Green Day

I don't usually do anything to celebrate St. Patrick's Day besides wear green but today... I went a little crazy. I didn't know what we were going to do today so I came up with tons of fun. Here we are all in green ready to go to the market. Enjoying the beautiful flowers in our backyard.

We made rainbow fruit cups.

so pretty

We baked homemade cookies- OK, we actually opened a box and popped them on a tray. That's what I consider baking.

Tori had a hard time waiting for them.

We did a rainbow craft while they baked.

Fruit Loop Rainbow- Mmmm beautiful and tasty.

Cookie decorating

Cookie enjoying

Irish dinner- green veggies, soda bread, yes- that is a green beer. We also had sausage and potatoes.

It turned out to be a really fun filled day. I think we've started some new traditions.

Video of Josiah caught trying to find the end of the rainbow.

Facebook Post

For those of you not on Facebook... these are some things my 3 year old daughter thinks about me.

1. What is something mom always says to you? Be good

2. What makes mom happy? going potty- I had to clarify, it's her going potty

3. What makes mom sad? I don't know

4. How does your mom make you laugh? tickle

5. What was your mom like as a child? me

6. How old is your mom? I don't know

7. How tall is your mom? big

8. What is her favorite thing to do? play with me

9. What does your mom do when you're not around? find me

10. If your mom becomes famous, what will it be for? me

11. What is your mom really good at? reading

12. What is your mom not very good at? don't know

13. What does your mom do for her job? clean up

14. What is your mom's favorite food? soup

15. What makes Mommy proud of you? going potty on the potty

16. If your mom were a cartoon character, who would she be? mommy

17. What do you and your mom do together? lay puzzles

18. How are you and your mom the same? playing Wii

19. How are you and your mom different? she has a hairband in her hair

20. How do you know your mom loves you? bible tells me so

21. What does your mom call you? turtle

Tractors & Turtles

Siah digging up my plant. He was so happy that I just let him do it. I only lost one leaf in the process. He loves to be outside playing in the dirt. Tori gave us all tractor names in this video.

Tori LOVES turtles. She is always pretending to be a turtle. In this video she is swimming like one. I'm not sure why she loves them so much but she does talk about the fact that they can hide in their shell when they are scared. I think Tori would love to have a shell to hide in. Instead she hides in the couch cushions when someone comes to the house. She has a favorite book about a blue turtle named Limu. She asks her friends to call her baby blue turtle Limu... they have a hard time remembering and pronouncing it. The past few days we've focused on turtles for school time. We found National Geographic Videos on-line all about turtles to watch. We printed out drawing instructions... she made a pretty good turtle card for her Mimi & Papa- see picture below. I was even able to find a blue garden turtle for her. I'm glad turtles don't make any loud annoying noises. They're really good pets... and animals to pretend to be.

Lunch time!

Sunshine and other things that make me happy

It was time for a blog background change- here it is! What do you think? For those of you that don't know: Jeff often calls me "Sunshine Princess". If the sun is shining, I am probably outside enjoying it. On Sunday (aptly named) we started working on our garden and enjoying the nice sunny day. I went to sleep that night with visions of planted garden beds all in a row. Gardens make me happy.

Here's something else that makes me really happy. Tori loves her baby brother. Here she is singing him to sleep. He wasn't feeling well on Sunday and she was so concerned. She offered him toys and it didn't help. When we were putting him down for a nap she sang him to sleep. He immediately started snoring.

My friends make me happy to... thanks friends.

Oh, the things that don't make me happy... bodily fluids. Tori peed on our bed during naptime (happy for a washer and dryer in my house), Siah has diarrhea (happy for diapers and medicine), and BOTH of my ears are now filled with fluid (but they're not infected so I'm happy about that). Little too much info. We'll "You take the good, you take the bad, and there you have the Facts of Life, the Facts of Life." Remember that show?

My Birthday

I had a great birthday. Jeff surprised me the day before my birthday by taking the day off. He made us a yummy breakfast and arranged for Auntie Len to watch the kids. He was hoping that it would be sunny and planned to take me to Carmel or San Francisco but it was a stormy day and I don't like to drive far when it's bad weather. (It usually rains on my birthday. I always remember getting balloons at school and they'd be dragging behind me beat down by the rain.) So I changed the plans- one of my favorite things to do on a stormy day is to watch the ocean so we went to coffee at Mr. Toots (right on the ocean). It was fun to sit and talk. I told him about my desire for more adventure so we decided to do an Adventure Race that we saw advertised. It involves a run, bike, kayak, and other team elements. It will give me good incentive to work out and it sounds like a lot of fun. We're going to do that in May. YOU can join us if you want. I also told him that I want to help build our addition. So he's going to teach me how to use the power tools. It's also been fun to plan out our addition and pick out some of details. After coffee we went to a matinee viewing of Slumdog Millionaire, which was a great movie. It's sad to see slum life in India but it's a really well done movie. Then we had an early dinner at a Mexican food restaurant- also on the beach. Storm waves are so cool to watch. The sun broke out while we were there. After dinner, we went home and the kids were happy and exhausted. Auntie Len had helped them make a cake so we ate cake with then and they went to bed early. It was a great and relaxing birthday. Thanks Jeff, Ann Helen, and everyone that called, e-mailed, Facebooked, and thought of me.

Dog Food

Look at Siah's face- he's so HAPPY
Look at Samson's face- not so happy.
Why? Maybe because his dog food is swimming with legos in his water dish.

See how it all goes down and how he makes his get away.

Rain Camping

Jeff and Tori did camp out as planned on Valentine night. They both really enjoyed it. She felt very special. The only problem was when kitty tried to attack the tent... he kind of freaked her out. We left the tent up for the whole week and would go and play in it during the constant rain storms. She even played in it during her rest time all by herself. We had to mix things up a bit so we didn't all go crazy being inside.