as a kid, my favorite game was Tetris (this was back when i had time to indulge in video games) That version was slightly more pleasant than the version i've been playing for the last week or so. packing our household has begun to feel like one giant game of fitting the pieces together into a defined space (moving boxes). Tetris is so much more fun when its virtual!
part of me would rather just pitch it all (a sale is only slightly less effort than packing) and put the money for the moving van toward new stuff...i know its not realistic though. but i am starting to understand why people go through 'moving sales'.
plus, i'm having to come face-to-face with my OCD...i don't like putting unlike things together in boxes. like things just go together. that's how it works. except when i find a package of sewing needles and some stickers after i've already filled the boxes with craft supplies. AHH! personal growth is uncomfortable! still, the reward at the end is a new house closer to the new job, sigh!
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Thursday, April 09, 2009
toddler art time and greenfootitis
i realized as i scrolled through my latest posts that i haven't updated on the boys in a while...so before i get to my latest picture of Violet, i'll tell a recent example of "boys are different then girls"...
last week we got out the big roll of white paper, laid it on the floor and cut lengths of it to draw outlines of each boy. i drew around Jayden pretty easily. Zeke was a little more difficult, but i managed. then came the time for them to color in their "person". as a kid i loved this activity...getting to color in the clothes i had on, so i told the boys to draw in their clothes and i gave them some crayons to use. what happened next was totally unexpected. they started with their faces. Jayden being more adept with a crayon actually did most of the work on both his and zeke's outline. i sat and watched in disbelief as my boys proceeded to draw claws and weapons. dangerous things! any little girl would have drawn jewelry and flowers, but boys...weapons. the papers actually looked more like monsters when they lost interest and moved on to something else (nothing ever really gets "done" around our house, they just move on). so the papers were as done as they were going to get and THEN the boys started calling them by name: "scaryZeke" and "scaryJayden" hung around our house for a few days before disappearing into the recycling bin...shh don't tell the boys where they are- they haven't missed them. boys are so different from girls!
now for the princess. one of the crayons used in the above story made its way into violet's footy sleeper. i had quite a shock when i pulled her foot out of her pajamas and it was green! my best guess is zeke put a piece of crayon in there before it went through the wash. he likes to carry things around inside his own footy pajamas. so when her foot hung out in her pajamas all night, the crayon color transfered to her skin. just in time for her well check at the pediatrician's office...maybe he didn't notice. he has probably seen crazier things anyway. so, here's a photo of her greenfootitis!
last week we got out the big roll of white paper, laid it on the floor and cut lengths of it to draw outlines of each boy. i drew around Jayden pretty easily. Zeke was a little more difficult, but i managed. then came the time for them to color in their "person". as a kid i loved this activity...getting to color in the clothes i had on, so i told the boys to draw in their clothes and i gave them some crayons to use. what happened next was totally unexpected. they started with their faces. Jayden being more adept with a crayon actually did most of the work on both his and zeke's outline. i sat and watched in disbelief as my boys proceeded to draw claws and weapons. dangerous things! any little girl would have drawn jewelry and flowers, but boys...weapons. the papers actually looked more like monsters when they lost interest and moved on to something else (nothing ever really gets "done" around our house, they just move on). so the papers were as done as they were going to get and THEN the boys started calling them by name: "scaryZeke" and "scaryJayden" hung around our house for a few days before disappearing into the recycling bin...shh don't tell the boys where they are- they haven't missed them. boys are so different from girls!
now for the princess. one of the crayons used in the above story made its way into violet's footy sleeper. i had quite a shock when i pulled her foot out of her pajamas and it was green! my best guess is zeke put a piece of crayon in there before it went through the wash. he likes to carry things around inside his own footy pajamas. so when her foot hung out in her pajamas all night, the crayon color transfered to her skin. just in time for her well check at the pediatrician's office...maybe he didn't notice. he has probably seen crazier things anyway. so, here's a photo of her greenfootitis!
umm, sold?
technically, "under contract"
when i took this photo, i wanted to write about how we had just put the house on the market and yada yada...but between the photo Wednesday after lunch and me posting it Thursday after the kids are in bed, we got an offer...it was way too fast for me to have time to emotionally detach from the house. Good job to our realty company, though! now we can fully immerse ourselves in "new-job-land" and save ourselves a lot of gas money in the process. now, i guess we need to find a new place to live. Let the search begin!
two-ooth
not quite visible in the picture is baby girl's prize new tooth. that brings us up to two and now, back to our regularly scheduled sleep cycle. whew! what a relief! this tooth took some work to get through. the ordeal has made me apprehensive about the stage where she's gonna have to grow teeth that are flat...after all, this tooth was sharp and it didn't even come easy. how much worse is it gonna be for her and molars?!? yikes!
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