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Memorial Weekend Hootenannny
05.28.11 | Permalink | | Comments Off on Memorial Weekend HootenannnyLast night we came home and lazed about playing board games and eating pizza as we discussed our plans for this Memorial Day Weekend..  As the discussion continued over a game of Don’t Break the Ice, or rather mommy puts the pieces back into the holder so Jude can hammer them out, music was being picked out (we landed on If I Had a 1,000,000,000 by the Barenaked Ladies) , and a dance party organically sprouted from this family. The dance party turned into a ‘Mommy chase the babies around the kitchen island,” but the best part was the laughing, singing and my Gigi saying that this was the best night, and a night she would always remember. It was a moment, and a very good one.
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The Jolly Holiday
05.15.11 | Permalink | | Comments Off on The Jolly HolidayWe were lucky enough to get to go see the Broadway production of Mary Poppins on Friday. We headed downtown to The Paramount to catch the bedazzling presentation with my parents, niece, nephew and, of course, the whole LJ crew.
They included a lot of the music from the movie, but it was very different from the movie. Some additions could have been left out (as it was 2.5 hours long already) but their take freshened up the story. But really? Two and a half hours. With four kids. And a 60 something year old man. It was a long play!
The special effects were fun, but most of all, the actress who portrayed Mary, truly embodied Julie Andrew’s version of Mary Poppins. If you have read the books then you know that Mary? Not such a lovely nanny, rather she is kind of mean and bossy, but of course in that way where the kids and parents love her.
While we were there we had the added bonus of running into Nancy and Shyla, my sister in law and other niece. It was a lovely night out that left us all with a skip in our steps and a song on our lips. “Supercalifragilisticexpedalidocious…”
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Boy
05.12.11 | Permalink | | Comments Off on Boy
Have I told you that my son is a goofball? That he will do anything for a laugh? Even if he is the only one laughing?  True story. He wants to make you laugh!
Lately, tooting noises? Hilarious! Burps? Nothing could be funnier! Words like pee pee and poo poo? Possibly the funniest concepts and words ever to be invented! And they are really good just to be spewed out over and over to the conservative, elderly neighbors (true story, happened last week, he laughed but no one else did).
And you know what? Sometimes we have to laugh too because there’s nearly nothing that is quite as funny as watching our boy chortle, giggle and gasp over those very funny, very silly noises that come out of our bodies! True story: We laughed along with these faces and the story he was telling, even if we couldn’t quite understand what he was saying!
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The Best of Friends
05.11.11 | Permalink | | Comments Off on The Best of Friends
First there was Calydalyrymple, AKA Calvin, our great hunter of rodents and crane flies at the Bellingham house. He charmed us as we were on our way through Petsmart intent on restocking our goldfish pond. He reached his little white paw out of the kennel and sleepily batted our hands. We were in need of a cat (as we had seen a rat) and Mr. Blue Eyes seemed like the appropriate choice for taking care of that problem.
Then there was Martha, our first baby. She slept with us, kept us awake all night with her crying and kept us from thinking too much about those babies we weren’t getting pregnant with. She must have been the lucky charm though, because we conceived and brought Guinevere home just a year after our Martha came into our life. Martha was there for everything: baby’s homecoming, baby’s Halloween, baby’s laugh and every other baby thing. She was, after all, Guinevere’s big sister.
Upon meeting, one year old Calvin puffed up and hissed at his new sister. A DOG??!! They were almost exactly the same size, he more svelte than she, but she much more feisty. She quickly outgrew him, but in the meantime a love blossomed between the dog and the cat. There the two would be upon our arrival home from wherever we had been, coiled together and mixed up in one sleepy bundle of tails, paws and furry ears.
And still, nearly a decade later, The Claw and The Paw are drawn together like magnets attracting. In a patch of sun, there they’ll be side by side, grooming, nuzzling and enjoying the companionship of the best of friends.
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It was Mother’s Day
05.10.11 | Permalink | | Comments Off on It was Mother’s DayAnd it was the very best Mother’s Day I’ve ever had. Why? I got to stay home. I got to sleep in past 6:30 then awoke to lovely handmade 1st grader gifts and thoughtful Daddy gifts (a spoon holder/picture magnet and outdoor speakers respectively). Breakfast was simple, but together, then gardening for me. A few guests, hot tub, kiddo kisses and good sleep. Perfect!
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