i’m a mess! i’m a big, ol’ messy mess!

jon cut open a watermelon this afternoon and we all feasted on the sticky redness of summer…  it was so good!
we had a boiled seafood feast last weekend and bought the watermelon for dessert but we stuffed outselves so full of shrimp that there was no room for melon!  and each night since then, we keep [...]

chalk on the driveway…

we had a chalky, messy, good time playing in the driveway today…  jasper can say “chalk” although it sounds more like “chak” and she was very clear today about wanting to color outside so we did

jasper lilith draws all around her as far as her arms can go and i draw everywhere else [...]

little monkey…

how many times i have used that title already?  let’s see…  she has been walking since she was 11 months old so…  hmmm, ok, i give up, let’s just say “alot”!
jasper lilith has discovered another way to add to my gray hair collection…  she has started climbing from her stool to the toilet and then [...]

“here, mama, it’s for you…”

jasper lilith brought me a flower today…  just for me
now admittedly, it is an almost dead canna lily she found on the ground but hey, i will take that!  and took it i did – with a huge smile that threatened to swallow my face whole – i was that smitten

she [...]

tea on top of the toilet, anyone?

so here is jasper lilith setting up her tea set and enjoying a one girl and one giraffe tea party…  on the toilet…  yep, the toilet

she likes to use the toilet as her “table” because she has access to the water faucet to fill her tea cups up, wash her plates, make a [...]

a bamboo cup…

here is jasper lilith enjoying the bamboo cup pop made her

king for a day…

happy father’s day to all daddies – new, semi-new, not-so-new and old hat!

there is my little family right there!  all wrapped up into each other and making a perfect father/daughter picture
we had a very relaxing weekend – our first time that i can use the word “relaxing”  to describe our weekend without sarcasm in [...]

pool time!

mom got a wading pool for jasper lilith to play in and play in it she did!  we spent our mornings out in the water and our afternoons out with the horses

look at all the balls!  jasper collected them from all over to put in the pool with her…  and jasper had to [...]

hi-tech girl…

mom’s mp3 player is getting quite the workout from jasper lilith!

kuga the cat and jasper the little girl…

kuga is a great cat (one of those rare ones that loves people and affection like a dog does) and she was super cool with jasper…  even with jasper lilith following her around…  everywhere…  even under the table