Nov 04
Everyone,
When you give a boy a camera
He’s going to take a lot of pictures of the entry way rug.
And when he’s taken pictures of the rug,
he’s going to notice the door.
And when he’s taken pictures of the front door,
he’s going to want to take the camera outside.
Once he’s outside, he’s going to take pictures of the sky.
When he’s done looking up, he’s going to look down
and take pictures of his feet.
Those feet are leading him to the van.
He’s going to get in the van with the camera.
While his mom drives him to watch his sister’s swim lessons,
he’s going to take pictures of his siblings.
He’s going to take pictures of his knees.
When he arrives at swim lessons, he’s going to take pictures out the window.
Which reminds his Mommy that he has the camera and the camera gets taken away.
Which causes him to cry.
He cries during swim lessons, which makes Mommy forget to take pictures of his sister.
So if you want pictures of Sister swimming,
You should give the boy a camera.
Safire
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Sep 17
Everyone,
Pictures from the aquarium on my birthday. The boys LOVE love love the alligators. They call them “roars” and really spend time studying them. I’ve taken some pictures so you can study them too!
My parents and I went to Eastern Market today. We drove down and did a little driving tour of the monuments as I tried to hear the GPS over Little Einstein in the background. We found street parking on the block (amazing!) and walked up and down the market.
It is smaller than I thought it would be. But lots of fresh stuff. We had a great lunch at the counter. Apparently, they have the most amazing pancakes there, but only on Saturday. I’m determined to get there one Saturday and taste them!
Fresh fish, chicken, pork (I watched them bring in a pig from a truck and cut it up right there for someone.) and fruit. Also, good cookies. The Market is open Tuesday-Friday 7am – 7pm
, Saturday 7am – 6pm
, Sunday 9am – 5pm, Monday Closed.
So if you’re in the area of the capital building, take a short walk to Eastern Market and have lunch. Or better yet, go on Saturday and get amazing pancakes!
Please continue to enter my giveaways and vote for my picture! Thanks!
Safire
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Aug 27
Everyone,
So today was the last day of Butterfly’s first 5 years of eternal summer. Mine too I think. Because now, things will follow a very set schedule. And will follow a very set schedule until the boys move out of the house. Looking back at it, I really didn’t know what a good thing I had!
We went and toured her classroom today. We met the music teacher (on the way to the cafeteria) and the gym teacher (on the way to the cafeteria) and the nurse (on the way to the cafeteria) and the librarians…on the way to the cafeteria. Which we never did find. I sure hope they tell her where to go to eat lunch!
Mrs. Madeline is kind. All the other teachers we met said that very word. I’m so glad to hear it. Because Butterfly, for all her boisterous-ness, she is a very gentle soul, sweet, and is easily upset. I was hoping that she would have a teacher that was kind. Butterfly drew a picture for her teacher and wrote on it “I love teacher” and gave it to her today. Mrs. Madeline was thrilled and put it right up next to her desk. The best reaction I could have hoped for.
Even with all this positive school vibes we’re getting here, I’m going to miss our vacation together. Lazy days of staying in our pajamas in the fall and winter, going wherever we want, whenever we want. Taking an hour talking over breakfast because we can. So here’s a picture to remember summer by.
Looking forward to the next stage in our life!
Safire
PS- Happily linked to Lolli—be sure to check out today’s blog for more pictures of my kids.
PPS- Also happily entered into PBD’s End of Summer Photo Contest.
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Jun 18
Everyone,
Happily joining up with Lolli and showing off a good picture I took. This is from when we were in Utah. (I have not taken any pictures this week…no one wants to see snot covered kids crying!)
My little Pirate is so observant. He’s the one that found this snail and was happy to be showing off his discovery. Butterfly is standing right next to him and at one point held the snail too. That is, until the snail came out of it’s shell and looked at her. With one eye. That was enough to send her back into the house.
Safire
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Jun 04
Everyone,
Joining Lolli again this Friday with my best shot of the week.
It was hard to choose one this week because I’ve taken so many and a lot of them I’ve really liked. But this one stood out to me. I have lots of pictures of Butterfly walking away from the camera in scenic places. Let’s just add this one to the many.
This is from the hike we did and I got so sunburned. The mountains still have snow on the tops. If you look at the big mountain in the front, it looks like it has had stitches. It burned 2 years ago while we were visiting and they did that so it wouldn’t erode so badly with the snow run off.
I love Butterfly’s hand running through the grass at the side of the trail. She seems so content to just be walking where she is. I’d like to be like that more often.
Safire
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May 21
Everyone,
After I got out of the shower the morning I noticed that the boys were very quiet. It’s not unusual for me to find them into some kind of mischief after my quick “splash and dash”. So I went in search of them and found them in our spare bedroom on the bed. (Flower, we’re ready for you!!) They had found my stash of travel SEED products and had tossed them around the room. By the time I walked in, they were snuggled up together on the bed desperately trying to get the boxes of soap open.
And when they put their minds to it, they get what they want! I thought they were so cute surrounded by soap boxes so I whipped out my camera. Sadly, I didn’t get them surrounded in boxes by the time I came back from getting my camera. But I did get some very cute ones!
Of course, the fun ended when Professor decided to try and take a huge bite out of the soap.
And it’s so nice that they decided to showcase my last giveaway! I’ve extended the deadline and you can comment and enter up until midnight EST. I’ll count all the comments on this post as well.
For extra entries:
* Follow SEED on twitter…leave me a comment that you did.
* Follow SEED on Facebook….leave me another comment!
* Follow me on Facebook…leave another comment!
* Tweet about this contest or write on SEED’s facebook wall and receive 5 extra entries!
I’ll post tomorrow who won! Good luck everyone!
Safire
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May 14
Everyone,
I have been running from one thing to another day getting ready for Butterfly’s big birthday bash tomorrow. We’re having a carnival and hopefully it will turn out okay. I’ve got a million and one things running through my head. Mostly I’m just happy I found my underwater camera that is my video camera today. It has a tendency to walk away in small hands. This time, I found it in my camera bag. Imagine that.
Ahem…moving on.
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Tonight we had the great pleasure of going to a wedding of Juice’s cousin. It was a lot of fun to see all of our relatives, and to have everyone remark on how SIMILAR Butterfly and Pirate were to all the other little cousins running around. Gotta love those genes and how they show up! Also, it’s fun to hear of all my cousins who read the blog. Hi guys!
Juice’s cousin was in charge of pictures and asked me to bring my camera along and help out a little. I was a bad phototog and didn’t charge my batteries. So the camera ran out of juice right as they were cutting the cake. (See Dad this is why I need a battery grip!) Still, Jenny was able to get some good pictures (I just handed my camera over to her. You try wrangling 3 kids and try and take pictures!) I was also able to help her stage family shots and get every one’s attention. Juice’s comment after we were done with the pictures: “Your dad would have been so proud.”
*****
Joining Lolli and her picture meme this week.
Hosted by Cecily and Lolli
I took this picture of Juice making his chain mail gloves. A tutorial is in the works (hence the pictures) but I really liked this one for some odd reason.
I like the depth of field and the picture of Juice with tools in his hands. Something he loves to do.
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Today’s giveaway is brought to you by the wonderful people of SEED Power Body Care. Do you remember when Lolli and I washed our hair together for the vlog contest? And that I won a sponsorship to BlogHer ’10 in New York City because of those suds? I’m still using their shampoo bar (and loving how my hair looks and feels!) and SEED wants you to use it to! They are offering 3 travel kits of their products to 3 lucky winners!
To enter in this contest you need to comment! I love love love comments so please, comment as much as you think you can. For every comment you leave you get an entry to win these fabulous products.
For extra entries:
- Follow SEED on twitter…leave me a comment that you did.
- Follow SEED on Facebook….leave me another comment!
- Follow me on Facebook…leave another comment!
- Tweet about this contest or write on SEED’s facebook wall and receive 5 extra entries!
Seriously people, you want to win this one. As always, the giveaway ends one week from today.
Now get going!
Safire
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Apr 16
Everyone,
I’ve been enjoying looking through my shots of the kids’ Easter clothes and playing around with editing them. I really enjoy this one I put an old timey look on. Such cute boys I have!
A cute story about Professor: The other day he was playing with an airplane toy that we have. He would fly it around (complete with sound effects) and then land it. One time, he landed it upside down and laughed over it. He flipped the airplane over to right side up, then flipped it over again slowly. He ran over to me, “Mommy! Hahaha!” It’s so fun to see him develop his sense of humor.
Pirate this morning has been running races. He backs himself into a corner, says, “Uh, Uh, Go!” and runs away as fast as he can. It’s so cute!
Safire
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Apr 09
Everyone,
This has been an amazing week for weather. The beginning of the week it was close to 90 degrees. It was hot. It was sunny. It was beautiful. We spent all day every day outside as much as possible. Because normally, when it’s 90, it’s unbearable. But there was barely any humidity and we loved it.
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Then last night a huge rainstorm blew in. It turned cold, fast. Today’s high was only about 58. It was windy. But we went outside anyway! We met some friends at the park and had a wonderful time. 
This is my favorite picture of Professor (I took it yesterday) and it just shows his personality so much. What a fun picture and a fun boy!
Cute Pirate on the swings. The swings were a big hit today. We swung and swung and laughed and swung some more. The swings were in the shade so we (my friends and I) became Popsicles but the kids seemed to enjoy it. Cold red noses and all. This little girl enjoyed it the most. It was the only thing she wanted to do the whole time at the park!
Butterfly made a friend of a little boy who wanted to be tree frogs and climb all over this rope thing. This was right up Butterfly’s alley. She climbed higher than I’ve ever seen her climb and was a frog most of the rest of the day. 
When we got home, Juice came home and took Butterfly back outside for 2 and half more hours of play. What a lucky girl.
And they were all in bed by 7:09pm tonight. We are all exhausted. But it’s such a great exhaustion.
Safire
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Mar 19
Everyone,
Today I have another picture from the hospital. Okay, I have 2 that are really good.
This week’s challenge at Give Me your Best Shot is Straight Out of the Camera. These two pictures of Pirate at the hospital are a little dark, but they are straight out of the camera.
I wanted to put up a picture of his cute little gap in the back of his little gown but thought better of it. (Why is it cute on a 2 year old and horrible on adults?!)
He’s doing okay today. His left side is a maze of big purple bruises. He keeps sitting down suddenly and grabbing his left knee/leg and crying at random moments. Sadly, that has not stopped him from climbing. Just this morning I found him in the bathroom sink. As in, his whole body is in the sink and he is incredibly pleased with himself. Yesterday he climbed up on top of the computer desk in my living room and broke one of my figurines that was on a shelf above the desk.
I am so happy that spring is almost here and summer is not far behind. These kids need to get out of the house and climb on something legal!
Safire
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