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Picture of the Week: An Announcement

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You might have noticed that things have slowed down here on the blog in the past couple of weeks. Here’s why:

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Yes, we found out two weeks ago that we’re expecting our fourth child this fall. And I got a nasty cold right on the heels of the positive test, so I’ve had virtually no energy recently. It’s about all I can do to get through the day without letting things like housework and homeschooling fall by the wayside. So for the next few weeks, things might continue to be quiet on these pages. I’ve got another Tales on Tuesday story all set to start next week, and when I think of something I really want to write about, that’ll go up here. And a few reviews, of course. But for the next month or so, until I get out of the first trimester and regain some of my energy, I’m not going to stress about blogging. I fully intend to get back up to a 3 posts a week schedule, but now’s not the time for that.

Blessings,

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Picture of the Week: Bugs!

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This picture is actually a few weeks old. I’ve had some phone trouble lately, including the inability to get pictures off of the SD card until I could get a new phone, which happened earlier this week. So I hope you like this picture that Will took back in January.

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It’s no secret that my kids like bugs. They are, after all, boys. Outside our house the other day, there was a box elder bug (commonly called “stinkbugs”), and the kids got Small Fry to hold it. Will went out there with them and got this series of pictures of him. I love how intently he’s looking at the creature. Ah, the innocence of young children. 🙂

Blessings,

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Picture of the Week: Painting with Watercolors

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Picture of the Week: Painting with Watercolors

Seahawk requested some watercolor painting supplies for Christmas, so we happily obliged. As part of that, we got him a journal made with watercolor paper rather than regular paper. The understanding was that he would use his paints and journal to record some of the experiences we have this year. The goal is to paint a picture every day, but that doesn’t always happen. I’d say we’re averaging about twice a week at this point. In the few weeks he’s had the opportunity to paint regularly, I can already see drastic improvement in his skill.

Have a great weekend!

Blessings,

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Picture of the Week: The Audubon Society

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These pictures, in case you can’t tell by looking at my children in them, are quite old. Way back before Small Fry was born, we took the boys to the Audubon Society in Portland and enjoyed a couple of hours of walking the trails and viewing some of the natural wildlife. It was really neat, and the kids loved it. I think they’d actually forgotten about it (even though they loved it at the time), but when I was pulling photos off of the camera this week, I found these. They’d somehow ended up on the actual camera rather than on the memory card, so they didn’t get moved during the multiple times I’ve moved pictures in the intervening years. It’s always fun to see what they looked like so long ago :).

Have a great weekend!

Blessings,

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Picture of the Week: Football!

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In honor of the Super Bowl this week, the kids decided to dress up in football “uniforms” and play outside for a little while. I have no doubt that Seahawk was the mastermind behind this, since he’s the biggest football fan in the family. He had some birthday money a few months ago, and he used it to buy the Seahawks jersey and helmet (which he then wore for Halloween). Munchkin’s helmet is technically a softball helmet that we bought from Goodwill for Halloween 2013 – Seahawk went as a football player that year, too. When he bought his official helmet, he passed the other one down. Munchkin is actually a Baltimore Ravens fan (no idea where that came from considering we don’t live near – or have ever traveled to – Baltimore), so to make the softball helmet “his,” he drew his interpretation of the Ravens logo on paper and taped it onto the helmet. (He’s currently saving his allowance for a Ravens version of the set Seahawk has.) Small Fry’s helmet is a knight helmet that my dad bought him from the Dollar Tree. [Read more…]

Picture of the Week: A Black Eye

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Instagram followers will probably recognize this picture (which looks better on the small screen of my phone, lol)…

Last week (9 days ago, to be exact), Seahawk and Small Fry were playing while I worked on something with Munchkin. Suddenly I hear crying (Small Fry) and frantic apologizing (Seahawk), and they come out to see me. Turns out that while they were horsing around, Small Fry came tumbling down and crashed his face right into Seahawk’s knee. (Don’t ask me how that happened…) Within just an hour or so, he had a definite black eye. This picture was taken two days later, and you can see that it’s still quite bruised. Well, today, it’s been a week since this photo, and his poor eye is still all black and blue. He is starting to get some of the green tinge that tells me he’s healing, but it’s still rather surprising how long this black eye is lasting.

Have a great weekend!

Blessings,

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Picture of the Week: Wildlife Safari

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Yesterday, as you know, was New Year’s Day. Will took the day off from work and wanted us to do something awesome as a family. We chose to visit Wildlife Safari, a “roaming zoo” about 150 miles away from where we live. I plan to do a longer post on our trip next week, so I’m not going to talk about it much here, but I wanted the Picture of the Week to be a bit of a teaser of things to come. 😉

Why, yes, that is an emu attacking our car!

Why, yes, that is an emu attacking our car!

Have a great weekend!

Blessings,

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Picture of the Week: Cranberries are Not Good!

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I bought fresh cranberries at Thanksgiving time to make fresh sauce to take to my in-laws’ for dinner, and then what did I do? Forgot to make it or bring the berries to have it made while we were there. So I ended up with two bags of fresh cranberries in my fridge the week after Thanksgiving. Because they weren’t of the “sweetened dried” variety, I’m not sure how to use these cranberries in any way other than to make sauce, so I did that one night last week to go with a roasted chicken. As I was pulling the berries out of the fridge, Small Fry was right up with me, begging for a berry. What he didn’t know was that uncooked, unsweetened cranberries are not very palatable. So I handed him one, knowing what his reaction would be, and told him to wait a minute to eat it until I could get the camera ready. His response was pretty much exactly what I expected: a disgusted face and pulling that berry out of his mouth just as fast as he could! My camera shutter was a bit too slow to capture the face, but you can see him frantically scraping his tongue. What a funny boy! [Read more…]

Picture of the Week: In the Rain

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It’s officially the rainy season here in the Pacific Northwest. To “celebrate,” we purchased the boys (all of them, including Will) new rain boots, and a raincoat for Small Fry (which he is not wearing in these pictures – these were taken before we left, and we bought the coat while we were out that day). Will and Small Fry have never had any, and Seahawk and Munchkin either outgrow or wear out theirs each year. Mine are two years old but still in good shape, so I didn’t get new ones. When Will brought the boots home one night earlier this week, Small Fry was so excited! The kids were already in bed but not asleep, so Will let them out to try on their new boots. Small Fry and Munchkin got matching pairs; this is likely the last year Munchkin will have “fun” ones before he’s into the bigger sizes that come in black.

The morning after Will brought them home (the only way to convince Small Fry to go to bed was to promise him that he could wear his boots again in the morning), it was raining, so we all put on our jackets and boots and walked to the store. Small Fry absolutely loved going out in the rain with his boots on. There’s something magical about walking (and jumping) in puddles and staying dry!

Blessings,

Wendy

Picture of the Week: 3 Brothers

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Love.

We’ve been walking a lot lately. Small Fry usually rides in his stroller, but he would almost always prefer to walk as well, and sometimes we let him. It really all depends on how big a hurry we’re in to get to where we’re going. The other day was one of the happy days when he got to walk, and the three boys were just too adorable walking in front of us to not document.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Blessings,

Wendy