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and this is what was on it:
or, my dear and loving husband. i’m sorry it had to come to this, but i’m running out of things to choose from. i still think it is a funny photo. i was chatting at my girlfriend’s house sometime last summer, i came out and there he was laid out in her yard.
i was talking to him today about where we want to be in ten years, you know life goals and the like (what kind of kitchen appliances you hope to have :). after not getting any response, i finally asked him, “well, where would you like to be when you’re forty?” he looked at me with the dumbest look, “i don’t know, i’d settle for ‘alive’ i guess…..heck, i’d settle for dead.” it’s hard working with so much bottled ambition. i’m never going to get my aga at this rate.
no kidding? i swore it was tuesday. a very unsavory development indeed.
still no camera, so i thought i would share my favorite painting of jael. she’s sporting the same dirty look i wear all the time.
then there is this other one where she looks almost frighteningly nonchalant. like she does it all the time while subconsciously planning the dinner menu.
there are old paintings of all the kiddos names; gideon, jehu and jael. someday i will order and frame the prints for birthday presents. i particularly like the one of jehu. where he is looking fine, kicked back in his chariot, watching jezebel get flung out the window. but don’t worry, the pictures of gideon seem to be much more pious. it’s funny how they take after their names so much already. gideon has always been cautious and his biggest concerns right now are sin, death and old age. jehu, on the other hand, just runs around taking the lids off things.
and can’t have. naturally.
is it just not cool to make prints if you’re a real artist? what’s the deal? do i have to wait for him to die first? i wouldn’t mind, i don’t like him. i just want the picture.
it is kind of hard to blog without a camera. more old photos. this is ice blocking a few summers ago with my siblings. they all jumped out of the car and ran up to the top of simplot hill, leaving the boys in the dust. jehu however refused to be deterred. he took off crawling as fast as he could.
after following him for a while and laughing, i decided it was cruel and carried him. but he is still my little go-getter. we went to a big park this week. he stood back, assessed the highest possible point and made a bee line for it. maybe someday he will be a tree climber, just like his daddy and granddaddy. but whatever you do, don’t make the mistake of calling him a “big boy.” “i am not big, i is little,” he huffed at me the other day. then turning to his daddy he said, “daddy, put the little kitty in his bed.”
“i see you have some exposed root on that cap. let me test it for sensitivity by sticking some liquid nitrogen on it and you tell me if it hurts.” i should have mentioned that it hurts when i breathe and then we could have skipped that step. by the way, there is still no camera. here is an old picture of the little girl’s hand. she sat on my lap the whole time and made googly faces at the dentist. then she pooped on me.
this weekend i painted the bathroom and suctioned spiders out of cracks in the basement. and while that was fun, the rest of my house seemed to suffer from some kind of rabid entropy. now i have to go clean paint and spaghetti out of the kitchen sink and play diaper soccer. (the diaper pail is outside which sometimes makes for slow migration. unless gideon is close, then i chuck them at his head and he carries them out. like a good boy.)
baby girl had her shower last night. it was very yummy. stephanie and kimberly made falafel with cucumber yogurt, spinach strawberry salad, all kinds of things stuffed into puff pastries, couscous, avocado filling piped into baby tomatoes, baklava and an unbelievable vegan cake. i want to go back.
while i was eating baby jael made off with all kinds of poofy girl wear. the little sweetie. just looking at this picture of her makes me want to run up stairs and slurp on her cheeks. and that is what i will do. maybe she is a passing substitute for fine finger foods.
i am without camera this week so i thought i would just put up some classics. this is marc trying to take the saturated fat away from gideon, who apparently didn’t understand how something so good could be so bad.
both the boys could sit down and eat a whole cube if you let them. just the other day i left a tub of spread on table and when i came back it was gone. there was just jehu licking his fingers and gideon backing off the table trying to look innocent.
