All over the place

This entery is going to a little bit all over the place.  I thought that I would really get to talk about yesterday, but I ended up being totally exhausted with a little bit of an uneasy tummy so I went to bed as soon as I put Luke down. 

Yesterday morning I was cutting up some strawberries for Luke's breakfast.  I've had this carton of strawberries for a couple of days in the fridge, and who knows how long it was at the store.  But look what I found in the bottom of it!

At first I thought it was dead, from the cold in the fridge, but when I went to pick it up little legs popped out and tried to get out of the way.  I couldn't believe the little lady bug was still alive!  I gingerly placed her on my finger and then tossed her out the back door.  I like to believe I have a new friend in my back yard now.  At least I didn't kill her like I did this one. 

Also yesterday morning I made a couple of birthday presents for two little girls who are both turning three this month.  Claire's party is tomorrow and Jocelyn's party is next Saturday.  I thought that my new found skill of the crayon roll would serve them well, each coupled with a brand new coloring book.  Sounds like a three year old's dream right?  I know it's mine.  I bought Luke a new coloring book too, and I may or may not have already colored a picture in it.

Durning nap time I sprayed the yard with that new crab grass killer that I bought.  Call me crazy, but I swear that today the cb looked just a little bit droopy, a little bit wilted.  Has it finally met it's demise?  I'll keep you posted.  I know it's a high priority on eveyone's list.

Later on after nap time Luke and I went out to do some errands.  I thought he looked super cute in his outfit.  (ummmm, after I finished all of this, I realized this might have been from Wednesday.  Like I said, things have been fuzzy lately.  Whatever.  It was on the camera and it was cute, so I had to post it.)

Hobby Lobby hasn't gotten their denim bags in for a long time, the ones I use to make people diaper bags, and I went on the hunt to find something I could use instead.  Guess who has nothing even remotely close?  Michael's and JoAnn's.  Grrrrr.....But I did pick up a few other things at JoAnn's, and after Michael's we walked next door to Barnes and Noble where I picked up several books for Luke's birthday.  Except when I was trying to get him to leave the little play area he threw a big screaming fit on the floor.  You know what's not fun?  Trying to balance an arm-load of books, your purse, a sippy cup, and a thrashing toddler all by yourself.  *sigh*  I was THISCLOSE to leaving the books on the closest shelf and hauling him out there.  Lucky for him he got a grip just in time.

I'm super excited about these books, I wish I could give them to him now.  There is one thats in the shape of a motorcycle with real wheels where the wheels in the picture are. He's gonna love it!

Anyway, when we got home we had dinner, I put him to bed, and then I went to bed too.  But we've already talked about that. 

This morning it totally felt like Saturday for some reason. The only reason I knew it wasn't was because Kayden was here.  We didn't do much.  I did some laundry.  Picked up the house (going to bed so early last night left it looking like a tornado came through).  Hmmmmm....I know I did more things.  Why can't I remember them?  *sigh*  I feel like I've been living in a fog the last few days.  Everything is just kinda hazy and floating by.  I blame the heat.  While the boys were napping today I got outside for a little sun.  While I was out there I was inspecting my little herbs.  They are doing h.o.r.r.i.b.l.e.  For some reason pretty much everything is fading fast, except for the basil which appeared to be severely chomped on.  Upon closer inspection I found this.

Yep.  That would do it.  I scooped him up and tossed him in a huge pile of crab grass.  I figured if he some how survives the poison on the grass then I say he deserves to live. 

At one point today I realized that Luke's milk cup had gone missing.  I searched high and low for that sucker.  I was not about to let it go, forget, and then next week have to throw away another cup when it turned up.  The more I looked the more annoyed I got.  When I finally found it in between the back of the couch and the cushion I was totally worked up.  Then Cody called and told me he was going to happy hour with some people from work when they got off.  That did not help my overly annoyed mood. 

I ended up texting Ashley to see what she was doing for dinner.  She said that she and Mom and Dad were going to Fuzzy Tacos and we were welcomed to come.  So we did!  It was super good.  Then after dinner it was only 7 (!) so we went to a park to play for a little bit.  We had fun.  And Luke's developed a habbit that I find endearing. 

I have lots of memories of my Grandy stretched out in his recliner, one arm up over head, half asleep, chewing on the corner of his shirt.  Not in a goat kinda way.  I love seeing little family traits come through like this.  And the shy way he will turn his face away from something, like his daddy.  Or his lack of giving/recieving affection like his momma.  ;) 

A few minutes ago I sat down to where I keep my lap top and there were little black ants everywhere.  Bah.  Not again!  It seems like ever summer we have a mini invasion somewhere in the house.  Last year it was the comptuer room and the year before that it was the left window in the living room.  They don't bite, but they are super pesky.  And obvisously hard to get rid of .

Also I've developed a thing for bread and butter pickles.  I've never really been a pickle person before, but for some reason they are wonderful right now.  And don't you dare ask me if I'm pregnant.  That's just cruel and unusual punishment.  Your tastebuds change every few years, and mine have finally developed a taste for this particular pickle. 

I could also talk about how I've finally broken into the New Testement in my read-the-bible-in-a-year thing, but I think I've carried on enough for tonight.  Maybe I'll talk about it tomorrow.  If I remember.  Which at this point is on slim chances since tomorrow the heat is supposed to be near 100.

Wicked and ice cream

Sorry I wasn't around last night.  See, I already had plans.  Something like a date.  My sister, cousin, grandmother and I were here last night.

And it was fantastic.  I've actually been to see Wicked before, the first time it came to Dallas, and I've also read the book.  Oh the book.  Normally the book is much better than the movie/performance, but in this case I wouldn't agree.  The book is.....different.  And dark.  And has undercurrent themes that seem to jump all over the place.  Anyway, I love this musical.  And I've seen a whole lot of them.  

It didn't start until 8, which meant I didn't get home until midnight, so this old foe-gee went straight to bed.

This morning dawned hot and humid.  Holy mother of all things good it was sufficatingly hot this morning.  At 9:30.  (Aren't you proud of me that I got going so early?)  Our first stop was a local nursery to getting the biggest and the best crab grass killer.  $25 and an sweaty shirt later, I got it.  Tomorrow it's D Day for the crabs (grass that is.  Get your mind out of the gutter.)  Feeling a little discouraged that we were all dripping so early in the game, I cranked up the AC and headed to Hobby Lobby.  Yes I go there a lot.  Get over it. 

At Hobby Lobby I put Kayden's carrier in the basket and let Luke push the cart.  He was doing really well until I saw my friend's mom and stopped to visit.  I look over and he's got his shoes off, running down the store.  Awesome.  He had to ride in the buggy after that. 

After HL we went to Walmart and I was so bummed they didn't have any plain tee shirts, in the boys or the girls sections.  AHH!  I've got some tee shirt ideas that I am dying to make and of course there are no shirts for me to get!  Tomorrow I'll be going to the ole trusty Target.  After that I don't know where to turn.  Kohl's maybe? 

Our last stop of the morning was Sprouts.  I forgot how great that place was.  I got a ton of fruit, some chicken salad from their deli that will last me the rest of the week in lunches (chicken salad is my very favorite thing), and I bought Luke some Pirate Booty.

He loves it.  And I feel much better about him eating that than the huge bag of animal crackers I bought at Walmart.  I might have been a little hungry for lunch at that point.

We got home at noon, ate a quick lunch, and then it was naps all around.  Well, all around for the boys.  I picked up the house and did some sewing.  We have birthday parties the next two Saturday's in a row, so I thought I'd put my new found crayon roll skill to work and make both girls a roll to go with a coloring book.  What three year old doesn't love a new coloring book? 

And finally we come to tonight.  A family that moved away this spring was visiting tonight so a bunch of us went to Brauhms's for ice cream after church.  Except I only brought my keys with me, no wallet or anything, so you better believe I went up to Mom and say (in a really whiny voice) "Mooooooom, all my friends are going out for ice cream but I didn't bring my wallet.  Can I have some money?"  My sister died laughing, but I scored a cool $6 out of it.  I got me a double scoop sundae and Luke some mint chocolate chip ice cream.  He didn't like it at first, but he came around.  Mostly he wanted to get up on all the tables and straighten the salt and pepper shakers.  Which he did.

Keys almost lost in the Twilight Zone

This was a lovely Memorial Day.  This morning Luke slept in until almost 9.  Yay!  We got up (well, Luke and I got up.  Cody never went to bed so technically he didn't "get up".  There was a new video game out and you better believe he pulled an all nighter playing it) and I made muffins, then I watched an episode of Hoarders.  Nothing says happy Memorial Day like a marathon of people living in garbage dumps. 

Anyway, after the one episode I was totally good for the rest of the day, so I turned off the tv and went out back to see what the day was shaping up to be like.  Luke followed me out, but then after a few seconds he went inside.  When he came back, he had an arm full of toys and he literally threw them off the patio into the grass.  Then he went back inside and came back with more.  Then he did it again. 

I'm not saying he got the idea from watching Hoarders, but I do find it odd that he "purged" three arms-full of toys into the back yard directly after watching the show.  However, I do believe I'll pass on watching it again when little eyes are around. 

Pretty soon it was lunch and nap time, so I got the boy fed and into bed.  I also got three loads of laundry done, the floors swepts and mopped, and dusted.  I really wanted to have the house feeling good before we went to Mom and Dad's for the rest of the day.  I had gotten all of that done and Luke STILL hadn't fallen asleep.  My little snoozer has taken a turn for the worse lately.  He just won't fall asleep like he used to (nap time or night time).  I had to go and lay down with him, something that's become a little habit, and he finally fell asleep.  Two hours after getting in bed.  I do have to say though, I really enjoy laying down with him a lot over the past few days.  Curling up in a little toddler sized bed isn't the most comfortable, but I will always cherish the little talks he *tries* to have with me (I generally try to gently shhhhhh him), and the way he pets my arm or shoulder in a very loving way.  Although, he's getting more and more clever with his attempts to not sleep.  As in, he's started asking (through signs) for a drink or for a toy or for Daisy.  Tricky tricky that boy.

When the nap ordeal was finally over I packed us up and headed over to Mom and Dad's for the rest of the afternoon.  Dad bought him an inflatible pool that's 6 feet long and about two feet deep.  We only put a few inches of water in it, but Luke had a ball.  We played for about an hour and then got out to sit on the poarch while he ran around the back yard.  We grilled out inside out hamburgers for dinner and discovered that Luke LOVES guacomole.  I mean loves it.  He couldn't get enough and ended up eating it straight with a fork.  There was yummy cobbler for dessert, and lets just say there was a lot of toasting going on.  Not only was it Memorial Day, but it was Mom and Dad's 30th anniversary (as well as my in law's 30th anniversary too.  What are the odds that both of our parents got married on the exact same day of the exact same year?)

After dinner is where the crazy started happening.  Remember how Cody pulled an all nighter?  That meant that he CRASHED on the couch right after dinner.  We were in seperate cars, so I finally told him that I would drive him home in his truck and Dad would follow me to bring me back to their house.  I got him all tucked in at home, and then returned to the party for more Wii bowling and The Bachlorette (I don't ever watch it but Ashley and Mom do).  Around 10 I decided that it was time to get Luke home and into bed too.  He was running back and forth around the living room, working up a sweat, just to keep himself awake.  I gathered up all of our stuff, got his shoes on, and went for my keys. 

Except my keys weren't there.  20 MINUTES LATER, we still couldn't find them after searching the whole house over, so I told Dad to just take me and Luke home, I would put him in bed, and then ride back with the spare key to get my car.  So he drove a second time to my house, and after getting Luke tucked in I was just about to walk back out the front door with only the spare car key when a little voice said "Just go and check with Cody's thing, maybe in his slumber stupor he grabbed your keys."  And sure enough, there they were with his wallet.  Why he had my keys we'll never know (okay, that's not true, it's the first thing I will ask him in the morning), but it all worked out.  I  felt bad that Dad shuttled me to and from my house twice tonight, but then again our houses are literally 1.5 miles apart.  We watched the speedometer.  And while I'm glad that I found my keys and won't have to go through the annoying process of getting new copies made of everything, I was a bit dissapointed.  I had already picked out what new keychain I wanted in my head. 

Crayon roll

So, I whipped up the crayon roll today.  It only took me an hour or two to finish (it's hard to tell how long I was actually working when I've got a boy who is busy busy busy every single minute and a husband who is silly silly silly every single minute.  I'm usually a bit distracted.) and while I'm very pleased with how my first attempt turned out, they do call it a "first attempt" for a reason.

Things I would change for next time: 
-use thinner felt, what I had on hand was a bit bulky
-attempt to measure more precisely, I'm terrible about that
-center the elastic better, oi it's going to drive me nuts that it's not
-leave a bigger space to turn it inside out (that was probably the hardest part of the whole thing)

See?  Not anything big or bad that I would fix for the next time.  Just live and learn kinds of things. 

The rest of today was an easy breezy kind of day.  Luke dive bombed my bed pillows this morning like he always does, and today he finally hit the edge of the nightstand.  I've been waiting for it.  I knew it would happen eventually.  And it finally did.  It also caused our first blood-induced injury.  He's got a nice little wound on his ear right where it meets his head. It caused us to be a few minutes late to bible class, but then there turned out to be hardly anyone there anyways so it didn't really matter. 

After church I went with the family to Schlotzsky's to eat and then I came home to put the Busy Body down for a nap.  While he slept I organized all my pictures from this year so that I can start on our 2010 photo book.  The year's almost half over and I haven't even started on it.  Yikes.  My goal was to really stay on top of it so that on January 1, 2011 I could hit upload and have my book ASAP, but I haven't stuck to it.  Although I think a goal of having a month done each week is totally attainable and would put me back on track. 

And I just realized all of this sounds about as boring as it really is.  So I'll finish up the day in one sentence.  After the organizing I made the crayon roll, after the roll Ashley came over and we ordered pizza and watched Harry Potter. 

The End.

A sew good day

Eh?  Eh?  You like the title?  I've confessed how much I hate trying to title these things each time, so when I come up with a good pun I'm especially proud.  Like today.  Cause I did a lot of sewing.  Oh, I crack me up. 

Yesterday Luke got evaluated by a speech pathologist.  At 8:30 in the morning. Oi.  That set us up for a long day.  She didn't get to hear him babble and jabber too much because Luke wanted no part of her.  It must have been the early-ness of the appoitment.  As soon as she walked in the door he shrieked and ran away from her.  Not kidding.  Then he spent the majority of the time sitting in my lap avoiding her eyes.  My kid.  The one who refuses to cuddle or rock or show any kind of affection and could care less where I am most of the time and generally has no preference about other people.  Funny thing was...she was really nice.  I like her.  She said that he is most likely what they call a "late talker", a kid who has all the capabilities but just doesn't do it until much later than normal kids.  She said his receptive language was phenomenal and she could tell that he was very smart (I didn't beam at all or anything when she said that), and the fact that he jabbers as much as he does is a good sign that he probably won't have big articulation problems later.  He is still going to recieve services from her though, so twice a month she will come out to work with him.  For anyone that is keeping count that is basically once a week that someone comes to our home to help him.  How do working mothers with special needs do it?  I would be so stressed out trying to get everything scheduled.

She was gone by 9:15, so that meant I literally had the ENTIRE DAY with nothing to do and I was already dressed.  Bah.  My house had been cleaned, the laundry was caught up, and my leg muscles were too sore to try and pull more weeds.  Plus I had already showered and being outside for any amount of time would induce sweaty-ness.  Yes folks, it's already hot enough to work up a sweat just to get to the store from the parking lot.  It's awesome.  I ended up pulling out the fabric and sewing machine and starting on some projects I had going in the back of my head. 

This is for a baby shower that will be coming up eventually.  Might as well get it knocked out!  I'd had the cup cake idea in my head for a long time, but I've never gotten around to making it!

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These two things are actually going to be shipped to a girl out of state.  Can you believe it?  I'm SHIPPING something!  I'm kinda feeling like a real business person or something.  Just don't tell anyone that it's really someone I've known for a long time now. 

Also, have I ever told you how much Luke loves tomatoes?  They are his very favorite food in the whole world.  This is a picture of him tonight with a 1/4 of a tomato.

Yep, he just runs around the house eating them.  That's pretty much all he ate for dinner tonight, too.  He didn't like the steak that I made.  With garlic, and paprika, and cilantro, and pepper, and salt.  Mmmm.   And excuse the jammies.  We didn't go anywhere today either.  Just finished up all of the crafty things!  Tomorrow or Monday I'm super excited to try a tutorial for a crayon roll.  I thought about trying to knock it out today so he would have it tomorrow for church, but then I ate strawberry short cake instead. 

Clash of the plaids

This afternoon Luke wanted to play out side.  Since the temperatures have been well over 95 and the concrete thoroughly preheated, I insisted that he wear shoes if he wanted to go out there.  The trick was he had to go get them himself because, come on, I was on the couch knitting.  FINALLY he realized that I meant it when I said "YOU go get some shoes so you can play out side." and he ran off only to bring back his Sunday leather loafers. 

Darn.  I meant for you to get some flip flops.  No?  You can't read my mind, my dear almost 2 year old?  Okay.  My fault.

So I praised him and told him good job and that he got shoes and kiss kiss kiss, but then I gently broke the news that he needed socks to go with those shoes.  Once again he ran off, and once again he didn't get what I had in mind.  He brought back his purple and green argyle socks.  Which led to and ensemble that looked like this. 

Would you like to see that again? 

Oh yeah.  That's my baby boy.  It's very reminiscent of this outfit that also went horribly wrong. 

Did you see that blue cup up in the first picture?  That's a brand new cup that I gave him this morning, with a new type of lid.  It doesn't have a spout or a straw to suck on, just a hole in the lid.  When I gave it to him, he held it up to his mouth like a regular cup with no lid, expecting his milk to just come right on out.  When it didn't, he looked at it very confused, shook it up several times, and then tried again.  Poor baby.  I had to tell him through my giggles that he still had to suck a little bit to get the milk out. 

Once he was finally outside, he decided that the garden hose needed to come inside.  So as I'm still on the couch knitting, I look over and see this.

Can you see the giant puddle of water that gushed from the hose?  The puddle that took 24 PAPER TOWELS to clean up?  Not even kidding.  I for real counted. 

Once everything was clean I rounded up Luke's cup and my purse and we went to have dinner with Ashley (my sister, not Kayden's mom).  Mmmmmm....sushi on the patio.  Except I win the worst Mom award ever, because I forgot to order Luke something for dinner.  Again.  Our four rolls came out and there was nary a bite for him to eat.  Which meant I had to run in and order the most expensive kid's meal I've ever seen.  $8!  For a kid's chicken with fries and rice!  Price gouging when  mother is desperate it just wrong. 

Toys in various places

Well, first off, since I know you are on the edge of you seat just DYING to know what those letters look like I mentioned yesterday, here they are.

Won't they fit in perfectly with the vintage cowboy theme?  I have to give a shout out to my dear Sara who has them for Ryan's room and I decided I just had to have them too.  Also, one of the hats that I ordered off Etsy last Monday came in today.  I tried so hard to get a good picture of Luke wearing it.  This was the best I could do.

Most of them turned out like this.

Speaking of the little stinker, he knows he's really not supposed to have his paci when he's out of bed.  This leads to many times during the day when I realize it's a little too quiet and I find him here.

Lounging in bed with paci.  I know I need to start weaning him off of it, but for some reason I'M the one having trouble lettting go.  I think maybe it's because that paci is about the only thing linking him to his baby hood.  *sniff sniff*  Well, except for the diapers, but I could totally let those go at any point.  My little mischief maker also got a little creative with his toys today.  I usually clean the bathrooms during nap time, to keep little fingers and noses away from chemicals, but today I thought I'd tackle it while dinner was cooking.  As I was cleaning Luke's sink I heard a plop.

Yep, we have our first toilet toy.  Let's just hope I made a big enough deal about how yucky and bad and no no no no no it was to do that, so he never tries it again.  At least he hadn't gotten to the flusher yet, right?  Mr. Penguin now has a new home....the trash.  I hadn't cleaned the toilet yet.  I also found several toys in the fireplace tonight.

Yes.  I pulled every single one of those out tonight.  Fantastic.  The alligator is Kayden's too.  I hope I can get it clean tomorrow.  Now that I mention cleaning, I sure did a lot of it today.  I got the laundry and ironing done, the bathrooms clean, and the floors swept and mopped.  Plus at nap time I pulled 3/4 of a trash bag of crab grass.  It was just too darn hot to pull any more.  Instead I laid on the back porch with the garden hose running on me.  You know, to get my strength back.

Busy busy busy

I feel like I was barely at home today.  It's Tuesday, which of course means park day.  I was afraid that it was already starting to get too hot to even go out in the mornings, but the good Lord blessed us with slightly overcast skies which kept us very comfortable.  Well, Luke still got really sweaty, but that kid could sweat standing in a freezer.  I hope his internal thermostate cools down by the time he gets older, because that could be really embarrassing when he gets around the ladies.  Wait.  What am I saying.  Girls, stay away from my baby!  He's a sweat-er!

When we got home from the park it was a little bit of lunch and then a lot of nap.  While the boys were sleeping I got out in the front yard and pulled crab grass.  I'm so over it being out there.  The spray didn't work.  The granuals didn't work.  All that's left to do it pull.  And pull I did.  A whole trash bag's worth, which in reality only covered about a 5 foot square.  That's how bad it was.  I knew I should have been inside doing my quiet time, but the devils really been gettin' me lately.  I just am so unmotivated to study and be in the word.  *sigh*  I know I shouldn't listen to him, but I do.  And I put it off.  Then I feel guilty about it.  Shame.  Maybe tomorrow will be different. 

After nap time Kayden got picked up a little early so Luke and I hit the town.  And by hitting the town I mean we went to Hobby Lobby and to Target.  I got the best little letters at HL to spell out Luke's name, they will go perfectly with the vintage cowboy theme I'll be doing is room in next year!  If I remember I'll get a picture tomorrow.  He's (supposed to be) asleep.  I also got some more fabric for a project I've been commissioned to, and some more beads to make this.

I love it!  At Target I went in for 4 things and came out with bags and bags.  In my defense I saw a horrible horrible teacher from last year which sent me running for cover and therefore led my eyes to things of great cuteness.  It's all her fault. 

And finally tonight I had dinner with the girls.  Another spectacular evening of visiting.  When I got home Luke was still in the tub.  This is the second night in a row he's gotten to bed late.  Thanks Daddy.  But he was getting all clean for is clean sheets (changed em today) and new jammies (from Target of course).  Cody warned me that he had DESTROYED the house, but when I went to survey the damages I discovered it wasn't as bad as he made it out to be.  But shhhh, don't tell him.  If he wants to think that terrible, that's fine with me!

The Weekend and Monday

Can I just tell you how much I hate having to come up with titles for these things?  I don't know why, I just loath the few minutes that I have to spend attempting to come up with something witty.  Or not so witty. 

This weekend went by really fast.  Saturday we got up and went to Cody's company picnic.  Except it wasn't a picnic, it was at a place called Strikez that had bowling and laser tag and games and prizes.  I told Cody that it wasn't a picnic since the only time we were outside was getting to and from the car and there wasn't a big blanket with watermelon on it.  We actually argued for about 20 minutes on the definition of a picnic.  I said there had to be food and outdoors for it to be a picnic.  He dissagreed.  But how can you dissagree with that?  Please.  I won that one hands down. 

Anyway, back to the family outing.

We had fun!  Cody and I bowled a round (I hit my personal best at 86) while Luke attempted to get his fingers smashed by every ball in the joint.  The company gave us game passes for the arcade, so after we were done bowling I let Luke play a driving game.

I pushed on the gas while he steered.  Except half way through I looked over and he might have been steering with his hands, but he sure was watching what the kid next to him was doing.  I took over after that.  Then he sat with Cody as he played a game.

And after that Cody went to play a shooting game and I put Luke in a car to a driving game that was "on vacation" (broken) and he spent 20 minutes driving that thing.  It was awesome parenting. 

Later that night Cody and I went to dinner with some friends.  I was the ultimate BFF's with this girl in middle school, but in high school we drifted apart.  Cody and I both have been good friends with this guy for most of our lives.  As in, he was a groomsman in our wedding and everything.  Well, they've recently started dating.  Weird, right?  Anyway, we had a great time with them at dinner.  I hope we get to go out with them more!

Sunday was a typical Sunday.  Bible class, service, nap, small groups.  We had small groups at a park last night and grilled out hamburgers/hotdogs (*cough* food+outside=picnic *cough*).  It was such a nice evening.  We even got a group picture (once again thanks to John)!  We are missing 4 or 5 families but it's something.

Today I got the floors swept, mopped and vacuumed.  Niki came over for a while to visit.  There was a Ghost Whisper marathon that I may have gotten sucked into.  Luke was detirmined to get into everything that he wasn't supposed to.  Like the dishwasher that was still running.   And the room where Kayden was napping to chase the dog.  And the china cabinet, to name a few.  Normally I would have at some point put him in the back yard and told him to Run it out Son, Run it out.  But the temps were just shy of 100 today so I thought overheating was more dangerous than my being annoyed by saying Get out of there! one more time. 

Herb seed update

So most of my seeds are doing pretty well.  Nothing has been growing in the black pot, and I think I may have forgotten to add seeds in there.  So today I put rosemary seeds in, maybe in a couple of weeks she'll be green too.

Basil has really taken off.  Parsley is coming in a close second, while Cilantro was doing good at first, but it seems she's developed some unwanted friends.

What do I do about that?  Are they going to ruin the whole thing? 

And don't be fooled by the big mint plant in the green and blue pot.  The mint seeds in the little silver tin are only just now maybe coming through.  I didn't think they would ever show up, so I just cheated and went to Lowe's and bought that plant you see.  I noticed today that there seems to be something else growing with the mint seeds.

See that big sprout with the two pointed leaves?  I'm not sure what that is.  I'm pretty sure it's not a mint sprout, because if you can tell in the lower right quadrent those little green specks are what I think are the mint sprouts.  If I have a weed in my little pot I'm going to be super annoyed. 

And jumping back to the green and blue pot, I just bought that and painted yesterday.  I sat outside to get some sun, and it was so hot that I thought by the time I was finished with the grey decorative paint that the green was throughly dry, so I went ahead and potted the mint plant and watered it.  Apparently when you do that before the paint is completely dry it bubbles up like this.

At first I thought it was little drops of water and I was confused as to why it wasn't drying whent the temperatures have been in the upwards of 90.  That would be because they are bubbles under the paint.  Awesome.  I'm wondering if I let it dry out for a day or so (hopefully without killing the plant) if the paint would lay flat again.  Also, I found quite a few ants on the pot.  It's a sweet mint plant, so is that attracting the ants?  Can I do something about those unwanted friends too?

This growing stuff seems to be more trouble than it's worth.

Shifting topics, I had a lovely evening with my son tonight.  We went to this new little pizza place and it was YUMMY.  Luke and I sat outside on the patiosince it was beautiful out and he was able to roam around a bit while we waited for the pizza to come out.  He didn't want to eat when the pizza came, but I made him stay in his chair while I ate my two slices.  OF COURSE when I finished eating he was ready to try his slice, and we ended up sitting there 40 extra minutes while he slllllllowly ate a whole piece.  Someone needs to tell this kid that it's polite to eat at the same time.  Not after I'm already done.  But since he did so good on his dinner I took him over to a yougurt place.  He sat in my lap and we share a strawberry frozen yougurt with chocolate chips.  Mmmmm.  We had such a nice time tonight!