Mommathon

Sunday-Mijas with potatoes, onion and bacon, watermelon
Monday-Pasta with swiss chard, chicken, garlic, basil, onion and tomatoes
Tuesday-Stir-fry with tofu, swiss chard, garlic and hot pepper flakes
Wednesday-Eggs, Sausage, Blueberry Pancakes
Thursday-Chicken, Roasted Potatoes, Tomatoes with salt and pepper
Friday-Salmons, Green Beans, Bread and Butter
Saturday-Independence Day dinner with the family

I saw these in a shop today and fell in love, but they aren’t cheap. There are SOOOO many things you can do with them…different metals, sizes, beads, etc, etc, etc.

Example #1 We were at the grocery store today. I turn around and Colm is eating a cookie. I asked him where he got the cookie and he informs me that he “found” it. When I asked him where he found it he pointed to the grocery store shelf. Deep breath while extracting the possibly tainted cookie from his little grasp. (The cookie had just been out in the open sitting on the grocery store shelf for goodness knows how long and where it had been before it was on the shelf is anybody’s guess.)

Example #2 Liam is not capable of talking and doing anything else at the same time. I was in his room while he was supposed to be getting ready for bed tonight, but he just had too much he wanted to tell me and he was making zero progress in the getting ready for bed department. So, I told him I was going to leave and while I was gone he was to brush his teeth. I left for about ten minutes, came back, and asked him if he’d brushed his teeth. He looked puzzled and then informed me that he had not brushed his teeth in the ten minutes that I had been gone.

See what I mean??? It is truly a miracle that I have any hair left on my head.

The boys had their first art class at the Nelson today. Liam’s class learned about dragons and Colm’s class learned about fish. They both loved it which is good because they’re going to a week long camp there in August. 🙂 Sean and I liked it because while they were at class we went to the Apple store and then went to a coffee shop we have wanted to go to for months and had some coffee, a baguette and some yummy jam.

I snuck a picture of Colm while they were still painting towards the end of class. Not a very good picture, but he was so cute in his little paint smock. Notice all the boys in his class.

FInished product…a dragon mask

Finished product…a painting of an electric eel. They also made some cute fish out of tissue paper, buttons, small sea shells and recycled water bottles, but I didn’t snap a picture of those.

It was a hot one out there today. The boys enjoyed it, but they didn’t last too long. It helped that we went with some friends and then saw some other friends from church along the way. They also had to take a couple of refreshing drink breaks. They had fun though and it will all be worth it when we are enjoying blueberry pancakes and blueberry muffins this week.

The FIRST drink break 🙂

Tractor ride…can you tell how sweaty they are?

I could probably count on my fingers the number of times the boys have used their shower/bath since we have lived in this house and we have lived here for a year and a half. So, I have decided to reclaim our bathroom; I am tired of sharing our bathroom with the boys. I don’t mind sharing, but I am tired of stepping over all of their stinkin’ toys every morning. We have a fairly complete set of Star Wars toys in our shower complete with one of more spaceships on any given day. Not to mention the action figures. So, today Liam and I went to Target and I let him pick out a shower curtain. I had him clean out all the “baby toys” out of their tub and I hung up the shower curtain (after having to make a second trip to Target to get a shower curtain holder that actually worked). Then, to make the transition complete, I hung up two towel holder ring things in each of their bathrooms. We still have one more thing to do though…we still have toys in our shower. Tomorrow the boys are going to get all of their junk out of our bathroom and transfer it into theirs and then they can have their inaugural showers. It’s silly how much I am looking forward to it.

This is the book that was chosen for the intermediate level kids in our neighborhood book club. It is really a very good story. Two brothers go white water rafting with their dad for the first time and their dad ends up getting bitten by a rattlesnake. It is quite an adventure since the boys have never been rafting before and their dad is drifting in and out of consciousness. Book club is this weekend and we are going to discuss the books, do an activity related to each of the books and then have some yummy popsicles.

How Pizza Came to Queens is a very cute story about four little girls and a summer visitor from Italy. It turns out these girls have never heard of pizza and their Italian-speaking guest wants nothing more than to make pizza. The girls try everything to make their guest happy, but soon realize that they have to figure out what pizza is if they are going to put a smile on their guest’s face.

Cooking an egg on the sidewalk

The boys could hardly contain themselves this Father’s Day. They had been planning what to give him for weeks and the day had FINALLY arrived. So, we started the celebration with the opening of the presents which included several Star Trek action figures, the Bridge and the transporter. They got all of that set up and played with that while I made Sean breakfast in bed. Once I brought Sean’s breakfast up they decided they all wanted to eat breakfast in bed together. Later on in the morning we went to church and then went to the T-Bones game. I am glad they won because it was HOT!!!

Eggs, turkey bacon, honey and butter toast and OJ

Playing with their new toys

At the ballgame with Grandma and Grandad