Rainy Day Fun

Have you ever seen these things- they're called Emergency Blankets. In case you get stranded somewhere you pull out this tiny little pouch and unfold this large "blanket" that pretty much looks like a giant piece of tin foil, and it keeps you warm . Mike found this one this morning while looking for something else so he gave it to Rowan to play with. I don't think I have ever seen one thing keep him so entertained. he ran around with it, rolled around with it, threw it in the air, even Eli thought it was fun! It does sound somewhat annoying, but I'll put up with that for the hours of uninterrupted peace I got (well some of it was still interrupted, but still). So, if you don't have one go get your kids an Emergency blanket, you can find them in the camping section at Walmart.

Since the boys were entertained, I had time to make these supercute pants for Eli. I bought this fabric months ago (it has elephants on it in case you can't tell) from the remnants bin and had no idea what to do with it, so when I came across a baby pants tutorial I thought it would be perfect! They are flannel, so they'll be great for jammies, Rowan's already requested some of his own- luckily he wants shorts, cause I don't have enough for pants for him.

Completely Random Post with Pictures

Wow I really rock at post titles- huh!!
The mommy brain seems to be overtaking me, today I heated myself up a nice bowl of chili, turned to leave the kitchen- and SPLAT!! I drop the bowl, of course it does this amazing spinning thing so there was splatters of chili EVERYWHERE- floor, walls, doors, dishwasher, toys, CARPET, I'll probably be finding dried chili in places I never even imagines for months. It was quite a lovely mess. Usually I would have some nice pretty words to say to that bowl of chili- but instead I decided to laugh- it was already done what else could I do, and it was pretty humurous- well kind of! Of course that couldn't be the worst of it- oh no! After dinner I was sitting on the couch eating ice cream w/ homemade peach topping (YUM)- I was holding Eli, but not his fault- all of the sudden I drop the bowl. Well more of a turned the bowl upside down on my lap! Now since the peaches were warm and my ice cream had to sit a few minutes (damn kids) it was already melting pretty good, so I had a bowl of ice cream soup on my lap, all over my pants and oozing onto the couch! Rowan, beling the great helper he is, runs over to watch as I scoop it off and back into the bowl. He then points out the two little tiny drops on Eli- yeah thanks, I'm covered in ice cream, but I'll make sure I get those drops first- thanks for the help!

In happy news, Rowan has use the toilet at home for the last two days- w/ no accidents!! Well except for that one poop, lucky me I was nursing Eli- so Mike got that mess :) He's been quite proud of himself it's so exciting.

Now the pictures, we went shopping in Amishville area Friday. It poured the whole time we were gone, after we got home Rowan and I decided to go run in the rain. Of course it slowed to a sprinke and then stopped raining completely. Rowan didn't seem to mind at first, then I mentioned it stopped and he got so sad,

so I told him to stand in front of the kitchen windo and sprayed him with the sink sprayer!

Then he just ran around all wet

Sunday- a big cheesy smile

Oh, the curls

First taste of fall

Brotherly Love (maybe Eli looks scared)

Yeah he's definetly scared- poor baby

A Weekend of Pictures

Saturday morning started with rain, lots of rain, so what else could he do but go play in the rain...

I took the pictures from inside- I didn't want to get wet!
he ran back inside as soon as he heard the thunder
(nice lips!)
It stopped raining AND the sun came out!!

We decided to make hot dogs and s'mores after the sun went down- Rowan enjoyed the s'mores!!

Oohh, what is on my finger!!

Oh well, it's still good!


That was good!!

and of course, every weekend revolves around the garden, at least for Mike

Rowan like to help too... sometimes a little too much!