My brain seems to be out of the office today, so my throwback post isn’t going back all that far:
Here’s Bubbles fighting with some landscape edging last spring. He and Seymour were prettying up the front yard at our old house, and he had a little bit of trouble.
Don’t forget to stop by Charnele’s blog and see what she’s been up to lately. Hope your Friday’s a happy one, and have a great weekend!
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We have a banana fiend in our midst.
There’s nothing Mr. Thumper would like better than a heaping big bowl of bananas, and we have a whole bunch ripening on top of our fridge. When told they were for banana bread, he decided that would be an acceptable substitute.
But he wanted it right. now. You know, as we were walking out the door for the day.
*sigh* Threenagers. 🙂
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Kids are only kids once. Here are some of my favorite kid-related stories and things I will miss about them as they get older.
Miss Tadpole
Several years ago, we were down at Seymour’s parents’ house helping set up for a garage sale. Bubbles and Miss T. were in the house watching The Lion King while I fixed dinner and Seymour and his ma were out in the garage. As I was serving the kids, they asked me if I’d seen the movie before. I said, “Yep. This movie came out when I was a kid.”
Miss Tadpole: “Wow, that’s an old movie.”
Bubbles: “Yeah, really old.”
Miss Tadpole: “So…why is it in color?”
Me: “What?”
Miss Tadpole: “Well, I thought old movies were…
We had our final family Christmas get-together last night with my sister and her family. At the end of the evening, we were talking about pictures and the respective hundreds that we have on our phones. Bubbles walked up and said, “Mom? Can you take my picture?”
I was pretty happy with how this one turned out, but a little sad, too. He used to ask me to take his picture when he was little, and then he’d immediately want to see it. If I was using my digital camera, it worked fine, but he just couldn’t understand why I wouldn’t immediately show him the ones I took with my film camera. Actually, he still doesn’t get it, but anyway.
Cricket and Thumper used to do the same thing, but now when I try to take their pictures, Thumper won’t sit/stand still and Cricket says, “No, Mom – don’t take my picture.”
Guess this means I’m gonna have to improve my stealth skills. 🙂
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Yesterday Miss Tadpole decided to take the boys outside to play in the snow. Thumper was all excited to bundle up, head outside, and build a snowman.
That lasted all of about five minutes. Then the cold got to him and the screaming began. At least I got some nice cuddle time while he warmed up under a pile of blankets.
Cricket, on the other hand, didn’t start screaming till he was forced to come inside. He wasn’t ready to be done playing, but he wasn’t listening, either, so in he came.
This weekend has given us the warmest temps we’ve had in quite a while – mid-twenties above zero! – but there’s a breeze, and it’s knocked the wind chill down well below zero. Still, at least it’s better than the last week.
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It’s been a long day already, and it’s not even noon yet.
“But Mom, I just wanna watch Dungeons and Dragons!”
Thumper was up bright and early at 6:30 a.m., which was shortly after Seymour woke up for work. Naturally, then, I was also awake bright and early, first chatting with Seymour before he left for the day, and then snuggling with my favorite little bunny.
The rest of the morning has been spent supervising a grumpy Bubbles, who’s doing penance for letting a shed door get torn off by the wind the other night. If things keep on this way, I’m gonna need a stiff drink by the end of the day.
How are you spending your weekend?
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I had actually planned for Photo Fridays to return last week, but since last Friday was my first day back to work and generally insane, I decided to push it back a week.
This week’s Photo Friday post (and next week’s, and probably at least the week after that) is a throwback. You know, like Throwback Thursday, but on Friday. I have a huge archive of old photos, and I thought it would be fun to share a few.
This one, clearly, is from 2010. We traveled south to see Seymour’s cousin get hitched, and as always, had a heck of a great time. Her wedding was the day before our first wedding anniversary, so we made a fun weekend of it.
Don’t Bubbles and Miss Tadpole look little? It’s hard to believe how much they’ve grown in the last four and a half years.
Have a great weekend, everybody, and don’t forget to check out Charnele’s blog to see what she’s got going on!
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I love my boys. I love that they get along so much better than my sister and I did when we were little. Cricket and Thumper are best friends, and it’s wonderful.
That said, they’re also three and four (read: they don’t always share well). So when they were playing nicely together the other morning (i.e., sharing) while watching Dungeons and Dragons, I had to take a picture. Lately there’s been too much fighting over who has whose toy car, and I relished the morning’s relative peace.
I know I’ll miss this stage one day, and I hope they can stay best friends as they get older.
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Cricket loves his new jammies. He’s hit the superhero worship phase, and he loves the same heroes his big brother used to love.
I was impressed I managed to get him to sit still long enough for a good picture, and even more impressed that I managed to catch this lovely smile. They come and go as quickly as Thumper does. 🙂
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Well, would you look at that – they’re wearing their coats!
It’s the middle of winter, so you wouldn’t think this would be so remarkable. But Monday night, Bubbles went to spend a week at his dad’s and left his coat at home. It was maybe 15°F the next day, so his stepmom drove him over to pick up his coat.
We were supposed to get a bunch of snow this weekend, but so far, we’ve only got a dusting. At any rate, Friday night his dad stopped to pick up his boots, because he hadn’t taken those with him, either. *sigh*
Apparently Bubbles is going to be one of those kids who wears shorts when it’s five below. Insisting his sweatshirt is good enough is only the beginning.
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Suddenly they all died. The end. 