I have no cute pictures and I'm sure this will be a rambler, but I'm needing to explain why no new pictures are appearing on our blog. I don't really want to play the blame game, since I could have easily been the one to lose our camera, but it's gone and I'm really going crazy without it. On a Scout trip a few weeks ago, it got left behind at a National Munument they were visiting; supposedly it has been found and will eventually come back to us, though who knows how long I will be waiting.
In the meantime, Natalie had a speaking part in a school performance, Christopher won an award at an assembly, Andrew has become an avid independent child (no longer a baby, though he still usually wears diapers), and David has begun scooting to get around occasionally. In other words, I really want my camera back.
I've been wanting to document some of my children's comments in life, though I'm not sure they should be all over the web. This is quicker than my journal at the moment since I'm actually typing without a child in my lap. Natalie has a way with words when it comes to Mommy's cooking: her description of a flan with a slightly burned caramel topping was, "it tastes like ear wax pie;" the description of a tuna and garbanzo bean salad (which would not be a favorite for many eaters) was "the beans are bleh and the other stuff tasted like a wet paper towel." I'm usually a good cook, but I experiment too much on my poor kids.
Christopher has this obsession with wearing many layers of long sleeved shirts, pants, socks, etc. It drives me crazy since the daytime temp. barely drops below 95 right now; so he's not allowed to wear this insanity to school. I've asked him at different times why he wears the layers and he has alluded to being cold occasionally. However, he recently explained that he was dressing like Spiderman. Huh?
Today Andrew had pulled almost the entire roll of toilet paper off and the bathroom floor was filling with it. So I stopped and asked what was he doing. He explained that he was trying to get the brown triangle like Chris. (Christopher has demonstrated that the toilet paper roll is a long triangle).
David is a grab-meister, and anything in reach now goes straight into the mouth, including paper, hair, chins, toys, clothing, a peach in mom's hand, etc. He still doesn't have any teeth, so he may be the oldest of all four to be toothless.
