My Grandma

and her 5 Great Grands!

Guess what we did today?

MESSY PARTY!!

A bicycle built for 2

Garden Blog (mid-June)

I (almost) grew garlic. I think it was in too hot of a spot. We will try again next year. The bulbs are little, but still edible!





Good morning Pumpkin!




We have tomatoes!

Lessons learned;
must screen compost before adding it to garden, get the big stuff out
garlic does not like full sun, next to a brick house
only 1/4 of my sunflower seeds sprouted, will plant more today to celebrate summer solstice!
little rabbits can get though chain link fence, expect it.
I'm sure there will be more....

Michigan Steak Test

How cute is this?

To check the doneness of your steak, use the Michigan Test. Stretch out your hand and poke the center of the palm and if the steak feels like you're in Lansing, it's overcooked. If it's more like the area below the thumb, the steak is rare. Below the last knuckle on the pinkie finger, it's medium. Under the last knuckle of the ring finger, the steak is medium rare.

Thanks to Susan at the Detroit Free Press for that one!

Fireboat

We love the library, we really really love books. We visit our local library once a week, rain or shine,we are there. Always looking for new books to read, new adventures to go on. I saw this book Fireboat and I thought hey, that looks a lot like one of our favorites Little Toot. So we took it home. It wasn't like little toot. It a very sad book. I cried streams of tears just trying to get though it. Carter didn't understand. How could he? He wasn't even conceived when 9.11 happened. He is 3 years old. Explaining my sadness was difficult, but I was honest. And the book had a good ending. But still said. I didn't even know they made children's books on the subject, imagine my surprise! I think it would serve as a great resource for families and kids who were directly effect by 9.11 and maybe as a gentle way to approach the subject matter in an older child, a MUCH older child. This is one that's NOT going on my most wanted list ;)

Good morning!

Do you want to snuggle?

For papa

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The joke goes 'you can call me anything you want, just don't call me late for dinner'. Classic papa joke, reincarnated by Carter!

Questions and Answers

Wow, after so many wonderful warm days it sort of hard to go back to this cooler weather! So, we are a bit stuck inside today. Figures since we got our summer pool pass yesterday :) Anyway, I thought I'd take this time to catch up on some questions from my comments.

Angie said

You have a drinking fountain...in your yard?

I know, it's that cool! My dad salvaged it and I hope the kids like it as much as I hope they will! Paul and my dad put a lot of work into installing it!

My brother Adam said

Funny how papa took the drinking fountain OUT of our back yard when we were kids

I forgot about all that! Why is that dad? Good enough for the kids, but not for us?

My mom said

U forgot about the soon to be beautiful flowers from the bulbs I gave u.

There are no flowers yet! I think they said mid-summer, stay tuned!

Belle said about her garden

So I will email you pics.

Please do!

My mom said

This was hard. I can't even think in one word thoughts! Sorry about mistakenly compounded words.Love, Mom

I learned so much about you on this mom! Thanks for taking the time to reply!

Jane said

dreaming about newborns, huh? ;-)

I think it was my neighbor, she called me that she was in labor and I was anxiously waiting! No more newborns for me! I'm just waiting on my brother and sister now ;)

Shelly said

we had a such a fun time. sorry we freaked carter out with the sanders

It was too funny! We had a great time having you all visit!

Don't forget to check the flickr pictures over to the right. Click (twice) to get to my album. I'll be uploading the best of my pics there and likely not emailing them anymore. If you want one and can't download it, just drop me a comment and I'll get it to you!

The first sip

from the new outside drinking fountain! Thanks Daddy and Papa!

They grow up so fast!

Skye is already into mommies lipstick!