Worded Wednesday

From Ethan's "2012 Art Collection."

Wordless (Mostly) Wednesday

From three years ago:

Worded Wednesday

The hardest part of loving pets into old age is having to say goodbye. 

Rest in peace, our sweet bunny Tony (L).

Click here to read about when we got them.

Worded Wednesday

As I usually do a wordless Wednesday post, I decided to do a worded one today to go with the adorable picture our 3-year-old drew last week.

He asked how to spell the word "tortoise" because apparently that's what the little guy is...not a "turtle" like I originally thought. *wink-grin*

My favorite part -- after the yellow smile -- is the feet. He could almost be on wheels or wearing sneakers.

I love the imaginations of children. Always thinking; always creating; always, well, imagining.

Wordless (Mostly) Wednesday

In memory of my grandmother, Janice.
Today would have been her 91st birthday. 

Wordless (mostly) Wednesday

The animals from Noah's Ark, after the flood...

Wordless (Mostly) Wednesday

(I love this...and I didn't actually write the words...so it's still mostly wordless, right? *wink-grin*)

Wordless (Mostly) Wednesday

Emily volunteered to do a cover photo for the Voices section of our newspaper, with whom she is employed.  The photo has become a fast favorite of mine:

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Worded Wednesday

Can you find the hidden toddler in this picture? Can you find him? Can you find him? Is he there?

Wordless (mostly) Wednesday

It's coming....

Wordless (mostly) Wednesday

DONUTS!!

Wordless (Almost) Wednesday

22 MONTHS OLD!!

How can this little guy grow SO fast?

Wordless (Mostly) Wednesday

So we went to the doctor's today for Ethan's belated "18-month-old" checkup. (He's 20 months...so what's a couple of months, right?)

And the doctor is recording his stats in his chart. "37 1/2 inches tall...35 pounds...Wow! He's the size the of 3-year-old," he said, smiling.

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Because he couldn't decide which bear to bring downstairs after his nap...we brought about six and a turkey. (We did manage to leave behind three others and a llama and a duck.)

Wordless Wednesday

In honor of our bun-girls' 4th birthday on Friday:

Bubble and Squeak

Wordless (mostly) Wednesday

Nothing's sadder than an Easter Bunny all alone...

Wordless (mostly) Wednesday

Our new 4-month-old!

Worded Wednesday

THERE was a child went forth every day;
And the first object he look’d upon, that object he became;
And that object became part of him for the day, or a certain part of the day, or for many years, or stretching cycles of years.

The early lilacs became part of this child,
And grass, and white and red morning-glories, and white and red clover, and the song of the phoebe-bird,
And the Third-month lambs, and the sow’s pink-faint litter, and the mare’s foal, and the cow’s calf,
And the noisy brood of the barn-yard, or by the mire of the pond-side,
And the fish suspending themselves so curiously below there—and the beautiful curious liquid,
And the water-plants with their graceful flat heads—all became part of him.

The field-sprouts of Fourth-month and Fifth-month became part of him;
Winter-grain sprouts, and those of the light-yellow corn, and the esculent roots of the garden,
And the apple-trees cover’d with blossoms, and the fruit afterward, and wood-berries, and the commonest weeds by the road;
And the old drunkard staggering home from the out-house of the tavern, whence he had lately risen,
And the school-mistress that pass’d on her way to the school,
And the friendly boys that pass’d—and the quarrelsome boys,
And the tidy and fresh-cheek’d girls—and the barefoot negro boy and girl,
And all the changes of city and country, wherever he went.

His own parents,
He that had father’d him, and she that had conceiv’d him in her womb, and birth’d him,
They gave this child more of themselves than that;
They gave him afterward every day—they became part of him.

The mother at home, quietly placing the dishes on the supper-table;
The mother with mild words—clean her cap and gown, a wholesome odor falling off her person and clothes as she walks by;
The father, strong, self-sufficient, manly, mean, anger’d, unjust;
The blow, the quick loud word, the tight bargain, the crafty lure,
The family usages, the language, the company, the furniture—the yearning and swelling heart,
Affection that will not be gainsay’d—the sense of what is real—the thought if, after all, it should prove unreal,

The doubts of day-time and the doubts of night-time—the curious whether and how,
Whether that which appears so is so, or is it all flashes and specks?
Men and women crowding fast in the streets—if they are not flashes and specks, what are they?

The streets themselves, and the façades of houses, and goods in the windows,
Vehicles, teams, the heavy-plank’d wharves—the huge crossing at the ferries,
The village on the highland, seen from afar at sunset—the river between,
Shadows, aureola and mist, the light falling on roofs and gables of white or brown, three miles off,
The schooner near by, sleepily dropping down the tide—the little boat slack-tow’d astern,
The hurrying tumbling waves, quick-broken crests, slapping,
The strata of color’d clouds, the long bar of maroon-tint, away solitary by itself—the spread of purity it lies motionless in,
The horizon’s edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt marsh and shore mud;

These became part of that child who went forth every day, and who now goes, and will always go forth every day.

~Walt Whitman