"i'm gonna make wings"

i woke up this morning to a computer that was completely out of memory. and by completely, i mean the little bar showing how much space i had left was all red. i had nothing left. zip. zilch.

i made a quick call to my tech guy who was having coffee right next to me to come and assess the situation and maybe just drive to the apple store with me to get an iPad.

no new iPad later, it took him all of about a nano-second to find the culprit: the girls get a kick out of using our flip video camera and it would seem that storing nearly six hundred videos which varied in length from snippets to multiple documentaries of a behind the scenes look at an american girl doll fashion show was sucking up massive amounts of memory.

i needed to start culling through the videos to see which had to go.

but it's hard just by glancing at the screen shot to know which videos need to be kept & which can get tossed out. i have to look at every one. which is good, cause then i would have missed this one. as you can see in the background of the video, our son is doing a stellar job of babysitting while lulu tries to fly.

the right music and fancy monopoly

i spent a good chunk of the afternoon going through all the papers and books the kids had emptied out of their backpacks that had been tossed in the front hall since the last day of school 3 days ago. this was part of lulu's writing portfolio.

My family likes to go camping. We have a motor home that is silver with one brown stripe on the sides of it. Last year we went to Lincoln Lake. We stopped when I was asleep. My sister woke me up and we played sword fights with sticks.

After a while we went swimming. Me and Annabel made up routines and built sand castles. I loved the cool water it made me feel like a mermaid.

At Lincoln Lake there was 1 shop, 2 playgrounds and lots of motor homes.

I would ride my bike to a horse camp but they would not let you in unless you had a horse so I would stare at horses. When my mom called me for dinner I rode my bike back. My dad would cook over a fire while my mom tried to find the right music.

I would eat 1/2 of my dinner so game time would happen faster.

We played monopoly fancy style.

After that it was night time so we set out the beds and fell asleep and I dreamed of the next fun camping trip ever at Lincoln Lake.

hey lulu. i'll give you 5 cents for every pair of socks you match up

fancy stuff

you guys know that mom & dad are having some friends over tonight, right?

yeah. i can tell by all the fancy stuff in the refrigerator.

coming out of the closet

the other day, i watched lulu wrestle with a big stool and then finally wrangle it into the front hall closet. but between the wrestle and the wrangle, i asked her what she was doing.

she paused a minute and said, i want to see what it's like to spend some time in the closet.

and

maybe

try some things on.

a little while later i had actually forgotten she was even in there until i heard a muffled,

i'm ready to come out of the closet now.

this much she knows is true

i'm driving the girls home from school, and we're going down a nice street with lots of big, pretty houses.

and lulu says "i'm looking at all these houses" ...

and i think she's gonna say something about how big they are or how pretty they are. but she doesn't.

... "i think we must be the only family with a big silver airstream parked next to their house."

yep.

we must be.

don't forget the slinky

several weeks ago, i asked lulu what she had in her backpack, cause it was visibly packed to capacity and ridiculously heavy for an 8 year old.

she said:

a social sudies book
a math book
three library books and they're overdue
two webkinz
that sparkly sweatshirt
some smencils and notebooks

and a slinky.

waning days of summer

i can hear the kids playing outside.
its labor day weekend & it's dark now.

they're all having a ball, but suddenly something goes wrong and lulu starts to cry and head into house. but not before yelling out the door:

i don't want to play anymore, but i don't want you guys to keep having fun.

this just found

Claudia's Idea Notebook

all ideas rite here in this book.

1. write a very nice letter to santa clus and tell him to write back.
2. remember to work at Sonic when I grow up.
3. Do diolog journal with Catie.
4. give Santa one more present.
5. Play with Sophia and her Braz cloe doll house and win the lottery and be rich with my sister.
6. Clean dishes and do chores to help keep house clean.
7. Ballet always starts late and remind mom.
8. Never wach violents don't even peek like if it's scary. yeah really scary.
9. remember all about school.
10. read every day and try to be smart even though I am smart.
11. have the best Chistmas ever cause I beleave.

pee & poop

lulu asks what is saliva for?
and i give her the answer.
then she says -

you know what i think?

what?

i think that the stuff we drink comes out as pee and the stuff we eat comes out as poop.

and i say,
that's pretty much right.

yes! (fist pump) i knew it!

you're up early

I had nothing to dream about, so here I am.