Milk that sucker

Sawyer taking her turn to milk the cow

Maren got a blocked teat and didn't get much milk out of the cow

Romay was a born natural at cow milking - she even warmed her hands before she started.

This was all at the zoo in the farm area.

I will never worry about cellulite

You see, even after 3 kids, my butt is not as bad as some others!

Riverbank Zoo, Columbia at Spring Break

Really nice zoo with all the usual animals (lion, bears, penguins etc). Laid out with families in mind. We came home with some tired kids.
Spring break week was filled with activities to keep us all busy - Ikea (Mon), friends to play (Tue), Zoo (Wed), Concord Mills to buy new sneakers for all 3 kids (Thurs), hanging in the yard with Mom and Dad (Friday). Lovely weather and nice and relaxing as I got to lie in past 6am!!

I will have 20/20 vision by the time I'm 56

Seriously, each year when I go for my vision test my eye sight has improved. It is currently improving at .25 each year, which may not seem a lot, but I've gone from being minus 5 (aka blind!!) to minus 3.75. Hurrah. At my current rate, I will have 20/20 by the time I'm 56. Now, by that time I might also get some degeneration with old age but I'll not worry about that yet.....

I'm not donating any of my 30 boxes of cereal

Ok, before you all think I'm a bad person, I did fully intend to donate them all but they met with an accident.

I had them all anally lined up in color and expiry date order on my kitchen counter top. That may be weird for the majority of the population but for the other domestic goddess addicts like myself that is normal.

Anyway, my neighbor dropped by and I was forcing her to "shop" my coupon contraband and take some of it off my hands. We got distracted and moved out of the kitchen and upstairs to see some thing else, leaving the 3 girls in the kitchen playing with the "stock". We heard some screaming and laughter but it was only when I heard the "MOM" cry that I came running. Only to find Maren standing on my kitchen counter top crying because she had peed herself. Yip, you guessed it - all over the microwave, and in a huge puddle that was soaking up nicely into all the cereal boxes.

Anyone want some cereal?

Bounce, Bounce, Bounce

The rib cracker. Bounce, bounce, bounce, fight, fight, fight, bounce. I love it. Now that I've relaxed about them killing themselves on the trampoline I can let them enjoy it without being in the yard. So far, it is only Sawyer who has bounced right through the entrance way and out onto the ground and that, was only a matter of time. Great gift Santa.

Veggie patch all planted for spring

After being so late with my Christmas cards and newsletter (ok, I never actually got round to creating the newsletter this year but ....), I'm actually ahead of the game with my vegetable patch. I used the little tiller machine which we bought at the end of last year, to do all the hard work and then Romay and Sawyer helped plan some lettuce seeds. I doubt that many of the seeds were properly planted in the rows but they had fun doing the job and its great for them to learn. Because of frost danger, we can't plan the tomatoes until the first week or so of May, but by then the first of the lettuce crop should be ready. I'm not holding my breath though!! Now, if I could just get some grass to grow and survive the summer, well, then I'd be happier than a pig in a mud bath.