Random mobile shots

This is not a bad way to shop.

Not a bad way to shop

~~I am going to try a new thing and add a few things that Lil has done lately to my random mobile posts. Like this week she has started telling me that I’m not her friend anymore if I tell her something she doesn’t like. Darn Clifford the Big Red Dog, she got this friend thing from an episode with T-bone and Cleo having a fight over a bone.

I grew some strawberries. YAY!

My homegrown strawberries

Lily eating the first strawberry from my garden

But most of my broccoli has gone to seed. 🙁

My poor broccoli went to seed

~~Lily will randomly come up to me and tell me in a voice just above a whisper ‘I love you so much Mama’ and then proceed to hug and kiss me till I’m almost blue in the face. It’s what having a kids all about, I’m pretty darn sure.

We went to the zoo (again!).

Zoo Boise 5/20/12

Lil was fine with getting her face painted, until it was actually painted. Then she kept telling us to take it off.

Zoo Boise 5/20/12

I was finally able to wash it off at lunch and she looked at herself in the restaurant mirror and said “I’m beautiful again”.

We were waiting for our breakfast and Lil snuggles into Waldo and said “Mama you say ‘how cute’ and then take our picture”. Of course I complied.

Sweet

A view from Lily’s world

We went to World Market last weekend to look for spice jars and Lil wanted to take some pictures. I handed her my phone and reminded her to be careful. This is a small sampling of what I found on my phone after I got it back.

View from Lily's world

View from Lily's world

View from Lily's world

View from Lily's world

At one point I realized it looks like she was just taking a bunch of pictures of the floor and asked her what she was doing. She replied ‘I want to take pictures of our feet’, ‘well then I guess proceed’.

View from Lily's world

View from Lily's world

View from Lily's world

This last one I took at home that night. We bought these cookies because I LOVE wafer cookies and had made it my mission to taste all of them that the world had to offer. After these cookies I think I need to rethink my life goals. They were terrible, actually terrible isn’t strong enough, hideous, revolting, sickening. I think you get the picture. I think we each ate one and than decided that they made better blog/forum fodder then food and tossed them after the picture was taken.

Gross cookies

Random Mobile shots

This is Lily’s dog Gracie. I was in the other room and Lil ran in and said ‘come see what I forced on Gracie’. This is what I found.

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Lil needed some sandles for summer. We found these at Target. She loves them so much.

New summer sandles

I’m trying really hard-ish to learn to sew. So far I’ve made a bunch of cloth baby wipes. The other day I ventured way out and made some cloth cleaning wipes, like paper towel replacements.

Homemade kitchen wipes

Last week I painted Lily’s fingers and toes for the first time. I’m pretty sure this is the coolest thing to ever happen to her.

First finger/toe paint

First finger/toe paint

Random Mobile Shots

I haven’t done one of these posts in a long time. I miss them. Here are some random shots I took with my cell. These shots are just too cute/unique not to share, but don’t really deserve a whole post just about them.

My little belly dance princess

Lil decided to combine her belly dance outfit with her halloween tutu. I loved the look.

My little belly dance princess

Rocket ship pillows my Mother in Law made

My Mother-In-Law made these little rocket ship pillows for two of my nephews.

Roasted Bananas for muffins

Roasted banana for muffins.

Making banana bread muffins

Lily helped me make the roasted banana muffins.

Making banana bread muffins

Blowing a 'poofer'

Lily loves ‘poofers’. We spend most of our walks looking for them and then blowing them. I’m sure the neighbors don’t love that she does it, but I don’t care. It’s her thing.

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I’m joining Amy from A Good Life‘s phone picture link up.

I’m gardening!

For years and years now I have wanted to grow some kind of garden in the summer. I wasn’t picky, a few pots on my porch would have made me happy, but I just never got around to it. Something would always come up, or so I would tell myself, but really I was scared. I was scared I would kill all of the little plants and waste all of that time and money. Scared I didn’t know what I was doing and would do something wrong. I don’t know, scared of letting myself fail. All of these have a ring of truth to them.

My very good friend Paula (whom I miss very much) put this garden into motion last fall. She sent me a bunch of garlic to plant. Apparently if you plant your garlic in the fall and let it over-winter it tastes much better. I know, I had no idea things like this happened. I very dutifully planted the garlic in pots and covered them with leaves to protect them from the frosts and freezes of winter. I pretty much ignored them after that until a few months ago when my Father In Law David came inside and mentioned that I had sprouts. Lily and I ran outside and low and behold there were beautiful green sprouts peaking above the leaves. These little spouts set my mind on a garden for sure.

Just like every year Waldo and I talked about putting in a garden and because of the garlic I started making a list of what I wanted to grow. David laid drip-lines in the garden area to make life easier; most of the garden will be automagically watered for me. One day while Waldo worked Lily and I went to the store and bought some little started plants. While we were at Home Depot Lily wanted to grow a little flower so I let her pick one and she was so proud of that little plant. After getting our lovely little plants we went home and went to work.

David helped me dig the holes (thankfully, I probably would have given up otherwise, the ground was much harder than I expected) and Lily and I planted all of our little plants. After they were planted we all stood back and admired our hard work. Just the act of planting the little food plants was very satisfying. I can’t wait to harvest and eat something I grew.

Garden

Strawberries, spinach, broccoli, red and green peppers.

Little Garden Helper

My little garden helper watering the new little plants.

Drip Line In The Garden

I have added some plants since this picture was taken. We also have some leeks, russet potatoes, white potatoes and tomatoes which were suppose to be peppers, but were mislabeled.

Lil's Flower

Lily’s little flower.

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