After school today we biked over to Charlie’s glasses shop to see about getting his (new!) glasses repaired. Since everyone was well behaved we stopped for a snack as well.

They wanted to sit in the sun, and there were three of them, three spaces, it all seemed very logical at the time.

The kids have had breakfast and are playing Wii, and I’m in bed procrastinating getting up. This week was a long one full of new schedules and crap.

I think the dogs and I are going to stay in bed for a few more minutes :)

I went to a little open house this morning at Charlie’s kindergarten and what did I see as I was wandering around? A sweet palm tree on the wall with all the smiling faces of the kids in the class. Everyone but Charlie was in a normal pose. I don’t know why this picture came as such a surprise to me, but I almost fell off my bike on the way home because I was laughing so hard.

To reiterate: yes, he’s enjoying school.

And yes, he really is all that.

When we got Stella (at work with me today) at the beginning of the summer they told us she was about 9 months old and would get to be about 40 pounds.

Then we took her to our vet about a month later who told us she was 6 months old tops was still growing.

She’s got HUGE paws and lots of extra loose skin to grow into… Something tells me she’s going to be a lot bigger than we thought!

We’re going to need a bigger bed.

Wow, so today was the first day of school and Henry’s first day of soccer. Oh and it was day two of heatpocalypse. Can you tell he was a little warm at the end?

So here’s the thing. I can make a nice loaf of whole wheat sandwich bread. It tastes mild, it is soft, it smells good, but my kids wont eat it. Want to know why? Because it isn’t snowy white in color! Makes me crazy!

So the other day I had an idea – change the color of the bread! Brilliant, right?

Well it did work, and the kids are happily eating whole grain bread, but other complications have come up. For example, I made a sandwich for the man repairing our fence and I had to explain to him why his bread slices were yellow with blue swirls!

(If you want to try this yourself, I just added a sixteenth of a teaspoon of Wilton gel food coloring per loaf – I mixed it into the water. You’ll see from the picture that some colors come out less creepy than others!)

The sun is trying to make up for hiding out all summer long by baking our brains into a bubbling mass today. Combine that with school starting tomorrow and 2 of my 3 kids being really anxious about it (hint: it’s the two on the right), and well… It’s movie and popcorn day.

Not sure how I can be in denial about what is happening tomorrow since I spent the morning doing things like labeling lunchboxes, but there you have it.

Nice afternoon hanging out with my mom and goofing around in her pool. Very relaxing, but now I need to do laundry, make bread, and so on.

We rode back over to school this afternoon to check out the class lists. As Henry said, “I only know this kid and this kid and this kid and…” and proceeded to name about 3/4 of the class. I think he’s going to be fine!

(And in his spare rime he’s running a hotel for his brothers in the backyard. Here they’re having snacks in the restaurant.)