Grandma Hugs

"I keep using this soap because it makes me happy.
It smells like Grandma Hugs. And I really want one now."
~Aimee

Flower Child

"Here, mom, love you!"

Instead of a vase full of clover flowers, we wore them. (We actually made these last year, as well, when the clover first popped up...they were more plentiful this year, and so our necklaces were longer.)

Footballs and Tiaras

Some children can't go to sleep at night without their favorite stuffed animal. Aidan and Allie have never been fans. They don't like to share their space (unless that means taking over mom and dad's bed)...Aidan has actually tried to go to sleep with an animal he was playing with, but got all cozy in bed and chucked the bear over the side to get it out of his way.
Last Saturday night, they made it. Completely asleep and the item they wanted to sleep with stayed with them the entire night.

No teddy bear or stuffed doggy....The football got to come to church with us, the Tiara had to stay home :(

Fourth of July

The view from the front door.


The view from the back door.

Rain and puddles...kept us away from the pool, but...

...we stayed warm and [mostly] dry hanging out on the back porch. Our fire pit provided entertainment and yummy s'mores. After the thunderstorm cooled off the afternoon, everyone played around with fireworks.


(Hmmm...fireworks pics and video to follow...it seems that camera is currently in the mountains of New Mexico at Camp Wehinahpay Boy Scout Camp.)

Transformation

Aidan loves his batman cape. To him, the pajamas were fine, and he's worn them many times, but we never bothered with the cape until recently. The transformation was instantaneous. He immediately knew that once he had a cape on, he was indestructible. We try to take it off before bed, and he asks for help getting it on first thing in the morning. Bring on the caped crusader!

Miscommunication

Today, while eating lunch at 2:00, we realized that yet, again, we were missing the movie at the library. Each Thursday afternoon for the summer, our library has a movie in the story time room. We have made it to story time a total of THREE times (!wow!) and never to the movie. Partly, it's the time...we're never really prepared to hang out at the library from 2-4 in a room full of kids eating pickles (if you don't understand what I mean there, keep watch, I will be posting about the pickle phenomenon soon enough). Anyway, today my head feels a bit sleepy and our chat about plans reflected that.

Here's a brief bit of our lunch conversation and miscommunication.

Alex: Well, I did kind of want to watch "Igor" (igor… “i” as in igloo)
Aimee, in correctrion: It's Īgor (īgor… “i” as in time)
Mom, in correction: Actually, it's Igor (ēgor… “i” as in team [can I even say that as an example...lol] )
Allie, in confusion: Eeeyore?

Oi! At least if we had gone to the film, we would have all known how to say it...maybe. Allie still refers to Malfoy (from Harry Potter) as "Mouthoy," so she could very well have walked away from "Igor" thinking there was a movie about another "Eeyore." Who knows.