~Such a busy day I don’t even know how to fit it all into a post.  Saturdays are always our errand day.

~Steve, Iain and Elijah played several games of monopoly before breakfast. The conversation somehow turned to state quarters. Several coffee cans of change were brought to the breakfast table and sorted in a effort to discover if we possessed all of the state quarters.

~Lots of time in the car.  Everything is so far away!  Travel time = knitting time for me

~Steve and the boys played a mock game of monopoly in the car, miming throwing dice, counting off spaces.  Quoting random chance cards.  They all have the board memorized, so they know just where they’ll land.

~first stop, our CSA.  First up at the CSA?  Popsicles!  Mine was banana with lemon and lime zest.

~Some of us got different flavors and then shared.  It wasn’t until I was sorting through pictures that I realized they got a treat at every stop.  Popsicles at the farm, new coconuts at the grocery store and honey sticks at the orchard.

~Then on to the grocery store.

~On the way home we stopped at the orchard because I wanted to bring my sister fruit for her birthday.

~At home I wrapped and packed gifts for our trips; both birthday gifts and new baby gifts.

~I sat by an open window with everyone on the other side, laughing and playing catch, trying to finish up some long overdue letters and thank you notes, so we could mail them before we left.

~At bedtime I told Màiri that we would be visiting Me-Mom and Pop-pop in a couple of days and she said, “That would be a good idea.”  Then she said that “Pop-pop is a funny toilet”, which probably sounds a lot more offensive then she meant it to be!  (as a background note, he plays this game with them where they sit on his lap and he pretends to “flush” them by dropping them between his legs onto the floor.  Sometimes they get stuck and he has to “plunge” their heads.  It’s little boy humor, which I really don’t get, but they really do.)  And she ended the conversation with, “He’ll see me and he’ll pick me up and put me on the lap and I’ll eat him up”.  Which is in reference to another game, in which Màiri eats people.  But if you are very sad and you ask very nicely she may take pity on you and spit you back out again.

~Elijah has been singing “Hey, Soul Sister” all week long.