undisciplined thinker

3/12 - april 2012 - backyard

April was a fun month.  Our car had it's first problem, which turned out to not really be a problem, but caused me to miss two half days of work.  I did learn how to take my battery out of my car and how to jump start it though.    We had a lovely Easter Sunday and then I promptly got sick with a very bad cold/flu thing.  Bret's band had their third show and it was awesome!

Towards the middle of the month Bret went on a guys only camping trip in Goblin Valley State Park in Utah for four days and the miss and I went to Portland for a girls only parenting trip.  I was nervous about being in the car alone with S for such a long trip, we'd never done it before, but she was a champ.  I loved having so much time with my sister and all the cousins getting to hang out.  We did a lot of pretend British face painting, had a fairy photo shoot and played in the MUD (like real honest to goodness mud.)

On to May where there will be yard work, spring cleaning and the binky fairy...

Bonus Out-take Picture: Parkour!

happy easter, mouse!

She GOT Easter this year.  She was ready for that mischievous bunny.  She set her empty plastic eggs out the night before and woke up Easter morning ready to go.  She used the nontraditional hunting method of leaving her basket in one spot and returning each egg to it one at a time, but she found them all in the end.  One yellow egg gave her a wee bit of trouble, but she found it.

second star to the right and straight on 'til morning

So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!

- J.M. Barrie

3/12 - march 2012 - Scarlett's room

March was a quite month.  Lots of home/family time to make up for what feels like hard and long work days.  Lots of two year old sweet and saltiness.  We all had our half birthdays.

Miss S is much a kid now.  Her physical dexerity amazes me.  She is so confident!  If she isn't a parkour expert by the time she is three I'll be surprised.  Her dance moves keep getting more and more righteous as well.  She drinks from a big girl cup and we're prepping her for her binkies to go away.  Where is my tiny baby?  I never realized how old two and half was until now. 

I attended a quilting workshop with Anna Maria Horner towards the middle of the month and it was amazing.  I was so inspired, in fact, I bought a machine of my very own!  I have yet to finish my pillow top that I started at the workshop, but since the 10th I have made Scarlett five skirts, two sun hats, an oil cloth painting smock, juggling balls and a little bag.  I'm so in love with my new machine.

Bret's flag football season started up again, winning both games in March.  The game today not so much, but that happened in April so it doesn't count. 

On to April with bunnies, dollies and planting truffula trees...

the list - half way there

Well in the last three months I've read 3 books and started a quilt.  That's progress I guess.  I should probably add to the list "blog more."  I've been a slacker.  29 year old me is kind of status quo. 

Read Banned Books:
            Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
            Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
            Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
            Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
            Fahrenheit 541 - Ray Bradbury
            I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Mya Angelou
            The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
            The Chocolate War - Robert Cormeir

Master My Camera

Make A Quilt

Find The Perfect Chicken Fettuccine Alfredo Recipe

Watch The Sunrise With Bret

Teach Scarlett Constellations

tickety boo

sled!

She is him.

you've got a little somethin'

Me: A friend told me that her kids took all their squinkies into the tub and stuck them all over their body.  She said it was really funny until they pulled them off and had tiny dark purple hickeys all over their faces and torsos.

Him:  I want to try!

My friend was right on both accounts.

Guess who is two and a half...

Nope, it's not me.  It's you!

It's crazy, right?  How does it feel?

Yep that pretty much sums it up for me too.  My little is two and a half.  Half way to five.  A smidgen to far past baby.  She is sass and sweet, smart and funny.  She's a time niffler.

3/12 - february 2012 - home

Oh short month you bested me.  Even with your extra fake day I forgot to take our monthly picture.  Thirteen under my belt and number fourteen slayed me.  At 1am on March 1st I realized and panicked.  At 1:02 am on March 1st I remembered Elisha took a picture of the three of us on our couch when she visited earlier in the month and calmed down.  It wasn't until I saw them that I remembered how thrilled Scarlett was about having her picture taken right then.  But that was kind of her the month of February.  A sour patch kid. Intensely sour and then sweet.  So I guess it's fitting.

We took Scarlett bowling for the first time when Elisha was here.  I think Scarlett had more fun watching then playing, because when you play you have to take turns.  But she had fun and I treated the whole bowling alley to an AFV moment when I chased after Scarlett, who was chasing her ball down the lane.  I got two steps in before I realized why the attendant walked down the gutter to get Scarlett's stopped ball earlier.  The lane took my legs out from under me, I took Scarlett's out from under her and if that wasn't embarrassing enough.  I then had to CRAWL off the lane.  So fyi, them suckers are slick.

Scarlett's favorites of the month: singing John the Rabbit and jumping like a pogo stick.

Now for March and quilts and half birthdays all around...