Korben loves chocolate pudding.  Mommy loves sweeping.

And James loves picking out artificially colored daisy flowers for his Daddy.

I’ve still been snapping away!  I just thought I’d post them in clumps.  Three here, two there, that sort of thing.  It gives me more freedom to just go straight to bed with out worrying about editing and uploading.  Tonight, though, I caught Castle (Nathan Fillion… need I say more?) on hulu and edited the last four days’ worth.  Half of them are of Korben but he’s changing the most so I hope you don’t mind.

Today Korben turns 13 months old.  I’ve been nursing for three years and two months of my life.  That is a dang lotta milk.  Moo.

You’d probably rather just see the photos, huh?  Here are the last three days’ shots:

David planted the tree this morning!

But as Dave says, the day is not yet over.  I grabbed the point-n-shoot (yes, we have a point-n-shoot (two, in fact)) and did a quickie self portrait.  The hair is going to get hacked off in March.  I love pictures of me with long hair but I hate having long hair.  I think I’d love to have a wig where I could sometimes have long hair, but only when I wanted to.  I think I’ll finally have enough to donate to Locks of Love in March.  I heard about the Pantene hair donation service but my hair has been permanently colored so that’s a no-go option for me.

I’ve hand sewn together the first half of the throw blanket and am knitting the third panel like a crazy lady.  The first two panels sewn together are gorgeous.  Beyond lovely.  Amazing.  Stunning.  It’s really spurring me on to finish this thing so we can all enjoy it!  All-in-all, this throw blanket will be worth around $200 in yarn alone.  That doesn’t even count the time it’s taking to knit it!  Compare that to the previous kit that I photo’d below and all of a sudden, the kit seems like a STEAL.

I had fun getting this shot, so it’s my picture of the day.

I was determined to get out of the house for the first time all week with all three boys during the day today.  I decided we would head to the mall playscape since it’s close to David’s Middle School and we hadn’t been there since … I can’t remember.  Normally I am perfectly fine spending 5 days at home with the boys but I really wanted to get them away from the TV.  It’s raining cats and dogs out there off and on all day long so the TV was bound to be on more than usual.  I just had my cell phone with me, so the picture is pretty poor quality but here are all three boys in the little blue car.

Lowell was laughing SO hard.  It’s so uncharacteristic of him to be laughing, so we drink it up when it happens.  This was the single, only photo I took on Wednesday.  Sometimes you just get lucky.  Doubly lucky.  Laughing Lowell AND I caught it with the camera.

I found this in our bathroom.  David must have been nice and stuck the latest knitpicks catalog in with the magazines instead of tossing it, as most catalogs go straight into the trash.  I flipped over to the back cover and … WOW.  I must knit this!  I don’t know how long it will be for sale up on their website, but I’m hoping to convince David that we really *can* afford it and that I really *will* knit it.  (someday – wink!)

Today was absolutely gorgeous.  One of those days that should be famous for being perfect.  I’d like to report that I took the boys outside for the entire day and we relished in the freedom and fresh air, but I’d be lying.  I didn’t realize it was beautiful outside until 2/3rds of them were asleep.  Yep.  Asleep.  Lowell is back to taking naps.  I even took one, too.  I haven’t felt this good in a long time and you could probably tell if you came over.  The house hasn’t been this clean and orderly for a very long time.  I actually think I’ve been depressed.  Not over anything… just the baby blues.  He’s so needy.  Even still.

So I missed the gorgeous weather outside with the boys but I opened the windows.  I sat down to knit and glanced up at the open window moving the sheers around and this is what I saw.  Drop dead beautiful.  Stunning.

I’m hoping for some sunny, warm-ish weather tomorrow so I can take the boys out front and open up the driveway.  We had a pipe burst (frozen) and our garage is quite damp and David has begun to worry about mold, so we should probably take steps to encourage it to dry out in there.