I Flunked Vegetable Gardening This Year

I flunked.  All I wanted was fresh tomatoes in August and Pumpkins for the kids to carve.  All of my pumpkin plants ended up being Zucchini.  Except 1.  Finally I got what I'm pretty sure is a pumpkin (unless it's watermelon).  I was weeding and found one.  Yeah!  10 feet away, I cut part of a vine...who knows what it was...with my bad luck, I figured it was the strange squash plant that took over, so I whacked off 8 feet of it and hauled out of the back of the garden.  Only, when I got it to the driveway, I found a small pumpkin was attached.  ERRRR!!!!  So much for having 2.  Guess I'm going to be buying pumpkins this year. 
I also planted some birdhouse gourd seeds in the spring.  So, this random, strange squash plant, must be the birdhouse gourd, right?  Well, since I forgot I planted them for a while, sure - that must be it.  WRONG!  It's butternut squash.  Good old compost.  I did NOT plant butternut squash.  I don't particularly like them.  If I was going to plant a winter squash, it would be acorn squash, not butternut.  Oh well.  Better luck next year.

She's a two-wheeler rider!!

Isabele can ride the "green bike" now.  She needs some more practice, but she's figured it out.  A little iffy on breaking and steering isn't overly accurate, but she's official :-)  Hopefully self-sufficient in a couple more days and I'll get some pictures.

New camera!

I just got a new camera that does video!  I asked for it for Valentines Day, but got it a little early as we have a birthday party for Titus tomorrow.  Isabele is a bit of a performer (Titus not so much so, so far).  So, here's a clip of her singing. (If I can get it to work).

I'm hoping these aren't too big (okay they are the smallest size I think I can make them).  If they don't work for you, please leave me a message so I can see if I can figure out how to fix it.

Reading Through the Bible

I thought I had posted when I started reading through the Bible, cover to cover, but I didn't.  However, I did find in an email when I started: September 5, 2011.  As of today, I'm most of the way through Jeremiah.

I started because I was frustrated with putting my kids to bed and getting them to go to sleep.  Sitting there wasn't working, not sitting wasn't working, white noise, reminding them to go to sleep, lights on, lights off, "I'm in the other room".  None of it.  So, I decided to read the Bible, aloud...Genesis is a little dry, and a lot over the heads of 2 and 4 year old...at least the NIV is.  No pictures, no condensed version.
So, every night, after their bible story (condensed and with pictures), hugs, kisses and prayers, off go the majority of the lights, and out comes my bible.  They go to sleep, occasionally Titus will ask a question that came from what he heard, I am actually reading through the Bible, and I'm not getting as frustrated with the "bedtime routine".
Now  I just have to remember to post when I hit the end of Revelation.

Why did you take the tires off, Titus?

Brian just asked Titus, "Why did you take the tires off of the red (toy) car?"
Titus, without missing a beat, "Because it had summer tires on and I had to put the snow tires on.  Now it has it's winter tires on."

Titus' Pants Theory

The pants Titus was wearing today have become highwaters.  I said to him at bath time, "Titus, your pants are getting pretty short."

He sat down on the floor with his legs out straight (which made his short pants, even shorter) and said, "Mom, see, I am the same size and my pants are growing backwards.  They used to be here (ankles) and now they are here (several inches closer to his waist).  They are just growing backwards."

Isabele's Funny This Evening

She's sitting on the toilet (great place to have conversations when you are 3) and asks "how do you bow down to God?"
I said, "you put your knees and feet and head on the floor."
She laughs and says, "no, that's how I do a somersault."

Gotta love her some times.