my menagery...

Snow made me the cutest little lion to add to my menagery. He looks like Afro Ken. =) I just love him!

moon smile...

i saw alice in wonderland with ben tonight. on the way home the moon looked exactly like the smiling moon smile of the cheshire cat in the movie. i don't know if i've ever seen it like that before-maybe once or twice. funny that it would be like that tonight, though. we got in the car, started home, and there it was, smiling at us. =) good night smiling moon, you weird thing. see you next time.

bare...

Did you know when I look at an empty inbox I resort to talking to myself. There's nothing more depressing than an empty inbox. That's why I need a blog. It's like being your own best friend & like having a billion imaginary friends at the same time. Hello friends...

phone a friend...

Emmeli met a little friend named Fiona at her "fun with clay" class. Yesterday was the last day of class, so I met Fiona's mom & we got their phone number and Em wanted to call as soon as we got home from the class. I didn't let her call last night, but told her that she could call today. So this morning when Emmeli woke up she stumbled down the stairs and brought the phone up to her bed first thing. I didn't catch on to what she was up to right away, but then she went over to her little mushroom purse and started to unfold the little piece of paper, eyes barely open. It was SO sweet. What a cutie!

the young and the restless...

poor emmeli has growing pains, dry skin, sleep disorder, separation anxiety, and restless leg syndrome. =) she can't sleep at night, so she wakes up and realizes that she's all alone & needs to climb in bed with somebody. Then she can't get back to sleep because her legs hurt, and they itch, and she can't stop moving them all around. poor girl. last night after an hour of turmoil, i gave her some benadryl, not because i was trying to drug her, but because her legs were itching like mad. that cured everything, that stuff works wonders.

be free...

So we know now that we really should not have any pets (except maybe saltwater fish). It's difficult to accept this, especially for this nature-loving family. Everybody wants a little companion, but I'm teaching myself and the children that the beauty of nature is in it's wildness~not it's tameness.

new teeth...

Emmeli is so so excited about her first loose tooth. It's all she's been talking about all day. She says she can't wait 'til all her teeth fall out and she gets all new teeth.

my bunny...

for my bunny who put up with so much affection

and now has to live with unfriendly rejection~

i love you my friend

who's gone with the wind

i'll never ever forget you

it's really not funny

when you lose your bunny

and there's nothing that you can do

my heart is so sad

i'm silently mad

for this crappy unhappy scene

but who can i blame

the whole thing is lame

forgive me for being so mean