Weird Wednesday & American Idol

Here's my Weird Wednesday picture for your viewing pleasure. I think she was licking butter off her bread. Kinda weird if you ask me! ;) Come on... you know you've got a weird picture... do share with us! Click on 'Mister Linky' below and put in your info so we can check out your 'weirdness!'



American Idol? I just don't know anymore. I was way off last week. Carly should have been one of the final three. Did her tattoo-faced husband scare the voters off? Hard to say. The 'vote for the worst' website is voting for Brooke White, so I think she's safe this week (again). I think dread boy has quite a fan base, too. So, that leaves Syesha to go this week. I think she did very well, and if this contest were based on talent... it would be Brooke or dread boy going. His name is escaping me right now. I liked him at first (not enough to win the whole thing), but after more than a dozen songs... I've had enough. Brooke White, too. They just aren't as skilled as the rest. Sometimes I wish we could vote for who we want to GO HOME. Who would you vote for if we could do that???

Puppy Play

They're not even fighting.

Maybe they're dancing...

Looks a little vicious, but I assure you it's not.

Kissing? Probably not.

Smack down! Diesel 1 - Maggie 0

This is daily play for the pups. Remember, they're brother and sister from the same litter. They just turned one, and they still have lots of puppy energy. They'll play rough like this for 10 minutes, then come inside and sleep for an hour.

Sophie the Sandwich Artist

Weird Wednesday & American Idol

Bye Bye Brooke! I think 'dread boy' did just as badly,
but the song he sang was familiar to most people, and it probably saved him.

Here's my 'Weird Wednesday' picture from our visit to the eye doctor the other day. It looks like her head is about to start spinning!

Come on, play along! You know all the pictures you take aren't perfect. You've got a dud in there somewhere... Post your 'weird Wednesday' picture on your blog, link back here, and then sign my Mr. Linky so we can all come and check out your weird stuff!

Did you know, and why didn't you tell ME???

Okay, this picture has NOTHING to do with my post, but when I was looking for a funny picture that had to do with computer work, I came across it and just couldn't stop laughing. Thought you all might enjoy it too. Now back to business...

I recently learned a very easy way to shrink down pictures for blogger so they'll load a lot faster, and I can resize many pictures at a time, very quickly. (using Fotosizer) I have a 10+ mp camera, and it was taking forever to upload just one picture. I know there are many programs that will do it, but this one is FREE, and will VERY QUICKLY re-size one or a whole folder full of pictures.

I also learned how to upload MANY pictures at once to blogger, rather than hitting 'browse', loading one picture, clicking 'browse' again, and uploading another. (Firefox dragdrop upload) Again, this is FREE and quick.

Maybe you all know these tricks? If so, why didn't you tell ME???

If you don't know these tricks, I'd be happy to share with you. I don't want to bore you if you already know, or take all the time to type it out if you don't need the info.

If you have any other tricks up your sleeve, would you please share with the rest of us?

Leaving the Pups & the Eye Doctor

Sophie gives Diesel some love

When we leave the pups, we give them a little treat, and tell them to stay. They're good pups, and we let them roam around free in the house when we're gone. Here's Sophia giving Maggie her treat. While the pups are 'fierce protectors' and are big, they are very gentle taking the treat from Sophia.

The pups have to sit for her, before they get the treat.

Sophia had her first eye doctor appointment. No concerns, but they recommend starting at age 3 children see an eye doctor. Here she's wearing some glasses they put on her to test to see if the image she was looking at would appear to lift off the page. She passed that test with flying colors.

Sophia did well at the eye doctor appointment. The doctor detected some far sightedness, but said the vision changes so quickly at this age, so she's just going to watch it.

Sophia does have a couple of gray spots on the white of one eye, (you only see it when she looks up and over a certain way with that eye) and the doctor said it is just a thin spot on the white, but if anything changes to let her know.

At the end of the appointment, Sophia collects the three stickers she is promised. Noah and Paige both have routine appointments later this week (school vacation week, yahoo!) so Sophia will enjoy going back and telling them how she already did all the same tests.

Saturday Fun

Last Saturday, I took Noah & Sophia to Lowe's to do the craft. Ted usually takes them (when he can), but he was out of state. CLICK HERE to see what crafts are coming up. It's completely free to take your kids, they do it twice a month on Saturday. You don't need to sign up online, you just show up during the late morning hours. They say the project is for age 5 - 10 (or something like that), but Sophia does great at it (she's 3 1/2). Each kiddo gets an apron, a pair of goggles, and a nice patch that shows what craft they did. You collect the patches and sew them on the apron. That reminds me, I have two patches each to sew on before the next clinic on the 26th! This week they made ant houses (ants not included).

Sophia is such a serious carpenter!

Working hard, right alongside her brother.

Noah takes his work seriously too!

Adjusting the safety glasses

Sanding the ant house

The finished product!

All this fun, and for FREE! Pictures from their Home Depot craft (first Saturday of each month) coming up. I'm terribly behind on blogging!