Keeping up with the Arbaugh's

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Garden update

I picked our first tomato last night! I think it will be awhile yet before the rest are ready...at least I hope so, I'm not ready for all the work yet! We've also been picking cucumbers. Melons
will be ready pretty soon too!

Monday, July 16, 2012

Garden update

We have peas, zucchini, broccoli, cabbage, and onions that we've eaten so far!!!

Blake-isms

Tonight as I'm tucking Blake in, he says to me, "mom, when you were a kid, did you want to have a kid when you grew up?" I said, "yeah, I think I did. Why...do you want to have a kid when you grow up?" he responds, "I don't think so, they just mess up the house."

He also asked me tonight when I'm going to sharpen my nails again? Pretty sure he thinks my nail file is a sharpener! Lol! Gotta love him!

Saturday, June 23, 2012

Bed Time

So our normal bedtime routine for the kids is: brush your teeth, go potty, give the other parent a hug and kiss, the other parent takes them up, says prayers, reads them a story, tucks them in. Every night. Well if we happen to get home late, we skip the story. Last night we got home late and they went potty and we tucked them in. Well, within 5 minutes both kids were yelling down to us because they didn't get to say their prayers. Neither of them asked for a story (which they love their stories), but both had to say their prayers to be able to fall asleep. This makes my heart very happy! :-)

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Garden update

Well so far we have eaten romaine lettuce, broccoli and strawberries out of our garden. It's doing surprisingly well, as it looks like everything that we planted is coming up and growing like crazy!! We planted broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, onions, Brussels sprouts and strawberries all from plants about the second week in. May. The Thursday before Memorial weekend we planted: seeds-peas, carrots, beets, green beans, wax beans, cucumbers, zucchini; plants-watermelon, muskmelon, buttercup squash, green peppers, habanero peppers, tomatoes. I think that's it!

The kids are having fun with it as are Tom and I. It looks like we will have lots of canning to do! Yah!!

Monday, May 28, 2012

A bad dream

The other morning, Blake got up and was acting really quiet, not like himself. I asked him what was wrong?

He said, "I had a bad dream, mom."

"What was it about Blake?" I asked.

He puts his hand up, palm towards me and says, "I don't even want to talk about it."

So, we get downstairs and are getting ready and he's still not being himself. So, I asked him again what was wrong.

"I had a bad dream mom. I just don't want to talk about it."

"Ok, you don't have to tell me," I say to him.

"Ok, mom. I'll tell you," he says, as serious as can be. "We were having ice cream, me, you, Brianna, Kelsie, Cora and Daddy. And YOU wouldn't give me any black sprinkles on my ice cream." The pain is still so fresh to him that it almost brings him to tears to tell me this story. Then he continues, "Momma, that wasn't even the bad part......Then Daddy gave me PINK ice cream!" I really thought he was going to bust into tears at this point. How devastating!! LOL!! It was so hard not to bust out loud laughing at my little guy. He is so anti-pink or anything girly. He refuses to drink out of a pink cup or use anything that is girly colored or frilly. :-)

Cookout with the Regentin crew - Mother's Day 2012

It seems like the Regentin side only gets together about once or twice a year these days. We got together to celebrate Mother's Day over at Dad and Lyn's house. It was great to see everyone!