"But who cares! I'm just happy to be here!"
"Uh, what's this?"
"What the heck was that?!"
"You call that food?!"
"Get it out!"
"Seriously. You're going to try that again?"
8 1/2 months - and is still solidly a milk baby.
Eat what?!
"Hey, I'm not Olivia."
"But who cares! I'm just happy to be here!"
"Uh, what's this?"
"What the heck was that?!"
"You call that food?!"
"Get it out!"
"Seriously. You're going to try that again?"
"But who cares! I'm just happy to be here!""Uh, what's this?""What the heck was that?!""You call that food?!""Get it out!""Seriously. You're going to try that again?"
Signs of the season
Easter is my new New Years. I find my heart and mind much more in tune with new beginnings and fresh starts and new routines around Easter. I am still cold and slothful and tired in the middle of winter it seems. But in the spring, life emerging all around, I am ready. The message of Easter in the front yard plum tree - resurrection. The strong scent of the orange blossoms filling the house through the open windows - so thankful God appeals to the senses with his message of life.
We are having an Easter egg hunt in the park this Saturday for our neighborhood. We thought stuffing 950+ eggs would take some time...not with these work horses! I think it took them about an hour!
What happens when you can't resist...and don't care.
Palm Sunday morning. We've been on a bird theme this year for Kindergarten. A week or so ago we made some little nests and I decided to use them for our passion week eggs. Each morning the kids find an egg in their nest with a trinket representing an event from the passion week - and we read the corresponding Bible passage. Note the Sunday school craft (crown) from several weeks ago getting additional mileage. And if you want to feel sorry for our kids...they LOVE cereal, but would eat a whole box in one sitting and be hungry again in an hour. But we've recently instituted a little Sabbath ritual of Sunday cereal - a way to celebrate, associate the Sabbath with good things...that are only signs of better things. We've had friends who have done this...only they let their kids have the good sugary junk. Look at what our kids get excited about. He, he. I am dead meat when they learn what is really out there!
Baby-hawk. (Hanging out after Palm Sunday church at our house.)
I remember when Joseph was Greta's age and didn't have a neck - now look at him all...all...longneckish.
"Here, take a picture of my driver" he says.
More as we continue to enjoy the season...
What happens when you can't resist...and don't care.
Palm Sunday morning. We've been on a bird theme this year for Kindergarten. A week or so ago we made some little nests and I decided to use them for our passion week eggs. Each morning the kids find an egg in their nest with a trinket representing an event from the passion week - and we read the corresponding Bible passage. Note the Sunday school craft (crown) from several weeks ago getting additional mileage. And if you want to feel sorry for our kids...they LOVE cereal, but would eat a whole box in one sitting and be hungry again in an hour. But we've recently instituted a little Sabbath ritual of Sunday cereal - a way to celebrate, associate the Sabbath with good things...that are only signs of better things. We've had friends who have done this...only they let their kids have the good sugary junk. Look at what our kids get excited about. He, he. I am dead meat when they learn what is really out there!
Baby-hawk. (Hanging out after Palm Sunday church at our house.)
I remember when Joseph was Greta's age and didn't have a neck - now look at him all...all...longneckish.
"Here, take a picture of my driver" he says.
More as we continue to enjoy the season...
"Camping"
I put it in quotations because that weekend really does not deserve to be dignified with that title. It was our first desert trip and it was beautiful! Here are the kids doing a little bouldering after a very long Friday night. The wind was extraordinarily strong ALL night. Mike hurled ALL night. And Greta cut a tooth and cried ALL night. Consequently, I did not sleep ALL night. It was lovely. I can't believe the people we went with are still speaking to us.
The most beautiful and mocking part of the night. An enormous full moon! Rose over one mountain, crossed over our heads all night and set on the other side. Only problem was I kept thinking "oh, daylight is coming..." nope, it's only 2:50 A.M.
Look at baby G all bundled! She was warm. She wun't happy, but she was warm.
The most beautiful and mocking part of the night. An enormous full moon! Rose over one mountain, crossed over our heads all night and set on the other side. Only problem was I kept thinking "oh, daylight is coming..." nope, it's only 2:50 A.M.
Look at baby G all bundled! She was warm. She wun't happy, but she was warm.
The Great Backyard Bird Count
Several weeks ago we participated in the Great Backyard Bird Count. I can't remember who sponsored it...I can't remember what I had for breakfast...Google it if you want to know. But it was a lot of fun. The gist is that you take 5 minutes or 15 or 50 to sit and observe birds over the course of 3 or 4 days. You record species, habitat, weather, location, etc. We took our "binocliars" every where for those few days and for the first time really began to learn the names and sounds of the birds in our new state. 
Birding in the front yard with Lou.
Point Loma, Cabrillo National Park/tide pools.
Taking pictures. (That phone has been broken for about 5 years.)
We saw about 70 brown pelicans fly over Point Loma. I never did get a good picture of one, but of all the pictures I looked up of pelicans, I never found one that had the red on the tip of the head, "cheek," and tip of the bill like these did. They were really beautiful.
Comorant
Northern Mockingbird - we have these through our backyard a lot. They are quite chatty in the mornings.
I forget what this was.
She's almost showing another kind of bird. Can't remember why she never made it out of her pjs???
We also took a picnic to the hang gliding port at Torrey Pines. Oddly enough we never saw a single water bird.
Just a little sparrow...
and a coupla bird nerds...they come by it honestly.
The Great Horned Owl award. Oh, you have to see this incredible picture of a barn owl that a friend in the neighborhood took. She looked out her window one cold, dark, rainy afternoon and there was the most beautiful barn owl staring at her through the window! It had a letter in it's mouth that said "Harry Potter." No, just kidding - about the letter. I'll try to get the picture from Mike.
So, last week we made nesting bags. We filled one bag with natural materials - sticks, twigs, hair, etc. and another with yarn, fabric scraps, string, twine, etc. and we hung them in the tree in our front yard. The idea is to see what kinds of materials the birds like to use to build their nests. We'll see what happens.
We're all looking forward to "The Count" next year. There are some incredible pictures that other folks took from all over the country. We did not get pictures of my two favorite birds - a pair of Western Scrub Jays that live near our backyard and a red tailed hawk that resides somewhere on our block.
Birding in the front yard with Lou.
Point Loma, Cabrillo National Park/tide pools.
Taking pictures. (That phone has been broken for about 5 years.)
We saw about 70 brown pelicans fly over Point Loma. I never did get a good picture of one, but of all the pictures I looked up of pelicans, I never found one that had the red on the tip of the head, "cheek," and tip of the bill like these did. They were really beautiful.
Comorant
Northern Mockingbird - we have these through our backyard a lot. They are quite chatty in the mornings.
I forget what this was.
She's almost showing another kind of bird. Can't remember why she never made it out of her pjs???
We also took a picnic to the hang gliding port at Torrey Pines. Oddly enough we never saw a single water bird.
Just a little sparrow...
and a coupla bird nerds...they come by it honestly.
The Great Horned Owl award. Oh, you have to see this incredible picture of a barn owl that a friend in the neighborhood took. She looked out her window one cold, dark, rainy afternoon and there was the most beautiful barn owl staring at her through the window! It had a letter in it's mouth that said "Harry Potter." No, just kidding - about the letter. I'll try to get the picture from Mike.
So, last week we made nesting bags. We filled one bag with natural materials - sticks, twigs, hair, etc. and another with yarn, fabric scraps, string, twine, etc. and we hung them in the tree in our front yard. The idea is to see what kinds of materials the birds like to use to build their nests. We'll see what happens.
We're all looking forward to "The Count" next year. There are some incredible pictures that other folks took from all over the country. We did not get pictures of my two favorite birds - a pair of Western Scrub Jays that live near our backyard and a red tailed hawk that resides somewhere on our block.
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