Wheelbarrows and Rakes 8/25/13

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Since Fall is right around the corner (eeeek, I can't believe Summer is almost gone :(), I bought the girls some very cheap inexpensive rakes, shovels and hoes.  And what yard preening apparatuses would not be complete without wheelbarrows.  Yep, that's me, go big or go home.

The girls loved them.

I cannot take credit for this brainstorm, Zoë has been "baking leaves" with her golf clubs for weeks.  I thought I'd better show her what the proper tool was for raking lest she take a rake to the golf course ;)

Happy Birthday...

Happy Birthday, Nana.

We miss you; please come to see us soon!

Funny Girls...

This morning I decided to give the girls cottage cheese with fruit on top of it.  When they were little, and unable to protest, I guess, they loved cottage cheese with organic pureed fruit mixed in.  Now that they have veto power, they have decided that it should never touch their plates again...

Mommy:  Here is your breakfast, love, fruit and cottage cheese.

Zoë:  {After inspection of the white, lumpy substance on her plate}:  Mommy, this cheese is Pee U.

Poppy decided in a show of solidarity that she too would not like the white clump, even though she had voiced her approval just minutes before.

(pictures taken 8/11/2013; video 8/13/13--wearing Aunt Marion's paint smocks)

Milk and Cookies - 8/11/13

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Making cookies with my girls brought back so many vivid memories of the times I did the exact same thing with my mom; although my mother was much more laid back when it came to eating raw cookie dough, and, thankfully I am here to say I survived.  I, however, am not and I am overly cautious, to wit, you will hear me telling Zoë not to touch the dough (relax, my father would probably say, oh, he of eating lumps of raw hamburger, salted, no less!).  She did get a smidge in her mouth later on and is A-ok.  To each his own, I guess, but I would prefer not to take any chances.  I will say, however, to this day, it is one of my guilty pleasure, raw dough.  Yes, I know, I am such the gourmand.  Poppi, on the other hand is much more interested in the raisins, as is evidenced at the end of the video..."more raisins," she said.

Zoe Makes Dumplings - 07-31-2013

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We read Kai Lan's ABC book and "D" is for Dumplings; we haven't read it for a while, though, so I am not sure why she was thinking of dumplings :)  Love that she thinks outside the box!