Beloise Turns 2

Minnie Mouse cake pops courtesy of my talented sister Gus-Gus.

While trying to sing my baby Happy Birthday, my dad decided to speed things up and in an attempt to scold him I actually said my sister's name instead of my daughters name in the song. That is what the look of "what are you doing?" is all about.

I'll explain at the bottom.

Time is limited these days. Hope you enjoyed the picture-full post!

Okay, in case you were wondering what happened to my Ballerina's face THIS time. We were at an outdoor restaurant and she was running toward me, tripped on a tree root pushing up the asphalt and hit her face on the concrete bench I was sitting on.
Yes, it was traumatic for both of us.
She may have hollered through her screams, that if we took her to urgent care she would scream.
Yes, I nearly passed out, but held on until my Beloved could arrive.
And she may possibly loose her front tooth.
My poor child. She has expressed several times that she wishes she hadn't fallen like that. She also looks MUCH better now. These pictures were the day after the incident.

Keepin' our local urgent care in business.
~And So That's What She Did.

Go Play Outside

I love sunny weather. It keeps my house clean. I send the kids out first thing in the morning, call them in for breakfast, send them out till lunch and then clean the house while they nap. After nap time, back outside folks. I love it. Unfortunately we will probably have rain the rest of the week. But while it lasted I took a few pictures of the girls playing today.

We let the chickens out of their new outdoor pen. Let me tell you I was so glad to get them out of the house.  It's a bad sign when people come in the house, sniff and say ooh are you cooking fish? nope just raising chickens.

These two are the more adventurous ones in the group.

Once they determined the coast was clear they all came out to see what they could find. These little guys have grown so much that I think I should re-introduce them.

This is Ethel, the ornery one, a Black Sex Link. She is by far the leader and a very photogenic ham. Every where I pointed the camera she sped over and posed in front of the other chicken.

Here's Chrysanthemum, our Silver Laced Wyandotte. She's bashful but speedy.

Olga, my beauty, she's a California White. 

And lastly, Hazelbell Featherdy, our Light Brahma.

Poser.

The girls love the sand box. I often find Beloise laying down in the sand.

Oh no, I've been spotted, prepare for a ham-moment. . . 

Ta-Da! She's worse then Ethel.

They have been pulling out their fluff to make way for their feathers.

I was trying to get a shot of Hazelbell when Ethel darted over and when I looked at the picture this is what I saw.

Our old girls are still going strong. Laying usually an egg a day each.

Speaking of hams, I wanted to show you what we are doing to the playhouse area but Penny decided to come stretch in front of me.

We have moved the playhouse down on the slope for a bit so that we can remove the bark dust. My Beloved is planning to make a floor for the house to keep it up off the ground. He also reinforced the pathway with a plastic border thingy, since the sand and rocks kept sliding out of place hopefully this keeps it in place a little better. We haven't decided on a new ground cover for around the playhouse, probably grass but I would like to put some flower beds beneath the windows.

We also would like to put in a picket fence along the rock wall with a mailbox on the last post. But I doubt it will happen this summer.

Beloise, back in the sand box.

While I was taking these pictures Ballerina noticed what I was doing and ran over to the sand box mumbling some excuse about oh yeah that's what I was going to do.

The girls love to play restaurant. The Menu?

Eggs and Toast

Chicken and Rice

Chicken Sauce Soup

Cheeseburger

Water

Milk

They also do specialty orders if you ask but be prepared to pay for it.

I said pay not pray.

~And So That's What She Did

Fashion First Monday

Below is my Beloved's fashion statement for Monday.

I don't care if he does wear boots with his shorts, he is one fine specimen of a man. My soul loves his soul.

We had a bad week last week, just heavy.
Do you know what he did?
He took a personal day.
A day to spend with me, un-heavy-ing the cares of last week. We spent the whole weekend doing nothing and then something but mostly nothing, just being together.
Together as a family and together as a couple.
It was bliss, pure bliss.
We need to find a way to be independently wealthy.

~And So That's What She Did.

Children at Play, Cheap Date and a Chicken Update

I love listening to my children interact with each other. 

Ballerina: Belly what number do you like the most?

Beloise: Green

Ballerina: That's not a number, do you like 3 or 4?

Beloise: 3 or 4

Ballerina: You like 3?

Beloise: Yes.

Ballerina: Okay.

Little Mommy.

This one likes to pull every book off of the shelf.

Spinning and saying I'm flying mom, I'm flying. And yes it was laundry day :).

Her wings? A butterfly headband from her first birthday.

Cheap Date Saturdays!

 Interesting story about this wine. On the night that my Beloved proposed, February 26, 2006, I had a glass of a delicious sparkling wine that I have been searching for ever since. We went to Fred Meyer last night and as is usually the case bought more then we came for and this wine somehow ;) made it's way into the cart. Popped it open today and, if my taste buds have a memory reaches six years back, I do believe this is the very type of wine I had that night. Moscato in case you were wondering.

The sun kept moving due to the large tree in our neighbors yard so we had to keep moving to stay in the heat.
We also added BBQ chips and pretzel m&m's to our chic fare. :) (Redneck . . . remember.)

Crazy, how fast these birds have grown. They have been upgraded to the dogs old kennel until my Beloved can make them a box outside. They have most of their feathers and yes, Ethel is still ornery.

 As you may have noticed we have been avoiding yard work. This week has been about spending time as a  family. Appreciating the blessings that God has given us and marveling at his amazing grace and love toward us. As for house work, if the house is clean the kids are asleep so . . . I don't take many pictures of that.

Guilty conscience much?

Perhaps.

Beloise Interjects

Just a few of Beloise latest sayings that we have been enjoying.

For the longest time she would come up to me and say:
" Mom,"
To which I would answer "What?" and after all that effort on my part to stop my train of thought and answer her all I got was. . .
"I don't know . . . Nothing."

But lately she has been saying things like:

"Yep, that's right!"

 and

"I have a good idea."

Which is almost always followed by either no idea whatsoever or a typical two-year-old terrible idea like jumping off the arm of the rocking chair.

Of course Beloise isn't the only funny one around here but I tend to tell more of Ballerina's stories since hers are more involved then just a simple sentence which is why I featured Beloise today. But here is a little snippet of Ballerina's humor.

Sunday we were in the car driving home from meeting when Ballerina piped up in the backseat that "Mommy toes and the children toes are coming out of the shoe house."

Never a dull moment at our house.


~And So That's What She Did.