March 22, 2011

  • Months and months

    I know! It has been too long. It is possible I can get back to more regular posting, if only because my computer is upstairs and it usually takes the kids a few minutes to find me. Not that I would ever hide from them. Or anything like that.

    We are all enjoying spring, bluebonnets up and still cool enough to keep the AC off. Today we went to the library and the fish store--Cotton would very much like to still be there. I am not sure what kind of life she pictured at the fish store, but it involved a lot of,"Come see!!! Come see!" As I am sitting here typing, the first crickets I've heard started chirping!

    Spring is easily my favorite Texas season ( of the two). We went to the rodeo, where we really lucked out because Tiny was just big enough to hit the mark for going on the little kid rides by herself. So the big kids could do their rides, and Cotton could do hers, while I did my traditional rodeo thing and got an ugly sunburn on my face. I even had sunscreen in the car, which Chance helpfully pointed out is not the optimal way to use it. And in a rodeo first, I lost the two older ones, each for a brief time. Helpfully, I have drilled it into them to stay put. Which for Seph meant stay the heck put, and for Rone meant wander around kind of trying to stay nearby.

    Seph is plotting a slumber party for her birthday, with singing and dancing and her brother and sister in a far off land (movie theater with babysitter). Rone finished his first season of flag football, and learned a lot. Cotton is out of diapers, and is pursuing a rigorous course of psychological warfare on the rest of us. Chance, being Chance, is mostly immune, but the other two and I have had to develop thick skins and deaf ears. Logic and reason have no place in the brain of a three year old, and the big kids find it trying. With luck she will get over this phase soon and stick to being the silly cutie we all love. I will get some pictures up soon, and try to keep posting, along with letting the kids post now and then.