Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Before the Sun Leaves Us (For THREE Seasons)

Let us soak it up for just a few more days with:





Reading to our friends







Stickers, hole punches and upside down silliness



Impromptu games on the kitchen floor (with Chubba Bubbas attacking and destroying)



Rare and special Daddy time







Brother and Sister time (with K pretending to be Mama by wearing Baby L for a very short time under strict supervision, of course)



Cutting ones own hair (Must be some sort of rite of passage as K did it around this age, too. I don't know if C did this to herself or if K did it. If you ask C - K did it, if you ask K - C did it. At least it was just a tiny bit of hair and not a whole new style that I needed to fix like someone else I know did - twice, ahem)



Playing soccer with Daddy -always eventful. Kevin expects them to play but they are not at that age yet so they play for a minute or two...



as she fell onto her back trying to kick the ball so hard (maybe it was a good thing she wanted to wear my bike helmet, after all?)



...and then they move on to other things like trying to throw the ball over the net



and bike riding.

Oh, I am not ready to give all this up and move on to the cold weather again. It's pretty much already here so I know I have to, but can I please just have one more day??

Oh, like that last picture? Yeah, that's my beloved camera lens finally biting the dust. Well, not officially - it is fixable, but I just don't want to have to part with it for two weeks. I'm a wimp, right? I have been putting off mailing it in for many months now but I can't any longer. It's now to the point that I can take one picture in focus (manual or auto) and then I have to mess with it for five minutes then take another picture, mess with it for five minutes... not the most ideal situation for capturing daily life with fast moving children or even still life for that matter. Time to bite the bullet.

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I love the upside down picture :-) I almost didn't recognise K in the first pictures, she looks so grown up! Hope your lens gets fixed soon x
1 reply · active 707 weeks ago
Thanks! I can't get over how grown up both of my girls have been looking, lately. SLOW DOWN GIRLIES!
Oh no, 2 wks! I totally understand your reluctance to send it off. I would feel lost without my camera.
1 reply · active 707 weeks ago
Yes, me too!! I hve a back up lens but I don't particularly like it. It will get me through these 2 weeks though... I am such a wimp!
How hilarious that she cut her own hair !!!! I am having a baby so soon (due in 3 weeks!) and I look forward to all of these silly little things that girls do :) Yours are so adorable !
1 reply · active 707 weeks ago
Hee,hee. Silliness, no?
Thank you for your sweet words :)
Such beautiful photos! And I know that dread of sending the camera (or its attachments) away and WAITING. It's difficult, but oh so wonderful to get it back in good form!
1 reply · active 707 weeks ago
Thank you! Yes the waiting is the worst part.
Funny K, hanging upside-down for the photo!
Gemma is starting to use scissors, and Dominic is very bad about putting them away, so I am just waiting with baited breath for Gemma to cut her own hair!
Love seeing C in leggings and a peasant top--that's what Gemma ends up in much of the time...
1 reply · active 707 weeks ago
That top on C used to be a dress on her :p She won't let me pack it away. My friend made it for K back when she was a baby <3
I saw my breath on the way to work on Tuesday morning and I'm pretty sure I'll see it again this day. We've stacked and covered our firewood. It's October. I'm ready! Warm hugs to you, especially in the coming days without your lens :-(. I started thinking about our next trip your way (mid-Nov) for a special boy's birthday. I'll keep you posted...hopefully we can meet up then! xoxo
1 reply · active 707 weeks ago
I have been freexing my buns off running in the pitch black darkness these past few cold mornings. *sigh*

Can't wait for the next trip!!
Move to Tucson, where it's never cold! Well, maybe in January. of course then you'll have to put up with 6 months of 110 degrees.........
Your pictures are fab. :)
1 reply · active 707 weeks ago
Thank you! Yeah I can't handle the heat, I am better with the cold - just not this cold house that doesn't get warm. Eeek!
I'm so ready for cozying in for 3 seasons...most days. But I do have some longing for just. one. more. day.

Love the upside down pic! Cute!

Speaking of bike riding, our Skuut bit the dust a few days ago...the back tire popped! Hoping to get a replacement but they're hard to find. Working with the manufacturer right now. Yikes, our K needs her bike!! :)
1 reply · active 707 weeks ago
That happened to us, too - twice. The first time the company sent us a replacement tire, the most recent time we had to take it to a bike shop and they fixed it.
What joyful moments! I was going to say that the sun will still make apperances through fall and spring, but then I remembered you lived near Portland, so I will keep quiet.
Seriously though there are so many things you can't do in summer that you can in the colder months... like not sweat!
1 reply · active 707 weeks ago
Hee,hee - yes, if we weren't in Portland I wouldn't be so sad about the sun going away... but it really just ceases to exist here for 3 whole seasons. Craziness!
I love the pic of your daughter holding the baby. He seems so content. Nice family.
1 reply · active 707 weeks ago
Thank you, Hope. He loves his big sister time!
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bendingbirches · 708 weeks ago

best wishes for your new camera part, dear friend:) I always love is visiting your blog:):)
1 reply · active 707 weeks ago
I think I've told you before, Chloe would have never cut her hair, but Chessa, of course she will, and did, twice. And, she has apparently been cutting the cats hair too! Not a lot, I guess she just wanted to clip one little bit to save. She bundled up the bit of fur with a thin strip of beeswax. And she has now been asked to please keep the scissors away from the cats!
Enjoy your sunshine! It has been snowing here all day long!!!
XOXO
1 reply · active 707 weeks ago
Oh no, not the cats, too!! I didn't think about that...

snow?!

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