clotheslining it

Did you know that having a clothesline for some reason makes laundry fun?  I'd been wanting one for a while and finally just hung up a line between the only two trees that were close enough in our yard.  I love all the different loads hanging up... lights, darks, pinks... (there are three girls in this household!  now i can wash a whole load of reds, roses and pinks :).    My favorite is hand-made dresses fluttering in the breeze. 

And the reason I know it's fun?  Because Corrie asks to put up the laundry too.  I wound the extra rope around the limbs of the tree and she got busy.

Yes, those are her undies blowing in the breeze.

   

corrie stories

[at lunch]
Corrie: "look at what I drawed, dad" (practicing the letter A,a and coloring an astronaut)
Me: "oh nice.. what's an 'ast-ro-naut'??"
Corrie: "you know like when they float around in space and someone holds onto them like Curious George"
Me: "Oh, really?"
Corrie, to mom: "haha it's so silly that dad doesn't even know what an astronaut is!"


[another day]
mom (from another room):  "Corrie?  What are you two doing?"
C:  "Nothing mom!  We're being haved!"

happy 90th to great grandma Elsie (Peterson)

Mary and some homemade pudding

You know it's good when it ends up above your eyebrows:

Back to School

Well, it is August and in honor of all the back to school hoopla this month we give you Corrie... spelling.

"Mom! I spelled 'snot'!" (She was so excited.)

acting it out...

This is the sign for NO.

This is 'heaven' :)

Heaven is up, I guess.

Meanwhile, Mary gets all arts and crafty.  Drawing on yourself is always much more fun than drawing on the paper.  We detect a little left-handedness already in her :)

Dancin'

The girls and I got to take a trip up to my mom and dad's for a day and a night.  More pics to come but we had a really good time... i mean, a really good time :)

Corrie quotes

"I tried to get up, but all my  bones were asleep!"  (on trying to get up in the middle of the night to potty)

"Mom, did you hear God!?"  (after hearing a loud man some distance away)
"I thought I heard him talking in the wind..."

"Mary's voice is Horace"  (hoarse)