Washa Trivia

Logan looking up Pinterest recipes (I mean, exciting family trivia) on the ipad.

You may want to have a pen & paper handy for this 

because I am not skillful enough to create interactive pages. 
Maybe next year...

This year's Dysfunctional Family Photo seems pretty darn functional. What gives?
a. We finally threw in the towel, saved up, and hired the world's finest child photographer to help us achieve the shot that will live in Washa infamy as the one and only time we were all facing the camera and not doing anything completely and utterly insane all at the same time.
b. Wags wasn't around to photobomb and distract everyone.
c. We strategically placed a large bag of candy atop the tripod, then bribed the children with a meal-free, sugar-loaded evening in exchange for their unqualified compliance.
d. Mom's learning Photoshop

I really hate those quizzes that are so difficult you can't get anything right, so here's a freebie:
Where was this photo taken?
a. Our front yard
b. A fancy photo studio.
c. The North Pole, of course!
d. The much more festive yard of a friend or neighbor.

In 2013, Junior Athlete Logan participated in the following sports:
a. Hockey
b. Gymnastics
c. Wrestling
d. Tee Ball
e. All of the Above

Ace Scholar Logan's favorite class in school is:
a. Art
b. Computers
c. Phy Ed
d. Microbiology
e. Recess
f. Music
g. Advanced Nuclear Physics

Julianne's dressed like this...
a. because she moonlights as a Rockette
b. because she's obsessed with birds and dressing like them
c. to perform Rockin' Robin in the Highland Elementary Spring Concert
d. to interview for a spot in the Red Hatters

Logan & Julianne get along well roughly what percentage of the time?
a. 90
b. 50
c. 20
d. still waiting...

True/False: Logan & Julianne's favorite activity to do together is playing with dinosaurs.

Match the child with his/her most preferred activity.
Julianne      Snitching junk food from the kitchen
Mason         Designing cozy little dens in unlikely (often inconvenient) household locations
Corinne       Watching public television shows about wild animals.
Logan          Climbing unstable furniture, falling off, climbing the same thing again.

Match the child with his/her second most preferred activity.
Mason         Playing Cool Math Games on the computer
Logan          Drawing, cutting, & gluing - generally with approved materials
Corinne       Dumping out well-organized items and spreading them around the house
Julianne      Whatever everyone else is doing

Circle all that apply: What do all four of our kids have in common?
a. hair color
b. eye color
c. personality
d. love of chores
e. love of literature



Mason's newest tricks include...
a. walking
b. giving kisses
c. clapping
d. playing peek-a-boo
e. waving
f. all of the above

Circle all that apply: In early 2013, Mason's favorite hobbies were unquestionably napping and eating. What is his current favorite?
a. still eating
b. still napping
c. removing all of the toys from his baby basket one toy at a time
d. riding the rocking horse
e. emptying the cupboards
f. whatever the big kids are doing

The tallest thing in the house that Stretch Mason has pulled something off of is...
a. the kitchen counter
b. the kitchen table
c. the wall
d. the refrigerator
e. the TV speaker

Just in time for Christmas, who gave Logan this fancy new haircut?
a. Self-Styled
b. Corinne
c. Julianne
d. Mom
e. Wags

Mason & Corinne love...

a. playing peek-a-boo

b. giving kisses

c. sharing snacks
d. playing dress-up

e. all of the above

Dad's #1 favorite holiday tradition is...

a. rigging up the lights

b. cooking Christmas dinner
c. wrapping presents
d. munching Christmas cookies

Mom's is...

a. Christmas tunes
b. dressing the kids up nice on Christmas Eve
c. dressing the pets up as reindeer
d. visiting the relatives

Dad held how man positions of employment this year?

a. For the first time in a decade or so, Only One!

b. 2

c. 3

d. 635,921

True/False: The majority of Mom's Christmas preparations were completed before Thanksgiving.

And, last but not least, as we move forward into 2014:

Corinne is getting really excited for next fall when she can finally...
a. start training for the 2028 Summer Olympics
b. go on tour with Justin Bieber
c. start preschool
d. join the U.S. Space Program

So What Does the Fox Say the answers are?

Click Here or below to find out.
(Or just keep scrolling down.)

He'll be with you just as soon as he catches that mouse.

Ding-Ding-Ding!

Alright, he's ready now.

And the Correct Answer Is...



This year's Dysfunctional Family Photo seems pretty darn functional. What gives? 

D: Mom's Learning Photoshop

This deceptively functional photo is actually a composite of the following two slightly less functional takes:

The composite isn't perfect, but at least we're all looking at the camera.

And, on a related note, good thing I only downloaded the trial because the Photoshop learning curve is steep. Adobe ought to offer an honorary design degree to anyone manages to make it through the trial and come out with an altered photo that is still somewhat usable.

You should have seen what I did to some of those pictures.

Where was this photo taken?

A. Our Front Yard

We designed this year's photo to highlight one of our favorite Washa House arbor locations.

We're standing in front of our beautiful white birch with the white Christmas lights on it

and in the background you can see the sweet little pine tree that grows the tiny baby pinecones

that I used last year when I shot pregnancy announcement photos at the end of May :)

In 2013, Junior Athlete Logan participated in the following sports:

D. All of the Above

He's one busy little guy, and such a sweetheart.

Here are a couple of his other rookie photos.

Working the back bend in gymnastics class.

This is last year's hockey photo.
He decided to take this winter off,
but he's already planning to start up again next November.

Ace Scholar Logan's favorite class in school is:

B. Computers
I have to admit that I kind of thought he might answer Recess, but I was wrong. He sure does love that flashy technology.





Julianne's dressed like this...

C. For the Highland Spring Concert

She performed with the 3-year-old group: The sweetest little flock of robins around.

Julianne's the one on the far left.

Logan & Julianne get along well roughly what percentage of the time?

If you can believe it, it's actually...

A. 90%

Hat Day 2013

I can hardly deny that they share the love of bickering... a lot,

but more importantly they have in common the love of learning and family.

They really show a genuine interest in one another's lives and hobbies,

both at school and at home and no one in our family ever feels (or is literally) left behind.

On the first day of school, Julianne forgot her book bag on the bus.

Logan waited for her at the corner and when he saw that she was missing something,

he turned right around and took her back up the steps to find it.

Book bag retrieval success!

True/False: Logan & Julianne's favorite activity to do together is playing with dinosaurs.

Oh, So TRUE

All-Time Favorite Dino Poses

"On their way to Aunt Rose Mary's house."

65 Short Million Years Later, Dinos Finally Get to Observe Ice Age From Comfort of Heated Foyer

Take Your Prehistoric Roommate to Work Day?

"Hugs" next to a "snowman"

Best Dino Conversation of 2013

From Facebook - November 23rd:
I love it when the kids play dinosaurs. Right now they're in the midst of a "face-off." Meat-eaters (played by Julianne) vs. Plant-eaters and Babies (played by Logan.)
Plant-Eaters: Remember Allosaurus, this is our safe area and you PROMISED that you would NOT try to eat the babies when they're here.
Meat-Eaters: Oh don't worry, we won't eat ANY little children. We have our own food in the refrigerator.
Plant Eaters: Oh good! We're hungry for some lunch right now. Would you like to share some of our garlic knots?
Meat-Eaters: No thank you. We'd rather have pepperoni. Will you have some pepperoni with us?
Plant-Eaters: No, that's okay. We can't eat meat AND plants.
Meat-Eaters: Oh. You're right. We can't eat meat and plant either.

Who knew dinosaurs were so high-tech? And civil...

About 3 minutes later:
Also, in breaking historical news, extinction may not have been the one-time event that we had all supposed...
Meat-Eaters: Well, we're off to the dining room now.
Plant-Eaters: Oh no you're NOT!
Meat-Eaters: Of course we are. Here we go...
Plant-Eaters: THAT'S it. If you don't all come back here RIGHT now, you are officially exTINCT!
Meat-Eaters (beginning to sob): NO! We CAN'T be extinct.
Plant-Eaters: Of course you can! You guys get extinct all the time.

Match the child with his/her most preferred activity.

Julianne - Designing
Before Grandpa's arrival last month it was a bear den by the roll-top desk, then Grandpa joined the undersea crew in the "ocean" by the dining room heater. Next it was a nursery behind the couch, then a stuffed animal sanctuary behind the pack 'n play, and most recently the home of a small family consisting at least in part of Corinne as the Mom and Julianne
as the baby, with occasional appearances by Logan as the somewhat unwelcome Dad.

Mason - Climbing
I think his best-ever climb was onto a Christmas tub in an attempt to reach the light switch. He shimmied his full weight all the way over to the far end of the tub where it is entirely unstable, plunked unceremoniously into the pink plastic milk crate that was sitting next to it, started screeching inconsolably upon finding himself unable to climb out of the milk crate, accepted Rescue Hugs, and less than 5 minutes later, was found stuck Guess Where all over again.

Corinne - Snitching
Oh my gosh! She just got caught tonight eating Hershey's kisses from the candy dish moments after Zach brushed her teeth. The worst (and simultaneously most amusing) part of her snitching habit is that she is positively remorseless about it. Literally caught with a hand in the cookie jar (which happens pretty often around here,) when one's logical initial reaction would be to yank back the hand while trying to explain away the indiscretion through a mouthful of crumbs, Snitcher Corinne will look you dead in the eye, mentally guesstimating the amount of time it will take you to get across the room, then, in impressive Cookie Monster style, start pounding down as many cookies as her little hands can shovel before you get there.  
A couple of hours ago, at the height of the tooth-brushing/candy snitching incident, when I asked Corinne what was in her mouth, without hesitation she offered me her best wide-mouthed, dental-examination smile, gleefully revealing her pyramidal peppermint prize. She'll make a fine Hello Cat-burglar one day for sure.

Logan - Watching TV

I was referring to Wild Kratts on PBS specifically. It's his new favorite. It's entertaining, but very informative and I'm amazed by the amount of information about wild animals he's managed to amass from watching one or less episodes a day.

Match the child with his/her second most preferred activity.

Mason - What everyone else is doing
Kind of goes for all of them. They do tend to play in packs...
Still, being the baby, he's just at that age where a little communal knowledge goes a very  long way.

Logan - Cool Math Games
He's really been pushing me lately for more online time at home as he seems to get a fair amount at school, and I am constantly torn between conflicting desires to nurture his computational aptitude and to keep computers from taking over his life for as long as possible.
At least the games he's attracted to are all age-appropriate and educational, despite his irritating insistence that said cool "math" games, the brainchild of several ivy league educators, do not actually involve any math.

Corinne - Spreading Stuff Around
Utilizing the same keen sense that she employs in hidden snack detection, with a bloodhound sense she will find any and all groups of items that I have somehow managed to corral into some semblance of order, and immediately set to work dismantling the organization. I take this with a grain (or more often several pounds) of salt, being well aware that age-related curiosity is to blame. And besides, being the eco-friendly family that we are, the leftovers of Corinne's easily visible trail of destruction tend to be rapidly scooped up by Responsible Recycler Julianne and transformed into such useful items as ocean floor foliage, nursery adoptees, or young forest friends, to name a few.

Julianne - Artwork
While Logan may have inherited his artistic skills from his mother, Julianne shows signs of developing into a good, solid Washa :)





Circle all that apply: What do all four of our kids have in common?

E. Love of Literature
They have  all kind of grown into the same hair color though (with the exception of Logan who has been blond from day one) brown to reddish-brown to reddish-blond to all blond. Logan and his baby blues are the exception to the eye color pattern as well.
They also enjoy chores (ask them about the chore jar sometime,) but picking up and organizing outside of a game-like structure is not exactly their strong point, so I went with our old standby: books. Can't really say that I blame them. After all, why wander around the house picking up toys when instead you could plop down on the couch and explore the world?

Princess Julianne checkin' out books at the Cobb Public Library.

Mason's newest tricks include...

F. All of the Above
And all within the last month! We're so proud of our little guy and his big accomplishments!

Circle all that apply: In early 2013, Mason's favorite hobbies were unquestionably napping and eating. What are his current favorites?

D, E, & F
While we have finally arrived at a pretty suitable sleep arrangement, judging from the nightly protest, I would say that bedtime is definitely not his favorite. He's also not an especially big eater and, surprisingly, his toy corner is generally one of the tidiest areas in the house. He does love to rock though, alternating between the traditional rocking horse and the slightly preferred hand-me-down rocking lion, Simba. His level of efficiency in emptying the lower cupboards in record time often causes Mom to wonder why we really need to leave the doors on those things at all, and of course, one of the main reasons the baby toys get little play is because the big kids and their toys are just that much more enticing - and appetizing.



The tallest thing in the house that Stretch Mason has pulled something off of is...

With both feet on the floor, it's E. The TV Speaker. However, we will also graciously accept B. The Kitchen Table. He can reach about a quarter of the way in by standing on the ve--ry edge of the roughly inch-wide arm of one of the wooden kitchen kids chairs.




Just in time for Christmas, who gave Logan this fancy new haircut?

Sadly, I'm afraid it was D. Mom
I meant well. Just before the family Christmas photo shoot in front of the birch, I decided it was a little too shaggy around the edges. I gave it a little trim and it looked really good! But you know what the road to Heck is paved with. When he got up for school the next morning, I decided it could use a little touch up, and then another, and then a third. The inevitable emergency professional. hair appointment resulted in our very big guy's very first buzz cut. Amazingly, it was fixable (for the most part at least):

Gingerbread Center Day at School; a couple of weeks after the incident.

Mason & Corinne love...

Of course, it's E. All of the Above.
My sweet babies love doing just about anything together, including getting into tons of baby mischief :)

Taking a Not-So-Crazy-Looking Picture Together
Mission: Impossible

Dad's #1 favorite holiday tradition is...

Although he enjoys all of these holiday traditions, the correct answer is definitely A. Rigging Up The Lights.

The Washa House all dressed up.

Mom's is...

You know it has to be A. CHRISTMAS TUNES!
They're not just for Christmas anymore, but it sure is nicer when other people are listening to them, too.
Corinne's really getting into the Christmas Carol Mania this year as well. A few of her 2013 Greatest Hits:

Jack Frost "crunching up" your windows.

She keeps asking me what part of the Frosty the Snowman song is the part where Frosty "gets his head cut off." I keep telling her that he just loses his hat and that part of the story isn't even in the song, but she's is not buying it.

"Mele Kalikimaka"

Can't pronounce Big Brother's name without a W. 

Speaks Polynesian like an old pro.

And of course, the timeless classic...

"Jingle bells, jingle bells away!

All the pharmacists arrive. HEY!"

Dad held how man positions of employment this year?

D. 3
Charter Technician, Radio DJ, Highland Village Board
Well we have to see him every once in a while...

True/False: The majority of Mom's Christmas preparations were completed before Thanksgiving.

Winner: 2013 Best Joke of the Year.

Totally and Completely FALSE.

Mom is never reeaaallly ready for Christmas, and, in accordance with tradition, can again this year be expected to send out late-ish Christmas cards in combination with mismatched childrens concert clothing and midnight-or-so Christmas Eve gift-wrapping. She's pretty sure she can recall a time when she actually had it all together for the holidays, but that was at least 6 years ago.

And At Last...

Corinne is getting really excited for next fall when she can finally...

Tough one, right? I won't keep you in suspense.
C. Start Preschool!
Our little ones are growing up so fast.

So that's it! How'd you do?
Feel free to leave your score in the Comments section, 
but be warned:

If it's too low, next year's Christmas card 
will be a picture of a piece of coal.

Not-too-badly mismatched concert clothing.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Recipe for Crap in a Pan

Adapted from 36-Hour Skillets

by Rachel Ray*

(for Robin, who asked for it)

Ingredients:

2 Partially Eaten Apples found lying on kitchen table and/or counter

1 Frozen, partially thawed lb. Bacon

3 Overflowing tsp. brown sugar from a plastic teaspoon found randomly

 lying on the counter by the microwave

Glop or 2 of Maple Syrup

1. Cut up apples; fend off children trying to eat them by alternating threats of appendage loss with statements like, "I have to go over to the sink for a minute and I had best not return to find any little mouths munching my apples."
2. Since bacon is still half frozen, attempt to cut straight through the bag with kitchen scissors so there's no chance of the bacon sliming apart while you're trying to get a nice even cut.
3. When this approach fails, remove bacon from packaging, hold it over pan containing remaining apple pieces, and cut through bacon itself (still with cheap kitchen scissors) hopefully with minimal sliming. All the while, in the back of your mind, contemplate the nice sharp pair of meat scissors sitting clean and ready on the other side of the room, that you are to lazy to walk over to because doing so will inevitably mean washing up an extra pair of scissors.
4. Glop in sugar and maple syrup, taking care not to actually measure out any specific amount of syrup as this will dirty a measuring cup which will then have to be cleaned.
5. Cover pan and cook for about 10 minutes.  
6. Upon lifting the lid, vaguely recall (with help of irritatingly accurate husband) that you were supposed to cook the bacon BEFORE putting in the apples. Remember that you thought of that when you were putting the apples in the pan to begin with but decided against it because you were too lazy to remove the apples from the pan and if you did remove them you'd have no cutting board to put them on in the meantime because you had gotten a little bacon slime on the apple cutting board, thus converting it to the bacon cutting board, causing you to have to retrieve and inevitably wash a whole new cutting board for the apples. And who wants to go through all that when you can just tell your kids they have to eat it regardless of what it tastes like anyway? Plus, come on, it's apples & bacon. How bad can it be?
7. Put husband in charge of draining the pan since it's his fault you couldn't drain it earlier when you wanted to because he stood in front of the sink too long. When he attempts to drain it his way (using a strainer) bark at him that he's doing it all wrong and he should drain it by holding the lid on and letting the liquid drain out through the infinitesimally minute space between the pot and its lid - you guessed it - so that you don't have waste that valuable second or two washing the strainer. 
8. Continue cooking with lid off for 30 or so more minutes because you've become distracted by some combination of picking up toys, hanging Christmas tree ornaments, and the Internet.
9. Return to find that there's been an unauthorized discontinuation of cooking.
10. Have following conversation with husband:
    Wha... It says OFF! Who turned off my pan?!
    "I did."
    WHY?
    "I thought it was done."
    Why would you think it was done?!
    "I dunno. It kind of looked done. And it has been cooking for over 40 minutes."
    I KNOW it has! (I didn't know.) It takes that long to come to crappy perfection!
11. Turn pan back on. Cook for another minute or two while contemplating the fact that it does kind of look done.
12. Try a bite. If it tastes edible, scoop some out for the kids, using a paper towel to blot off extraneous bacon grease.
13. Keep cooking the rest of it, hoping the bacon will get a bit crispier. Get distracted again.
14. Return 5 or less minutes later to find a good half of it burned.
15. Spin triumphantly towards the table, announcing, hands on hips, "Well you can't say the bacon isn't crispy now!"
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    *Nah, she seems like a nice lady. Let's not blame this on her.

Projection Junction

Baffled by my recent lack of *Bloggification?

An important factor you've overlooked is that this is a multi-phase project, to be implemented over the life of my blog or, at the latest, myself.

Mason 365: Basic Outline

Phase I: First 28 Days

Review: Logging 1 Excellent and Complete Blog/Day

Project Status: Stellar! Model Student

Phase II: Baby Reverts to Intermittent Sleep Cycles

Mom Undergoes Parallel Priority Shift From Blogging to Snoozing

Project Status: Satisfactory

Logging one half-complete blog/day including photo-snapping and some unedited writing.

Phase III: Sleep Situation Mildly Improved but...

AHH! It's SUMMER! And you know what that means:

Mom undergoes priority shift #2;
Complete 180 from snoozing to 100%, 24-hour on-the-go activity 

Project Status: Poor
Dates posts but writes/uploads nothing.

Phase IV: That line about "Mom and Dad can hardly wait for school to start again..."
Effective Immediately: That guy's totally  fired.
Two kids in school = Twice as much work
Getting up early... Keeping up with homework... Filing papers... Making crafts...
Not to mention Fall/Winter Activities
Project Status: Failing

Takes pics but does nothing else.

Phase V: Taking our cue from another highly inefficient agency which shall hereafter be referred to as the E.R.S, we here at Cereal Mom Corporate will do anything to avoid the use of the term failure, up to and including replacement with additional corporate word-creation.
Project Status: Deferred Reblogturing
From this point forward, no reference will be made to this extremely successful, intentionally low-yield project, with the exception of requesting additional funding for it's clearly necessary continuation.

***Projected End Date: March 21st, 2035

*Corporate Word-Creation: **Best defined as dedication to blogging

**Cereal Mom Corporate reserves the right to alter and/or terminate this pseudo-word at any time and for any reason with or without prior notification.

***As this date was pulled randomly out of the clear blue sky and is based solely on imaginary calculations, Cereal Mom Corporate reserves the right to alter and/or eviscerate this timeline altogether at any time and for any reason, (with continuation of funding, of course.)

Mason 365: Day ?? err, something

Father's Day Fiasco 2013

Thursday 6/13 

Mom finally comes to terms with the fact that, due to the lateness of the date owing to the fact that she never has any concept whatsoever of the current day or month, it will surely prove impossible to order something for Dad that will stand any chance of arriving on time. A hasty trip to Walmart follows in which cards and some random Father's Day gifts, up to and including some variety of pepper plant that, despite warnings that Dad already has 10 species of pepper plant living in the garden, the kids happened by on the way into the store from the mulch area and instantaneously locked in on as THE one and only PERFECT Father's Day gift and of course - dun dun DUN - The Cake That Time Forgot.

It was an ice cream cake. Reese's Peanut Butter Cup. Friendly's. doomed.

Dinnertime

Cake safely stored in the chest freezer. 

Leftovers for dinner. 

Mom's on the couch reading a book to her eldest. (Summer Reading Program season. We do little else these days.) Dad yells in from the kitchen, announcing that someone has unplugged the chest freezer. He thinks it's been a few days. It's still cold inside, but his much-beloved pork ribs have gone soft. Mom sighs, realizing he's probably spotted the cake; hoping it hasn't gone too terribly soft; recalling how she al-most put it in the downstairs freezer instead, but didn't want to venture into the dark, potentially spidery basement alone with a cumbersome ice cream cake in hand. You know, because something bad might befall it on the way down. Domestic irony at its best.

Friday 6/14

 Dad mentions having inadvertently discovered one of his Father's Day gifts. Mom points out that noticing the cake was somewhat unavoidable due to her negligence in putting it upstairs rather than safely in the basement, coupled with the inconvenience of the unplugged freezer. Dad gazes studiously in her direction for a moment before affirming that he knows nothing about any frozen cake and that he was referring to the aforementioned mystery variety pepper plant which, due to its inconvenient desire for full sunlight, has been "hidden" in plain sight on the side walkway since yesterday afternoon.

Mom shrugs off the cake query as well, but with growing apprehension. As Dad heads into the bathroom, Mom makes for the chest freezer where, sure enough, she finds the cake, probably mushy but salvageable at the time of demise, tossed carelessly aside in the quest for the much coveted softened pork ribs. The former cake lies, melted, mangled, and refrozen, against the side of the box, like the paper-covered blocks of ice cream they used to sell when I was kid.

If the box was sold only half full.

And sideways.

Friday Night

Kids are in bed. 

Mom's formulating a backup plan. 

Feeling guilty already for the money she wasted on the first cake (and concerned about who is ever going to finish all that ice cream), Mom hesitates to pay for another one. She settles on two feasible Father's Day Salvage Plans. The family can either a) bake a regular cake - something that goes well with peanut butter ice cream - and have cake & ice cream instead or b) get some toppings together and have Father's Day ice cream sundaes. 

Dad's preference is requested.

One day, we all hope, Mom will learn this one simple truth: Dad NEVER has an opinion about these things. 

Ever. 

He tells Mom to "surprise him." 

Mom HATES surprising people and decides she'll bring it up for a vote instead. Her face falls as she remembers how the voting process generally unfolds:

Gesturing to one side of herself and then the other as though there were one child seated to each side of her, Mom gushes, "Each of them always picks a different option just so they can disagree, like this, (right side) 'Cake & Ice Cream!' (left side) 'Sundae Bar!' 

Dad interjects, "But that's why we have Corinne talking now... as the tiebreaker."

(If the only purpose in having an odd number of offspring is ascertain a constant tiebreaker than sooner or later, we're gonna need another one... But then, there's also this:)

Mom glances skeptically in his direction before replying, "Yeeaah, Corinne's not much of a tiebreaker."

Dad nods his concession as Mom gestures pointedly to the space in front of her where Hypothetical Corinne and voice the "tiebreaker" response in unison: "YES!!!"

Saturday 6/15

Miraculously, Mom is saved a trip to the store when a unanimous vote is cast for Sundae Bar!

It's True.

Miracles DO still happen,

particularly on Father's Day,

and possibly Festivus.

But mostly Father's Day.

Sunday 6/16

Sundae Bar Success!

Proof positive that success is in the eye of the beholder :)

We'll leave you with a couple of Father's Day poems Logan wrote for Zach's homemade cards that you might enjoy.  Julianne and Corinne liked these verses so much they had to have them printed on their own cards as well. 

Note: He's REALLY into the 'Roses are Red' format at this time.

Poem #1

Roses are red.

Violets are blue.

I love my Daddy.

How about you?

Poem #2

Roses are red.

Violets are blue.

Cheesecake is sweet.

Daddy is too.

Happy Father's Day All From The Washa Family!