It’s amazing how my drinking a wee bitty enormous glass of wine makes my children so much more tolerable.
Category Archives: kids
Fairies
An effective way to ask to wear someone else’s sunglasses:
Baxter: “Mom, I wish I was you.”
Me: “You do? Why?”
Baxter: “Because I like your sunglasses. Because I like red, and I also like white!”
Me: “And you like polka dots?”
Baxter: “Yes!”
Hiking Multnomah Falls
Cousin time
Our niece Kennedy is here visiting with Pawpaw Barney, and our first day has been gobs of fun. 
Homemade popsicles in the hammock
Camping vignettes, Saturday
It’s possible I slowed down on the picture taking because I got wrapped up in the fun. 🙂
Camping vignettes: Friday
Three and a half
We had a classic 3.5yo moment yeaterday evening, in which Baxter was overcome by emotion at the very thought of a bath, flung himself on the ground, and wailed, “But I don’t want to do sings dat I don’t want to do!!!”
At the end of bath, when I was toweling him off, he kissed me a few times on the face and neck and then told me with eyes wide, “You have a LOT of kisses now!”
I got this little story from Baxter’s teacher:
I shared some photos of Amelia at three years of age with Erika in the Cedar class. She thought they were photos of Baxter. I told her they were of Amelia. Her response? “WAIT! Baxter is going to get older?!?!”
I feel the same way, Erika. I feel the same way.
Pre-breakfast whacrobatics
Baxter: “MOM!! Do you want to see me jump from my chair to my bed?!!?”
Me: “I don’t want you to jump from your chair to your bed.”
Baxter, voice trembling with joy: “But I BOUNCE!!!”
Teacher gifts
School’s out for summer! Well, I mean, school is out until summer camp begins next week. But the official school year is officially over, which of course means that teachers get gifts! I (foolishly?) volunteered to wrangle up the collaborative end-of year presents we give teachers at our school, for my son’s classroom. Everyone donates money or goods or something, plus a drawing/painting from each kid for a memory book, and I put it all together into a nice package. Boy, that was a lot more work than I anticipated. End of year is stressful already, so I’m pretty sure I won’t be helping with this volunteer job again. But! I like the way the baskets and memory books came out.
Full circle bonus: that’s a jar of my strawberry freezer jam in there. 😉
High praise indeed
The Thing With The Stuff 