Lily and Molly are enjoying all the beautiful weather for playing outdoors. Molly especially enjoys riding around in the little toy car and will ride in it as long as anyone is pushing her.
Category: Groftzoo Updates
Future Pianist
All the kids seem to have picked up music as a major part of their personality. I sometimes wish I could get just a little less music around here. If Molly pursues it like the others have, this picture will be a great one to share later on as well. Thanks to Posy for taking the picture. She is adding photography to her myriad talents.
Here is one more for the day, Molly looks like she is really concentrating on the music!
Blueberry banana bread
The kids love blueberry banana bread and the recipe is super simple too:
(Per loaf)
3 bananas
2 eggs
2 cups flour (I used whole wheat white)
1 cup sugar
3 tbsp milk
1/2 tsp each:
Salt
Baking powder
Baking soda
Vanilla
1/2 cup oil (add after other ingredients are mixed)
1 cup blueberries
Bake at 350 for one hour.
My loaves were baked for a little more than an hour, since I forgot about them. But they are still tasty.
Haircut day!
Before:
After:
It breaks my heart to lop of those lovely curls, but he wanted them shorn and he HATES to have his hair wet down in the morning. So, Buzz Boy is back!
Socks
Two feet are Posy’s, two are Tessa’s, and one is Lily’s
Harlem Globetrotters
We had the surprise opportunity today to see the Harlem Globetrotters, AND we got a suite at the arena. The kids got a kick out of the comedy and action, and Molly loved going up and down the stairs in the suite and mooching food off of her aunt.
Dolly
Yet another crummy picture, but too cute not to snap it in the moment. I was cleaning the baby dolls with clorox wipes and Molly put them all on the floor then lay down in the middle of them. (I did help her arrange them a little, so at least none were face down.) She has suddenly gottten attached to baby dolls and is forever carrying one or more around and handing them to me so I can carry them around. She seems very distressed if I don’t have a dolly in my hand when she does. Maybe she is hinting at something…
Turtle Yoga
Sorry for the bad picture, I wanted to catch this before he stopped. Our turtle, Perrywell (named by Lily), has been doing this weird thing where he climbs on the rock and sticks his back feet in the air. We call it turtle yoga. We have wondered if he is cold and just trying to get completely out of the water. He looks very serene when he does it though, so maybe he is just stretching.
While Mommy pays bills
Molly’s new favorite activity is going to my book shelves and knocking books off by the dozens. After I cleaned this one up she did it two more times. Oh well, the price for some quiet was well worth it. There was no other destruction.
Molly’s Fit
The cutest thing happened today.
I took something away from Molly (now 14 months) in the kitchen and she turned away from me and started a full on make-your-ears-bleed, scream that would make a banshee proud, fit. Her screaming lessened to plain crying after a few seconds and she saw that Lily was sitting at the table watching her.
Molly ran over and buried her face in Lily’s lap, giving her a big hug, then she ran off to go play, completely consoled.