30 Days of Photos: Day 5

For My Dad

I have really been taking a lot of pictures lately, partly because of my 30 Days of Photos project, which I saw on someone else's blog. It seemed like a good way to try to capture the moments of our everyday.

These flowers (gorgeous!) were an Easter gift from Ann. They were almost the picture of the day yesterday. I have such a hard time picking ONE picture of the day that I let someone else choose half the time. Raph chose the ice picture.


Amazingly he's still reading even though he's a science teacher again.


My Dad wanted to know what our wetland looked like...it looks like this - a stream!


Sh... Don't wake Daddy.


I went to a thrift store this morning and got this little riding toy for Makili for $1! I was pretty psyched. Makili is pretty stoked too!

30 Days of Photos: Day 4

Last bits of ice in our stream.

Buddies and Grass

The woman whose kids I babysit is pretty hip when it comes to holidays (an in general for that matter). I like holidays so when other people live it up for the holidays it makes me happy. Her kids grow their own Easter baskets, soaking the wheat in water and then letting them soak up the sun until it grows. Can't you just picture the eggs and candy nestled in this grass!


Morgan, the youngest of her brood, and Makili are buddies these days. They play together and spend a lot time checking eachother out. Morgan loves to be close to Makili, but not for him to touch her toys, which is understandable. Morgan got a bit of a fever today, so I hope Makili doesn't come down with it too. Her older brother Sam was practically open-mouth kissing her this morning, so I don't think there is any hope for him. A common phrase at thier house is "Whoa-Space in the Face!" Anyway, Makili loves those kids, and I think they like him okay too.

30 Days of Photos: Day 3

30 Days of Photos: Day 2

Music Together.

Helping His Mom Sew (Sort Of)

30 Days of Photos: Day 1

Our neighbor's lobster traps in the snow.

At Least He Still Looks Back (Sometimes)

As a reminder

For those of you who don't read my entire posts and didn't get to the end of the rant to read that I'm hosting a "COMMENT CONTEST" I'm going to reiterate:

Every time you leave a comment between now and April 15th, you will be entered into a drawing to WIN a package of handmade goods, customized to the winner.

Everybody likes to WIN FREE stuff, right?

Neighbors, Cousins, Friends

Raph and I were pretty psyched when my cousin and his girlfriend started looking for houses in our area. Then they bought one less than two miles from our house. YES! They been in for a few months already but we finally got the camera out yesterday. Amazingly, I think my cousin actually like food more than we do, which works out for every body because he gets to cook phenomenal meals, like this lasagna (which for the record ain't your standard veggie lasagna) and we get to eat it.

Tamara can't seem to get enough of Makili






and Makili can't seem to get enough of their cat, Snowball (yes they seem to have a sense of humor with naming their black cat). Tamara, the good sport, carries him after the cat, all over the house.




We are planning on sharing gardening duties this summer on our property, which is pretty exciting. God I can't wait!

BUSY week

We finally got a few down moments today to go out and watch winter's slow recession. Yes I said recession. I am so tired of hearing about whether or not we're in a recession. Who really cares. Though I am more than willing to accept my duty as an american to spend an extra $1200 for the economic stimulus. If I have to.

This was indeed a BUSY week. Lots of working from both Raph and I. Yesterday we sat in a school cafeteria craft fair for six hours trying to convince people to host exchange students. FUN? Not sure. I actually enjoyed it for a little while, but like anything, it got pretty old after six hours. I did get to attend a pretty awesome girl party last night and filled my gut with some much needed laughter. Eight (including me) crass girls talking about life, husbands, sex, jobs, kids, kids, etc. So nice to have the illusion of girlfriends even if I met most of them for the first time. I felt like "part of gang" immediately and cleaned up in the pokeno game (glorified bingo) raking in $30 in gift cards, $2 in quarters and a bagfull of goodies. YES!


This morning was wonderful and so enjoyed some down time. It was one of those moments when the baby is happy, the house is pretty clean, yummy food is in the oven, the music is nice, the light is filtering and making everything seem special, and you just feel like, "my life is pretty good." Makili spent some of that time in one of his favorite pursuits, pulling the pulls for the blinds. Blissful fun.

Auction Part II, and Wives Tales

We went to another auction last weekend. And we scored this kitchen/dining room table and the cabinet/desk thing in the background. I'm pretty excited about it and think they really make much better use of our small space. It is such a relief to have a shelf for a book!

The cabinet got some scratches in the moving process (though Larry and Ann surprised us by bringing us our furniture yesterday in a U-Haul! Wasn't that nice!) Ann mentioned that she heard you could rub a walnut on scratches and the oils would fill them in. Old wive's tale? Maybe, but I'll tell you, it works! I recommend it!

DUH

I substituted yesterday and Ann came down to watch Makili. After school, as we were waiting for Raph, Ann I were talking about how he hasn't quite seemed himself in the last few days..."It seems like something is hurting him," I said. "Yeah, and he chewed on that pacifier all day today!" Ann pointed out. We went on listing how he didn't sleep well last night, but slept a lot today, how he seemed cranky, etc. Then Makili took a break from nursing to smile at Ann and imply "ha ha I got the boob!" And when he did that, guess what I saw...a new tooth coming in! Oh! Then it all made sense.

We've been letting him chew on apples and bananas, both of which he loves. Apples now have to go in the net munchkin thing (an appreciated gift from Kate, Guy, and Elio), because he is good at chomping off chunks that are just the size to choke on... Yesterday we set up his high chair (complements of the Crawfords!) so that he could sit at the table with us. He LOVED it!

Defining Work

So I think I might have gotten some relatives worried with my recent posts, but don't worry, I'm not going to take a walk off a short bridge any time soon, and I haven't entertained any thoughts of dropping Makili off on a stranger's stoop. I like to vent in my down moments. I've been having a lot of good moments too, even while working. I babysit for three really cute kids two days a week. Today I took them and Makili on a walk at the "wiggly bridge." It was beautiful and was able to take some shots of the kids, though Makili was in the backpack and therefore missed out on all the photo shots.



Happy-Go-Lucky Morgan


Sam the Linguist, the Creator, the Romantic



Jack the Lover, the Leader, the Loyal



The scene - the woods, with sticks and sunlight




Mom showed up so we spent some time throwing sticks into the water and watching them float by...



Then we headed into the sunset. Even Ann made it. Great day!