The nieces are so athletic!

( In which they climb a wall )

( In which Ana flips upside down. Again )

Also, Ana can now get on a swing and move it by pumping her legs. No initial push, no help at all.

This is a happy, happy event!

Oh wow.

4 pounds squash
SEVEN AND A HALF POUNDS CUCUMBERS!
24 oz fava beans
2 ears of corn (that'll be the kids' morning snack tomorrow)
24 oz green beans (I know how I'm cooking those!)
8 oz salad greens
12 oz basil (pesto)
2 onions

AND a quart of blueberries
AND more than a quart (half a gallon?) each of peaches and plums.

And, of course, a dozen eggs.

Holy shit.

That's a fucking lot of cucumbers.


Incidentally, I started my period today. It's so weird... I was so hyper and cheerful this week. So I start my period *totally unprepared* (most of my pads still unwashed - and the answer to that question is that I both have more pads than I can use every month, and yet do not feel I have quite enough), and I'm out and about with the nieces, and it's totally gonna screw up my schedule for the day - and I was still very cheerful, cadged a ride home and was just so happy.

Carried a good 25 pounds of food down from 28th street to Union Square just because I could (and because I needed to hie me to a bathroom), and I was singing in my head the whole way.

It's like PMS, but less PMS-y.

Really weird, but I'm too happy to complain.