Just Another Fabulous Wednesday

 : hanging Out in the 'hood

 :Spring?! afternoon sun through colored glass

 : Wanna play?

 : Wondering how they got such a big engine under such a tiny hood.

: Happy baby, watching big brother fly a kite.

Them's the Perks: January in Manitoba

8:41am sunrise through the south window.

The beginnings of frostbite on rosy cheeks.

What yoga looks like at my house some days.

Gorgeous long sunsets.

Sun in the windows while race cars drive near the lentils.

PHOTOS!

Here are the photos I just couldn't resist taking with the digital camera over the last few weeks.  These are photos that I wanted to see right away - call it impatience, it is what it is.  The film I've taken has yet to be developed, and I think I'll be so broke after getting it developed that it will be the last film I use for a while.

Don't miss Luke's quotes at the very bottom, collected over the last couple days.  I get such a kick out of that guy.

First day of preschool!!  Wednesday Sept. 14, 2011.

I'm experimenting with adjusting the color levels manually to make the photo look vintage.  It's kinda fun!  Still not sure how I feel about mucking up perfectly good color in a photo to make it look old, faded, worn.  But it's amazing how it changes the feel of the photo.

I let the neighbors water the flowerbeds one day several weeks ago and it got a bit out of hand when ALL the neighbor children wanted a piece of the fun.  Many toes were squished, pants and shirts were sprayed, and most of us ended up wetter than we intended.

Luke has discovered a new storage space for his race cars.  I heard him shouting, "Ow! Ow! Ow!" and found him trying to slide down the stairs to the basement with cars in his gitch.  I'll be lucky to have grandchildren at this rate.

The harvest.

An ordinary moment.

Laughing after Luke gave him a raspberry

Luke says:

Your hands will be full so you should put Seamus in his bouncy seat.  

Why will my hands be full?

Oh, will you read me a story?

Seamus is my brudder, and I'm his big brudder, and Linus is my brudder too.  We're free (three) brudders.

I will just walk home, only it's a rather long way.

*with his underwear pulled down over his head and his eyes peering through the leg holes*

I'm gitch-man-superhero

I wish I had a ship and my Dad and I could have swords and we would push that Pirate Hook off the ship with a mighty splash.

I just thought it would be a good time to be upside-down.

Say hi to your big bruver, Seamus.

No.  I'm his big brudder.

I'm gonna sword fight.  Oh.  Hm.  Maybe I need a sword.

What do you want for breakfast?

Peanut butter and jelly.

Peanut butter and jelly is not a breakfast food.

In the morning it is.

photos at last

on the way home from the airport Luke tries on Grampa's assortment of hats.

the last rescued veggies were made into the most delicious turkey pot pie.  um - yum!

Like mother, like son.  When a mother goes around half-dressed and doesn't bother to do her hair, what can you expect from her precocious two-year old?

what are they making?  now that's a silly question.

Grampa and Luke go for walks to the park.

race cars need somewhere to crash...playdough!

sorry for the crazy eyes.  just had to wait too long for somebody to take the picture.

oh but you should see it.  it's a thing of beauty.  all cleaned up.  yucky old stuff that I never harvested tossed away - never to be seen or heard from again!  and tomorrow's task:  buy and plant the perfect apple tree (requirements: hardy, good for pies AND juice/cider, and preferably something that will grow several feet per year - we're in a hurry for apples).  All of this thanks to my Dad who claims, "I know nothing about gardening!...in Manitoba."