Robin's Nest

Summer started with Father's Day and Lily's third birthday and long awaited baby alive unwrapping. Lily has waited for this doll since watching me buy it three months earlier on clearance at the bx. No matter where I hid this doll she stumbled across it! Of course I did the mommy thing and said it was for someone else's birthday but come June 21st she quietly said "i get baby live now"? So her bIrthday was everything she had waited for....baby alive. Now dear granddaughter wants one too. Luckily I had found two for a quarter each at a garage sale earlier in the spring and actually just buying accessories had been the birthday plan until we ran across the clearance sale, so there are enough to go around at play time. On to the wet stuff!!! Yes it's time to swim....or wade in some cool water. And these guys are no different well except they are a little picky about sharing their pool with bugs. They are also surprisingly immodest.  Even the five year old is wi

Because they are not living in my house that is why!  Or at least that can be my excuse for now any way! I tell myself each day this will be the day I get organized and get at least one small room in my house cleaned....although today I will not do that. Only because I have all three in one room and if I move.....they will follow me. And not in a blogger way!! For close to seventeen years I have collected "stuff" not all mine but some and that of an array of kids passing through the doors of our nest each one leaving not only precious memories but lots of stuff! And sometimes animals, no lots of times animals. The most long lived was a dog named Kia. Kia came to us after the oldest girl decided that her then 18 month old was a little too interested in the "pink" button under the dog's tail. You see Kia was an Akita with a very nicely curled tail. Kia arrived into our lives on father's day 2002, we called him Kia from that day on. This was the name number o