Sat-19-Jul-2008 - Photo blog & GOOT
This week the boys have been sick. Samuel is lots better. He seemed to have an ear infection and be teething, and I panicked and gave him lots of echinacia when his ear began draining gunk out of it (he told us it hurt frequently) and put a drop of colodial silver in it as well. He never complained after that.
Elijah has been coughing, and we put GOOT on his feet in a desperate attempt to help him. He'd been coughing for half an hour, we applied the GOOT, he was much improved for about 2 hours. We marveled. We took the socks off. Shortly thereafter he began to cough again, painfully. So we put socks on him last night with more GOOT and put it on Samuel as well. I didn't wake up to hear Samuel cough once. Hooray! Our house does smell like an Italian restaurant and I crave garlic bread, though!!!!
Samuel, my sick one. Holding cheese sticks he could never bring himself to eat!
He fell asleep like this. The weight of the pillow must have felt good???
I canned 18 pints of new potatoes despite the boys been sick.
Elijah sleeping . . .
Elijah playing with our cat. The kitty was flipping his tail around and playing with him - they both really enjoyed it!
Jonathan made Elijah his first fort while Samuel was asleep. Elijah just crawled right through it! We were a bit suprised, since Samuel was VERY cautious about stuff like this at Elijah's age. However, Elijah has certainly proved over and over that he is not his brother! He was fearless and Jonathan was thrilled that he enjoyed it!!!
I went and picked blackberries Thursday night. It was very warm. I can stand the heat when I'm not pregnant, but it was obvious to me this time that I was! LOL It was 92 degrees when I started and 87 when I stopped, but I picked 10# of blackberries. And it was SO WORTH IT when I got home! (I had two boxes but only one is pictured below.)
Elijah loved them!
Samuel and Daddy enjoyed them . . . .
And the stains came out of the carpet and off of Purple Boy!
So all's well that ends well . . . at least when it came to our blackberries!
Hope everyone is having a great weekend!
~Ashley~
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Mon-9-Jun-2008 - Everything's Better with Daddy
The grass is greener, the meals are more fun, it's even easier to shop and stuff.
I happened to take more pictures than usual of our weekend. And I wanted to share since I'm in a photo-blogging mood.
To start, I got a picture of Elijah sitting up. I LOVE IT! 
And a picture of him standing.
Oh! These photos were taken Thursday. But that's not really important because it was evening, that wonderful time of day when dads are home playing with their boys. And mowing and stuff like that.
On Friday night we hit the town. On our bikes and a loaf of moldy bread.
Samuel enjoyed the ducks in a big way! And he was bit by a goose. So he ended up a bit prejudice against birds larger than himself! But only slightly.
Here is proof that Elijah and I were there!
And the super, duper slide Samuel went down, all by himself!
This morning, Samuel got a haircut and learned how to give a thumb's up sign!
And then he took a shower and fell asleep in my lap. It turned me into mush! I probably rocked him 20 minutes before I laid him gently in his bed. 
Now here the story of this afternoon. We drove into town to get some carpet to put in a closet we've torn the carpet out of. On the way back, I looked in the back and Samuel had found half a stale Oreo. Who knows how old! He was holding it rather skeptically and so I told him:
"Enjoy that old cookie, buddy."
A few minutes later we looked back in seat to see . . . .
ELIJAH EATING THE COOKIE!!!!
All gone!
I hope everyone is enjoying their weekend as much as we are!
~Ashley~
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Wed-4-Jun-2008 - Pics
Elijah and I.
My boys.
Most pictures don't show what spazes they are. This one does!
This is a direct result of being raised by a spazoid mama. They very quickly learn that when mom does something totally random, laugh. It's supposed to be funny and she's trying really hard. I can control my tendancy to make strange faces and noises in public, but I'm not shocked my boys can't. Usually I just fold my hands and look calm like I don't know why Samuel is stopping mid-stride and randomly standing on his head. His daddy must have taught him that!
The onery ones. Not taking a nap as Mommy has asked them to.
Daddy's version of baby-watching. 
I hung a picture one day. You can't hear the BEEEEEEEEEP ... BEEEEEEEEP of Samuel "copying" me. I hope my suffering pays off one day and I hear my son say "Sure, mom, I can hang that for you. Let me go grab that little tool you used to let me play with - I know how to use it now."
And this, my friends, is what we did one evening last week. We watched this itty-bitty spider build this web. It was facinating! He moved so fast that we wished he would slow down and let us watch more closely. We probably watched him build 2/3's of the web, staring at the tiny intricate gauze, our faces inches apart. Talking in soft, hushed voices as we pondered the miracle of God's design as the spider went around and around. I wish I had a better picture. To put it in perspective I'm not sure you could put a pencil lead between the strands and the spider was almost transparent.
What can I say? We don't have cable. We are easily amused.
~Ashley~
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