Evidence of a 2 year old

It's Friday. Violet was here.

Our wall - Violet-atized:

My mind is broken

A conversation that just happened in my kitchen:

Lucas: "Charlotte, what are you doing?"

Charlotte: "I don't know."

Lucas: "Are you just out of control? Or is your mind broken?"

Charlotte: (now singing) "My mind is broken, my mind is broken"

LOL Love that you guys are keeping it real.

Typical bedtime conversation

Tonight was a classic bedtime conversation night. Nothing out of the ordinary. Charlotte and my conversation started with her confessing the rule she broke at school, then roamed from the reasons you donate blood, to the reasons behind cremation. We talked about her love of a lamb stuffed animal she covets at school and her plans to earn it, and about John and I taking showers together. She had me sing her (three times) the Jamaican Farewell Song, and then wanted to know where exactly you go when you start your next life, and then wished out loud that someday soon her rash will go away. I never ask her much of anything at bedtime, all subjects ever listed are things she originates.

My darling Charlotte: Thank you for being so INTERESTED in life and thank you for not wasting too much of your time being interesting. I see amazing things happening resulting from your amazingly inquisitive mind. Never stop being curious.

Love you.
-Mom

Happy St. Patty!!!

Charlotte was being a bit stubborn (wow shocker!) about posing for this. Are you diggin my hat??


My cute St. Patty's day princess was running past me and I got her!!! Muuuahahahahaaa!


Lucas and Isabella pose in their tie dye shirts we made (see earlier blog posting)


Here is a pic of my class posing in their tye die shirts we made yesterday. It's a whole lot different making them in buckets than in a washing machine...whole lot different!


Here's our baby girl Violet posing in her cute tie dye onesie she made with us.

Too sexy for my tie dye

The kids and I decided to do a little tie dye in prep for St. Patty's day. Having some old white, stained shirts in mind we set out to JoAnns Fabrics for some green RIT dye. The result??










Here we have the whole Friday Night crew (Sara's kids added) checking out their tie dye progress.






Violet may only be 22 mo. but she is very much part of our group activities. She decided where her rubber bands would go and walked around carrying it saying "MINE!" if she even thought we were coming too close to it. In the picture below she is getting her shirt wet and ready for the dye.



Here she is carrying it to the washing tub full of green dye.

James Dean Lucas

I just uploaded these pictures and just about died. I could just see him 15 years from now as a James Dean-esque ladies man. Wooooah nelly. Lucas, you are one cute dude!

Flower Fairies

Charlotte was gifted the neatest project for her birthday recently. Cereza & her family gave her a flower fairy making kit. In about 15 minutes we made two beautiful fairies and learned about wire working and glue. I think I had just as much fun as she did. Lucas did too although he will kill me in a few years for writing that. He has really mature hand eye coordination so did a lot of the wiring for us.

Musical Circus

We found out about an event being held at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium and went this morning with the kids. It was really cool! They have about 30 professional instruments set out for kids to try. Today we found out Lucas is a natural on the trumpet!!


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And speaking of learning something new...I did NOT know John played clarinet & trumpet as a child.

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John sat with Charlotte for a while as she discovered her inner violinist.

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And she also tried the clarinet as well.

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Can I be like Michelle Duggar?

I am inspired every time I watch the show "18 kids and Counting". And before it was called that it was called "17 kids and Counting" of which I was obsessed too.

Can I please the patience of Michelle Duggar?? Please???

She is an amazing women, with the patience of a saint, who never yells, and she has EIGHTEEN CHILDREN! All of whom she homeschools! And they are completely debt free, live in a 7000sf house, are very frugal, and have the most incredible set a morals I have ever seen. I inspire to be like them as parents and love the book they wrote.

It is so heartwarming to see other parents striving to do an incredible job, pushing aside modern (yet warped) conventions of parenting, seeking tradition & ignoring what other people are doing to brave their own trail & set their own standards.

I applaud them and continue to be INSPIRED!!

Don't worry, I'll watch the road mom

While driving home from Auntie's house tonight the following conversation took place between Lucas and I:

"Mom turn around and look at my toy owl."

Allie: "I can't honey, I have to watch the road for safety."

Lucas "Don't worry Mom, I'll watch the road for you to make sure you don't get in an accident. Now turn around, okay?"

LOL

Luke never ceases to amaze me with his mature and sound logic.