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Monthly Archives: October 2007

Cool Beans

30 Oct

Here in Minnesota the Public Heath has a great program called WIC – short for women, infants and children.  They provide vouchers for free food staples like milk, cheese, eggs, ect. for families that fall below a certain income.  Our family gets WIC…and are proud of it.  We Canadians love our social programs!

Anyway, I currently have a stockpile of dried beans, peas and lentils, that have come from WIC over the past couple of years, that I’m not quite sure what to do with.  Lately, I’ve actually been using them to entertain Noah…

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This is supposed to be a happy face, drawn by me on the paper with glue, decorated with beans by Noah.  He started out carefully placing one bean at a time on the “drawing,” but then ended up throwing the beans on by the handful instead.   I guess he’s more into abstract art! :)

So, I was wondering if any of my readers might have some better uses for my dried legumes.  Like, I mean, in the form of recipes…kid friendly recipes.  Anyone? 

 
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Posted by on October 30, 2007 in noah

 

FAQs

29 Oct

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 Are you done (having kids)?  Yep…hopefully!

Is Phoebe sleeping through the night yet?  Nope.

So, how is she different from her brothers?  I can’t say that she is very different at all so far.  The only marked difference has been that she wants nothing to do with a bottle; all three boys took a bottle very easily. 

And I’m happy to report that everything feels back to normal around here (and as you’ve noticed, I’m able to blog regularly again…yay!).  Phoebe’s four-and-a-half months old now and, just like her three older siblings did at this age, has settled down into a predictible pattern of two, lovely, three hour daytime naps, and is all smiles and coos in between.  I love this age!       

 
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Posted by on October 29, 2007 in phoebe

 

Career Day

26 Oct

Meet Police Officer Zeke, and Elijah R. Horsman, President of the United States.  We’ve explained to Elijah more than once that he can’t ever be the President, based on the fact that he wasn’t born here, but I thought I’d let him dream big for today!  Too bad…I think he has a pretty good presidential look, don’t you?  Maybe he could go for Governer of Minnesota.    

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Zeke:  I’m Police Officer Zeke, and you are under arrest!

Elijah:  Hey, you can’t arrest me!  I’m the President of the United States!

Zeke:  Oh… Oh yeah, you’re right.

 
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Posted by on October 26, 2007 in elijah, zeke

 

Our Big Ol' Pile O' Fun Is…

25 Oct

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Oh, the heartbreak!  The maitenance crew came and vacuumed up all our leaves today.  Away they go in those two cruel cylinders.

Boo hoo.

 
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Posted by on October 25, 2007 in general

 

A Big Ol' Pile O' Fun

24 Oct

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We’ve had some pretty perfect playing-in-the-leaves days this week.  Sixties, sunny, and no mosquitoes to swat at…really, it couldn’t get any better than that. 

It amazes just how long my three boys can stay outside…and the many different ways they find to entertain themselves in a pile of leaves.  Of course there’s the ever popular jumping in the leaves, but there’s also been lots of biking through the leaves… getting buried in the leaves… burying small objects and finding them again in the leaves… throwing the leaves (both in the air and at each other)… making as high a moutain as possible with the leaves…  When you’re a little boy, the possibilities are endless.  I love it.  They come in with roses in their cheeks, leaves in their hair, and with that yummy Fall smell on them.  Mmmm.

 
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Posted by on October 24, 2007 in general

 

The Girls

23 Oct

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Posted by on October 23, 2007 in phoebe

 

Zeke Measures Up!

22 Oct

Oh yes, oh yes!  At long last, Zeke was finally able to ride the big roller coasters at Valley Fair this weekend! 

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As you can see, he just barely squeaked by.  The suspense was incredible as we drove there after lunch this Saturday.  We knew he had grown, as we’d been measuring him on a doorframe at home, but until you get officially measured at the Valley Fair office, you just never know.  Once again, we were the loudest family around as Elijah and Zeke jumped up and down, giggled excitedly, and Elijah shouted, “Zeke measured up!  Zeke measured up!”  Pretty exciting.  He loved each and every roller coaster too, which surprised me.  Some of them are pretty intense!

Zeke rode another kind of roller coaster this weekend as well though, unfortunetly.  The emotional kind.  After his euphoric Saturday, on Sunday morning he was given a hard pill to swallow.  The kids were all given their parts for the Christmas play yesterday morning and, wouldn’t you know it, Elijah got a speaking part and he didn’t.  Oh dear.  Zeke wept…he didn’t just cry, he wept.  Heartwrenching sobs.  It was so sad!  No amount of explaining that “Elijah never had a speaking part when he was five either,” could help. 

“Well, I’m telling them next week that I don’t even want to be in the play!” Zeke declared.  Perfect time for the “those who are faithful in little, will be given much,” talk… which seemed to fall on deaf ears.  Sigh.  I must tell myself that at least some of what I say is getting lodged in those brains of theirs…somewhere…somehow.   I believe this is when prayer becomes a very integral part of parenting…asking the Lord to do what we can’t.  He needs to make Truth come alive in their hearts. 

Oh Lord, let it be so!

 
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Posted by on October 22, 2007 in zeke

 

An Aspiring Astronaught

18 Oct

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“Me go a moon someday, Mummy.”

 
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Posted by on October 18, 2007 in noah

 

A Little Unabashed Bragging

16 Oct

a.jpgWell, if a gal can’t brag about her children, then what can she brag about?  I do realize that the use of our family’s website to brag about my kids should be kept to a minimum, but this little piece of information is just too good not to share!  We just received a letter informing us that our second grader was in the 99th percentile for mathmatics comprehension, and the 98th percentile for reading comprehension in the entire nation!  Wow!  I always knew he was brilliant, but now…now I have proof.

 
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Posted by on October 16, 2007 in elijah

 

"Cognito"

15 Oct

We haven’t had the greatest fall around these parts this year.  It’s been soggy and cold for the past week, but this past Saturday, was a perfect, beautiful, sunny fall day.  We ”seized the day,” and had a lovely time at an apple orchard just south of us. 

Maybe this isn’t the case, but it always seems to me and Dave that we are the loudest family where ever we go, often causing quite a ruckus.  (Or maybe every family feels this way?  Anyone care to share?)Sometimes we earn smiles from those around us, sometimes frowns.  In any case, this is difficult for l’il ol’ me, who prefers to to go incognito!   But it seems our three boys have Daddy’s personality – they love attention, and…embarrassed?…What does that mean?  Oh dear.

So, our trip to the apple orchard was no different.  The first big event was this…

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This caused quite a gathering of kids, the capture of this little fellow.  Of course, the fact that Elijah hollered at the top of his lungs, “Hey, look what we found!” may have helped too.

Then, when a goose decided to venture out of it’s little pen, Noah thought it wanted to play tag.  He chased the poor thing until it frantically waddled back to the small hole in the fence from whence it had come, making very loud protests the whole way.  It was quite, um… entertaining.

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And that wasn’t the end of it.  There were loud discussions about who would sit where on the wagon ride, which pumpkin to buy, and, “Why do we have to get a plain caramel apple…can’t we get one with M&Ms on it…PLEASE?!”  Sigh.  Somebody…anybody…please say you know exactly where I’m coming from.  Anybody?

 
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Posted by on October 15, 2007 in elijah, noah, zeke

 
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