Overheard: Trip to the pediatrician

I'm taking a trip down memory lane because I have nothing better to share. I found the following post languishing in my Drafts folder on my blog...it is something I wrote but didn't finish in March 2010.

Pediatrician: Are your ears bothering you?

Grace: No.

Pediatrician [perplexed with Grace's response, since this was the stated reason for our visit]: But don't they hurt?

Grace: Yes, but only a little.

The pediatrician thought it was because she used such a big word...I explained that Grace tends to be rather stoic when it comes to ear pain. I have to ask her if her ears are hurting (usually after a rather sleepless night), and only then will she let on that they've been hurting for a few days. So, in her mind, while they hurt, they weren't "bothering her." "Bothering" and "allagating" (aggravating) are words usually reserved to describe what her brothers are doing to her. ;) And, yes, she had a double ear infection.

What a great big brother! Josiah (age 7) reading Fancy Nancy books to Grace (nearly age 4) while waiting at the pediatrician's office.
March 2010

You Capture: Play

When I saw that this week's theme was play, I figured I could just follow Grace around for a few minutes and have my post. Grace, like most 4 year olds, knows a lot about playing. And she can play all day long with her "babies" in a hundred scenarios...or just one scenario, run into the ground. Whatever.


I was right.

Here is Grace driving all her children in what must be her 15 passenger van and keeping both hands on her pretty purple steering wheel. Note that she is sitting in (and buckled into) the doll-size toy Graco car seat as her driver's seat. Plus, she's wearing a ballerina leotard/tutu, of course. The footrest of our recliner is up because she had "buckled" me in, too, and told me that she was my Mommy and we were going for a drive. I climbed out to get some shots, and she wasn't terribly happy about that.


Oops...distracted driver!

As she talked to (and occasionally reprimanded) her babies, she told them that she stopped at Dairy Queen and got "pink and blue cookies." Now she is preparing to share the pink and blue cookies with everyone.


They look suspiciously like the pink and blue cookies Jason and I have been force fed served every evening this week.

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Summer skies

We've had some particularly gorgeous skies lately. It doesn't counteract the humidity, but at least you have something pretty to look at as you "glisten," right?

This is the only shot that isn't SOOC (straight out of camera)--I photoshopped away a parking lot light.



The last three shots were on the same evening.




As summer vacation is drawing to a close, thoughts turn to the start of the school year. We'll be starting back mid-August...maybe. I'm not really ready, and neither are the kids. When does school start back in your area? Are the kids ready to get back to school?

Wordless Wednesday: Summer storm

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You Capture: Black & White

This week's theme for You Capture is black and white. I have to admit that just a few minutes ago I checked to see what the current theme was because I had...ummm...forgotten. However, even though I (obviously) haven't been taking pictures with the theme in mind, I immediately knew the perfect shot for this week.


This was taken as we were leaving Bugaboo Creek Steakhouse...but in black and white, it really looks like we're not right next to a mall, doesn't it? ...Especially with Josiah looking all tourist-like with his binoculars around his neck. ;)

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Wordless Wednesday

Oh, I am so happy! I am posting a Wordless Wednesday photo that I took today with my camera that is finally working again after being soaked...even if I have to go through a whole elaborate process to get it to work much of the time that goes something like this:

1. Turn on camera.
2. Wait. Nothing happens. Turn off camera.
3. Take out memory card.
4. Turn on camera again.
5. Wait.
6. It comes on!  Yay!  Reset date and time.
7. Wait.
8. Insert memory card.
9. Wait until the display shows how many photos remain that can be taken with the memory card.
10. Take as many shots as you can before the camera turns itself off.

So, clearly, it still has issues...but at least I am no longer having to use my 8 year old son's digital camera that doesn't even have a flash and takes crummy photos. (Don't feel too sorry for Josiah--he is 8 years old, after all, and so far he has not managed to wash his digital camera in some article of clothing YET but that is still a distinct possibility. Which is why he got the cheapo camera for Christmas last year.)

But back to Wordless Wednesday...Here's a little critter who recently showed up on our front porch and made himself at home in our container gardening project. He choose the peas over the cucumbers.


Grace said, "I don't know why he's in the peas!" as she shook her head in wonder. Because it's hot--that's why.

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Overheard: Josiah

While we're in the minivan (read: Josiah thinks he has Mom's undivided attention), Josiah will talk, and talk, and talk about whatever comes to mind...usually in rapid succession, so you'd better keep up. And he's good for coming up with a lot of blog-worthy comments...which is bad, since, well, I'm driving. This is what I managed to copy down while sitting at a traffic light one day this week.

Josiah: Spiders would be man's best friend if it weren't for the poison. You know, eating all the bugs in the house, stuff like that.

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When I said that he didn't always have to talk to me the entire time we're in the van but could perhaps talk to Grace who was sitting right beside him, Josiah had his own thoughts on the subject.

Josiah: But, Mom, you're the one with all the answers. You read the Bible, you've probably read most encyclopedias, you can speak Spanish a little bit...so, yeah, you're the person with all the information.

I was speechless with laughter.