national donut day

sweet home wrigley

do you have a happy place?

because we do.

we hung out there last saturday.

heading into the fun

a stroessler trifecta

one of my favorite parts: the miller lite billboard. (we played the cardinals.)

taking it in

men walking around with buckets of hot dogs? definitely a happy place.

whoa, dada. back off the hebrew national.

it is all mine.

look at those shiny eyes! he's in love, he's in love, and he don't care who knows it!**

rolling out after the W flag was raised.

the 7th inning stretch... sung by jim belushi 

and a few thousand of his friends :)

(joshua looks confused because this is one of his bedtime songs!)

**be the first to name that movie reference, 

and you'll be the receiver of the next Scribble Card!

umbrella

Yes, its 85 and sunny.

ouch.

ever run full force into a car door?

hard enough to place a large, 

hard-to-stop-the-bleeding 

dent in your forehead?

well, joshua has.

 you may not be able to tell through this picture,

but he most certainly does not recommend it.

(neither does his mother.)

new phone delights

it takes me awhile to warm up to a new phone.

new buttons, new settings, 

new annoying ringtones to sort through...

only to leave the phone on vibrate.

while waiting for the Beaner's bus to come,

shua and i discovered 

this crazy cool feature 

in the camera settings:

4 quick snaps of the shutter to make one picture.

i handed little man a pillow and clicked.

check the intensity on his face-

my boy was committed.

and for that, 

among so many charming little tidbits,

i love him.

mark's half

this past sunday,

mark ran the cleveland half-marathon.

so did my sister, kristen.

her husband, jeff, ran the full.

The Nana and i gathered up 5 kids, snacks and a minivan

 (as well as some much-needed gumption)

and headed out early to cheer.

like, 6am early.

which, as you'll note in the 2nd and 3rd pictures,

is not my son's favorite hour :)

he found his own gumption, though,

and perked up for our Cross-Cleveland

Do-You-Think-This-Street-Goes-Through? 

adventure right quick. 

my apologies for the lack of photos...

i plead preoccupation.

i'll see if i can't rustle some up from other cameras.

check back.

in a week or two :)

uh, madison is ready...

noah, steve & the shu needed another 15-20 minutes :)

wagon, posters, celeste, steve, noah. PULL, MAD! PULL!

kristen, finding madison at mile 3.

mark, rounding mile 6.

noah and steve, watching for jeff.

poster children.

celeste helped madison cheer on her dad.

and there he is at mile 11 (in the sunglasses).

Yook At Me, Mama!

i made chicken noodle soup for little man's lunch.

paired nicely, i thought, with a small bowl of apricot-apple sauce.

he took the pairing to a whole new level.

then, 

and my gag reflex wishes i was kidding about this,

after transferring the concoction 

from one bowl to the other

(and back again),

he proceeded to dip in fingers

and lick them clean.

no pictures necessary.