Pictured Grocery Tour Today

Today was one of those days when only half of the things you plan work out. Our day was packed with appointments starting with Soren's speech therapy, my lab visit at the hospital on post and already there we were struggling. If it takes you almost half an our to find an parking spot just to drag your toddler inside a hospital and get poke with the needle your motivation is leaving you. Finding out that the parking spot search was for nothing because  you ar enot in the computer in the sustem is down and the doctor not present doesn't help the fact that you are supposed to repeat all of it on Monday again.

Now I was still supposed to drag a toddler through the grocery store. Fun time. I don't think either Soren nor me were looking forward to it. But we did need a few items.

So of we went and did get a parking spot in front of the BIGGEST grocery store in the area.

Lately I really try to improve my photography skills and also to shoot in manual mode and read and learn more, not this morning. This morning I turned on the AUTO mode and it was time for Snap Shots.

Welcome to the comissary!

Soren of course wanted the BIGGEST shopping cart, surprising in the color red not blue which is his favorite. He seriously wanted to be buckled in for about three minutes. It was not even worth the trouble adjusting the buckles for this big kid.

I had no intentions on weighing any of the fruits or vegetables, but Soren did, once and twice almost all of them. I let the cashier doing it, but Mr. Soren thought it was just too cool. Now if he would eat all the produce he weight I would think it would be really cool.

Since our last visit in the comissary the hopscotch is must there. We didn't get a complain yet, when we do it and if then for heaven's sake remove it from the floor. If you put it there you have to use it, RIGHT?

Break or just impossible to ride the correct way in a shopping cart? Have your own guess. but I could give you the answer if you want to.

That's a special picture for all my German visitor: Do you see how much the want for Wienerle and that out of a jar? Might be normal or not I rather wait until I get fresh ones from the butcher to enjoy or just keep passing buy as always or taking pictures and have people laughing at me.

There's my little helper again. He was busy with jars today throwing more as I wanted into shopping cart and busy putting the same chicken bouillon can over and over on the register band. It would have never reach the cashier without intervention. lol

The comissary has baggers, no matter if you want or not that bag your stuff. You actually have to insist if not to, but they bag your groceries and cart it out to your car and pack it into your trunk and you pay them a tip.

Yes, I rather would do it myself and save the money, but it is there only payment and sometimes you are happy when you don't have to deal with it when you have a running toddler. Now Soren is older he is helping packing and loading the bags. Once a while depending on the bagger he is getting a ride on the cart to the car hanging on and the always taking over the payment job. Luckily he was happy just getting a snack in the car and didn't ask getting paid himself after all his help.

Bug Chasing

Yesterday afternoon it started raining and truly I don't mind. I LOVE it. I miss that we don't have real patio doors to open up or a covered patio, but that might be different someday. Something is already different, the space in our garage, we got huge shelves to ger everything better organize, hopefully less cluttered, too, eventually and yesterday we cleaned everything in between. Perfect timing.

Because right now I am sitting comfy on the old couch in the garage with the wide open door while Soren is a happy bug chasing boy in the driveway. Everything wet even it stopped raining for now, the birds are chirping and the bugs are our and rolly pollies everywhere, he is in heaven.

Just two days ago I talk with my mom that we should get him a little insext box with magnifing glass and Leland and I mentioned it this morning when we watched him. Then I remembered that I do not need to wait until I get into town to the dollar store or Wal-Mart for the little bit better ones, but that I already had something like it as a gift set I once bought at the Disney store fora gift just in case, because it was neat and you know, I am up for a bargain and need one or two present for parties in petto.

And there it was a whole gift set with binocolars, insect box with magnifing glass, net, twizzers, flash ligh, whizzle, tools, ... - Soren was all equipped, happy, busy, NOT WHINING, what a change to yesterdays little monster.

 

The pictures are cricket, the sun is not shining, we are still in PJs, but the day is as perfect as it is.

I LOVE rainy days.

Texas Bluebonnets or sneaky Soren?

Soren for sure did NOT want to take pictures, that was very obviously. Usually when we are outside and walk up to the empty lot next to us he is always ahead of us exploring. That day, he dragged his feet. No bog deal. Eventually he will arrive at the beautiful mount of Bluebonnets at the side of the neighbors fences. But no by the time I got the time I got the camera out that little stinker already turned around on his feet and stomped backed down the hill. No way.

We could not NOT taking pictures finally after living since years in Texas and never having done it.

Aren't they beautiful?

Now we should be finished right? But of course as soon as I want to take pictures of the girls alone Mr. Soren is in the front and we just have to laugh about him.

picture post - soren

 how many words do you need from me

when you see that smile and these boots

as always and every single day on his feet rain or sunshine?

spring break impressions - part two

May we introduce Mokka?

A little hungry lamb. It's not so little anymore, this little boy is already growing horns and pretty rough when you steo right out of the door and he is HUNGRY. He still got the bottle we milk formula once a day and the kids we almost fighting over it who got to do it.

Even Soren fed him twice and just LOVED this chore. Which took literally only 30 seconds. It takes longer to warm the water up for the bottle and to fix it. Cream and Coffee are his two sheepish companions. Cream shares his spaces and loves the attention and the food, too. Coffee just got fed through and over the fence. His horns are beautifully grown out, but also painful when getting used on your body. we didn't need to experience that part or trying to catch that sheep.

We called Mokka the longest time a goat, our friends used to have one, but truly they are missing little goats on their farms and also itty bitty chicks and ducklings. We were so tempted at the local feedstore today. These tiny things were just the cutest and especially the ducklings. You just go "aaaaaaaaaaaaa".

But we only left with plants. Honeysuckle and Esperanza. - This time I know the names from the plants I am interested in. LOL.

spring break impressions - part one

We did not travel very far this spring break, but almost daily to a little farm in town to feed all the little critters, pets and animals of our friends who did get go out of town for traveling this school break. I truly think we had way more fun. More weather changes, too, not necessarily, they even had snow we just had sun sun sun and down pouring, mud and three layers of jackets and the wish of gloves on our fingers because of the sudden temperature changes.

But do you the see the line at the chicken coop?

 Do you have so many friends waiting to feed your chickens?

Farmville or Real Life?

But I tell you SOMETHING, the kids thought find these eggs here was better as any golden mystery egg and we got two at once right the first time and at the last day SEVEN. Was a lucky day.

I promise the ponies did get  more as that to eat from Soren.

Chiara loves the ponies. Princess is her favorite, but Romeo here was the one for hugging and she just loved it. These two pictures are my favorites. She is such a horse lover.

Of course what monkey see monkey do, so Soren has to do what Chiara does and Romeo gets an extra portion of hugging. But you never can get enough of that and Soren is even crazier for horses and all animals as both girls combined. Amazingly the animals like him, too.

Cinderella was following Bella all the way up to the hay bails fo a round of jumping before these got soaked. There was always one of the dogs following us wherever we went.  Asking for attention, a pat or a tummy rub.

It was a beautiful evening outside, everybody got fed and we were back the next day.

spring break started yesterday at 3.34 pm

when the girls came running up the driveway screaming "SPRING BREAK" after hopping from the bus. Soren was running towards them ready for a big hug from Chiara and being as excited as them. He was already waiting outside for them in the sun eating ice cream.

Chiara had a good last week of school since her chatting and partner in crime got move to the other side of the classroom and loved showing of her treat out of the treasure box she was able to go to this Friday. She hardly to that necklace/keyring chain or however you call it off and already made her own nametags to attach to it.

Isabell is just glued to her BOOKS, literally. And these Warrior books are thick. All she wants to do is READ and the little sister just can't understand WHY? Ok, she did mix in between watching TV, crafting and playing outside today but all these things just got squeezed in between her reading episodes. They must give her extra time in school to read because every day is just "the best day ever" when she comes home from school and all she wants to do is .... you might guess.

Soren is just Soren. Loving it outside. While Leland and me were playing in the shed. Not playing, working. Soren was playing the whole time next to it with his little water table. He got wet, quite a bit, but it was so nice and warm that Chiara already wanted to switch into her bathsuit.

While all the kids were playing and we were organizing our shed of our first house - did we ever mention that we actually own the property since the end of last month. We are TEXAS homeowners. Who would ever have thought that. ... there were a yummy brisket and sausages smoking on the patio. Leland is really good in BBQ and Smoking. Even the kids loved the meat and that means something. And they want the leftovers for breakfast tomorrow.

Yes, you could easily buy ONE, but ..

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  WHAT would happen to the pack of leftover boxes from the post office taking away space in the garage? Recycling!
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  The EXCITEMENT of the kids because we are cutting up boxes!
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  The SILLYNESS of Soren because he brings his TOY SAW for cutting the cardboard boxes.
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  Seeing their FASCINATION how to create something new and already all ideas - and we can do this and that.

The girls went to bed but the tod kept helping and and working on his project  and choosing papers for the big one so we ended up with all the doggie and kitty and star ones here. And finished with some more glue and tape our paper  and cororin book holder to get some organizing in here. Leland rather would have bought one, but  we denied.

                      

All we needed

• 3 Priority Mail Boxes about 11 x 13 x 2 3/8 (even used ones are still perfectly good for that project because you cut one side off anyway to make them fitting to your size of your paper, but flat is easier cutting)
• Tape
• Glue
• 4 Pages of Scrapbooking Paper for example

Just as a tip if you ever make one, measure before, our fourth layer was just perfect, just 1/4 inch too high in the shelf, so it got chopped off again.