Ian's Study Buddy

Ian was doing his morning KONOS studies when Joule hopped up and snuggled in. She stayed for quite a while. She generally spends her morning curled up next to Ian on the floor, or in Evyn's arms at the classroom table.

This was taken a few days after the above photos. We came through the room and saw her sitting with her head on Ian's books. Ian has the photo on his laptop with the tagline : Homework Gets Me Down. I thought it looked like she had school work burnout!

Easter Sunday

Easter Bunny made a visit and left chocolates and some carrots. The egg carton in the center holds our Resurrection Eggs. We went through the eggs and the Easter story about 11:30 when we ate our Hot Cross Buns (see photo below).

Kids enter to discover their filled baskets.

Digging to the bottom of the basket.


They each received a container of colored bubbles with wand. It's supposed to be washable. There are green and blue dots on our deck still ... even after the rain. Hmmmmm .....

The hunt was on ... who could find the most eggs this year. Ian won ... he seemed to have a sixth sense about where they were hidden. This is what Ethan's discovered so far.

Amber scoured the classroom.

See Ian's hoard?

Evyn found his fair share.

Amber's egg hunting results.

Evyn found one in the laptop ... of all places! It's a wee bit squished, don't you think?

These are my fantastic Hot Cross Buns. They came out wonderfully! They are large and airy. I didn't have candied orange peel, so I used the candied fruit I purchased in December for fruit cake, which I never made.

They were as good as they look. Yes, there are currants in there, too. Yum!
Our beautiful ham. It was delicious!

Boy Meets Burger

Friday night we decided to make hamburgers for dinner (I had a turkey burger). We had set out quite early from the house for the waterfront park as I had a photo shoot. Ian did not have his dinner with him to take to dance. Dance started at 4 and he wouldn't be home until 7:45. He would have been starving. We asked if he could miss the ballroom dance class (it's an adult swing class and he only learns technique; there will be no dance for the recital). After his teacher gave her blessing, we had to stop by Fred Meyer to get some ground beef as Daryn has already assembled burgers for the other kids and himself and had no meat remaining. Ian came home and assembled a 1 pound juicy lucy burger for himself. (A juicy lucy is a burger with cheese in the middle.)

Here is the boy.

Here is the burger.

Here is the boy greeting his gigundo (that's a real word in our house!) burger, complete with tomato and lettuce and condiments.

Hellllooooo Burger! It was HUGE!

Boy did not open mouth wide enough for this bite. Need to try that again!

He was almost able to open wide enough. If he were part snake he could have unhinged his jaw to accomplish the feat.

In the end, Boy Demolished Burger ... his feat was complete. I think we are going to go broke feeding this boy! My measly little turkey burger was less than 1/4 inch thick ... so VERY thin. I had a piece of avocado on it, plus some tomato and lettuce, and that was nearly too much for me. I don't know where he put this. He has two hollow legs and is reed thin. Oh, to have his genes!

Ian's Tree of Life socks and Sweater Vest

Ian is so perpetually cold, and although these Tree of Life socks were initially intended for someone else (who shall remain nameless should I decide to make them again), I decided to give them to him. He liked the length (I think now he wishes they were a bit longer, as you may notice he has pulled them up and revealed the ribbing under the cuff) and the warmth of the wool.

I was actually a test knitter for this pattern from a designer on Ravelry. The name of the socks is actually in Irish, but as I cannot pronounce it, nor could I ever remember how to spell the words, I have renamed them the Tree of Life Socks. When I saw them on him I was reminded of older boy scout photos, so I decided to pose him that way.


The next few photos are Ian modeling his new sweater vest. Last month he was saying how cold he was and I instructed him to put on a sweater. His reply? "I don't have one!" Well, that was that, we set to looking through my books. He talked about a hooded sweater to which I said, "NO!" He was not interested in a pullover, so we knew it had to be a cardigan. We talked about vests, pull-on and button-up. We finally decided on this pattern. It has a zipper (two-way no less!), and pockets (a first for me!). Don't think I really want to ever do pockets again, but one never knows. If the pattern is well-written, then I might try again, but one never knows.

Mr. G-Q

The men's small would have been too big for Ian's measurements, so I adjusted by using smaller needles and giving it more length. He's so tall and thin! The vest makes him look taller and thinner than ever!
Here is the back of his sweater. I think I gave him enough length to last him for at least a year or two.
Close up up front and pockets.