TWENTY-EIGHT

"Here Mama, I made a Lego that looks JUST like you." I wonder what she thinks my life is? White pants, gloves and a vest over my bare yellow (well defined) torso? Also... blonde? 

2019 week twenty-eight

Playing "Lice Check" in the bathroom...

I went to a new thrift store looking for a dress for an upcoming wedding and immediately found this gem in my size. It needed some work so I spent this week hemming and altering and came up with this:

I'm so pleased by the result. I borrowed a dress form from a friend. I need to get my own for sure. It is going to change my alteration game. Although it did repeatedly scare all of us while it was set up in the dress. 

On Wednesday night we went to the library to hear an enchanting story teller. All the kids posed with him at the end. 

The close up makes me smile. It looks like Mr Oba is staring into Theodore's soul and asking why he was throwing his shoes at the audience and causing a general ruckus. Theo looks like he's staring into the face of Aslan. 

My mom sent us this lovely painting of my children. The kids love to stare at their painted selves.

Veronica made her own lego creation and wrote her own instruction manual in order to rebuild it. 

This character must be based on my son... always ready to rush in to danger...

Quotes:

Theodore

Giving himself a pep talk while completing a complicated puzzle "I have to keep try try try. Because I'm a COLE. And this puzzle is hard. And Life is Hard. And hard things are fun. So I try try try again."

To Veronica wearing her new shoes "Someone will probably tell you that you're cute."

Veronica

Veronica picked many many wormy peaches off our tree and the last of our grapes and ripped all the peaches in half and put them on a platter. I then had to spend 10 minutes talking her down from her desire to have a "Peach and Grape" stand in our front yard. She couldn't understand why no one would want ripped up wormy peaches from our yard. She then asked if she could make a pie from them. It was a day of disapointments for her.