how many hands do I have?

That's a question OM here a lot around here (from me)...how many hands do I have?

Sometimes they get the full-on-mom-freak-out version that goes something like this,

how many hands do I have?

right two hands,

only two hands so I can't buckle Owen in his seat

and Maya and her seat and

get Owen some water and

turn on the cool air and

give Maya her band-aids

all at the same time.

Hold On!

Thankfully I can usually kind of keep it together and just ask the question and OM know to keep their completely bombarding list of demands to a minimum and hold on without me saying anything more.

The eye rolls have already started..I guess I probably deserve it:) It's weird how your patience stores wax and wane..mine do at least, they're never consistent. It must make life very interesting for OM:)

We're enjoying every last speck of sunshine while we can so we headed to the park yesterday AM (before the high's in the 90's!) and got in a long session of swinging, some duck-duck-goose and teeter totter.

Run Maya-Goose!

Owen tagging me 'duck.'

Terrible photo of me (good one of Owee) but it's here because it represents the best teams in MLB and the NFL. Go Pads and Bolts!!

Running to the teeter totter.

Today at Farmer's Market.

Maya and her band-aids. She has a new obsession with band-aids and puts them on daily, multiple times a day. We bought more this AM in case we actually have a legitimate reason for a band aid but since we bought Princess and Scooby Doo and Batman versions I'm sure we'll need more soon.

If any grandparents reading this happen to be out and about and bump into kiddy-band aids on sale, please pick some up for us..we'd all be happy to have a healthy supply.

Owen got a dragon balloon (and really wanted dragon band aids but we couldn't find any).

Maya rocks summer term 2009, sunny-style

You've seen Fall term '08, Winter '09, Spring '09 and now what you've all been waiting for, Summer term '09 @ Helen Gordon preschool. Her days of being a 'sunny' (child of the Sun room) are over...in a few weeks she'll be a Starfish (O will be a dragonfly, he was a grasshopper). I'm still waiting for his year of photos to share.

We borrowed James and The Giant Peach from the library and watched it over and over and in addition to being a totally awesome movie we now have Maya singing, 'James, James, James...' and me or Owen will finish with 'how are ya, isn't it a lovely day?'...check it out so you know what we're talking about.

It's worth seeing yo.

Anyway, it cracks me up when Maya, out of nowhere will start, 'james, james, james' in her singing voice.

So here she is in all her sunny glory:

Go Barack!

OK, so my title has nothing to do with these photos but after viewing tonight's address I feel so very happy that Barack is our leader and after two glasses of wine (okay, three) I'm letting the LAME and puerile antics of the haters go...must focus on the positive!

So, back to OM. Maya digs the ipod...this brilliant daughter of mine (okay, ours) dressed herself today and put on some pants I bought her at the Nike employee store awhile back (they've been too big to wear 'til now). So she comes running over to me and says, 'look mommy, look' and points to the Nike swoosh she somehow found on her pants (it's at the bottom on the side) and says, 'I go running with you mommy'...what an eye for detail and a mind to put it all together.

This is how Owen picks out his underwear at night...and his shirt in the morning (not pictured). I have the most hilarious kids...

Maya giving her baby a diaper change while I cooked dinner...

A couple of months ago we put Maya's bed in Owen's room and put all the toys in Maya's old room. Both rooms need some major neutralizing since O's is blue and M's is pink but since I hope to get outta here at some point I haven't been all that inspired to do that. [we were having visitors is why they're so clean and organized, they NEVER look like this usually]

It's nice having them sleep together but the playroom I was envisioning is much cooler and better organized than this...someday.