Click to view bigger. Bombarding you with sketchbook pages!!!

I want to grow herbs like thyme, rosemary, and basil. They don’t need a big old pot do they?

And crawling. Help me! Because it is actual crawling now. Yikes!

Actually to be accurate we went out to eat to celebrate Marie (my friend Bridgette’s daughter) finishing another year of school. And also Bridgette’s birthday. Damn it I forgot to tell the waitress so she could sing happy birthday and embarrass her! You know I love you Bridgette.

Yeah, Isabelle had a performance at a real theatre, on a big proper stage. And that’s Nathan’s ticket right there. That’s right. The theatre made me buy a seat for an eight month old who would not even be sitting in his seat. When I called for our tickets I shouldn’t have mentioned Nathan. I mean I’m sure they would have let him in without a ticket at the door right? Right? Well, at least the nice young woman on the phone waived the handling fee.

Oh and we made popsicles. Each layer of puréed fruit mixed with 1 and a half tablespoons of honey. The first layer was strawberries. The second peaches and the third was supposed to be kiwis but I’m allergic so we used pears instead. That’s why Nathan had puréed peaches.

Yeah, so Isabelle did not like the traffic light popsicles. MORE FOR ME!

Ok in my drawing of me and the Moby, it wasn’t all crazy scary like that. I just started the drawing wrong and it’s in pen so yeah. It was scary but not dangerous scary as him just hanging out on my back. I had a hold of Nathan the entire time and the wrap was holding him against my back.

June 8th!! That was Bridgette’s birthday. I was originally talking about having lunch with her that Tuesday instead. But she had work and limited time during her lunch break. She’s so funny. On Friday, she didn’t understand why I wanted to have lunch with her on Tuesday until halfway through our meal. Well, good thing we went on Friday because by Tuesday I totally forgot it was her birthday until we got home from our homeschool group. That would have been bad if I forgot about meeting for lunch.

And if I can get it together I will show you some pictures from these sketchbook days tomorrow. Because beep beep boop is sooooo cute!

Ok maybe there are a couple that fall out of the range of the most recent sketchbook days. Like this one:

It’s actually from May 9th. I was trying to get a picture of Nathan in the crawl position. But it was right when he was just figuring it out and he was all wobbly so whenever I tried to get the photo he’d fall back on his tummy. Of course, now he can crawl so why am I showing this picture? Because he’s cute.

Oh and on June 2nd when I said how Isabelle was doing all sorts of big things, like pushing the grocery cart. Here she is pushing it.

She’s gotten so big! But really, she’s not big enough to push the cart. Well, yes, she can push it but not straight. She’s not tall enough to see where she’s pushing the cart. She was banging into everything and it takes FOREVER to shop if you have to steer a stubborn four year old who doesn’t want to be steered.

Then out with Bridgette and Marie.

Have I mentioned that I’ve known Bridgette for twenty four years? Did I do the math right Bridgette? She’s one of my bestest friends. We met as freshmen in high school, younger than her daughter is now. Wow!

That lunch was the first time Nathan has been in a high chair in a restaurant. Before he was too wobbly to sit in one.

After lunch we walked like half a mile to get ice-cream because we thought it was the next building over. Then it was a like half a mile to get back to the car. And I thought to myself maybe it wouldn’t be such a good idea to walk and eat ice-cream. But I ignored that thought. Which resulted in ice-cream dripping all over the place and Isabelle tripping and getting ice-cream…well all over the place.

And here’s one of Isabelle after the ballet demonstration.

I’m waiting for the video to come in so hopefully I can share it if I can figure out how to do that from a DVD. I didn’t take many pictures. I wanted to enjoy the moment. Only one crap photo during the demonstration was worth saving.

And my friend Olinda helped me take video but it was sort of too zoomed in and bouncy. But as soon as I get my hands on the DVD I’ll post a snippet.

Traffic light popsicles!!

I thought they were yummy. But looking at the picture the yellow looks more orange and my pears instead of kiwis didn’t really come out green.

Oh two little teeth showing! He has four now. I just never got a good picture of them before.

And finally this one:

I was washing the dishes and I hear Alan behind me say “beep beep boop”. I turned around and there’s Nathan coming around the corner with just Alan’s hand visible pushing him forward in this little Build a Bear car. Cheered me right up.

What is something daddy always says to you?
I love you.

What makes daddy happy?
When I sing.

What makes daddy sad?
When I hurt his heart.

How does your daddy make you laugh?
Knock knock.

What did your daddy like to do when he was a child?
Play toys.

How old is your daddy?
I don’t know.

How tall is your daddy?
Big.

What is his favorite thing to watch on TV?
News.

What does your daddy do when you’re not around?
Go to work?

If your daddy becomes famous, what will it be for?
Clean up time. Because I make a mess.

What is your daddy really good at?
He’s good at work.

What is your daddy not very good at?
Hmmm….fixing toys.

What does your daddy do for his job?
Drives?

What is your daddy ’s favorite food?
Spam.

What makes you proud of your daddy?
What’s proud?

What makes you happy that he is your daddy?
I love him so much because he’s my friend.

If your daddy were a cartoon character, who would he be?
I know, I know! Buzz Lightyear!!

What do you and your daddy do together?
Play games.

How are you and your daddy the same?
We like playing together.

How are you and your daddy different?
My daddy goes to work.

How do you know your daddy loves you?
Hugging.

What does your daddy like most about your mommy?
Kissing and making bunny rabbits. (she sang this as she was jumping off a chair)

Where is your daddy ’s favorite place to go?
The park.

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Alan woke up just as I was posting this. I forgot to write that I got this idea from Bethany.

I think I won’t bombard you with week of sketches anymore. Three sounds like a nice smallish number. Click to enlarge.

Will she ever like fruits or vegetables? I worry sometimes. And yeah, poor Isabelle got stuck. I’m sure it’s happened before. Alan can’t remember. I think that particular toy comes with a cap for the hole or something. Too bad I have no idea where it is. But I don’t think Isabelle will be doing it again anytime soon.

I find it so funny when Isabelle plays with random household items, like measuring spoons. And then she insists on sleeping with them! It’s funny, she took the monthly photo holding them. It’s hard to tell because of how I cropped the photo but it’s under the ‘E’ on my watermark. You can just see one of the spoons.

For some reason Isabelle seems to be particularly sensitive lately. Today she threw a little mini tantrum when she couldn’t surprise me with the toy behind her back. I saw it and that led to a melt down. And when she couldn’t drive her Wii Mario kart straight…tantrum. And on and on and so on. Tantrums for no particular good reason are so very tiring.

I’ve been busy with 7days. But I thought I’d put a new post up because I’m just falling further and further behind.

Alan does the funniest things. Sometimes I turn around and BWA HA HA!

He put Nathan in this Crocs rainboots bag.

In a diaper box.

And this nekkid one that I will be making private in a week or so. So better get looking now. I didn’t even see it at all. Alan took pictures and showed me. I was probably still in the shower when he took it.

In a grocery bag.

In Isabelle’s toy stroller. Bwa ha ha!

Why mama? Why?