>I was standing in the kitchen last night making supper, and Frankie walks in the room to feed the dogs. She loves feeding the dogs. She picks up the container where we keep the food (and its empty, except some crumbs), and puts in on top of her head, and all the crumbs fall over her and the floor. So she looked up at me and said, Om My Gosh Mommy! I made a mess!! So, then she put down the food container since it was empty, went over to the cabinet where we keep cans, and pulled out a can of black beans and another of stewed tomatoes and plunked one in front of each dog. Poor doggies didnt know what to do. they got to eat biscuits and left over pasta for supper since we did not have any dog food left!

>thats how both the girls felt this morning. what a relief! After a week home with strep throat and bilateral ear infections, the girls are on the mend. But, hey being stuck home with science types as parents is not too bad. Bee made a movie about the life cycle of flowers using quick time and photos she took everyday of the flowers coming up in our yard. Its amazing how little kids can be excited about and learn to use technology! It was sort of cool that on saturday we had no flowers and now we do. and, now we have the proof.

BTW, those snow piles are no more!

>the flowers are coming up and the indigo girls have a new CD so its a good day!

>…. its party central here in sick bay. Happy Birthday Bee!! (poor bee has a fever of 102.5 all day and we just called all her friends parents to cancel her party for tomorrow) 🙁

here is our little Bee at O, 1, 2, 3 and now 4!!!

>are you wearing your green?

I woke up this morning thinking, wow 4 years ago my water broke with Bee!!! (That she wasnt born till the 19th is another story). It was 4 years ago bush gave his war speech. actually my water broke during bush’ speech. I am always reminded poignantly of this war on Bee’s birthday because they happened together. this was one of the first images of the war I saw as a new mother, and it still haunts me.

>Alice the camel has 5 bumps… Do you know that song? its going in my mind. I cut out of work early yesterday and took the kids to the zoo, since the weather was awesome. We saw such a friendly camel, that seemed to really like Bee and Franks. Bee sang her the Alice song, and frankie kept screaming “No humps!” I kept showing her the two humps on the camel.

>well it was 53 yesterday and going up to 62 today. the snow piles in the parking lot at school are now down to about 4 feet. Im hoping for some major melt today because its going to turn colder tomorrow. Scott doesnt realize this but if I win the wager, i get a free trip to the movies!

>so its been in the upper 40s for two days straight, and just beautiful outside. Yesterday bee rode her bike around the block and frankie walked the whole way! the snow in our front yard is gone, and when we were sitting on the front porch blowing bubbles (it was warm enough to sit on the front porch!) we saw that the flowers in the front were starting to peak through the soil! In the back yard, where the snow is taking longer to melt because of the shade from the house, you can see lots of patches of grass coming through. We went to play in the background… but had to postpone that play while we cleaned up about 200 hundred treasures deposited by the dogs that were once hidden by the snow but now also peaking through the melt.

>its 45 here today and gorgeous sunny. The high school boy who lives down the street is hanging outside in his shorts! It does feel really warm though. Its always funny how after the winter the 40s can feel like a major heat wave!! Melt snow melt! I want to win that wager…

>so today the girls and I went to the dairy store for icecream treats and then cut through the agriculture building to get to engineering to get scott. anyhow, as we were walking through the agriculture building i noted that there was a wall in the hallway with a ton of pictures on it. Im looking at it thinking, wow thats a lot of white men on this wall – where are the women and people of color in MSU agriculture? I dont say anything but keep walking. Bee is walking about 10 feet behind me and Franks and when she gets to the pictures, she says, hey mommy, look. man. man. man. man. man.man. man. man. man. man.man. man. man. man. man. lady? mommy, where are the other ladies?