Chloe Poppins

It’s been a busy week here, so we thought we’d share a few photos of last weekend’s “Egg Hunt”.Claire plays in the egg bin.

 Sam helps Claire “find” and egg.

  Sophie in between events.

  Wilson’s loot

Thanks to Grandma, Claire is sporting a new “do” these days.  The kids love it, and it does keep her hair out of her food.   

After Sophie, Sam and Wilson spent a few minutes mapping out the backyard, Sam spent the better part of last night and this morning preparing a treasure hunt for Sophie and Wilson. He wrote and hid clues this morning. He was somewhat disappointed when they zipped through his entire puzzle in a few short minutes.

Next time, we’ll be sure to write more difficult clues!

Dear Mark and Chloe,

Overall, today went pretty well. None of the children had major meltdowns, and I don’t think we lost any of them. Not for an extended period of time, anyway.

Our biggest difficulty today was when we tried to take the kids to the SuperHappyFun-atorium. Someone looked up directions to the wrong -atorium. After a 45-minute drive, we pulled triumphantly into the parking lot of a fitness center. Not a SuperHappyFun-atorium. Then, with the three older children in various states of sadness and with Piper actually whimpering with weariness, we went back home. We’ll try for SuperHappyFun again tomorrow.

Fortunately, the Navigation Complication was the most frustrating part of the day. Here’s photographic evidence that the rest of it wasn’t half bad … Continue Reading »

At Nichole’s suggestion, I tried Picnik for a little photo editing fun this evening. It was really neat, but I think I spent more time on the computer than I should have. However, I now have a FREE account at Picnik, and you should too!

If I can figure out how to load it, you will have a picture.

….to Nichole , who managed to figure out what was going wrong with my blog. Then she moved it!! Three cheers for Nichole.