{SoCo}

I took my Monkey to the Big Top Candy Shop and Monkey See Monkey Do while my girl was out of town. It was planned as a distraction for him from her absence but really he was completely fine... so we went anyway ;) We left with a bags of Frisbee-sized lollies, skeleton pirate finger puppets, candy cigarettes, mochachino mints, unicorn bandaids, tequila flavored suckers.... well too many to list but basically a days pay in candy and toys. Most importantly, we had some great mommy and me time. Love my little monkey!!

{movement}

In reading through my blogroll, I ran across this on Bonnie's page. It really moved me. The story, the images, the editing and layout... just touching on many levels.

Hungry: Living with Prader-Willi Syndrome - By Maisie Crow from liveBooks on Vimeo.

{new toys and ducks}

I got a new camera! **Holla** It's been needed for sooo long. I'm lucky after researching it's error codes and consulting with numerous photographers on my message boards, that I never lost a session half-way through shooting, as some of them did! After hearing that, I made the plunge... to a beautiful Nikon d700. Amenities included angelic, church choir background music so how could I refuse? I luff it mucho! It takes such cleaner pictures in low light which is important when I'm working indoors.

I haven't read the manual or done any custom settings but couldn't wait to try it out. As a first run, I took my kiddos out to a pond to feed the ducks. I have been out to this park a few times and was shocked to see how many ducks there were this morning!! My pictures don't really do justice to the mass amounts of birds out there. The kids had a whole loaf of bread in hand and you should have seen the trail of ducks that we led around the park! Seriously not exaggerating!! There must have been 50 of them just on our side of the pond. We passed a lady pushing a jogging stroller and she froze solid when she saw the long line of birds trailing behind us. She literally buckled over laughing when we told her we hadn't even fed any of them yet. They just recognized the bread bag I guess! I suppose I've seen too many movies, or been attacked by geese one too many times. I kept imagining them all revolting up against us as we took so long to open the bag. So to to keep the kiddies safe, we outran them and headed over to a long pier and fed them over the side into the water. I think I did pretty well with the images considering all the buttons were in a new place and I was set to factory defaults ;)

By 11 we were drenched in sweat, out of bread and hungry so we headed over to Mighty Fine with group of friends for burgers and playtime. I need to get out and do stuff like this more. In the last year of working/editing, I've let myself get lazy with the kids and their activities. It was lots of fun :)

{ummm}

A: Are we going to the pool?
Me: Not until you have both cleaned up your rooms.
A: Awwww
Me: Do you want to go?
A: {nod}
Me: Well?... then?....

--->Children disappear. Sigh of peace release.<---

A: {15 minutes later} I'm done! Come see Come see!

What I found halted me in my tracks. I'm not sure what to think or do about it. But as in all tense or emergency situations, I did what I always do. I take a picture. Reasonable right? After all, I knew that at the least, I must terrorize Critter with it. But in true to my life form, it backfired. The girl walked in and caught me snapping away. Now she probably thinks that she did something amazing and magical. When she asked why I was there doing this, I of course in true Mollie form, say nothing and retreat.

So I immediately go into Critter's office to horrify the boy, even though I know he is lost in programming land and I shove my camera in his face. He stared. He stared some more. Then he formed some sort of duck lipped formation with his mouth and began shaking his head in a small violent way repeating "I don't like that. I don't like that at all."








The time I have feared, has come. She's recently shared with me stuff she learned from a friend about what 'sexy' means. {In case you're wondering, it's when two people take off their clothes and kiss.} I remember clearly my mom handing me a book called "A Doctor Talks to 5-7 Year Olds". She told me to read it and come talk to her when I was done. I'm pretty sure that book isn't in print anymore. So, I'm appealing to the masses.... Thoughts? Recommendations?

{overload}

can't.keep.up.

I eat them everyday but I'm picking twice as many as go into my mouth.
I'm thinking salsa at this point...

{fireworks}

For the 4th, we went to a party at a dear friend's house. We spent SO much time having fun, chatting with the adults that I kind of forgot to take out my camera to document the kids... who were all having a BLAST! I did grab a few a the end of the night and wanted to share :)

{garden update}

Ancho 211 Pepper


Burgundy Okra


Juliet Tomato


Sweet Baby Tomato


Asian Melon: Sakata's Sweet


Juliet Tomato


Star of David Okra


Black Beauty Eggplant