More rain...

Today didn't go quite as originally planned...but K seemed to like every minute of the new plan. It was a rainy mess for a good part of the day. Sounds like a good day for Chuck E Cheese, right? He thought so!

 

 

 

I wish I could caption this one because I know he was saying something. His expression just makes me laugh.

 

The next picture is the game he visited most. Modern day 'whack-a-mole' maybe.



 (sorry for the blur, but he was really whacking them!)















While he was posing with the mechanical CEC....





The real one came out for a shot too.

Veggies

As you'll start to realize the more you read these posts, we talk about a lot of things more than one time. Sometimes it's repetitive by the day/week/etc.

 

There is a house on the corner right before we get to K's school each day who has new-ish occupants.  If I had to guess are in their late 70s. They have installed a shed/barn and planted a pretty good size garden in the back. I'm going to get a pic of that at some point. K first noticed the garden when the tiller was out a while back. We talked about them getting their garden ready. A while later we could tell things were starting to grow, and just about every day for the last few weeks, as soon as we turn into his school's parking lot, K comments on how much the garden is growing.

 

Yesterday morning, the couple was outside looking at their garden. As usual, on our way in K said it was looking good and he wanted to tell them that. So, I said sure. We walked over and made their day I think. Ms June and Mr Jim, as we have come to know, were so impressed that K noticed their garden. Ms June asked if he liked squash and cucumbers. K's response was, 'I LOVE those!" Ms June told him that she would leave him some hanging on the fence for him today.

 

This morning when we got to school he wanted to go see if she had left anything. I felt sort of bad because there was nothing there and I thought maybe she forgot. Turns out she was bent over in the garden picking some things for him and we just didn't see her! She came over waving a squash and cucumber. Then she offered to hold onto it until this afternoon when I came back to pick him up. This afternoon, before I even got K's classroom door open he said 'Let's go see if she...what's her name again?....Oh yeah, let's go see if Ms June left my bag". So we did, and there was a bag hanging on the fence.  He was so excited. They were outside so we talked for a minute.  K thought he would get a squash and a cucumber. He was excited to have two bags and said "wow, that's a LOT of veggies!"

 

The project for tomorrow will be some sort of thank you note. :)

 

 

Counting his veggies.

 

Posing with my flowers. Ms June has zinnias planted on the side of her garden and I guess since I mentioned how pretty they were, she gave us some of those too. Brightens up the place a little. She said they were very easy to grow so I might try some of those sometime because they really are pretty!

Crash out

This afternoon we headed back over to the pool. He's getting better day by day! Today he spent more time in the 'deep end' since I was in there with him.  He wasn't too happy when it started thundering. Apparently he's seeing a trend. It has rained a lot in the last few days.

 

It could be that after 3 days of going strong, the kiddo would need some sleep.  We sat down to read after dinner and he got really quiet. It wasn't long before....zzzzz.

 

 

 

Terrific Tuesday!

Terrific Tuesday? And by 'terrific' I mean busy and fun!

 

Yesterday started out as a normal Tuesday. K was excited about it being 'field trip day'. Every Tues/Thurs are field trip days at school and the trip this time was to the bowling alley and a picnic. Dommie and Poppo met them for some bowling fun!

 

After bowling, Dommie met them at the park and then brought K to visit me at work. I love it when he visits because it breaks up the day and he loves to see my work peeps too. He got a special gift from Ms Kelly (stay tuned for a pic) who had just been on vacation, AND we were having a birthday celebration for another coworker so Ms Teresa gave him some goodies to snack on. He was impressed by the size the blueberries. He said "they are as big as my eyeballs!"

 

 

Then, also like every Tues/Thurs, after school we headed to karate. K has been struggling a little bit with learning last half of something he already knows the first part of, but he was able to do it all on his own and you could see the excitement in his face...and his body language! I wish I could have gotten a picture of the thing he did with his arm....he said 'YES!'. His teacher was proud, I was proud, but mostly he was super proud of himself.

 

When  we got home, K said "you know, you said we could go to the pool if it wasn't raining". That was true so he threw on his suit and we walked over to the pool. After swimming lessons last week I was ready to see him do some on his own. This video captures it pretty well I think! I'm pretty proud of his progress!

  

 

 

Almost immediately as we both hit the pillow, we were OUT so needless to say, that's why this post is a day late!

Rain, rain, GO AWAY!

This morning started out like normal. We thought it was raining when we woke up but never looked out the window. When we opened the garage door, both of us were a little shocked that it was not. The "rain" we were hearing was coming from the sprinklers. I was kind of happy about that because mostly, I am not a fan of being out in the rain. It just seemed a little cloudy.

 

Unfortunately, when I crossed the county line, the rain started pouring. Any guesses where my umbrella was? Yep, at work. I managed to climb to the back of my car (which I'm sure was entertaining in it's own right) in search of something I could use to make it in without looking like a drowned rat. Luckily, Lightning McQueen saved me...sort of. I found K's umbrella in the back so I used that but what I didn't realize was that it truly was kid size. My arms got wet and there were some jokes made throughout the day. It WAS kind of funny. It may be hard to see but  a lot of rain came down in a short time!

 

I'm thankful that Mondays are not our typically busy days anymore. Since we made the switch to the Tues/Thurs karate class, Mondays are not nearly as hectic.  I had told K earlier that we could hit the pool after school. That one kind of came back to bite me, but thankfully with no meltdown. There was thunder rumbling so we opted to hang out indoors this afternoon.

You had to know I would talk about food at some point. This was dinner (pics below). There are three things here: our normal zucchini bites (the all white ones with parm cheese), then two new things...zucchini pizza bites and zucchini pizza boats. The plan originally was just to make the boats (long, skinny ones) but we changed it up a little. K gave it 2 thumbs up and I liked it too.

Recipe:
Zucchini - either cut lengthwise for 'boats' or cut in 1/4 inch circles for 'bites'.
Olive oil
Pizza sauce
Pepperoni
Mozzarella cheese

(spread it on for the 'boats', stack it all together in that order for the bites).
Bake at 400 for 20 mins or so.

 

Yes, we use paper plates pretty often...no judging, lol. I hate dirty dishes!

 

It was a pretty low key night. At school, it was movie day with the church. K was excited to have watched Shrek. I guess that excitement, plus playing outside with friends and dodging raindrops, plus a full tummy lead to the next picture. He was out before we finished reading.  

 

I don't ever think I will get tired of sleepy kiddo pictures. There will be more of these...

Sunday Fun

 

Today we planned to head to NB to celebrate Mom's birthday a few days late. OEO and Beth were in town so we were able to spend a little bit of time with them too.

 

Before we left, K had a message for OEO. I think it's a given at this point that something along these lines will be said before every visit.

 

 

We were ready to head out but got derailed for a few minutes by a tagalong visitor....but he didn't seem to be doing such a good job camouflaging himself.

 

 

 

 

We did finally make it to our destination and K did get some rough housing time in. I should have snapped a picture.

 

We wished OEO and Beth a good trip and hoped that it wouldn't rain on them the whole way. As you can tell, the skies were less than colorful today!

 

 

 

 

 

 

And then to end the day in a similar fashion as we began, this afternoon we had a little camouflage action ourselves...

 

These weekends are really flying WAY too fast!



Guess who is ba-aaack?!

Back by unpopular demand....or something like that...

I've had conversations with some of you about this for I don't know...almost a year. I guess since I stopped writing the last time. In reality, this time, I just couldn't commit. Commit to what, you might ask? Well, for starters, the name. Silly, right? Maybe so, but I wanted something that had meaning for us but that wasn't too out there. I was also not really ready to commit to taking time out of my day to write...the responsibility of keeping up with it. It's not that I can't make time to write, it's just that I sit behind a screen all day at work and frankly, the idea of cracking open the laptop at home is just not all that exciting. However, I will say that I do see the benefit of doing this. It is for me and you. 'You' being the 3 readers I will probably have. :) Haha!

The blog name. It is pretty self explanatory. We like sand between our toes and almost every morning on the way to school we look at the sky...and generally we end up talking about it more on the days that it is so colorful. Let's not get too crazy here. I take a lot of pictures but not typically first thing in the morning; however, this is what I'm talking about....

So...there you go....two things relevant to us.  Can anyone else not believe that I can't put my hands on a picture of our sandy feet? That may not be a bad thing.

In reality, as much as I like Facebook to be able to keep up with the goings on of too many people, there is just only SO much that I care to share with them about MY life. I'm sure if you're reading this, you are one of my 'friends' (family counts in there too) in real life and possibly on FB. You'll see some randomness from our life on there, but for more than just the on-the-surface things that I post over there, I think this address will serve the role.

If you're looking for some good ole reading...my old (retired) blog can be found at the Thomas Family Diary. The last post on there was Strawberries! (For those not so technical people, click that little underlined Strawberries and it'll take you there.) It was a post about my love of strawberries and the tradition of getting K involved. He has been picking his own strawberries at our Garner Farms since he has been able to walk. This year was a little different. I was close to being devastated because the tradition would not be the same. Apparently the seeds the farm used turned out to be infected. The reports stated that they would only have about 15% of their crop this year. I'm not sure if they had any at all because the big strawberry was not up and their field grew over pretty fast. On a happier note, my parents planted a strawberry plant in their yard so I was able to snap some pictures last weekend of K picking strawberries....just in a different location. :)

Mission accomplished. Post #1 is done! More to come as I catch you up on what's been going on with us...and other ramblings....