Who Ate the Fruit From the Fruit Bowl...Who Me? Yes You!

It's a never ending problem with that first-born child of mine....yes, it's true. A problem...sort of. Yes, it is.

I have been striving to get Austin to eat more fresh fruit...so I keep the fruit bowl stocked. The only problem with doing so is Austin can hop up on the chair and select his fruit of choice, and take a huge bite out of it. Or two. Or three. Then he decides he really wanted the peach instead of the pear, so he returns the bitten-into pear to the fruit bowl and sinks his teeth in to the peach. After his taste buds are satisfied, he decides its time to play, and so he puts the peach back...

...alas, I have bitten-into fruit in my fruit bowl!

It's For the Birds

Austin loves to go to the Wildwood Park & Zoo, so on Thursday we ventured over after I picked the boys up from school. We had a bag full of bread/buns to feed the geese and ducks that inhabit the ponds there. I used to feed the ducks and geese back in Stevens Point growing up...and loved it. Why not share that with my boys? Ethan got the comfort of the stroller, while Austin found joy in carrying the bag of bread. We first paid Ms. Grizzly a visit. She is a brown bear that was stirring in her sleep while we watched. Austin had to growl at her a few times, to see if he could wake her up. He was unsuccessful. Austin looked the other way and spotted a pond full of ducks and geese so we had to feed them as Austin sensed they were hungry and we had their lunch in our bag.

We strolled around the zoo part and saw the owls, the eagle, the hawks, the falcon, the cranes, the prairie dogs....there used to be monkeys there but I don't know what happened to them. Then Austin fed more ducks and geese to finish our stash of bread goods off, and we headed to the playground to play. Ethan even got in on the action on the teeter totter, of course with mama's help.

Create!

Awhile back Austin and I were reading a book....each double page spread was full of a certain color...and 'hiding' on the pages were objects, so I ask Austin.....'Where is the frog?' Or, 'where is the yo yo?' He couldn't find the yo yo, so I pointed it out. He said, 'No, that is "create!"' Hmm...huh? Ahh....on the PBS station 'Create' their logo is the spiral, similar to the one on the yo yo in the photo.....smart kid!

(Ok, this is frustrating. At times it works, others it doesn't...what is up with that? The original file is not like this! I want to know why it keeps flipping some images!)

My Girlfriend

Sasha is 6 years old....she is the only other female in our home. I am outnumbered - married a guy, have two sons, and our three cats are males. Humpf. I think we'll always have a female dog if we ever have a dog; I can't see owning a male. I wonder of one of these days we'll have a daughter? If not, my boys will have to promise to try hard and deliver me a granddaughter some day. But not too soon. They have lots of living to do before that can happen.