Month: August 2011

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Waterskiing

Apparently my boys were craving some lake fun today.  I was painting the shed and all of a sudden I heard Lincoln shout, “Hit it!”  Then Nolan turned the crank on something that made a clicking sound.

I turned around to find this: a striped sheet was tied to the upper part of the playset (the ski rope,) the lawnmower (the boat ignition/throttle) was laying on the playset platform, and two tennis rackets were next to each other on the grass (skis.)  Good to know they’ve picked up the ski/tube lingo.

Nolan reenacted the scene so I could capture a couple of pictures.

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Watching cars go by

Jake took the boys to see the annual Antique Car Run that finishes at a park near our house.  They brought their chairs, bucket hats, and road trip books to pass the time until the cars came.  Looks like they also picked up a few refreshments to keep themselves hydrated while they waited. 🙂

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Body Art

This afternoon I was sitting in the living room with Little Miss and talking on the phone with my friend, Sarah.  Meanwhile, the boys were sitting at the dining room table coloring “hidden pictures” pages with markers.  Sounds innocent enough, right?  I mean, I was in the adjoining room and could see their heads over the back of the love seat.  Unfortunately, it blocked my full view of them.  If only I had known they were not only coloring hidden pictures, but were using their own bodies as canvases.

Check out the detail on Nolan’s feet!

For the record, I waited to take photos of them because I couldn’t let on that what they had done was absolutely hilarious!  While they were technically using markers labeled “washable,” this particular set is hardly that.  I ended up Googling “remove marker from skin” and found a suggestion for rubbing alcohol.  That, combined with a super bubbly bath, seems to have done the trick.  Of course all of this happened while I was single-parenting tonight.  Jake missed out on all of the fun!

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Watch what you say

My mom took the boys for the day so I could get a few things done around the house – like putting my furniture back in order after our new front window was installed last Friday.  While they were there, they captured a mouse (or shrew) that had somehow gotten into the house.  Nolan saw it first.  It wasn’t until the little thing scurried out from the corner and down the steps, that my mom caught a glimpse of it too.  The rodent managed to find its way to the “fort” room under the stairs and was essentially trapped.  The boys danced around in the doorway and sang “No, mouse, no!” to keep it from getting out of the room until my mom came back with a butterfly net to catch it.  They released the frightened animal in the backyard and had quite a story to tell Papa (my dad) and Uncle Tony when they had dinner together that night.

While Nolan was re-telling their adventures from the day, he got to the part about the mouse/shrew going downstairs and how apparently “There’s just all this crap along the wall” down there.  At that point, my brother just about lost it.  Not only did Nolan use the 4-letter word correctly in context, but he said it so nonchalantly that my mom had to ask my brother if he said what she thought he had said.

Unfortunately, I’m to blame for letting that one slip around the kids.  A few too many toys pushed me to the brink a while back and I uttered a phrase similar to the one Nolan used.  Guess he filed it away for a time such as tonight.  At least he was with family 🙂

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Future employees

After dropping off some of our windows at Settergren Hardware (to be re-glazed,) Nolan asked me: “Mommy, when I get older, can I work for Uncle Mark at the hardware store?” Lincoln chimed in, “I want to work for Uncle Mark, too!”