Everything I Need to Know, I Learned in Preschool

After repeatedly trying to encourage her NOT to talk after her day at school because Natalie was asleep in the van with us, I gave up and let her subtract from her 20,000-words-a-day quota (she's such a girl like that). Here are a few little gems I picked up from her on the way home:

"Mom, I want to save some of my french fries for Natalie to eat when she wakes up. Can I have, like, six more?" (They were my french fries)

"Mom, do you know what Grant found at school today? Grant found a giant black bug at my school. Everyone was scared of it except for me and Grant. It was dead."

"Mom, can you hurry but just a little bit?"

"I learned that there's a planet that's really close to the sun but it's tiny."

"Mom, there's a bug on my back pack."

"Mom, what do bugs drink?"

Let's see, what's new...

Not much going on in the Sewell household as of late. March Madness has hypnotized Ryan but it's not anything that we aren't accustomed to (and not something he doesn't deserve, either). It happens every March. However, Ryan has been cutting back a little at work, and in combination with "springing forward" a couple weekends ago, he's getting home earlier AND before dark, so now I can get a break from the kids while they go outside and play with their dad and they're getting more homemade meals because I'm not constantly refereeing their come-aparts. Bliss!

Also, I shaved the cats. Yes, I know, that sounds strange, but our long-haired Macy needed it desperately as she was riddled with fleas, so someone had to do it, and because Ryan doesn't like cats, the job fell to me. I feel bad looking at her because she looks so goofy, but we've all had a poor haircut at some time in our lives, why shouldn't a cat have to suffer with humans in that area?

This is before I got started on her tail, which is bare besides a puff ball of fur at the end (which I secretly love. She'd make a great dust brush):

Last Saturday my brother and his family came over for my birthday lunch at Mom and Dad's house. The kids did some bird chasing while the cousins were in town.

And here's a little random nugget. Ryan filling out his NCAA Tourney bracket. He gets serious about it.

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Quote from last night (on the way to bed):

Natalie: why did you turn off the kitchen light!?

Meredith: the kitchen needs to rest, too.

Natalie: no, it can't! It doesn't have any eyes!

And today where Nat colored all over herself with a marker (please ignore the laundry).

Seesters:

And Colby pretending to be mad

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Last Thursday Colby attended a 'banquet' with his basketball team for the end of the season. After eating pizza, the coaches gave out trophies, which Colby promptly broke. Out of three trophies Colby has received, this was the third to be broken. we should take out stock in super glue.

And, as most of the Midwest and South knows, a system of heinous storms came through on Friday evening. We his in our bathroom for about 45 minutes while the storms passed over us, but I got a couple shots of the back end of it. We are very blessed that minimal damage was done in our neck of the woods (Bowling Green/Warren Co/Allen Co) because, from what I understand, it was predicted that we would get the worst of it.

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