Tuesday Tunes - Happy Birthday Little Wombat

If they were me, if they were me
and I was you, I was you
If they were me and I was you
Would you have liked a present too.

This week's dedication goes out to Nate on his last day of Threedom. As of tomorrow, he will bravely venture into the land of Four. Coming soon, a separate blog entry devoted to my mixture of emotions about this. Mark your calendars! In the meanwhile, enjoy the tunes!






PS
For the longest time (read: up until about 20 minutes ago) I thought the first line of this song was, "Happy Birthday Little Wombat" and I thought that was the cutest thing, a sweet little nickname for a kiddo from his mum; maybe all Australian mothers call their baby 'wombat". I found it endearing and starting singing it all the time. It's catchy and the wombat thing had me hooked. Then I went to get the lyrics to put on the blog, cause I like to do that for you, and lo and behold - this song isn't about Wombats or Australia at all! Won't stop me from singing it the way I always have though. Wombat just sounds better!


Happy Birthday - Tings Tings
Happy
happy birthday in a hot bath
To those nice
nice nights.
I remember always
always I got such a fright.
If they were me, if they were me and I was you, i was you
If they were me and I was you
Would you have liked a present too.

Happy birthday
happy birthday -
Happy birthday
happy birthday -

Happy
happy birthday in a hot bath
To those nice
nice nights.
I remember always
always I got such a fright.
If they were me, if they were me and I was you, i was you
If they were me and I was you
Would you have liked a present too.

Happy birthday
happy birthday -
Happy birthday
happy birthday -

Into The Woods

When I started this blog I had promised myself that i would be prompt and post about things as they happened, or as close to when they happened as possible. That's a great goal for a blog, if you don't have three kids. So, now I'm writing about our first experience camping two weeks after it happened. Doesn't make it any less fun for me to write, or for you to read I hope!

This was my second time camping in my life. The first being with Tim over eight years ago at a campground on a busy holiday weekend with a few friends. This was the first attempt ever with children. We're part of an incredible homeschooling community and one of the moms in our group noticed that the forecast looked ideal for camping - warm, sunny days and clear, but not too cool nights. Perfect for letting the kids run wild on the beach and then chilling out by the campfire after dinner and snoozing away on their air mattresses in the wild. (of our tent) I gathered up some gusto, our camping gear and headed out. We've had a huge tent for about six years now and have only used it once, and that was in our living room. I decided we could handle it, I could handle it - after all, I'd be with at least five other moms and their kids who we all knew well, and don't I take care of all three kids most days by myself anyway? Yes! Camping, yes we can!!!

Turns out, I wasn't so wrong either. I managed to get us all to the State Park safely, find the site that friends were kind enough to share with us, and set up our tent, chairs, air mattresses and other camping needs all by myself. I felt quite proud! We spent the day at the beach as planned and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. We had the yummiest dinner back at our site, it's true everything does taste better when you're camping, and we enjoyed a beautiful campfire (our first!) and then crashed in our tent for the night.

Well, some of us crashed. Some of us crashed and then woke up at 4am inconsolable and irate due to teething and would NOT be soothed by nursing, walking or rocking until 7am. 7am also happens to be when the boys' internal alarms go off. SO, this is where I called it quits. I know, it's really a bit of an exaggeration to say we went camping when we only stayed one night, but I'm still counting it. As I said, I got all of our stuff there, we played on the beach, we saw fire, Ben played capture the flag by the fuzzy hue of glow sticks and we slept outside! IT COUNTS! We also stayed for most of that next day and enjoyed the beach and our friends again. In the end, we went camping. We left our home and played outdoors, survived and even had a good time. It all left me feeling very accomplished and encouraged for next year, when we'll go again and stay for more than a night. So long as Syda's two year molars aren't coming in that week!




Packing up!



Nate admiring a tree early in the morning - note the pjs and fuzzy slippers.



Post-camping nap lasted 4 hours

Ben went with us, but there are no pictures of him because he was off with his friends 99% of the time. It's a good thing he needed to come back to the site to eat or we may not have seen him at all.

Tuesday Tunes

So easily forgotten, are the most important things
Is that I love you, I do
And I want to spend my days and nights
Walking through this crazy world with you

Cuz life is beautiful
Life is wonderous
Every star above is shining just for us

Another dedication this week! (be prepared, there will be a few of them in the coming weeks with the impending birthdays around here).

Today's song goes out to my incredible husband on his birthday. I'm ever so thankful that he was born on this day. He's somewhat shy, but for those of us who are lucky to really know him, we know how kind, thoughtful, patient and funny he is. He's one of the few people who's able to make me laugh so hard that I snort, and that's saying something. I'm forever grateful that my children get to call him Dada and that I get to spend my days with him. I am blessed.

I could get more sentimental here but for now I'm going to just let the song do the talking. Keb Mo, your words are beautiful, as always. For the record, it was VERY hard to pick just one song. Hopefully there will be many, many more birthdays to dedicate a tune to, I've got the playlist all picked out! :)





Life Is Beautiful - Keb Mo
Let's go drifting, through the trees
Let's go sailing, on the sea
Let's go dancing, on the juke joint floor
And leave our troubles all behind, and have a party

So easily forgotten, are the most important things
Like the melody and the moonlight in your eyes
And the song that lasts forever, keeps on gettin betta
All the time

Cuz life is beautiful
Life is wonderous
Every star above is shining just for us
Life is beautiful, on a stormy night
Somewhere in the world the sun is shining bright

I get crazy, so afraid
That I might lose you, one fine day
And I'll be nothing but a tired old man
And I don't wanna be without you, at the party

So easily forgotten, are the most important things
Is that I love you, I do
And I want to spend my days and nights
Walking through this crazy world with you

Cuz life is beautiful
Life is wonderous
Every star above is shining just for us
Life is beautiful, on a stormy night
Somewhere in the world the sun is shining bright

So easily forgotten, are the most important things
Is that I love you, I do
And I want to spend my days and nights
Walking through this crazy world with you, that's right baby

Cuz life is beautiful
Life is wonderous
Every star above is shining just for us
Life is beautiful, on a stormy night
Somewhere in the world the sun is shining bright

Tuesday Tunes

You're so beautiful.
You could be a waitress.
You're so beautiful.
You could be a air hostess in the 60s.
You're so beautiful.
You could be a part-time model.

(Please read the following in your Cassey Kasem voice)

This week's tune goes out to Colleen. For a lot of reasons, more than I have time to list here, but especially because she's been really under the weather this week and she's the other half of my amazing comedy show and I can't work without her. So Colleen, watch the male version of our "popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo", laugh and get better you beautiful girl!



Looking at the room, I can tell that you.
Are the most beautiful girl in the...room.
(In the whole wide room).
And when you're on the street, depending on the street.
I bet you are definitely in the top three.
Good lookin' girls on the street.
(Depending on the streets).
And when I saw you at my mate's place.
I thought...what, is she, doing...at my mate's place.
How did he get a hottie like that to a party like this?
Good one, Dave.
(Ooh, you're a legend, Dave).

I asked Dave if he's going to move on you.
He's not sure.
I said "Dave, do you mind if I do?"
He says he doesn't mind.
But I can tell he kind of minds.
But I'm going to do it anyway.

I see you standing all alone by the stereo.
I dim the lights down to very low, here we go
You're so beautiful.
You could be a waitress.
You're so beautiful.
You could be a air hostess in the 60s.
You're so beautiful.
You could be a part-time model.
But then I seal the deal, I do my moves.
I do my dance moves.

Lets travel through, just me and you.
As other dudes around you on the dance floor.
I draw you near, lets get out of here.
Lets get in a cab. I'll buy you a kabob.
I can't believe. I'm sharing a kabob.
With the most beautiful girl I have ever seen with a kabob.
Oh, why don't we leave?
Lets go to my house.
We can feel each other up on the couch.
Oh no, I don't mind taking it slow.

Cause you're so beautiful...
Like a tree. Or a high class prostitute.
You're so beautiful.
You could be a part time model.
But you'd probably still have to keep your normal job.
A part time model.
Spend part of your time modeling.
And part of your time next to me.

My place is usually a bit tidier than this.

Good Things

All sorts of good crafty things are in the making right now. Most are birthday presents since three of the five members of our family have birthdays in September. I'm not really a fan of crafting under a deadline, but for these fine folks I do so happily! I can't reveal anything via the blog just yet, but here's a glimpse.



Elephants!!!! From JAPAN!!!! Please visit Lisa at This and That From Japan for your own. She's so nice to order from and her shop is full of so much cute stuff. You'll be inspired instantly! This is thanks to the gift card that I won courtesy of SouleMama's blog a few weeks ago.



My fabric from Japan! I might just be a total nerd here, but I think it's really cool to see mail from another country in my mailbox.




Yarn! Really, how can there be a post entitled Good Things that doesn't involve yarn?




Cascade 220 - soon to be longies.




This is clearance yarn too!!! Our LYS has a sale about twice a year when they change out inventory and you can get discontinued skeins for 50% off. You have to buy all of the dye lot that they have, but in my case that was 3 skeins of the shetland on the left and two skeins of the Cuzco on the right. Heavenly!

Adventuring

Adventure, it's so much fun! Adventure, I want to go on one!








Just a little glimpse of our Thursday afternoon/evening. The boys were bored, but not ready to go to the library or the playground when I suggested it. Instead, we wandered in the tiny patch of woods right next to us. There's not a ton to explore, but it was still nice to be out in the sun after three days of rain!

Babyproofing

Do it.

You'll thank me later. I promise! I will let your mind imagine which bag of goodies Syda dropped onto the floor from the cabinet. Just note that there is an entire bag of flour and a full bag of Stevia in the Raw on the shelf there. Scary sight.