That's just how I roll...

Small is writing
his "A B C 's "

and saying
"cheez"

:)

A bit of color ...

a lovely little orange

monarch on lace

dainty

and magnificent!

Our backyard is Fabulous!

Just Peachy

My friend Tracie came over today...

which in itself is Fabulous...

but today she came bearing gifts...

2 Pecks of Encore Peaches!

so ...

we took this

and made....

THIS!

8 Quarts & 4 Pints of sliced Peaches in light syrup

4 Half Pints Peach Honey

6 Half Pints Peach Jelly

2 Happy Canners

It was truly a canning marathon. The kids swam and played outside for 8 hours - eating both lunch and dinner at the picnic table under the deck... while we canned like crazy!

Small hung around and played toys and talked to us off and on from the edge of the kitchen and tried (ha) to catch his 2 naps.

It was totally fun.

I am totally ready for a night of sleep!

:)


I should say... I have never made peach honey before, YUM!

You simply cook down the skins/peelings from all those peaches you are slicing
and canning to make PEACH HONEY.

You cook them down with a little water and then SQUEEZE them through cheesecloth
until it looks something like the above pic! mmmmm peach mush.

and after throwing the peach mush
into the trash ( uh, I mean compost pile)

You take the lovely juice
and cook it down with sugar to a honey consistancy
then put it in sweet little jelly jars!

and see how happy it makes you to taste it!


I see homemade buttermilk biscuits in our breakfast future(s)

YEAH!!

Doe ya wanna dance?

Do ya do ya do ya do ya wanna dance

Do you wanna dance under the moonlight?

Doe ya ?

Doe ya?

Well, they doe...


Bounding away from the garden

Yes, they are twins.
Cute!

The End.



Tall caught these two twin does in the garden today. Finally we have pictures. This is their 3rd visit where we have actually seen them playing about the yard and garden.

Beautiful!

Thanks Tall!

What a great backyard we get to enjoy! Thanks Abba!

You must be joking...

Happy to be home

still eating a lollipop
cast is still a bit hot
in the parking garage at
Dr. O's office

See any resemblance??

It was winter of 2005
Medium fell and suffered a "toddler fracture" to his fibia.

sigh

I wish I was joking.

Small fell on Monday... we went to urgent care. Not broken they said. went to his ped on Tuesday... nope not broken, but if he is still limping like that on Thursday then go to Ortho. YUP today is Friday

went to Ortho

Thank You Jesus for Dr. O

She is truly fabulous
and kind.

Poor little small...

2 weeks in this cast.

it was quite an episode...

Just imagine...
Medium has his check up on Monday afternoon
from the March hip surgery
and Dr. O says he looks great and then informs me that she won't need to see him for
6 months! Yay!!

I am at home Monday night, I run down to do a load of laundry
leaving tall to keep an eye on small for just a minute...
let me just say here it was not tall's fault
small likes to stand on stuff
and he just happened to tip over this time
Handsome husband calls while I am in the basement doing laundry
I take a sec to talk to him and arrive upstairs just in time to find out that small
just fell and cried like crazy
at 5:30 monday night.

at 6ish
I decide to take him to urgent care
because his gait is severely impaired
he is not wanting to put any weight on his right foot

I spend 2 hours
with small crying pretty much non-stop
once he figured out they wanted to see and prod and poke him!

they had to hold him down for xray
he was NOT still for those

they send me home
telling me they see no break
give him ibuprofen

okay

I call his ped on Tuesday and go in that afternoon (his gait is not better)

his ped tells me he will review the xrays from urgent care and get back with me and then he calls later that day to let me know; no break on xray
and
to "reassure me" that if small is still limping like this
on Thursday he will refer us to ortho

I wait

I watch

I call Thursday am

they get me in on Friday afternoon at 2 with Dr. O

I wait

I go

Small cries

a lot

just the sight of someone in scrubs
even in the hallway before the visit
is enough to set him crying

my poor little guy

is crying

a lot

We see Dr O
she watches the gait
she speaks ever so sweetly and softly to small (who is still crying)
she gently pokes and prod and is the doctor

she tells me she believes it to be a "toddler fracture"

de ja vu to 2005

She offers up "the boot cast"
it covers a wide variety of fractures and will help keep small's foot stable while it heals

I wait,
small is still crying at the sight of anyone other than me

the tech comes in
tries to get the boot to fit
calls in another tech
more crying
they get it on
I go out into the reception area
(read: lots of people)
small is STILL CRYING unconsolably
I give him a lollipop and try to
wait
to make an appointment for 2 weeks

as soon as we are outside... no more tears
aaah

We get to the car
small slips out of the boot
I think (are you kidding me?)
I will put it back on tighter.
NOPE
slips it right off his foot
again with tighter
NOPE

I wait a second and decide rather than call my hubby in tears I will go back in suffer through small's tears until they get him a smaller boot.

we go in, small cries, Dr O comes out to chat - in the waiting area
small cries at the sight of her, so she kindly steps behind the stroller where he cannot see her
but more people in scrubs keep coming to the door and he just cries.

Guess what...
yup
that IS the smallest boot they have

so

it's a cast

with ALOT more crying

so much in fact, small threw up he was so mad
and burst all the tiny little blood vessels around his eyes
(yes Mom, like I did as a child) sigh.

It was a bloody hard appointment. (except with no blood)

The techs were wonderful
thanks John and Joan

The doc was wonderful
Dr. O we think you are fabulous
ever the professional, yet with a heart for the kids.

and all the people in the waiting room were compassionate
as were the reception people

BUT SMALL NEVER EVER WANTS TO GO BACK

I did not tell him they have to CUT THAT THING OFF in 2 weeks.

We can cross that when we get to it.

For now,
no more tears

and it took EXACTLY 2.5 seconds for him to adjust to walking in the cast!

I must say that His gait is much improved now that his foot is in a non-painful position!

:)

Eating the fruits

The kiddos enjoying some
Homemade Salsa
from several different varieties of the tomatoes we have been growing...
Black brandywine, Pink Bloesser, Amish Paste
mmmmm
good snacking!

A quick Flashback...

Small
chowing on a piece of fresh fruit
last August 17th

how fun is that!

what a precious (and fruit loving) little guy

Glad I planted lots of tomatoes :)

Out for a drive in the country

Today, small drove out to my garden

From the back porch
not very far
just across the yard

to here

Once he arrived ...

He helped himself

to the green tomatoes

He kept taking bites

and looking at other possible tomatoes

looking and chewing

and biting

and picking another
as I take a shot of the half eaten half ripe tomato left in my hands

He spied a red one...

then Mommy picked a really ripe black brandywine!

eager to snack on this!

Small kept asking for more...

He kept on biting and chewing

He kept on biting...

It started to rain,
but not before he bit/squirted juice all over his little head...

he let me carry him up to the house

with the tomato still in my hand!

Cute tomato face

we decided to finish our snack on the front porch...

he ate almost the entire thing...

Then the rain became more interesting...

So we finished up and went in!

Whew, love those tomato snacks!

:)