Dylan finally completed his 12 hours of summer reading this week. The library rewarded every kid who read for 12 hours with an art kit, so Dylan was inspired to be very creative this week. Most of the drawings and paintings he made were typical 3 year old scribble scrabble, but when he stuck both of his hands into the finger paint and made this picture, I knew it would be priceless (at least to me and Brian). So here are Dylan's hands at age 3.
Everything seems to be on a timer today! I'm making dinner for some friends who just had a baby, so there's one timer for the roast chicken, one for the roasted potatoes, one for the carrots, one for the lemon cakes, one for Dylan's potty schedule (I can't remember to ask him to go potty without the timer to remind me), and a subconscious timer to remind me to feed Brooklyn. Thank goodness that every kitchen appliance comes with it's own timer... otherwise, I would have run out of different ones by now!
Thank goodness for Alli --- she's been helping with Dylan a couple of days so I can get some much needed chores done. Right now the poor girl is having to watch "The Big Train Trip" and play with trains --- all at the same time!! I wouldn't be able to get everything done today without her, and of course, I would never have had a moment to blog!
With all these timers going at the same time and with my tendency towards great imperfection, I'm bound to miss one --- so apologies to the Duerksen's if the roasted chicken gets roasted a little past 170 degrees!
There's a BEEP ... got to go!
I've decided... I simply must start a Central Ohio chapter of Sudoku-aholics Anonymous! I am completely addicted to this silly little numbers game. I think if I just let myself go unchecked I could spend hours trying to improve my time, and I certainly don't have even a few minutes to spare doing that. I don't even know how I learned about it or who got me interested in it, but now I'm hooked. I've already found a few Sudoku books to take with me while I sit back on the beaches of the north shore of Oahu, eating my Matsumoto's, scrubbing down my quarter-flip kids with sunscreen, and hanging out with my family.
If you haven't caught on to the Sudoku fun, play it now --- if you like silly puzzles, you'll be hooked!
Another month gone by too quickly!! Brooklyn turned 3 months old this past weekend (07.08.06), and I have no idea where all the time has gone. Brooklyn just finished her first major road trip --- from Worthington to Baton Rouge --- over 16 hours in a single day! Despite her absolute hatred of her car seat and riding in the car, she was a trooper.
She finally got to meet her Auntie Lisa and Auntie Cayenne (that's Karen!), her other grandparents (who happened to be in BTR even though they live in Colorado Springs), and her great-grandmother. At her daddy's request, we drove to Texarkana and stayed the night on our way down to Natchitoches so she could also have her first (alhough very brief) visit to Texas. Brian even made me book a hotel on the Texas side of the city just so they could all say they slept in Texas rather than in Arkansas... those Texans!! Oh well, it was a great place to live if you could somehow get rid of all that traffic! 
Check out those blue eyes... only one in the Sanders for three generations to have blue eyes... gets them from her daddy!
The rest of the pictures...
My little ones...
Pawpaw & Dylan washing the fleet of vehicles...
Brooklyn's blue eyes...
The Old Hickory Railroad (Jackson, LA)
Engineer Dylan
Well...seems to be a few problems posting pics this morning. I'll try to revise this later with the other shots.
