This week we got our hands dirty as we planted our yearly crop of seeds that we will transplant later outside in our patio garden. We also planted Finn’s Root Vue Farm (from grandma and grandpa Beilstein) this week too. Finn went back and forth between loving the messiness (“mom, it’s fun to get dirty sometimes”) to not being a big fan (insert whining and fussiness to get his hands cleaned off). I got everything all prepped while Finn was taking a nap and after he woke up and made it through his cuddle time (he’s been big into cuddling when he first wakes up, he just wants to be held) we started our project. He wasn’t as interested in it this year as after about 15 minutes he just wanted to go play! But, in the end we had 4 trays of seeds including quite the variety of veggies (cucumber, zucchini, tomato, pepper, butternut squash), herbs (green onion, cilantro, basil seedlings), and fruits (watermelon, cantaloupe), flowers and ornamentals (cosmos, zinnia, snapdragon, pumpkins, mini pumpkins). Our counters have been overtaken by seedling trays!
This week Finn also ventured to the pet store with Debbie and Sam. He loves animals, check out his grins! And of course one pic with his Lily girl and blue dog blanket. It’s become part of the routine that he cuddles with Lily at bedtime while we sing songs. And the blue blanket – he doesn’t like to sleep without it, and the soft, blue side always has to be the side that is against him :).
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October 25, 2015
We had a family fun day at the zoo on Monday. It was an unseasonably warm and sunny afternoon that we spent riding the carousel, train, playing on the outdoor playground, and walking around the zoo.
We headed back to the zoo on Friday for Boo at the Zoo with friends. We lucked out with another really nice weather evening and lots of candy too!
And on Saturday we made a short stint to downtown Powell for the Candy by the Carload event. Jim and Pat were here to watch Finn for the evening so they joined us as well. If you ask Finn who is holding him in the below photo – he promptly says “Chewbacca”. Later that night Kevin and I headed to the Ochmanek Halloween Party – where, dare I say, we won the Most Creative Costume Award for our Steam Punk genre wardrobes. It was all Kevin’s idea and he executed it perfectly with our outfits and all the accessories 🙂
Here we are being interviewed by Veronica Cornerstone – she’s curious how it feels to win the Most Creative Costumer Award, lol.
And here my little baker is helping make Pumpkin Pie bars!
The other day Finn totally surprised me by singing the entire ABC song! I just couldn’t believe it so I had him do it again and I took a video. Listen to this guy!
In other tidbits, our exterior house painting project is now complete! I’ve taken some before and afters. Kevin installed new garage doors and Brett enclosed the bottom of our screened porch with cedar siding. Lily had one too many trips through the screens either after wildlife or deciding to let herself in the porch! Kevin and Brett also put in a new glass back door which allows so much more sunlight into our kitchen! We are really happy with the color – though it looks very different depending upon the light (daylight, twilight, night, full sun/clouds, etc) and it doesn’t seem to photograph how it looks in person. But here goes!
March 29, 2015
It has been a really cold weekend here! We’re hoping it’s the last of the wintry weather! Even in the cold weather (around 20 degrees) we ventured on a walk from a Claire & Eric’s house up to downtown Powell for the Saturday morning Easter Egg hunt. It is divided by age groups though this year they were all pretty sparse with kiddos given the weather. The eggs, however, were quite plentiful! When the horn sounded to begin the hunt Finn took off in a sprint, passing tons of eggs! He was really excited to go run 🙂 But he soon began to fill his froggy basket and had quite the take home of candies. We walked to the Mean Bean to warm up with muffins and coffee and then made a pit stop at the Beehive Bread Company before walking back to Claire & Eric’s for a bit of play time.
I’ve been thinking lately about getting seeds started for our summer garden so after our Easter Egg fun we decided to head to the store to go shopping for some supplies. Finn loves planting the seeds and playing in the dirt. And before we got started he really enjoyed “building towers” with the soil pods. Mind you many of the plants we started don’t require growing indoors and will likely do better directly sown in the garden outside. But we’re doing it all for the fun of growing things!
And here is our finished product: Beans, Beets, Kaleidoscope Carrots (many colors!), Cucumber, Baby Carrots, Butternut Squash, Zucchini, and Tomatoes.
After a good nap, we woke Finn up to head to the Columbus Crew SC game. It was a 7:30 game on a super cold night, but we bundled up, took an awesome seat warmer (it was so warm!!), a couple of blankets, and headed out! Finn did really well and had fun watching the game, eyeing spiderman (that he swore was across the field in a “box” where people enter the stadium), a helicopter, streamers, and the moon! From time to time he would say “no night night”. I think that because it was dark outside and he could see the moon we were going to put him to bed soon. It was pretty cute. And when we got home he and daddy (and Lily too) played a quick game of dribble in the kitchen.
Cammie has had a tough week of digestive problems – both bowels and vomiting. She is on a round of antibiotics that I’m hoping will help her. The first day or so she didn’t seem very spunky, but every day since she’s seemed ok. Though each morning she has gotten sick at some point during the night 🙁 This aging thing really isn’t fun – poor girl!