I'm lovin' it.

(Trademark infringement?! Nah.)

This is my kind of weather. It has been warmer the last few days, and I'm so excited for the arrival of spring.

Besides enjoying the warmth of it, my zoo runs way more efficiently when it's not 5 degrees outside. The zoomobile takes a lot more effort and planning to load when I've got to worry about bundling up my troop with coats, scarves, gloves, boots.

And warmer weather means that, when the monkeys hop in the car barefoot, we can use all those spare sandals on the floorboard. I guess that also means that I've got to clean out the kazillion coats, hoodies, pullovers, and sweaters hiding all those sandals!

Blessings #s 1&2 have been busy using up all my yarn exercising their creativity and manual dexterity by making scarves. They are honing in on a natural talent for finger-knitting. And loving it.

I am finding a multitude of mini-scarves all over the house.


Before we picked up the girls at school yesterday afternoon, I took the littl'uns out the back gate to enjoy an unusally warm, sunny, and non-windy afternoon at the park. (It actually got to 70 at our house!) It was wonderful.

B#5 found the one puddle that still remained from an earlier rain and from across the way, I spotted him splash splash splashing away in it. He thought it was an absolute blast. He was so proud of himself that he ran over with a huge grin plastered across his face... to plaster little dirty handprints on my pants.

I am definitely eager to welcome the warmer weather!

But, alas, you may need to remind me I said that when I'm fussing about incubating a baby when it's 110 degrees outside.

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Introducing...

Jellybean
February 15, 2008
3:00 pm

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It's in his bones.

Turn on some music, and the kid starts movin' and groovin'.

(Apparently he is somewhat partial to the Four Tops.)

This boy can dance.

(Yeah, you've gotta turn off Chris Tomlin if you don't wanna hear two different audio tracks at once!)

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8 on the 5th

Blessing #1 turned eight (ahhhhhhh!) yesterday! She wanted to celebrate on Sunday so there'd be more time to enjoy it all- that's what she said, so that's what we did.

After church we went to birthday lunch at Red Robin, and then we came home to open presents. She spent the afternoon skating around in those new (size-adjustable, of course!) blades during the littlest little guy's naptime. The kids had a quick cereal dinner, and then we ate ice cream cone cupcakes.

I was told, at the time, that the cupcakes were "like the best thing" I'd ever cooked.

Possibly because of the chocolate icing.

Or the fun sprinkles.

Or the maraschino cherry.

Or the whipped cream.

Or because they were all just so famished after being served cereal for dinner.

Whatever the reason, I was happy because they were all happy!:)

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