Versitile Song

Brother's favorite song is currently "Old McDonald."
At our house, he not only has a farm, he has a zoo,
"Giraffe... munch munch. Hippo... stomp, stomp."
a car lot, "truck...zoom, zoom. "
... pretty much anything can be substituted into the song. Dinosaurs, mommies, Daddies, sisters, etc.
Last night he chose that song to sing before bed. 90% of the time before he goes to bed we sing, "I am a Child of God." Hence, last night's verse went like this: Mind you- he sung this ON HIS OWN.
"Old McDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O. And on his farm he had a.... I am a child of God.... (ok..?) E-I-E-I-O. With a..... take a nap here, and a take a nap there.... E-I-E-I-O."
Now I've heard it all. Clever kid.

I heart Kirby salesmen.

Since we've been in our home (a year and a half) three, count 'em, THREE Kirby salesman have come by. They've all offered to vacuum and shampoo a room for free if we listen to their spheal. Ok! Twice they've cleaned the dining room carpet (and the second time they even vacuumed downstairs to prove a point) and today when one came by we told them up front we wouldn't buy unless it was a RIDICULOUSLY low price (which we named). Ok, but they'll still clean a room. So this time we had them clean the BIG room. Who needs a carpet cleaner? This is great!
PS: The Kirby now functions as:
a vacuum, a carpet shampooer, a leaf-blower, a sander (with vacuum attached), a massager, a couch buffer and much much more. It's great! Just not worth the $2500.

Hat

Disclaimer:
1. I've never made one before.
2. It's impressive because its reversible. Agree with me.
3.a. I had no pattern
3.b. He wasn't there to try it on, so I didn't even have a model.

That being said, meet "Hat."
Part fisher, part Indiana Jones, part clown. Sorry hat, you just don't look that great.
Truth be told, he'd rather not wear it and just get a sunburn.

Me and my girl

Blue Eyes

New Food

We're 0 for 3.

No rice cereal, bananas, or in this case, applesauce.Brother, of course, is something close to 0 for 11,000. Here's his ogre face.

"I pulling his ears, mom."

Home away from home.

In the last four hours we've managed two trips for King, two trips for me, and somehow, we still don't have all the right sprinkler parts. The lady at customer service smiled when she saw me. "Got the wrong part again?" (Do I really need to respond to that?) I even asked for help. Maybe people like us are the reason they're so busy.

Why I don't post:

Between projects and a 90% off sale at a Roberts downtown

(it was closing.... it was like Christmas!),
I've not had time to post. Oh, and of course, children too.
See?


Cabinets Hung! Painting done! Little hanging rod in between! Vwala!
(Yes, I know the paint line doesn't match with the window. It's ok- the window won't be there more than a year or two anyhow. I also know there is no sheet rock on the ceiling. If it bothers you, you can come do it yourself.)
PS- its dark blue, not black.


Little drying rack finished, painted and hung!
We're (I'm) going to modge podge green? blue? paper on the faux wood filing cabinet and use it to hold patterns, crafty stuff etc.

Took a glass jar from a Christmas white-elephant party and put "glass frosting" on it.


It now looks like this- you can kind of see the "E."
The filler/fake fruit was a buck at the sale. Ok. I can spend a buck. They're neat. They look like they're made out of leaves.


I love the "Home Fabrics" store. Cheap cheap fabric. Made pillowcases for the big room. I just covered old pillows or pillows from DI.


From the 90% off sale. $4.99 instead of $49.99 for these two!


Made the wreath from a book I needed to burn or throw away. Not sold on it yet. Do you like it?

We'll post pictures of outside later. It's too dark for the camera.

Mealtimes.

Things started so innocently. You eat your Peanut Butter. You eat your rice cereal.

I'd rather not, thank you.
"I wan-ta treat."

I said, "No thank you!"

"Cookie?"

Rolling

Little Lady has discovered rolling over, at least in one direction.
The only problem is she rolls over when she is supposed to be sleeping, and gets stuck on her back. Before you point out the obvious, I know, babies are supposed to sleep on their backs. Mine are unconventional and only sleep on their stomachs. The first few times she gurgles (probably proud of herself). At first we (I) rolled her back. Then she did it again, and again, and again, and again. Not as much fun now. This could get old fast. Or in King's words, "Sounds like a fun game with less and less replay value."
I guess we're going to have to stop rolling her over and she's going to have to learn how to sleep another way. Wish us luck, or hope she learns to roll the other way fast!