“I have a bacon tooth AND a sweet tooth.”
8:06 AM Mar 21st

“I’m not feeling it.”
10:48 PM Mar 28th

“It’s not YOURgration, it’s migration.”
9:40 PM Mar 15th

“Know what I admire about pussywillows? They don’t have even a single sharp thorn, and they’re beautiful for decorating. And they’re soft!”
12:24 PM Mar 8th

“Sometimes my brain just has a mind of its own.”
1:20 PM Mar 7th

“My fingers are fighting with each other, because they both think THEIR fingernail is the cleanest. Those silly fingers!”
7:02 AM Mar 5th

“Hello there, candy. Take me on a journey to chocolate heaven!”
1:08 PM Mar 3rd

“I don’t care what anyone else says. Pluto is STILL A PLANET.”
6:38 AM Feb 28th

“I call this move the Jellyfish Corndog.”
10:10 PM Feb 24th

“I’ll be right back, you pies….Get it!? Instead of ‘you guys,’ I said, ‘you PIES!’ Hahahaha!”
6:59 AM Feb 22nd

“I don’t have any imaginary friends, but I like to pretend that I do.”
7:42 AM Feb 21st

“Well, Daddy is ONE of the Awesomes, but he’s not the Captain of them.”
8:34 AM Feb 17th

“I need an extra eyeball so I can look at my eyes.”
10:41 PM Feb 14th

“Happy Valentine’s Day, happy Valentine’s Day, happy Valentine’s Day EV-REEE-WUUUUUUNNNN!”
8:59 AM Feb 14th

“I can’t believe we’re back in the state where I was born!”
7:56 AM Feb 14th

“Can I use the colored pencils that Miss Sonja sent me yet? How about now? Can I use them now? Now? What about…now?”
11:21 PM Feb 12th

“Oh, I’m just enjoying the show.”
2:49 PM Feb 11th

“Rule number 54: if you have a cat, DON’T leave rubber bands on the floor.”
9:06 AM Feb 9th

“It’s about a baseball player who was playing tug-of-war before the big game, and he went home tired, and overslept and missed the game.”
12:58 PM Feb 7th

Brenda and Bug went home on Wednesday. I’m so glad they were able to extend their trip. We not only got the house almost completely done, we managed to do a bit more sightseeing. And of course we just enjoyed having them around a little bit longer! I’ll write a post about the house soon. And one about Dana & Leo’s weekend visit, and one about our college friends who happened to be in the area and came by for dinner, and one about the other fun stuff we did in the last week.

B, thanks again for flying all the way across the country, doing most of the unpacking and organizing, hanging all my pictures, pitching in with the chores and dinner-making, and just generally being such a good friend! I miss you already and am looking forward to many late-night IM chats.

See all that stuff on the floor? Yesterday I spent hours working on organizing the bathroom, sorting through all the shampoos and lotions and bandages that seem to accumulate and multiply in bathroom cupboards. I should really say, I spent hours trying to work on it. I kept getting distracted by children needing food, or helping Brenda hem and hang Annalie’s curtains, or reheating my coffee, or a million other things. (If you can’t spot me, check Troy’s shaving mirror in the shower. Or view largest to snoop!)

I’m sort of shrugging and sighing over the fact that I ended this 7 Days with a lame photo of my messy bathroom. But I’m also cutting myself some slack. I’ve had a busy week!

One of the things distracting me yesterday was this project. We were making a photo wall! I’ve wanted a photo wall like Joe & Kassie’s for ages. This house has the perfect wall for it, so I’m finally gonna have one, whee! We laid all the photos down on paper in the arrangement we liked, traced around the frames, and marked where the nails would go. Then we hung the paper on the wall and hammered the nails right through the paper. Worked like a charm.

While we were hanging frames, Annalie built this pet shop out of mega blocks, filled it with her Littlest Pet Shop animals, and drew some posters. She offered to sell me a puppy for the price of a black-and-white cookie. I thought that was a pretty good deal.