Super Girl

jessica wants to wear jacob's batman cape, so as soon as i put it on her she ran and got the "goggles" and put them on. this way she won't have to worry about the bugs getting in her eyes when she is flying faster than a speeding bullet. oh wait... that's super man. to help her spider like vision. oh wait.... thats spiderman. well, i'm suer she has some reason.
even super heros get hungry, tired, and cranky!

What I CAN

My neighbors, the corn ones, gave us a TON of green beans. this started the canning frenzy. below it the picture form the first day, then above was a few days later. what i don't have pics of is all of the applesauce, apple pie filling, and carrots that have also been done. WHEW! Mom and i have both been pretty busy! mom has also canned a bunch of pork. i'm not sure the total number but i think it is close to: 29 quarts green beans, 23 quarts tomatoes, 15 quarts pumpkin, 20 quarts applesauce, 52 quarts apple pie filling, 14 quarts carrots, and 7 quarts pork. of course mom and i are splitting this, so it feeds two armies! :)

hard work results in great dinners!

What's in a Name?

Jacob wrote his name all by himself for the first time and was very proud of it. He refuses to do it on paper, so i guess it must be more fun to do it on the magic erase thingie. not bad for a four year old who is still learning his letters. we didn't even have to tell him the order of the letters. he know how to spell it correctly without help!

Finally!

this is the first quilt i ever made. i made it while pregnant with Jacob. it has been sitting folded in my room ever since because it was going to cost me 100$ to get it quilted. this summer i broke down, spent my birthday money and had it done. and WOW! i LOVE it!

Corn have Ears?

The neighbors were kind enough to let us reap what the have sown. we went sweet corn picking! jacob loved it but poor jessica was too short and quickly tired of the tall stalks.

at leat she had fun chucking it! it took her so long to do one that she only got a total of three done while we were doing this. (out of 106)
Jacob was much faster at it and quickly found that his favorite part was the silk. he was also very interested to learn all of the parts of the the corn. the stalk, tassell, leaves, ears, silk, kernell, and cob. he thought it was funny they were called ears and i was waiting for the question "can they hear?" but it never came. he must be smarter than to think that corn can hear. :)

i have lots of organic sweet corn in the freezer now! yay!

baby jamie

so this is jamie in september:
yes, she has a lot of dark hair. yes it is all over the place. yes, it still sticks up like that when she is upright.

this is jamie in the begining of August. Yes she is still this cute!

Counting sheep

Jessica has a small world. This world is so small that the smallest things can effect it. the largest of these small things is her sheep. this sheep goes everywhere with her. She is unable to sleep without it and it always makes staying at a different home a little easier. she carries it around the house by the "scruff" of it's back. it actually has a permanent "holding" spot there now.

but for all that it is worth, we as her loving parrent turn the house upside down looking for this sheep every night, finding it in a closet, a shoe, stuffed in the couch, inside her purse, a cabinet, or just about anywhere it could fit, just to see this little girl gleam when it is handed to her and she is kissed goodnight.

only to start all over again leaving me with one final question: Where will i find the sheep today?