Weekly Update 3.13.11

At 7:14 am I tiptoed to the kitchen. Quiet as a mouse I made a pot of coffee. I had a vision of sitting the back bedroom, sipping coffee and quickly downloading the photos from the week to throw together a blog post. Then I would move over to my sewing machine and put together my last square for my quilt and work on the embroidered robot that I am making for Henry's Easter basket. I poured my coffee, let the cat out, opened the window just a crack and turned on the computer. The house was silent. Well mostly silent except for the sound of little footsteps. I figured it was just the cat and then I remembered that the cat just went outside. Then I heard someone say, "I just feel like getting some paper and drawing. I just want to draw my dream and then go out for a bike ride and then eat some breakfast and then play some soccer and then dig in the dirt and make you a mud cookie. Mama, are you ready to go?" So much for my plans. But I'm stubborn so I gave him his paper and markers and sat him at my sewing table to draw his dream. He's been talking pretty much constantly since he walked in the door. He told me his dream and asks me to take a peak at his drawing every 30 seconds. It's driving me a little nutty, so let's speed this along.
The weather is wonderful right now. We've been working outside all weekend. Well, when we weren't watching the Jayhawks win the Big 12. ROCK CHALK. Anyway, Papa pitched the old baby swing yesterday and threw together a disk swing big enough for kids and adults.
Wade also single-handedly took apart the little play house in our back yard and rolled the base of it to the front yard to be the bottom of Henry's tree house. Then he got the outline for our garden set up. Henry has picked the one on the left for his garden. He's interested in planting root beer plants, strawberries, blueberries, garlic, carrots and red bell peppers.


But the main thing Henry is in to right now is Angry Birds. I made the mistake of getting the game for him on my phone and I haven't made a phone call for 6 days. Just kidding :) What I love about Henry and Angry Birds is that he can only play for a few minutes and then he gets the urge to "make a level" which means he wants to draw out his version of what he just played and then have me pretend to play it. We have a busy week ahead of us and are looking forward to lots of warm weather and Jayhawk basketball. Have a good one.

Weeky Update 3.6.11

I'm hiding away in our extra bedroom to bring you the weekly update. It occurs to me that you're probably thinking, "weekly update? Please, it's been almost a month since your last post" and it's true, monthly update would probably be more accurate, but bear with me, people, I'm doing the best I can. I've stolen this moment away from cleaning the bathroom, which I will regret later when Henry's friends come in from outside and have to use my messy bathroom, but oh well.

The real downfall of me not posting on this blog every week is the fact that I can barely remember what we did this week, let alone the two week prior to it. I can tell you that Grandpa and Grandma B came in to town to see Tangent Arc at their Lawrence CD release show. They had a big crowd there and I think every one had a good time. We didn't get to visit with Grandpa and Grandma as much as we would have liked to but Grandpa did get his bike all set up for, hopefully, many bike rides along the levee this spring.

Henry has been having friends over a lot lately. We are trying to keep him busy with kids his age since he isn't at school anymore. Here is his buddy Sophia. She think Henry is really funny so Henry lays it on pretty thick when she's around. He told me when she came to visit on Friday that he was "going to get all romantic with her" and then asked to call Papa for tips on how to get romantic. It was a crack up. On Friday Henry, Gigi and I went to KC to check out the Moon Marble House. They are a local business that sells handmade marbles and we got to watch the artists at work. It was pretty fun and before we left Gigi bought Henry 9 new marbles. Thanks to Gigi and Grandpa, Henry got to go to his first KU basketball game last night. He thought it was a lot of fun cheering for the Jayhawks and loved the adventure of doing something new. The Marching Cobras had us dancing in our seats at half time. We have a pretty quiet week a head of us. No big plans