Andrea Middleton

Rescue Princesses

Amelia has been reading this book aloud to me for the last 20m or so. Then Baxter woke up and he got to listen too.

Reading nook

Amelia has discovered/made herself an actual nook for reading. Baxter is reading adjacent. (Ha!)

All the colors of dinner

Shredded cheddar, salsa, Mexican (brown) rice, pickled red onions, green onions, sour cream, and pinto beans. SO GOOD, y’all.

Reading

Dare I hazard the theory that the “reading bug” has hit at last? She finished the chapter of Piggle Wiggle we started last night, and started on the new chapter too. Odd form, though.

Shooting Bacca-Chew Spiders: the video

“Bacca-Chew spiders chew you up. Then Bacca-Poop spiders poop you out.”

I made bagels for the first time

A snow day is a great excuse to do some “project” baking!

Last chance to gain 10lbs this year

Sunny footbridge

It’s been a long time since I got to run in the sunshine. So beautiful!

A video in which Baxter talks about birds

Jedis, capes, ghosts, and consequences: recent Baxterisms

“I’m practicing to be a Jedi. I’m going to be a Jedi when I grow up. So I need a lot of space.”

“Mama, so you know what my skills are good for? Protection, because I have my cape on.”

“But aliens are fiction. If you did saw an alien, that would be a person, right? Dressed up for Halloween. Some people want to be ghosts. If you’re a ghost, you don’t have to stay dry. You can have a blanket on. You can be a red ghost, or a green ghost, or a blue ghost, or a orange ghost, or a tan ghost, or… A silver ghost!”

Of The Secret of NIMH: “Amelia, I’ll keep you not scared. I KNOW it’s not real.”

“I like snakes and polar bears. And guess what, that’s where your hair stops.”

“AMELIA, if you don’t let me come into your room for one more second, I won’t let you come into MY room.”

Baxter builds an x-wing

We got a fort building kit for Christmas from Paw-Paw Barney, and Baxter has discovered he can also use the pieces to build spaceships with invisible wings.