Lilie was munching on her bagel this morning when she pulled the computer closer to her and started clicking the mouse.  I had been using her old tablet to browse the internet the night before, and apparently left Firefox up and running.

"Mommy?" she said.  "Can you get rid of the dot com thing?"

Happy Mommy's Day!

I love love LOVE the Mothers' Day card that Liliana made for me at daycare today.  It literally brought tears to my eyes with the way it both touched my heart and made me laugh out loud!  It's such a wonderfully strange and warm feeling when you first realize that your child knows these things about you.  I'm not sure she got my weight exactly right but everything else is pretty spot-on.  I do love pink and I do cook a mean macaroni.  :)  Thank you, Gretchen!  Thank you, Liliana! 

Lilies

We planted some flowers outside our front door and have been anxiously awaiting them to bloom.  Today was the day!  Here are our beautiful "Lilies". 

Catching Up

We just have some pictures to share.  That is all.

Katie had some pictures made, and professional makeup and hair came along with the package.  I know - she looks this beautiful all the time, so it's hard to tell...

This is how we do discipline in our household.  Well, how Mommy does it.  I prefer to just redirect Lilie...

Lilie had oatmeal for breakfast, and lacking a bib, we put on her wedding apron.

We didn't know it would turn into a photo shoot.  But we've learned enough to roll with it when the opportunity arrives.

It's fuzzy, but it's still a good picture...

Lastly, there's the family portrait that Lilie started with a picture of me 'when I was sad'.  I'm the largest figure, in the middle, looking a lot like Cartman from South Park (No.  No I do not watch the show.  I've just been unable to avoid all the cultural references...)  Here's the original version:

And here's one with labels:

 I drew Mommy's hair, and then added Lilie, Chewie and Tari at the original artist's request.  I did manage to avoid adding our three-year-old neighbor Trey, with whom Lilie has gone on a 'decation'.

Yeah, we still have some mangled vocabulary words.  Lilie recently asked Katie to watch her baby doll while Lilie and Trey went on a decation in our cul-de-sac.  I haven't asked either of them to explain their relationship to me, but I have serious doubts about Trey's ability to provide for Lilie right now...

You've Got to Move It

We're growing a vegetable garden this year.  Well, more accurately: we haven't killed our vegetable plants.  Yet.

We started some seeds in pink Solo cups on our kitchen windowsill.  Corn and red sunflowers (those should be interesting, if they make it).  Both are doing well so far.  The sunflowers are growing long and spindly, and are constantly bending to the light from the window.  I try to rotate the cups so they can straighten out again, and was frustrated on Sunday to discover them pressed against the window shortly after I'd twisted them the other direction.

I decided it would be cool to catch them in the act.  I found a free program that manages time-lapse photographs, and hooked up a cheap webcam to the computer.  I put the webcam on one of the cups at the end of the windowsill, rotated all the plants to face into the kitchen, and configured the program to take a picture every thirty seconds from eight in the morning to noon.

I watched the first few pictures as they were taken, and was amazed to see that there was visible movement even in just thirty seconds.

I showed the results to Lilie when we got home.  She gasped:

"Are they magical???"

We added some music, and here's the result.