*sigh*
The KinderGARDEN participants were encouraged to go out and get some pictures of the garden at dawn. I carefully chose a five minute window of time.
Did I choose wisely?
No.
I never had a chance.
My quick escape from reality ended with my husband yelling out the front door, wondering where the heck I was, because he needed to leave for work. On my mad dash back to the house the dog tripped me because she was hungry. Upon bursting through the front door I discovered The Bean was wide awake and happy. You'd be happy too if you had just had a big satisfying poop. Personally though, I'm not sure it would be enough to make me stand in the middle of the stairway and sing. The first grader had no interest (to put it mildly) in getting ready for school. He's getting difficult for me to physically control, but I managed to successfully wrangle him down the stairs without rolling his singing sister (and her poo) down as well.
It's a miracle to me how he's ever ready when the bus arrives.
I wasn't ready to call this rare morning-picture-taking-thing over. And besides, what is a KinderGARDEN post without the kinders? So I hauled the two remaining monkeys out to the corral.
I mean, after we spent twenty minutes looking for rain boots, and finally settled for snow boots.
Fun, right? An early morning expedition to the garden, with a plan to eat as many raspberries as their hearts desired?
No.
*sigh*
"We're tooooo cooooold"
"Run around my little chickies. You'll warm up. Raspberries this way. Come!"
And they did:
We finished our adventure by attacking the popcorn maze.
Or... being attacked by the popcorn maze?
Who knew popcorn could be so vicious?
KinderGARDENS week 17
15 comments:
Beautiful pictures =) Raspberries are my fave and we are too hot to grow them here. My parents are in MN (not sure the zone) they just planted some spinach, carrots, radishes and a few other plants. Their cold frames extended their crops well into the winter and they harvested spinach well into the winter months.
I am just getting used to the zone 8/9 gardening year round here!
You'll need those snow boots soon enough. ;p
My gardening was non-existent this year. I wish I had raspberry bushes! YUM!
Oh my, what a morning! I love these shots though, am so glad you managed to corral the kids and get them out. Your corn and sunflowers are growing so tall! (Our sunflowers are turning to seed already.) I love how everything is so GREEN!
your morning story was the funniest :):)
you make me laugh. always.
and no, it would not be enough to make me stand in the middle of the stairway and sing.
L.O.V.E. the raspberry pics (and when did Bean's hair get so long???).
If your popcorn is anything like our sunflowers (before they got flattened), we know exactly how vicious it can be. ;)
Lovely set of photos! I really adore the 4th raspberry picking shot with her little hand clasping the berry and the concentration on her face along with her beautiful eyes!
Thanks for your comments on my blog. I love the simpler dark background, too, but for some reason the kids never stayed in front of the backgrounds! One thing I've learned for next time~bigger and more planned backdrops. The editing to get that background took me too long :)
Love the photos. We don't have berries to speak of here yet. I have to figure out how to deer "proof" them. If they are worth something, (raspberries, grapes, etc.), the deer eat them to the nubs. However, the weedy ol' blackberries, hey, let's just let them be... Sigh...
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Love the kid pics! Even the first one where they look miserable, but your funny commentary is responsible for that I think. Speaking of thinking... I remember those "hurry-up-and-get-ready-or-else days." I know just what you need. A tazer. Like you see on Cops. That would get their bad little asses moving!
LOL - I'm not sure what I love more...the photos or the story. But what's really changed. I love your stories.
You never cease to make me smile, and that is kind of hard to do at the moment.
Loved this! Everything about it. :)
hahaha - singing after you poo - I think my hubby does that!!
Love that your bribery worked - raspberries in the morning are yum!
Oh goodness - never a dull moment in your household! You always capture such great images in the midst of it all. ,
As usual you had me laughing and your photos...Gorgeous!
Hahaha! Poop on the stairway, singing little girls, man-handling boys around the house.....sounds a little bit like my household - except my boy is littler and I've only got one boy.
Love the expression on their faces standing in the sunflowers. So cute.
I've got the opposite sleeping situation around here. My tots will sleep 'til a decent time in the morning, but bedtimes are getting much, much too late around here.
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