Happy St. Patrick's Day

No pinches for this baby in her kelly green polka dotted legwarmers!

We had a fun St. Patrick's day, complete with traditional foods (I have about 1/4 of a loaf of irish soda bread stitting in my tummy) and an awesome rainbow cake... but I'm too tired from cooking and eating (best cabbage I ever had!) to tell you about it today... maybe tomorrow:)

First Foods

So... you can tell she is the fourth child. With Pearl, I was oh so careful, very runny organic rice cereal and breastmilk for over a week... then a new food every few days... oh the blenderfulls of homemade baby food. Not so much for Ruby. I'm sure I'll be doing the homemade food thing (the jarred stuff just smells nasty. And bananas, seriously, who on earth buys the jars of bananas?) But not for Ruby. No no no. This is how it goes with Ruby... she's watching me eat my smoothie... she just wants it in her mouth so bad... so I give it to her. That's right, Ruby's first food was blueberry/orange/banana/spinach/yogurt/oat groat smoothie.

She really liked it. And, apparently, she's not allergic to blueberries/oranges/bananas/spinach/yogurt/oat groats. Good thing:)

St Patricks Day

Here's a sneak peek at our St Patricks Day party... I know, I'm thinking of nominating myself for mom of the year:)

Sam's Face

Last week, Sam came home from school with his face looking something like this:

Actually, this picture was taken 3 days later, it looked a lot better by then. As always, it's hard to get the real story of what happened out of Sam, but I looked out of my kitchen door on Saturday and this is what I found:

I think it's fair to say that this is likely what happened... he was either "basking" like a lizzard (which he actually loves to do on the asphalt when he's cold, which is often as he has absolutely no body fat and his brain isn't big enough to remember to put on a sweatshirt at recess) or playing dead... (I heard both versions from him) and another kid tripped on his face and skidded it across the playground. Really, can you blame the other kid? Look at that silent sprawl... you do that on the playground, and you are just asking for it.... live and learn, Sam, live and learn:)

Good day, sunshine:)

Have I mentioned how much I love the weather here? It was supposed to rain today, but...

5 months

Can someone please tell me where the last five months went? It goes by so fast with the last baby...

Mad skills.

All my kids have been learning new skills lately. Did you know that Pearl scored the HIGHEST in her class on the spelling bee qualifier test (and I bet you can guess who volunteered to be the spelling be coach:). Sam, after watching a two minute video on the internet, can add three digit numbers with carrying. Max knows all his letters and sounds, and has recently started writing letters and gleefully reporting his progress in the steam on the shower door. But, I'm sorry kids, unless you are a cute little rolly poly baby that I get to dress up in tiny little skirts, your accomplishments will not be as celebrated/photographed/recorded as hers. Not that I'm not proud of all of you, it's just a fact of life.

Miss Ruby Lu is 5 months today. I wonder, if it wasn't leap year, would she have to skip a month? Anyways, I laid her down on her tummy to get some five month pictures, and this is what happened...

Look! A window!!!
Hey look! There's my mom!
Wow, I really have to twist to see her!
Thud.

Ok, people, what just happened here?

Big girl, rolling over on your 5 month old birthday!!!! Now we have to work on the other direction...