The shop is not the most interesting place for the boys to hang out, but every so often they come up with an inventive way to pass the time:
(Their “ball” is a plastic wrapped ball of yarn, just the right size…)
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Joe’s Creature
I showed the Pink Paisley Elephant to the boys last night, and as you can suspect, they were polite, but ultimately unimpressed.
Joe didn’t SAY anything, but my MommyGuilt kicked in and I could HEAR the accusation that was on the tip of his tongue after he asked how long it took me to make the elephant.
It goes something like this:
You can make a Pink Paisley Elephant from scratch in 3 hours, but you can’t finish the softie creature you started making me YEARS ago?
I’m embarrassed to admit that finishing Joe’s Creature took approximately 20 minutes. If that. All it needed was to have the stuffing hole handstitched closed, and the eyes and mouth sewn on.
Joe originally wanted yellow buttons for eyes, but I talked him into the red felt circles.
Joe drew the creature for me. I simplified it and turned it into this crazy thing. The head is dotted minkee, the body is green fleece and the appendages are a red flannel.
I’m not sure if it has a name, if it does, I’ll let you know.
And now, I’m feeling my AuntieGuilt kicking in: I need to finish covering the lampshade that matches Lucy’s quilt. We were going to do it together, but the weather wasn’t right (I wanted to spray the adhesive outside…) and it’s been sitting ever since. A year maybe? Sheesh. Another project I’ll probably be done with in 30 minutes, tops.
TTFN-
Suzanne
Moving on
As previously mentioned, today was the last day of school. As you might expect, the boys are thrilled to e out of school for the summer, and are already looking forward to next year:
Our school starts band instrument instruction in the 5th grade, guess what Will is playing next year? One of Mark’s coworkers had this (and a clarinet for Joe) hanging around that he was willing to part with for cheap. Both need a trip to the instrument-doctor, the sax needs more work (repadded, a dent, something else…), but their soon-to-be band teacher looked at the instruments and thought they looked like decent instruments that would work well for them to get started on. The best part is they won’t break the bank.
I’m moving along quite nicely on a sock:
What? You didn’t know I was making this sock? Yeah, well, I haven’t been posting much lately, have I? I actually started this way back before I went to New Hampshire, but then I got stuck on the heel. It’s a toe-up sock (which I love, I actually ripped out the blue socks I was making and will start over on those, toe-up….but after the red pair is done…maybe…I’m so fickle…). Turns out that I was making the heel much harder than it needed to be. The fact that I tried to do it late at night in a hotel room when I was overly tired might have something to do with the problems I was having…
Speaking of making sock heels, I finally put on my big girl panties and tried working on a heel on the circular sock machine. I ran out of time (I had to get home), but I’m part way through, and while I have a long way to go before I actually make a sock on that crazy machine, I’m “getting it” and I may even have something to show soon. Or not.
I’ve only got about an inch of the cuff left of that sock, I’m debating about staying up and finishing it…
TTFN-
Suzanne
Look! Green grass!
Oh, and a cute kid plus a dog, too.
Last weekend, Mark got to babysit Wrigley, his sister’s dog. Does that make him our nephew?
Wrigley got to come over to our yard for several hours and the boys had a blast playing with him. They were really thrilled that he let them lay down on top of them, and I think that I heard that it was even funnier when he was laying on top of them. (Katie pretty much ignores the boys and wants nothing to do with them. Unless one of them is are sitting on the couch, and then she’ll decide that he is her new best friend and jump up to sit on the couch with them…)
Will took this picture. I have a whole bunch of pictures that the 2 boys took of Wrigley. Unfortunately, many of them are of Wrigley’s backside, as we was walking away from the camera.
And we won’t even talk about the series of photos in which the poor dog’s privacy was invaded while he was, um, answering the call of nature…
Mark’s been keeping his eye on the swap sheet, looking for just the right dog that needs a good new home. I’ve given the 3 boys my blessing, but I’m trying to stay out of it. I’ve told them to go ahead, but they shouldn’t
expect me to fall in love with a new dog.
Yeah, I don’t believe me, either.
Post April Fools
The boys were watching Tom & Jerry cartoons for awhile before going to bed.
While I was trying to take their picture, Katie was whining at me, wanting to jump up into my lap. By chance I caught her tongue:
Did you have a nice April Fools Day? I tried to be pretty careful baout what I read online yesterday, I got caught by one blog post on a digiscrapping blog I read.
After school:
Joe: I got 3 marks today.
Me: YOU GOT THREE MARKS IN ONE DAY?!?!?!?!?!
Joe: April Fools!
(They get marks for forgetting things, not turning in homework, etc. One is bad, 2 is dire and 3 in one week means a trip to the principal, lunch with the principal, and they don’t participate in the quarterly “responsibility” party….)
He got his Dad too. I couldn’t watch (my face would have given it away) but I could FEEL the anger emanating from Mark as he got wound up…it was pretty funny.
My evil sister-in-law got me too. She works at the bank and called me yesterday afternoon.
Evil SIL: Hey, I’m working on overdraft notices and I’ve got one for one of your accounts.
Me: WHAT??!?!?!?!?!?
Evil SIL: Or maybe it’s just April Fools.
I swear, my blood pressure went up about 20 points.
Mark is already contemplating ways in which to get her back. She should be very afraid.
I finished appliqueing the words on the Life, Liberty & Happiness quilt, I’d show it to you, but it looks just the same as the last picture, just sewn down. I feel a bit of a let down when I finish a quilt top lately, I don’t know for sure when I’ll get to quilt it (I’m a little bit behind right now) and I really just want to throw it on and get it quilted!
