Who knew a potato could be so entertaining?

Just a few recent pictures to share:

Recently purchased Mrs. Potato Head.

MK also makes this face when he is drawing/painting.

Norah wanted to be Betty Crocker like Mama.

The other day I even pulled out our step stool and she helped me wash our dishes!

Wiley + Kole = one MEGA sassy toddler.

Bedtime snuggles. Best.Part.Of.My.Day.

True love.

In a Sweater Poorly Knit

in a sweater poorly knit and an unsuspecting smile,
little Moses drifts downstream in the Nile.
a fumbling reply, an awkward rigid laugh,
i'm carried helpless by my floating basket raft.

your flavor in my mind swings back and forth between
sweeter than any wine and bitter as mustard greens,
and it's light and dark as honeydew and pumpernickel bread,
the trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead!

go plow some other field try and forget my name.
see what the harvest yields and, supposing i'd do the same,
i planted rows of peas and by the first week of July
they should have come up to my knees but they were maybe ankle high.

take the fingers from your flute to weave your colored yarns
and boil down your fruit to preserves in mason jars.
now the books are overdue and the goats are underfed.
the trap i set for you seems to have caught my leg instead!

you're a door without a key, a field without a fence.
you made a holy fool of me and I've thanked you ever since.
if she comes circling back we'll end where we'd begun
like two pennies on the train track the train crushed into one.

but if i'm a crown without a king, if i'm a broken open seed,
if i come without a thing, then i come with all i need.
no boat out in the blue, no place to rest your head
the trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead!


i do not exist. only you exist. 

Need some more laughs?

Please watch the previous video first.  Then watch the following:

Giggles at Lunch

Best April Fool's Day EVER!

APRIL FOOL'S?!

But as Garth & Wayne would say, "NOOOOOOT!"

(Side note: I'm old enough to quote Wayne's World and a typical college student won't know what I'm talking about. Siiiiigh.)

Our April Fool's Day present was a snow day! I had planned to go outside and take some nice pictures, but a sick hubby, demanding babe, and cleaning around the apartment kept me busy on the "day off".

I did manage to get in some Norah pictures yesterday and today.

First up:

Notice anything different about this photo?

(I'll give you a hint - that's not the normal shape of a baby's bum.)

Perfect activity for being couped up inside all day.

BEAUTIFUL!

Today included a morning dress-up session.

My attempt to distract while it warmed up outside.

Bubbles = one EXTREMELY happy kiddo.

As you can see all the snow is gone. Just like that!

Thank goodness for sunshine and warm(er) temperatures.

And lastly, this is how we ended our day. BTW, beach toys are the PERFECT bath toys and only cost me $2 total! And yes, in the second photo, Norah is using the green shovel as a microphone. NBD.

Love.

SLK