Blueberry Picking

Took the kids berry picking! Atticus figured out he could hold the branch and eat them off it directly.








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Tooth number 1

Jake lost his first tooth today!


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Treasure Map

What a surprise! We found a treasure map.


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Everglades

We went on a boat tour of the Everglades today. Last year's place was way better, but a day on a boat doesn't stink!


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Florida day #1

Well, we drove all night and arrived in Florida on Saturday morning. Mom and I spent most of the day trading naps. Not the monkeys! We found a bunny, a snapping turtle, and a heron. I took them off to the grocery store while mom napped. Which is when we decided on lobster for brunch. Not a bad way to start the trip.





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Wizarding lessons

Like ya do...

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Whole Foods part two

So I went. I saw. I was afraid.

My fearless companion on this adventure was my friend Melissa. Melissa is a born and raised southern girl with the toughest game face you've ever seen. She can't weigh more than 90 lbs but she is international ass kicking champion of the world. Seriously, people at the gym, where she teaches a million classes, whisper her name as if she was Voldermort (except really everyone loves her cause she is super sweet outside class).

If you've ever seen the show super market sweep, then you have a good idea what this looked like. They let us in in groups of twenty and people went RUNNING full tilt to the items of choice. All meats and seafood were removed (grrr) prior to the sale. I went towards peanut butter first, since it lasts forever and we go thru it so fast. Apparently I wasn't the only one with that idea cause I quickly found myself in soccer mom hell. It takes a special kinda nuts to fight over organic peanut butter. As luck would have it, I'm not that kinda nuts. I got a ton of it in my cart before the row got crowded; as soon as soccer mom boxing started, I took off. Which lead to the interesting shopping experience of shopping for things you could get to. The herd was a force to be seen; there was no crossing the aisle to get something over there. So I ended up with an interesting collection of foods that were on the right sides of the aisle. I literally shopped for six minutes, was the very first person in the check out line, and was out the door in a total of ten minutes with the following:
35 jars of organic peanut butter
4 jars of organic almond butter
4 jars of organic cashew butter
2 boxes cheddar bunnies
6 loaves wheat bread
6 bags of hamburger buns
4 jars salsa
16 quarts of chicken stock
4 boxes of mini black and whites
12 frozen organic burritos
Cost $101.54

Given how quick it was, it was fun. If I had spent longer, it would have been nightmarish.



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Whole Food Blood Sport

So our local Whole Foods is closing to make space for the Whole Foods SUPER store. Yahoo!
Today is their fire sale, where they sell off everything they're not moving to the new location. So... Southern health and fitness freak women at a shopping event ? Sounds like blood sport to me. I'll report in after the "happening."


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Knitting

Is it any wonder I finish so few projects?

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Playing at Home

Hop hop

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Peanut Butter

Gross but cute...

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Field Day

Field day was yesterday at Jake's school. For those of you playing along at home, field day is one of those things schools do at the end of the year to kill time while they wait to meet the 180 day attendance requirement. Basically they plan a lot of activities and let the kids play all morning. What's the problem with that, you ask? Well it's June. Which makes it hot as son and an ill planned time for running around chaos.
To Venable Elementary's credit, they didn't even pretend this was anything but a dead day. Jake's teacher asked if I could come help for the morning since they'd need extra help; turns out she called in sick for the day...
After three hours of running around the class had lunch and then quiet time. That was literally the entire day/ field day, lunch, rest hour, recess, home. Jake came home laughing that he didn't have to read anything all day.
However he did an amazing job on the rock wall..



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