9-12-11

ewwwww. chocolate syrup. never again.

9-11-11

Brown bear, brown bear
What do you see?

Here is sneaky doorway footage of lily reading a bedtime story to charlie.
as all you parents know, the cuteness would have stopped immediately if they knew we were videotaping.

9-10-11

Wuhooooo!





I've been making an effort to participate in just about anything charlie says Wuhoo! about. Running around in circles laughing hysterically, taking breaks only to throw our arms in the air and say "WUHOOOOO". Putting all our toy cars in a box until the box is overflowing and then tipping it on the floor, "WUHOOOOO". Jumping up and down and wiggling our butts to that annoying song he loves, "WUHOOOOO!"
Mostly we've been trying to find mommy's awesome due to this blog post from another parent. Because I rarely wake up feeling that awesome. And my kids deserve a mom who thinks she is AWESOME!

you should go read their blog and see the adorable pic of their kid but here is the text of the post.


There was a time when you were five years old,
and you woke up full of awesome.

You knew you were awesome.

You loved yourself.

You thought you were beautiful,
even with missing teeth and messy hair and mismatched socks inside your grubby sneakers.

You loved your body, and the things it could do.

You thought you were strong.

You knew you were smart.

Do you still have it?
The awesome.

Did someone take it from you?
Did you let them?
Did you hand it over, because someone told you weren’t beautiful enough, thin enough, smart enough, good enough?
Why the hell would you listen to them?
Did you consider they might be full of shit?

Wouldn’t that be nuts, to tell my little girl below that in another five or ten years she might hate herself because she doesn’t look like a starving and Photoshopped fashion model?
Or even more bizarre, that she should be sexy over smart, beautiful over bold?
Are you freaking kidding me?

Look at her. She is full of awesome.

You were, once. Maybe you still are. Maybe you are in the process of getting it back.

All I know is that if you aren’t waking up feeling like this about yourself, you are really missing out.


also,
Ive been posting a lot! Make sure you scroll down/click the previous posts thing to go back to see stuff from the last few days.

9-9-11

An ode to my little son.

I love this baby boy more than I ever ever ever thought I could. Don't get me wrong, my daughter is a ray of sunshine for the world to see. People write such beautiful things about the joy of little girls, and everything they write is true.

But I bask in the quiet and constant love from my boy.

Mama friends of mine, most of you all have girls and I know when I found out I was having a boy... well I couldn't even say "son". I couldn't think of names I liked. It felt odd. I'm a mama to a little girl! I knew how to do that.. but oh, mamas. Just you wait.

If you are lucky enough to get a glimpse into the world of the little toddler boy....it changes you forever! Funny (Soooo funny!), sweet. Loving and so imaginative. He pretends to betough, trying to be independent and without missing a beat, cuddled back in my arms.

He sees the magic and possibility of the world, and he's taking us all with him on this adventure.

i loooove him!

i love his silly fake pout

his glorious long eyelashes and his crazy hair!

the way his nose crinkles when he makes silly faces

his faint and fading little "stork bite" mark on his forehead. exactly as it was the moment i met him. but disappearing a bit each day, like all the signs of the baby he was.

and it just get better and better every.single.day.

9-8-11

Toward the end of summer, every year, we get the opportunity to go bask in all that summer means to us at a lovely little cabin in the woods with Dave's parents, sister Anne and her husband Mike. Amazing fun time. This year was extra special because Dave's birthday gift was a daytrip on a party boat (float boat? is there a proper name?)

boat baby!

charlie & papa (do you see how big this boat is! and i'm taking this pic from the middle of the boat! there is another half behind me!)

that's pretty much it, except this lovely picture of me & mike enjoying many margaritas with a baby sleeping in a carrier on my back.

yay! up north! can't wait till next year! Thank you Thank you papa and rah rah for a super fun summer getaway!

9-7-11

the heide family homestead had a bountiful summer!

planters of basil, cilantro, dill and chives. the back planter along the fence in this planter was sort of an afterthought filled with extra seedlings of peppers, beans and a few heirloom tomatoes that miraculously reseeded from last year all on their own.

and here is where mountains of tri color beans, 5 varieties of tomatoes, 4 types of peppers and our eagerly anticipated brussels sprout plants grow.

this is the same garden bed from the tomato end of things

this has been my daily haul from the garden pretty steadily since july

and the chicks! they are all grown up and moved out (THANK GOODNESS OMG MY POOR GARAGE WILL NEVER EVER BE CLEAN AGAIN. SO DUSTY! EW!)

look at the cute home dave built them!

big girls! (and probably a boy, we'll see)

EGGS! we get about a half dozen a day, they are fairly small so we're going through them all at home (yum yum yum) for now but we hope to get enough to supplement at the restaurant some also.

We have been having adventures and staying busy. life is fun.

8-10-11

Princess Day at the Madison Mallards.

Oh. My. Goodness.

Free admission for little girls in princess costumes. And princesses to take pictures with. And free carriage rides. Oh my!

Three cheers for daddy's who wear paper crowns to make little girls happy

and princes that sweep the field!

and princes and princesses that dance on the field during the dirt sweeping process (yes, i know the process probably has a name)

charlie wore his sunglasses for more than 3 seconds.

he even made silly face in them.


princesses + baseball = a really good time. who knew?!