Signs of spring

Training wheels!!

Friends in the garden.

Spring musical concert.

Aren't they cute? It was a very entertaining evening. One poor Kindergartener peed onstage. The boy next to her was traumatized...he became immobile for the rest of the concert.

Wow, how did a week go by?

We had a great weekend with Grandma and Grandpa! All four old folks went swing dancing on Friday night. We're weren't swinging too heavily just yet, but we had fun and managed not to argue too much about who should be leading whom. Got some practice sessions in at home with the kids.

We also went and saw the college international students' Cultural Performance last night. We found out that our international "son" from South Korea is a serious hip hop dancer!! He's gonna have to show us some of his moves, although we really don't have enough room in our house to work on "the worm." And our son from India rocked a Bollywood number, so he's going to have to show us his moves and burn me a CD, too.

Today, during a trip to Dari Barn, M4 said, "I just love the joy of ice cream!" Amen.

Because I haven't succeeded in taking any pictures recently, and I reset my screen saver to show more old pics, I was reminded of some of my old favorites:

The simple things

M4, reflecting upon his Kit Kat: "These are so awesome! You can break them in half!" Also, we caught some of Star Wars: Episode I (Jar Jar Binks!!) on TV. The kids have never seen it before, but M4 has pored over the Star Wars picture dictionaries we've gotten from the library. So a spaceship came into view, and M4 said, "Oh, I definitely know who that is; it's Darth Maul!" I asked how he knew, and he said, "Well, it's his ship!" Like duh, Mom.

And M3 has declared her love for fonts. She has played around with them in Word, so when we are looking at a document: album cover, flyer for something, etc. she'll say, "That's Bradley Handwriting!" or "That's Curlz!" or "I wonder what font that is?" I am seeing fonts through new eyes.

Sicko

Doesn't it always happen this way? M3 had a birthday/slumber party at a friend's last night. Got the call at 7:40am that she had tossed her cookies. She definitely has a stomach bug, because it has continued. Don't worry, Grandma and Grandpa...we'll have things aired out before next weekend! This is the first time she's been sick all season, so I'm feeling pretty lucky all things considered.

Watched Across the Universe last night. If you like the Beatles, it's pretty entertaining.

We will NOT...

...I repeat NOT, get out the snow shovels again. It's just going to have to move all on its own. Not that I am prone to swearing, but when M4 and I see snow lately, we have taken to exclaiming, "POOP!"

Can you fall asleep in this position?

Mystery Ride

Dari Barn just opened for the season (yahoo!!!), so we decided to take the kids on the traditional St. A. family Mystery Ride for the first absurdly large ice cream treat of 2008. Frustrated by his mother's overly elaborate efforts to throw him and his sister off the trail (I drove around too long), M4 said, "This Mystery Ride is DUMB!!" and buried his face in his hands.