My Week in Absurd Little Drawings

All of this is 100% factual. No exaggerations were needed.

 

Sunday Night

Rob: Looks like I’m going to Arizona tomorrow morning.
Julie: Okay

Later Sunday Night

Rob: Never mind

Monday Morning

Rob: Looks like I’m going to Arizona tonight.
Julie: Okay

 

Later Monday Morning

Rob: Never mind.

 

Tuesday Morning

Rob: Looks like I’m going to Arizona tonight.
Julie: Okay

 

 

 

And off he went. But not before…

 

 

Nate vomited in the middle of the night.

Rob: What’s going on?
Julie: He puked.
Rob: Huh?
Julie: He puked. Can you grab a bowl while I take off all his sheets and remake his bed?
Rob: Huh?
Julie: A bowl.
Rob: A bowl?
Julie: A bowl!

 

Tuesday
(After Rob had left)

Mom: Come here, Cara, lay on my chest. You don’t seem to feel very well.
Cara: BARF!!

 

Wednesday

No explanation needed.

 

Thursday Morning

Clerk: Time to renew!
Julie: I renewed last month.
Clerk: Looks like you upgraded instead. That’s good!
Julie: I didn’t want to upgrade, I wanted to renew.
Clerk: Oh, well. You upgraded. Now you have to renew. $55 again please.

 

Thursday Afternoon

Julie: Can you tell me the sale price on these boy shoes?
Clerk: Looks like they’re not on sale.
Julie: Even though there are twenty-five bright red signs everywhere saying “All shoes on sale”?
Clerk: I guess not.

 

Kids: Rides!!
Mom: I have enough quarters for one ride.
Kids: Yay!
Cara: Whaaa!!!

 

Mom: I forgot the jeans that we need to exchange in the car. Grrr.

 

Julie: Where are the toddler girls jeans?
Clerk: I guess we don’t have any.
Julie: You don’t have ANY toddler jeans? I need to exchange these.
Clerk: Nope, I guess not. Maybe in a few weeks. Can you wait a few weeks?
Julie: No.
Clerk: Just exchange them for something else.
Julie: Fine.

20 min later…

Clerk: Can I get your email address for your membership? Oh, sorry. See this teeny sign? We discontinued our KidVantage Club. You can’t exchange any of those without a receipt.
Julie: I have never needed a receipt before because of my membership info. Can’t you look up my purchase? That’s why you have my email address.
Clerk: No. I can only see some purchases. You have to go home, sign in, print out your receipt, then come back. Would you still like to buy those anyway?
Julie: No.

 

Thursday Evening

Wheeler Farm. Barbed wire.
Nate: Whaa!!

 

Kids: I have to pee!

 

10 minutes after the previous pee...#2 was on its way.

 

 

Mom: Great. The only restrooms nearby are next to the gigantic playground.
Kids: Can we play?!
Mom: No.
Kids:Whaa!

 

 

On the way home.

Kids: La La Mickey Mouse! La La Goofy! La La Donald Duck!

 

Mom: Mom’s turn. Ooh, I like this song! La La La!
Kids: Whaa!
Mom: La La La!!!

 

 

Thursday Night

 

 

Later Thursday Night

Nate: Mom, when am I going to have a little brother to play with?
Mom: I don’t know. But you play so well with your boy cousins!
Nate: But I play so well with Cara, too. That means I’m ready for a little brother!
Mom: Dad and I don’t know if we’re ready for a baby.
Nate: But I am! Whaa!

 

 

Even Later Thursday Night

Julie: Yuck!! There’s that huge moth that has been flying around in here for three days! And it’s still alive! Let me find a box to scoop you up in and set you free finally. Shiver.

 

 

Latest Thursday Night

Julie: Finally. Alone with my Costco bin of donut holes.

‘Stached

I while back I saw these stick-on moustaches in the store and just couldn’t resist getting them for a photo prop.

 

 

 

 

 

After they got bored of them on their lips, they became goatees.

 

And then eyebrows.

 

 

 

I’m thinking…

 

I’m thinking…

 

I’ve got it!!

A Newborn Nephew

 

One of my favorite picture-taking opportunities is of a baby on its first day of life on this earth;
on the first day they breathed their first breath.
They are so new and pure and clean (after a bath…haha).

 

Growing the baby, laboring the baby, delivering the baby…HARD.
Then comes post-delivery, recovery, and actually taking care of the baby, which is also HARD.

 

But. For a few minutes in between all the hard things there is felicity. There is awe. There is peace.

 

Those are the moments I love to catch and bottle up digitally, so we can remember them, in between all the hard things.

 

Welcome to life, Colten!

California Vacay: Manhattan Beach

After two crazy fun days at the amusement parks, we were happy to have some low key beach days.

 

I LOVE Manhattan Beach. The whole town surrounding the area is perfection. Beautiful, quaint beachfront houses, boutiques, restaurants, clean streets and sand, and sun. What more could one ask for?
Okay, well it wasn’t very warm, but that didn’t deter us too much.
Here’s a video of Nate in the water. A little later on he fell in and was somewhat upset about the whole thing.

 

Rob and I had brought Nate here when he was only 6 months old and we knew we’d come back some day. Last time I ate an AMAZING chicken parm sub and I was determined to have another. Ohhhh, good!!

 

This is the first time at the ocean for the kids (besides baby Nate) and they really thought it was great. Just look at their faces!

 

My dad’s cousin lives 5 minutes from the beach and had graciously agreed to let us stay with him and his wife. My dad decided to take a mini vacation and fly in and stayed with Danny while we were there so it was one big house full of fun! The kids were a little nervous at first, staying with people they had never met, but once they saw my dad they felt much better. That night we ate dinner with my dad and the Kieffers and then relaxed and read before bed. What a nice day!