his sleep!

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In Nut Brown's Sunday School class we were talking about gifts our Heavenly Father has given us, and Nut Brown's first gift was, 'A Very Kind Dad.'

6 September 2014

Bobo loves superheroes, and he has several Batman shirts and one Superman shirt that he loves to wear.  Last Saturday, Bobo was looking at an image of Kim Possible.  I said, 'That's Kim Possible.  She's... a superhero.'  He looked at his shirt, which had a fish on it, and said, 'oh. fish.'  Then he looked at me and said, "I hero."  And I agreed that he was.

5 September 2014

It's been hot for several days and the cold front with associated thunderstorms was scheduled to come through this evening.  After dinner the kids and I were getting ready to ride up to Sonic for slushes, and it sure did look like rain.  We discussed and decided to go anyway.  We made it to Sonic and ordered our slushes, and then watched the front come through - the sky turned black, and there was this tremendous wind and pounding rain.  Fortunately Sonic had a portico that we hung out under, so we didn't get terribly wet.  It passed after about twenty minutes, and we rode home in a very light drizzle (and in the dark).  It was all very exciting.  Nut Brown thought in the end that the slush was not worth getting wet for, but Rose Pink thought that it was just fine.  Bobo was nervous about the storm but was very brave on my lap.

5 September 2014

Rose Pink: Mom, which would be better for you, grass or dirt?

Nut Brown: If I had to pick, I'd choose dirt, because there's more likely to be food in it.  Like carrots.  Or potatoes.

1 September 2014

We having potatoes for dinner and Nut Brown says, "Potatoes are like cows underground.  You know, butter?  On potatoes?"

Bobo woke up early at 6:30 and got out of bed carrying all his bedding (pillow, boppy, train blanket) and came out to ask me to put him back in bed.  He does this almost every night when he's going to bed - gets out of bed and brings everything with him so I can tuck him back in.  Anyway, this morning he was still sleepy that I put him back in bed with all his blankets and sang him a song, and when I gave him kisses and said, I love you, he smiled at me and nodded.

31 August 2014

For some reason, Rose Pink has taught Bobo to use 'eggy' at the end of sentences.  I think she was trying to make him call her 'Eggy'.  Anyway, Bobo now will give you commands and follow them up with 'eggy!' 

"Sit down, eggy!"

"Get up, eggy!"

"Let go, eggy!"

29 August 2014

We zipped up to the Dream Cruise on Saturday afternoon.  We couldn't find my aunt and uncle when we got there, although we found her Mustang in the parking lot.  Right after I took this photo, they came back from wherever they'd been.  The kids monopolized the camera and took a couple hundred photos of awesome vehicles.  Let me know if you want to see any.

We rode our bikes up to meet them, and then rode over to our friends the Truskies, where we played for a couple hours.  While we were gone in Wisconsin, Royal Oak had some serious flooding, and the Truskies checked our house for us.  Although every other home in the neighborhood had several inches of water in the basement, ours was comparatively dry.  We're grateful for that blessing and grateful for good friends looking out for us while we were gone!

28 August 2014

Last night, reading a book to Bobo.

Mama: What's this, Bobo?
Bobo: Chicken!
Mama: It's a duck.
--pause--
Bobo: Chicken.
Mama: Okay.  What does a chicken say?
Bobo: Duck!

(I think he was trying for 'cluck')

27 August 2014

The other night in car on the way home from the Truskies, Nut Brown saw a sign that said 'Berkley Square' and read "Bakery Squirrel?"  He and Rose Pink were batting around the idea of squirrels that bake when Bobo suddenly used his deep baby voice to say, "Hi Roko.  Hi Roko.  Hi Roko.  Hi Roko...." over and over until she acknowledged him.  It made me laugh.

26 August 2014

Nut Brown had his seventh birthday while we were on vacation.  He wanted a Lego Chima party, so we had a pinata...

 (Kregger the crocodile masquerading as a ninja turtle)

...which was thoroughly defeated.

The kids also explored the 'magical hall of chi'.  My sister and I blew up eighty balloons, some of which had blue glass rocks in them.  They took turns popping the balloons to find and collect chi.  Totally great.

And of course there was cake and presents.  For some reason Nut Brown received Lego toys.  He was delighted.  So was Bobo.

Happy happy birthday, Nut Brown!

24 August 2014

Last night Nut Brown and Rose Pink came up from downstairs at 10:30 pm to sing me three new verses they had made up for 'Oh You Can't Get To Heaven'.  Two involved dynamite.  I love it when they are having fun together.  Today Rose Pink gave a talk in Primary and when she got temporarily stuck, Nut Brown cued her from the audience.  He loves her so much and really wanted her to succeed.

Yesterday we had an unplanned surprise birthday party for Nut Brown.  He'd been asking for a 'friend party' and I told him he couldn't have one that day because I hadn't invited anyone.  But the Truskies were coming over anyway so Mr. Brown and I pooled our resources and had a party anyway.  We did the same games we played in Wisconsin and even found the same pinata, but this time the kids opted to punch it to death instead.  Nut Brown was surprised and felt very special, and I was really glad.  He's such a sweet boy.

23 August 2014

We spent a week in Door County, WI, on Lake Michigan, with most of my siblings, my parents, and all the cousins.  I'm pretty sure I only saw my kids when they were hungry, and I know for a fact that there not many baths taken by any of the kids that week.  It was a great place to stay and we all enjoyed the canoes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

22 August 2014

Bobo does this adorable thing where he reverses the 's' and 'p' in words that have both.  When he wants a popsicle, he asks for a 'psocle', and when he wants a spoon he asks for a 'psoon'.

He's also added some more numbers to his vocabulary, so he can get past one.  'One, two, SIX!' he shouts, which reminds me and Mr. Brown of how the trolls count in Discworld: one, two, many.  Although tonight I asked him how many arms he has and he said, 'two'.

8 August 2014

Mr. Brown has turned 35 and was very happy to now define himself as middle-aged.  He said it was freeing.  For his birthday dinner we had yogurt and granola.  We also celebrated our family's 12th birthday by going out to a Japanese restaurant for dinner.  When we came home, we decided to walk up to the corner store and get sodas.  It looked like rain but I didn't think it was too serious.  We made it there and bought our sodas and then the skies opened and there was wind and rain and hail.  We waited in the lobby for twenty minutes, sipping our drinks and listening to the thunder and hanging out with everybody else who was stranded.  The floor drain backed up and began to flood the lobby!  It looked it was slacking off so we decided to run home.  Sometimes a good soaking in the rain can be fun.  The first thing we discovered was that it was cold rain, which is not very fun to be soaked by.  Then the hail started again and the kids started hollering in a not-very-fun way.  We took shelter on someone's porch and Mr. Brown went the rest of the way home to get the car and come back for us.  He took the wagon with him - it floated across the street because the water was so deep.  Luckily the people whose porch we were on were very friendly.   They happened to be watching the storm and saw us run up, and they brought us towels to warm up while we waited.  So kind of them.  Bobo wrapped up in his towel and turned his face to the wall and wouldn't turn around again for anything.  Eventually Mr. Brown came and picked us up.  It was a very dramatic ending to the day.

22 July 2014

Vacation Bible School at St. Paul's Lutheran is this week.  Rose Pink was so excited that she was up at 6:30 on Monday morning just to make sure she wouldn't be late.