Flowers

Last year we had ferns on the front porch. I liked the ferns, I was very happy with them, they didn't need to be watered often.

But I suggested to C41 that maybe petunias would work this year. I like petunias, but since we aren't particularly sunny, they've failed in the front in the past. But with the new sunny front (because of some trees felled a couple of summers ago) we really now are sunny enough for petunias. I think.

But what he came back from the store with are definitely not petunias. Pretty showy flowers, but not petunias!




C41 thinks we should hang them higher, but I like them really low so they partly block the view from the street. So we have them hanging from these extenders that C41 keeps trying to lose.





AND our rose bush is in full bloom. Some years the inchworms get the flowers before many of them they can bloom, but not this year.So is the other one, but it is red and hidden away. The pink one smells lovely. I am a fan of flowers that smell good ... lilacs, lily of the vally, clover, iris. Even dandelions smell good, did you know that? And while rose is not my favorite scent, I'll take an old-fashioned rose scent over a non-scented rose (or any flower) any day.

New sleep positions

Q5 trying out new ways to sleep.

Mother's day

Been too busy to do things in order.

On Mother's day the girls REALLy wanted to make be breakfast in bed. I thought I'd convinced them that we could go downstairs and all eat together, but they realized, no, they could eat in bed with me! So I tried again to suggest that I did NOT want breakfast in bed but they insisted that their teacher said some moms like it, and that THEY wanted to do it so I had to let them do it for me. So I backtracked and said, yes, please breakfast in bed for me, and me alone. But group breakfast in bed.

C6 started thinking about toast, and despite the fact that toast is in the top 10 of wonderful things to eat, I probably cringed thinking about the crumbs. So then she considered the breakfast foods she could make. Like pierogies and peas. Mmmm. So after some discussion they settled on a delicious breakfast of Cracklin Oat Bran, cut up apples with peanut butter and a glass of Diet Coke.

Not a bad meal.





Then Q5 ate the cereal, and C6 helped out substantially with the apples.

Tape head girls

No commentary necessary for this one. I think the instigator of this game was our very own Q5.

Sleep

It has been a long time since I did one of these posts:

Q5 sleeping on the floor, C6 falling off the bed.







Ah, the ability to sleep whereever you fall. After about 20 minutes of screaming in Q5's case, but hey.

Scavenger Hunt

Lots to do at the party, but the culmination being the rainbow scavenger hunt and unicorn piñata.

The scavenger hunt was designed to get the kids running back and forth between the front and back yards, which it did very successfully.







When they finally found the piñata there way joy and happiness.









Kids went home having made bags, potted flowers, run a scavenger hunt, having eaten cake and fruit, and all was good.

Q5's cake

I had a post about her party, and I seem to have lost it.

So, I'll just do bits here and there. This is the cake post.

Making the cake




Blowing out the candles




Slicing the cake




Cake, cake, cake