Evil Knievel Rides

Describing something hard to describe

We're playing Lincoln Logs on the floor, we're casually talking about school. Magoo stands to tell me how to carry the rods. He suddenly has a new expression on his face, something has just occurred to him.

"I need to have a bowel movement."
He turns away.
Takes two steps.
Turns back.
Hands move up toward cheeks then up and away.
"See, when I need to have a bowel movement, I get all sparkly."

I needed some life, art, nature . . .

I worked really hard and really focused this morning but hit the 3:00 wall and knew after a long tough week, rather 4 weeks, can you believe we've been back to school for four weeks already? I needed a creative outlet, sewing, blogging, photos. . . I headed home and grabbed some sewing, then grabbed Magoo and got him outside, we haven't been taking advantage of this nice weather lately. Then inside for some tomatoes, they're all I could think of all day, three big fat juicy tomatoes for supper, I cut into the two larges ones, and they were delicious! Mmmmmm, fresh off the vine supper.


Sunshine bag, some have goodnight bags, but evenings is when I have time to be calm and let him pick out clothes, we have a pretty good bed time routine. It's mornings that are killers around here, so a bag full of sunshine and independence is perfection. We put in it his clothes for the next day and a couple of books he can read while I'm still waking up. Hope it helps makes mornings a little smoother. I can't wait until he can make his own hot breakfast. Cold breakfast separates is next.

From Fall 2009

Backyard Art

From Fall 2009

From Fall 2009

Summer delicious, in our own backyard

From Fall 2009

Please take my picture, like this, how can I resist?

From Fall 2009

It's 3 am

It's not 3am now, but it was last night, at 3a.m. and we're working on a new skill with Magoo-sounds like he's a puppy. We're working on trying to get him to sleep the entire night in his own bed. Sounds much easier than it is. He's always woken up in the middle of the night and had a hard time getting back to sleep, during the summer it was easy to let him crawl into bed with us than to go back into his room and sleep on his toddler sized bed for as long as it takes to get a cramp in your legs, or arm, or neck to wake you back up sending you back into your own room.

Anyway, last night at 3:00 a.m. this is what took place.

I hear a sleepy child approaching the room, standing there, knowing he can't come into bed.

"You need to go back to your bed, remember."

"But I need company."

Yes that's right he needs "company" in his bed at 3am. Oh, he's going to be smooth with the ladies later on, much later. It got me to snuggle with him, at least until a cramp in my leg woke me up and I padded back to snuggle with my own sweetheart.

First First-Day-of-School

Today was Magoo's first day of school, OK it barely counts since it's preschool, but it's five days a week half days, and he'll be going here through Kindergarten, so I declared it counts!

He was as excited and ready to go as if he were five so go we did, he had a great uneventful day. The whole day only lasted an hour to be exact, it's phase-in week so they work up to their full four hour schedule. Monday will be another first full day and by full I mean four hour day. Hey maybe I'll take more photos then on first day number two. In the meantime, I'm excited he's starting such a wonderful school and can't wait to get the full report on Friday.

And so what was his report? Someone else picked me up. (one of his teachers drove him to day care after the hour at school). We played (he later recanted on this), we had a story, we looked around, we were told to bring a plant the first day. I put it on the refrigerator, it's smaller than ours (the fridge, not the plant, that was the only plant we had at our house, so glad it's found a better home!).

From Fall 2009

From Fall 2009

Yes, his shirt's a little big but how can you argue, it's new (Thanks Auntie Deb) and it's appropriate. And besides isn't he awfully cute! Hope he doesn't know it too much yet.