Cosette the Chatty Cathy

Scene 1 Breakfast Table
Family just sits down to breakfast. Various members in various stages of waking up. Some more awake than others...
Cosette: Momma it's dark outside. Momma I am eating. Momma what you doing? Momma I go potty. Momma this is pink. Momma you a girl. Momma (points to daddy) that not your Daddy. Momma I can touch you. Momma hug. Momma HUG!!!
Momma!!
Yes Cosette?
I love you.
I love you too Cosette




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Run the Ranch!

We had a fun run in our neighborhood and we decided to run a as family.


Gianna got a number and an official t-shirt. And it did help that I got her new "sporty clothes" that were pink.


At the start ready to go. E and C took it all in from the stroller point of view.


Down the final stretch and finish line in sight.


Rewarding ourselves after a long run* with a train ride!


*please note that our run was less than a mile! But we had a blast doing it!

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Bluebonnets

You can move the girls around Texas...



But you can't...



Take the cuteness away...


Or Cosette's funny smile...


Or those eyes...


Or make Elizabeth look at the camera...


Or make me enjoy that moment any less. We had a blast finding a beautiful patch of bluebonnets right in our neighborhood.
Spring bluebonnets in Texas= home.

Ok I admit it

That's right I admit that I'm crunchy and a bit granola. What's that you ask? It's natural and organic and recycling and stuff.
So I've always had crunchy tendencies. Growing up with a mom from Alaska- a state where you are odd if you are not granola- I've been exposed to a life style of crunch. We recycled when it wasn't cool. I made my own grocery bags 12 years ago!!! I've composted, gardened, made my own yogurt and baby food. I did miss out on cloth diapering- what a rebel. I've reduced, reused, and of course recycled.
Anyway, it hit me today as I was shopping in HEB- I might be a bit more granola here in Austin because I have the chance to be. The organic/ bulk section is in the middle of the store- not put on the side as a afterthought. Organic/natural items are placed through out the store naturally where you would find them. And the kicker that made it real- the choice of boxed milk from soy, organic cow, rice, almond, and more than a few others was bigger than the jello section. Kids we are not playing around here. Take that fake stuff with its artificial colors, and byproducts, and move outta the way, 'cause crunchy is here to stay.



Homemade yogurt


By the way, I bought the jello anyway.