Monthly Archive for April, 2008
Someone’s parent or older sibling found a turtle at the ball park. These boys were entranced. As the evening went on, the crowd of children around the turtle got larger and larger.
Just a quick little transcript from Greg.
8:17 AM Greg: Allison and I have been sending our weather into sproutonline every morning so she can see if they show it on the Sunny Side Up show
8:18 AM Greg: yesterday we did it .. and then 3 minutes later Alli came in. “Can we do it again but say it’s snowing? I want to trick them!”
I heard something knock on the door and when I looked up, this guy was steadily climbing to the top. The bugs must have been tasty because it stayed there for an hour.
For the past few years I’ve done pretty decent sized gardens. This year I’m taking it easy and just doing tomatoes and bell peppers. They were all just in a cluster on the table. Allison had other ideas though. "Mom, I set up the army of plants." I guess she thought they looked like soldiers marching two by two. Ready to defend the land against drought, pests, and starvation.
We took a trip to a little zoo today. Everywhere we looked we could tell that spring was in the air. The male peacocks were going crazy trying to impress the girls. Young couples were hanging out in random secluded parts of the zoo. The hippos and tigers were the most active we have seen them on any of our prior visits.
This is a shot of Nathan and Greg comparing themselves to the height of a giraffe.
Walking down to the baseball field. It’s a rare day when we only have one event we get to watch. Allison was displaying her own personal style today wearing a sleeveless red dress with leopard trim, jeans, hot pink boots, and her pink ball cap. I’ll save the battles over what the girls can’t wear until they are teenagers.
A few months ago a woman gave birth to quadruplets, which about 15 years ago would have been cause for national news attention in itself. Now, with the help of modern medicine, it’s just not that big of a deal anymore. It is going to happen more and more frequently. Multiples are popping out left and right. What makes this story special is that 3 of the boys are identical. I guess that’s unusual in quadruplets.
Here’s a little snippet from the news article:
“The boys were delivered by Caesarian section Jan. 29, their mother’s 32nd birthday. Joshua Drew was born first, then Gavin Michael, Cody Benjamin and finally Logan Christopher, the non-identical one…”
That poor guy’s future is going to be filled with, “Oh him? He’s the non-identical one.”
He could really use it to his advantage later. Maybe he can get out of wearing matching outfits. When it’s time to start dating, he can say, “Why would you want a copy when you can have an original?”
I have about 4 drafted entries, but not enough time in the day to type them up so that they make sense to anyone else but me. I wanted to post this while it was still relevant.
Something stinky in the fridge meant a thorough cleaning. Please notice that’s not my arm doing the scrubbing.
