Oh good Lord. I can’t stop taking pictures of my children. Probably because they’re Magic. And beautiful.
That expression on Nels’ face? That’s how he usually looks. Smiling.
Today at this very lunch we were eating our soup and ceasar salad and cheesy bread when Nels began to fiddle inside of his mouth. I immediately felt nauseated as, sure enough, his hand emerged with a tooth (his second, lost). I just about put my head down on the table. Anything tooth-related makes me want to barf. Oddly this does not translate to dentophobia – I can fall asleep in the chair I’m so relaxed. But you know, tooth loss, I kind of get weirded out at the idea of a bone falling out of our face.
Phoenix, just before soccer:
It was one of those wild days today: pouring down rain, lovely rain, wet rain. The kind of rain they show in movies when trying to make dramatic effect. Then the rain stopped at we had that kind of lovely wet fall day, leaves aren’t falling yet, the pavement smells clean, the world is newly awash and there’s an adventurous electricity in the air.
It was heavenly.
It’s amazing how much older Phoenix looks with her hair up. It’s good that you take so many pictures. It helps slow down the time that’s roaring past us.
Hurrah for lovely days. And LOL about Nels’ tooth–for some reason I’d never made the leap to “bone falling out of face” for tooth loss. 🙂
It makes me so sad that I can’t see the pictures. But the idea of you barfing over a tooth? Awesome.
I mean, not awesome. But yanno. I love you for it.
Hey! I can see the pictures today! I think in the second photo, Phoenix looks amazingly like Ralph. I’ve never seen that before!
@k8 OMG.
My kids look SO much like Ralph. I would love to believe I’m anything approaching how beautiful Phoenix is but I don’t think so. By the way both kids have Ralph’s long, weasel-like body too.
Love the kid pics:) I was without the internet for a few weeks and was absolutely feening for your blog! The bunting is amazing, it makes me want to go snatch a baby to put in it ha ha ha (yes I know, baby snatching is not a idea:P)
oops…not a -good idea- don’t ya hate it when you leave entire words out of your comments ….
@sodagirl
Ralph and I have been making SO MANY baby-snatching jokes b/c of all my baby-sewing. I hear you.
& thank you for the compliments on my blog!
Ohh that bunting makes me want another one ASAP! & the leaves are falling here too… Not changing.. Just falling… Its kind of sad..
@Samantha
While I love fall weather, I always feel sad like I missed summer or squandered it, and perhaps I’ll never see another summer. OK, that sounded kind of emo. But true.
I like summer deeply. But I am fair skinned and a redhead.. So the summer doesn’t like me. SPF 100000 does not help me at all. Oh and neither does dying your hair to pretend you are not a redhead.. =]
@Samantha
I had a girlhood friend who had to use SPF 400,000 but in her case it worked! I use it myself or else I get leathery legs and cleavage to go with my nonfat-milk-white legs.