Satie has ballet camp this week, and Jessica had an event to cater at the church today.  So we decided to make it a play date just for girls.  This was first thing in the morning.  Satie had just gone into SJ’s room to wake her up.  That was a surprise!  Usually it’s Selah June who wakes Satie up on Fridays while Mommy goes to work.

It looks really dark outside because it was stormy for the bulk of the morning.

They played with bubbles and markers (“colors”) and play-doh and musical instruments.  They had a great time.  And then we watched some Paw Patrol so I could get ready and then started to snuggle in the recliner to watch Selah June videos on my phone but got the call from Grandpa that they were ready for us to come over!!!

Here we are waiting in the driveway for Grammy and Grandpa.  It’s the beginning of silly lips.

And here they are coming to fruition.

One of these kids is a little bit of a camera hog.  The other one tries to foil every attempt at a picture…

A little blurry but about as good as you can get right now.

Silly little girls.

Here’s a clip of the action:  SJ and Satie

Mom and Dad bought them Chick-Fil-a, and then we got ready for ballet. Selah June loved taking her to her class and seeing all the girls in their leotards and ballet shoes.

Last night we had orientation at St. Luke’s for Miss Selah June.   

Wednesday, August 3, 2016

Selah June had a big day at Satie’s house.  She played hard.  You wouldn’t know that she had had a poopy diaper in the middle of the night and pulled her diaper off only to wake up her Daddy requiring a full bath and fresh sheets.  I woke up to a precious little slumbering child in my bed around 6:30 this morning.

It’s amazing to me that she still has the same little profile I first saw in the 3D ultrasound before she was born. What a precious little angel (easy to feel when she’s out like a light!! HA!)

Jessica sent this pic during the day.  Everybody was eating.

And then our baskets came today!!! So exciting.  I love getting a produce delivery with lots of little surprises.  (Now I just need some time to actually enjoy all the bath salts and scrubs and stuff.)

Jessica made zucchini bread that was delicious.  It was AMAZING!!!  It tasted like warm cinnamon spice cake. And with the butter on it too???  Out of this world.  Now I just need to find a good sugar substitute to make it legal.

I picked SJ up, ate some of that scrumptious goodness, talked about out treats for the week, and scooped all the loot into the car.  Here we are two minutes out….

That was some hard playing…

August 1-2, 2016

For Daddy’s birthday, Selah June decided that she was going to start singing full-blown songs.  She sings Twinkle Twinkle from start to finish.  It’s so cute.

She also sings happy birthday.  Most of the time it’s to Grandpa – who had a birthday last week.  To get Jeremy’s goat, she sang “happy birthday, Mommy!!”  She’s a total mess.

Our other new thing is that we are really into colors.  She wants to color on everything – boxes, magazines, books, herself, papers, etc.  Jessica put me onto washable markers, and they’ve already saved me tons of money and heartache, and it’s only day 1.

Grammy and Grandpa made a surprise visit this morning to bring a good drink to me and some French fries to Miss Selah June.  She squealed and squealed as she showed off her toy room. She also showed Grammy her garden.  And her heart was broken when they quickly had to leave.

Today is Ashley’s last day.  ?  Words cannot express how sad we are to face life without her our little world.

Saturday, July 30, 2016

Selah Juney loves her time with Mommy and Daddy upstairs in their big bed watching Paw Patrol or Wheels on the Bus or Kung Fu Panda.  It’s a time for wallowing and playing silly games and snuggling and singing lullabies together as a family.  And it’s also a time of great parental fatigue.  One night this week she was up until 10:00, and Jeremy and I thought we were going to die.  That’s how you know you’re getting old.

Just look at those dirty little stinky feet!!

Friday, July 29, 2016

I had two big deadlines on Friday (annual report stuff), and Selah June spent the day with Satie and Bastie for Friday fun day.  They played really hard, and then she napped for FOUR HOURS!!!!!  I knew she was spent, but I was still impressed.

When she woke up, I was there to pick her up.  We sat and chatted over a snackable, and then called Daddy to coordinate dinner with Nana and Papa at Zacksby’s. Booths are the only way to go with kids in public restaurants.  You can box them in and then contain the wallowing.

She’s really cracking me up these days because she’s purposefully trying to make people laugh.  And her humor is pretty gross – which is AWESOME!  We’re going to have so much fun making each other laugh with our disgusting humor.  Granted she’ll probably turn off a few dates, but they don’t deserve the presence of the Selah June anyway.

Her latest “joke” is to say “Yummy!”  When you ask what’s yummy, she says “booger” and picks her nose. This child isn’t even 2 years old yet.  She also thinks it’s super funny while you are trying to change her diapers for her to pat her privates and say “yummy poo poo.”  And then she squeals with laughter and yells “funny!!”

Wednesday, July 27, 2016

We decided to do something different and a little crazy for a modern American family of two working parents (working outside the home, that is) and a little one.  We signed up to be a part of a CSA – community supported agriculture.  We pay a weekly fee to receive farm-fresh produce and eggs every Wednesday (with the help of Jessica who is also on this crazy train with me).

Our bounty included a huge watermelon and some mystery gelatin.  I HAD to make breakfast dinner.  Luckily I had one russet potato and was able to make some fried potatoes. Jeremy was a fan and said they tasted like the ones at Lambert’s.  (SUCCESS!!!)

The mystery dark orange jelly was actually cinnamon peach marmalade. Delicious on biscuits!! I told Jess to eat some of hers, but she was a chicken. So I told her to feed it to Satie, but that didn’t take either.  Oh well!  Snooze you lose on the ooze!!

This is what the bounty looked like when Jessica loaded it into her car.  You can’t really tell from this picture how big the watermelons were. They were ginormous and DELICIOUS!!!  I ate on mine for four days and took it to a party at Ab’s for a bunch of people. There is still watermelon left…which is shocking because it was DELICIOUS!!!!!

Here’s came in one bag.  You can see that those are some huge carrots, a beautiful head of cauliflower, and a perfect cantaloupe.  It was the best cantaloupe either of us have had all season.

The mystery containers included marmalade, diatomaceous earth, and bath salts. And yes, that is fresh ginger. I made lentil soup, topped with cilantro and a big dollop of sour cream.  Yummy!!

Somebody is excited over some veggies!

Monday, July 25, 2016

Selah June went on an adventure to the zoo!!!  Jessica took the kids on a church family field trip.  They have annual passes, but SJ is still young enough to slip in under the radar.

Here she is with her “feed.”  She came back talking up a storm about the giraffes.

And they also had a GREAT ride on the train.  She told us all about it.

After a very hot zoo adventure, everybody needed lunch!

Heres the whole group of them.  It seems like a lot of boys!  We counted, and it was about a 2:1 ratio.

And here’s the little monkey on the ride home.  She was completely wiped.

Sunday, July 24, 2016

We took this little monkey to church in the morning and then picked up some Panera for lunch.  It was our first experiment with buying her a kid’s meal.  Jeremy ordered a pb&j, and it came with an apple.  Sounds yummy, right?  Not right.  The bread was their bakery white – each slice about an inch thick.  No child on this planet can easily take a bit out of this sandwich. It might taste absolutely delicious, but the kid will never know it because the whole thing is too intimidated.  These are things you don’t really process until you’re parenting and laboring at every meal to get the kid to eat something other than fruit and chips.

I’m sure she ate something, and then it was nap time.  We left Grammy and Grandpa in peace so that everyone could get some good snoozes.

These pics are just her being cute on the way to church.

Saturday

Daddy came home from Cleveland!!!!!!  We picked him up from the airport, and Selah Juney wanted him to sit in the backseat right next to her.  Here is her reaction.

Isn’t your first reaction to show off your “stinky feet”??

We made a quick stop by Sonic to get a good drink and fries, and then went home for everybody to take some much needed naps (except for me, of course).  

When we got up from our nap, we tried out our new cup and had a “delicious” lunch of “butter sandwich” and chips.  Real healthy, I know.

Here is our attempt at making sad faces – “happy!”

July 24, 2016

While Daddy was in Cleveland this week, we planted a little garden in the two boxes next to our greenhouse.  It seems to be the perfect size for us.  It’s big enough to plant a mix of flowers and veggies and herbs, but it’s not so big that it’s a handful.  I was able to buy one big bag of Miracle Grow and rejuvenate the good soil that was already there.

We planted a variety of peppers that Selah Juney will eat (and that can be used in homemade pico), and we planted marigolds to keep the bugs away.  We’ll see how well that works.

SJ loved being outside for the project, but she wasn’t a huge fan of getting her hands dirty.  This has become a theme.  She doesn’t like sticky, slimy, dirty, oily, anything hands.  It’s a super huge turnoff.

She does like her little pink watering can.