Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Happy Birthday Excitement

Isabele will be 3 on Sunday.  She has been looking forward to her birthday for months.  Monday night I happened to mention that we had Mom's Group on Tuesday and that she could go to the 2 year old class, or she could go to the 3 year old class, since she would be 3 on Sunday.  Well, that was the best news to her.  She laughed and squirmed and carried on for a good 5 minutes.  She doesn't have a great grasp of time past yesterday, today and tomorrow, so it's been hard to try to explain to her how far away Sunday is.

She told me, while laying in bed Monday evening, "Mommy, I'm going to lay in my bed with my eyes open and not sleep.  I have enough energy for tomorrow."  She did make it awake a few extra minutes, and outlasted Titus.
Tuesday evening, she told me she was going to watch Titus go to sleep.  That didn't work - she was asleep a good 10 minutes before Titus.

Now, with all her excitement, I guess I'd better get in gear and decide when we are having her cake.

Friday, October 21, 2011

And Hot Water Is Flowing Through the System

We have hot water flowing through our radiant floor heat system!  The new basement walls are painted!

Still need to second coat Isabele's new room and a couple of short block walls.  And repaint the floors.  Then I can really decorate!

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Flowers from my 2011 Summer Garden


Black-eyed Susans - I loved this middle one with it's narrow mutiple rowed petals.



I'm pretty sure the white flowers in the background are a weed - but I liked the white. The fore-ground is pastel yarrow.



Old-fashion Hollyhocks.



Sunflower - a little bug-eaten, but still pretty.



Day lilly - I love these - so intricate to only last a day.



Purple bachelor button.
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Titus





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Titus and Isabele - presentable.


End of August 2011



Gotta love that Humidity! Isabele's got mega curls!





Pink cheeks from a day on the lake!










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Swimming Proof


I would have never guessed that the kids would have made as much progress as they did swimming this summer. I am so glad I bought the bubbles and the "marshmallow sticks". They were well worth their money.

















What a wonderful summer pass-time!
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Titus and Isabele pushing the MG-TD frame out of the Garage



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