Untitled (because I got tired of being creative tonight)

If I had written this post last week, it would have been much more fascinating. However, I didn't and now I can't remember all the wonderful things my kids said or did. Your loss. Here's what I got for ya.

Hangin' with Grimace. 

I was with my sister Becky as we drove by this McDonald's in Eden Prairie. Having never actually seen Grimace in real life, I made her pull over and we both got our pic with him. I can only imagine what this employee thought as "having pictures taken with odd passersby" was probably not included in the job description.

Meg in Sunday School

I have only my point and shoot camera right now as I destroyed our last remaining lens for our nice one and we haven't gotten a replacement for it. So, these pics aren't great enough for the church website, but this one of Meg turned out pretty stinkin' cute.

Meg and her new bicycle

The girls each moved up a bicycle so Meg got Emily's from last year. Again, too cute.

Lauren learning to ride a two-wheeler

I knew I had this video somewhere. I downloaded video from both my little cameras and still couldn't find the file. So I began watching some of them, one by one. Most were ones Lauren had created. Let's say her documentary style of "Life on Earth" rivals that of The Blair Witch Project. I'm slightly--okay, really--motion sick right now. But some of her insights are fascinating to a parent! I didn't load them here, but I will let you see her bike riding progress on day two of learning to ride (the same bike she had earlier rendered useless via multiple holes with a thumb tack into the tires).

Weird and Wacky St. Patty's Day

Today was an all-around strange day.

First, it's St. Patty's Day and we had Swedish pancakes with lingonberries for breakfast.

Second, Minnesota was in the 80s today. I had to dig out my capris. This of course meant out kids were bike riding so...

Third, Lauren got this oh-so-bad idea to put pins into Annika's bike tires so that Annika would go slower when they raced. She got Emily to help her. Annika's two tires are now very flat. The irony? Lauren didn't know that she is inheriting Annika's bike in a week when I bring Annika's new one home from the Twin Cities. Needless to say, the bike tires will not be getting fixed anytime soon. I'm kind of disappointed/depressed that my kids can be so deceptive.

On the lighter side, after Megan's shower this morning, she asked if I could put her hair up like an ice cream (in the towel). She also talks about going to sparkle school (which might be preschool. I couldn't quite understand her explanation although sparkle school got torn down and now she goes to spider school).

Another child also asked, "What is vibrance?" I was thinking "vibrants" and said I didn't there was any such thing. She said, "Dad just said he's shaving his vibrance." Ah--I had heard the conversation so I knew what he had actually said. Sideburns.