A little song from Caillou....

My sweet funny little boy loves to sing!  This is the first of many of his little musical moments that I will be sharing with you! 

A week of Diet Coke....

I am addicted to diet coke, or diet pepsi, doesn't really matter as long as it is ice cold, and from a soda fountain.  I don't care for it much in the bottle or the can, I will drink it, however, it is the icey cold, bubbly, straight from the soda fountain, good stuff that I prefer.  3 blocks from my house is my diet coke, "go to" spot.  The girls in there all know me, and laugh when I come in with my procession of children, wild, noisy, and usually dirty from a trip to the park, or a romp in the garden.  Or when I come in at the end of a very long day, and march over to that soda machine and the with my big cup in hand, walk over to the counter and say " you don't know what a day I have had, I need my diet coke"  They particularly find it funny when I come in more than twice on the same day, which.... sometimes I do.  Sooo, I decided to collect my cups for a week to see just how bad my diet soda addiction is... well as you can see by the picture... it is not good.

In one week I consumed 1624 ounces of ice cold diet coke, possibly more if you consider the refills.

1624 ounces, that is more than 13 gallons of diet soda.  Dear me, what am I going to do?  I find myself really needing my ice cold lifesaver to get me through my day, and one to gulp down as I rock in my rocking chair at night, recovering from a wild day with toddlers.  This habit.... cannot be good.

A little Country fair....

The boys had a lot of fun this past weekend at our town's little fair...riding rides, playing games, and eating cotton candy, popcorn, and churros.  This weekend we have the 4-h animal fair to look forward too!

Two......

Jasper turned two on the 17th!  We had a fun day with friends and treats and presents.  My little old house was about 120 degrees, it was hot and miserable.  So... we got in the car, friends following behind us, and drove down the hill to a Mc Donalds with an air conditioned playground, it was cold and heavenly, we then romped around at a park with train tracks, a little creek, and great trees to climb, and finished up the birthday evening with a scoop of ice cream from thrifty's.