but it doesn't taste good enough to be candy!

Superman: Can I have a Tic Tac?
Me: Remember how you said you didn't like candy and you weren't going to eat it anymore? Besides, you already had candy.
Superman: Tic Tacs aren't candy!

pictures of our snowy weekend in all their infinite variety

Can you believe that we got these people to hold still and not act like goobers for a single photograph? It was a tender mercy.

She's still single, fellas . . . she is a fast runner . . . she is very nurturing . . . she is tall and pretty with straight, white teeth . . . Hey, back off! She needs to graduate from college still!

We did finally get a decent one, though, see:

Making sugar cookies, spurred on by Aleece. She likes her cookies to be thick and soft, sick!

He took forever putting each pistachio carefully in its place, making sure not to shell them first.

See what a good job he did on that inedible cookie?

Lucy likes her groceries. And I think that the Bumbo is one of the coolest baby inventions ever.

He's just smiling because he feels smug about his baby.

Some video clips of our many festivities:

We also shot off homemade rockets and it was the mostest fun, but I haven't uploaded the video yet and the camera is way over in the kitchen, and the cord is in the office, and I'm in the parlor, so . . .

Thanks to my parents for being freaking awesome and paying for the whole shebang. And the formatting on this post is so screwy it makes me crazy in the head.

the miracle eater

A success story: Pinga went for some shots at the doctor yesterday (for some reason we haven't gotten any of her shots since she was six months old . . . not sure how that happened) and she is in the forty-fifth percentile for height and the thirtieth for weight. For a girl who was in a nosedive away from the growth chart, that is great news.

She also likes to steal shoes. And try to open medicine bottles to drink them.

it just hurts so much!

I love Captain America, I do. I think he is a griffin pup. But if there is anyone out there who is more melodramatic I'd pay good money to see it.

He's doing super in school, though, and pantsed everybody in his class in the spelling bee today--eat that, other fourth graders! He can spell rudimentary! Probably!

I fancy them shiny shoes fer me booty

Daniel and Sarah gave us a grundle of cool art supplies for Christmas, and the boys could hardly wait to bust it open and extract the gooey innards. This is what they made on New Year's Eve.
Here is our party. We ate food that I loved and most everybody else thought was good, but not great. Well, that's what happens when I plan the menu. I think it might be fun to do a crepe bar next year.
We went bowling this afternoon after we chopped a cat's leg off in our fan belt, and they had the cutest little shoes for Pinga! Captain America beat the pants off everybody with the impressive score of 122.

At the Hansens' house yesterday I Wii boxed Amanda (she cleaned my clock), and that, on top of shoveling, with bowling on top of the lot, has I think permanently damaged my rotator cuff.

it's about time one of you lugheads said it!

Recent events from our house:
Pinga was sad! Because she will go outside without a coat or shoes. We're thinking of tying her to a stake in the kitchen so she can just pace around like a vicious dog.
It was Christmas! We scaled way back on the presents and it was a ton better. So much less stress and greed and nonsense. We're never going back. Unless we change our minds and want more stuff.
My visiting teacher brought over a goody basket that I never saw! Captain America looked through it and appropriated the good parts for regifting. He put the cheese ball and Wheat Thins in a gift bag and gave them to me on Christmas, two weeks later. This is the cheese ball.

it's no who hash, that's for sure

I have a bellyache from all the gingerbread dough I've eaten today. I barely had room for candy! Here are some action shots from my phone. The kids all did a great job. They stayed focused and were well-behaved, and it wasn't until we were leaving that Superman just started grabbing handfuls of candy and shoving them into his chimney (not a euphemism).
They love it and I love it and it (mostly) makes up for the fact that Pinga is probably going to be vomiting all night from the sugar bomb she has in her stomach.