Butterflies in Winter

I met a couple of friends at The Butterfly Place today.  I’d never been before and it was really nice, if pretty crowded given that it was February vacation for Massachusetts.

My favorite photo from today:

Yet again, I have a backlog to post, but I’m insanely tired after a busy week and almost non-existant weekend, so it will have to be tomorrow (hopefully).

Cookie Day

I’m a leader/cookie mom for my daughter’s Junior troop and our sister Cadette troop.  Today was cookie delivery day — This is the back of my Odyssey, but the car was full with just enough room for me to drive.  We also almost filled my co-leader’s full sized van with our 218 combined cases.

T and G are four!

Their negotiations on what to have for their birthday cake were hilarious.  They settled on plain vanilla cake with strawberries between the layers and a lemon glaze.  It was delicious!

Happy, happy birthday to my sweet, smart, sassy, funny dynamic duo:

Valentines Project

The twins had a little counting project at preschool yesterday.  This was T’s:

G chose to stop at 10 because she was done, she says.  :-)

Valentine’s Eve

He was so sweet and serious picking out just the right card for each classmate:

The missing week of photos

Once again, I have a backlog of daily photos to post, from the 4th through the 10th.  I really need to get into a routine of posting daily.

2-4-12 T coloring a box meant crawling inside it to color :-)

2-5-12 G’s new jacket, which I’ve been trying to get for her for a long time.  She loves it and it fits and it’s so very G!

2-6-12 Sassy girl makes a gate

2-7-12 Taco Tuesday

2-8-12 Cooking lesson.  Yes, they’re young, but they do get to cook with supervision

2-9-12 Even heavy editing couldn’t save this, but it was the only photo I took that day, so scone inspector it is

2-10-12 This was the first thing I saw when I opened my eyes.  I love the sunrise through the woods!

Ingenuity

I love it when my kids figure out ways to make what they want — This morning’s creation was a Duplo loom:

The golf tee, I am informed, is the weaving needle.  :-)

Pompeii

Recuperating

I thought I had gotten off easy with this nasty bug, but yesterday I got hit hard.  Ugh!  Still recuperating, but managed to get a couple of photos.

2-2-12 We went through a lot of towels and had to dig out this duckie one I made from the bottom of the pile.  I had completely forgotten about it!  T is in love and G is jealous.  ;-)

2-3-12 More knitting (It’s all I got).  L’s mittens this time, with a long 2×2 ribbed cuff to tuck into his parka sleeves.

Ten for one

The combination of a cold followed by a weekend guest followed by a nasty bug meant I didn’t update here.  However, I did manage to take at least one photo every day, so Project 365 is alive and well.  Here’s the hodge-podge:

1-23-12 G wanted to wear my new hat as well

1-24-12 January Thaw — I went outside to try to see the Aurora Borealis, but we were clouded over.  This is the gooey driveway.

1-25-12 The last Wollmeise of the year arrived.  I’m trying to knit from my stash, so I decided on the 17th to join a stashdown project and set the goal of not buying yarn for the rest of the year.  (What was I thinking!?)  I bought this red grab bag on the 13th, so it was grandfathered in.  :-)

1-26-12 The only photo of the day, which I spent some of sewing on C’s badges and patches before her uniform check

1-27-12 The big kids building model airplanes with our friend Sam

1-28-12 T shows off the octopus/slicer he made (the only photo of the day, which is blurry – heh)

1-29-12 Our crazy chickens are molting in January!

1-30-12 G dressed herself, and she’s trying to smile even though she feels yucky

1-31-12 My poor, sweet T sleeping on a beanbag chair I stuck in the bathroom.  Yes, he really couldn’t stray too far he was so sick.  :-(

2-1-12 And today, there are mittens!  I finished G’s make-your-eyeballs-bleed-bright-orange mittens this evening after setting them aside for over a week as well.

We made it through and today you’d never have known anyone was ill, except for the massive amount of laundry…  ;-)