Five Year Old Thoughts

Friday we went camping and stayed up much to late because we were having so much fun. While the getting ready for bed was going on in the tent. Our five year old announced to all in range of hearing, "I'm one cranky lady!" And luckily fell asleep soon after.

Four Seasons in One Week

Last week we went south. Part of the plan was to find some sunny, slightly warmer weather. During the five days we were there we saw a snowstorm (it looked like January), rain, wind and sun. We also found a unique place to see a zebra. We did have fun going on walks (some in the rain), hikes (some longer than others), swimming and going on picnics. When I convince my computer to let me put pictures on the posts there might be a few to look at. Until then I suppose you can imagine what it looked like. It was very pretty despite the less than desirable weather.

Sharing Mother's Day

Highlights of my Mother's Day
*cards
*breakfast in bed
*flowers
*a "Happy Mother's Day" song
*a popsicle stick paper holder
*sharing my day with a very wonderful husband and kids
*a one year old who decided my breakfast looked yummy
and really wanted some.
A mom is destined to share.
It was a very nice day.

Mothers Day 2011

The holiest words my tongue can frame,
The noblest thoughts my soul can claim,
Unworthy are to praise the name
More precious than all other.
An infant, when her love first came,
A man, I find it still the same,
Reverently I breath her name,
The blessed name of mother.

George Griffith Fether

I really liked this poem so I'm sharing it.
I'm so glad to have a mother, mother-in-law,
grandmas, aunts and many women who have
taught and given me so many things.

Pickles

Quote for the day:

"My legs feel like pickles"

(I want to know what it really feels like to be a pickle).

A Conversation With a Five Year Old

It went something like this:

Is that a real pineapple?
Yes.
We should have a pineapple tree.
That would be nice, but it gets too cold here, and not warm enough. That's why we should have a green house, so we can grow pineapples.
Well, we have a green door.

It's a start, right? Now we just need to paint the rest of our house green.

Cookie Monster

Awhile ago a friend watched my kids. When I went to pick them up she gave me a bag of chocolate chip cookies and said that my littlest spotted them and had been "asking" for them. She told him he could take some home. He was excited to hold the bag on the way home. When we got there I started making lunch and wasn't really paying close attention to the little guy who took his bag 'o cookies to the basement. When I noticed it had been quiet for a longer than usual I went looking. I found the cookie monster with three cookies sitting around him, one in his mouth, and a chocolate smile on his face. He also knows exactly where the cookie jar is and what's in it at my grandma's house. I think he really likes cookies.