Let the Sun Shine

After two weeks of gray skies and rain, this weekend was sunny and beautiful. Rolthox spent Saturday at a Medieval Faire in Oklahoma. He returned with a wooden Chinese broadsword and a boomerang. The boomerang has already disappeared into tall grass in the empty lot at the edge of the neighborhood, so I imagine we will have a treasure hunt for it tomorrow. Poongin had scouts Saturday morning and toted home pictures created out of sunflower seeds and a little cup filled with potting soil and a cosmos seed. Unfortunately, Thing 2 wanted to "help" Saturday night and after Poongin went to sleep, he poured an entire cup of water into her planting. It overflowed water and potting soil all over the table and the nearby books and onto the floor. I awoke this morning to find Poongin sitting on the couch crying over it. :-(

T-Man was home all afternoon Sunday, so we spent some time outside enjoying the chillrens. There was much bike riding up and down and round and round.

T-man bravely participated in a sword fight with the big boy. Rolthox said it was only T's greater strength that saved him from a total beat down. Thing 2 was stung on the thumb by a bee. It was quite tragic until I applied honey, which not only made it all better, but also provided a light snack. The girls discovered a worm in the water flowing along the curb and set up a little home for it in one of our critter boxes. Thing 1 (who's squinting straight into the sun here) decided it was actually two worms and pulled it apart. Erp. The older ones and I have since quietly investigated whether worms can survive this procedure (there was some disagreement at the end of the day whether the "worms" were still alive) and have learned that not only do worms have five hearts but also that a worm's main part can survive separation although it would obviously prefer not to.

Oh, and today was the start of a new sock knit-along. Harry Potter Horcrux Socks, how could I resist that? So I chose some dark purple-y sock yarn that could pass for mysterious and magical and started a swatch. Here's my Yarn Harlot-esque shot of the sock outside with the fambly.
This is going to be one sock at a time so everybody is going to have to keep after me to make sure I actually finish the second one. Maybe with both the book and movie coming out this summer, I'll be psyched enough that Second Sock Syndrome won't strike. (How 'bout that alliteration?)