Sunday, May 3, 2009

A new baby

You read that right ... the announcement is at the end of the post.

Dry, central Oregon winters may generate great ski powder, but they often don't provide good snowman snow. We finally had a decent dump of wet stuff not long ago, and Sammy was more than ready for a real snowman. It turned out he needed some mommy help. Together, we managed to scrape together enough snow to create a satisfactory snowperson ... albeit one with pine needles sticking out every few inches. We were working against the clock as this snow was not very deep and was melting quickly. Sammy does occasionally smile nicely for pictures. Maybe one of those ones will show up someday.
Then came Easter. While we've had snow cover on Easter before, this one merely dawned as cold. I love shots of little, candy-eating egg hunters.

A smattering of good weather brings out the mudmaker in any self-respecting boy. It's all extremely fun until mom won't let you in the house that dirty. By then you're cold and your only option for cleanliness is the wet water from the hose. The wet water you spent all afternoon playing in ... is now your enemy. Until this child, our boys thought it was hilarious to get chased down and cleaned off in cold water.

A recent indoor activity here has been card house building. Sammy wanted proof of his extraordinary abilities ... with a card house destroyer lurking right outside the guest room door. And, yes, that is a scab on someone's knee in the bottom left-hand corner. But it wasn't my child. And mine never argue either. (you did catch that I was joking, right? not everyone catches such things)

Sammy wanted credit for Jake's house, so he snuck into the picture while Jake decided to give his card house a pair of bunny ears.
Everything looks so fun and happy (as long as you skipped the crying-mud picture). It's not. I don't make snowmen every time someone wants one. Instead, I sometimes get frustrated with all the wet snow things that have no place to go in our small entry area. I don't always create a perfect Easter. (In fact, I even call it by that pagan name "Easter"!) I sometimes say "no" to playing in the mud. My boys argue and make messes and don't always do their chores correctly.
And right now, I'm not doing my chores correctly either. That's because I'm so exhausted with this fifth pregnancy. We have this fifth baby on the way! That means I'm too tired to prove our imperfect lives by taking a picture of the disaster that often currently qualifies as our home. At least that means I can blog. If I'm too tired to get up and clean, I guess I can perform seated activities. Not a terrible trade-off, until I look around and see the mess!

5 comments:

Spinneretta said...

Non-nice smiling pictures are normal here- remember J with his open mouthed ones? ;) S looks so cute in the Easter picture... Sammy cracked me up in the mud one and as for the card houses- well I think Sammy is trying to get you with a rubber band in the last one- and Jake is just too funny!

molly said...

I love your blog entries. They are so "real". I'm not one for blogs that make life look prettier than it is in reality.....probably one reason I don't read blogs that much! That and time :)

I love all the pictures of the boys. We had a snowman much like Sammy's this year....only it was meadow grass sticking out everywhere :)

And I missed your last blog entry....love the little bunk bed! It looks great Steve!

Dan and Regan Peterson said...

Congratulations on your 5th pregnancy! You are a champ! When is the new addition due? Will you find out ahead of time if it is a girl or boy?

Shilo said...

Congratulations on your pregnancy! That's wonderful!
Thanks for stopping by my blog!
Blessings,
Shilo

Anonymous said...

I don't know how you do it! 1 boy is enough to overwhelm me most days! And 1 boys worth of mud and snow is plenty to trash my tiny house too! But congratulations! You are amazing!!! I'm keeping my fingers crossed for a girl this time!!!!!!