SUMMER!!

Summer is here and we are loving it. My last post was mostly words (boring) so this picture will be mostly pictures. Enjoy!

Carter is learning to ride his bike without the training wheels. He's almost got it.

Squirt guns were a big hit at our house!

I snapped these three pictures all in a row. I love the progression of their facial expressions.

Playing out in the yard.

Looking for bugs.

This kid's always dirty!

Fun at the beach


WATER FIGHT!!

That's all for now.

A little bit crazy

That's how things have been since my last post, a little bit crazy. Here's a some of what's been going on.

Zach is working on a big case that was scheduled to go to court on June 3rd. May was a very busy month for him. Most of the month he would leave for work at 7is and get home sometime after 11 almost every day. It was exhausting for everyone. During this time Austin fell off a chair and hit his head against the bookshelf splitting his head open near his left eye. It required an ER visit where they slapped some glue on it and sent us home. The day everything hit the fan was Wednesday, May 26th. Austin's cut wasn't looking good, the kids were being crazy and I was ready to explode. I took the glue off of Austin's cut to get a closer look and found that the ER doctor hadn't closed the cut completely so it wasn't healing closed, it was healing open. This in itself really isn't a big deal but the state I was in it was the last straw. I lost it. I called my mom (knowing that Zach was in a meeting and didn't need the drama) bawling. I vented to her, e-mailed my pediatrician about Austin's cut, and planned to drive to Utah with some friends and stay there until Zach was through with trial(It's expected to take two months and it's in Philadelphia so we wouldn't see him) . The next day, Thursday, there was a meeting with the trial judge and he postponed trial until mid-September. Can you say roller-coaster?!? Here Zach has been working his tail off for trial in June, I'm a basket case, and we've come up with a plan for our time during trial and now it's all got to change. Goo!! Knowing there's nothing we can do to change the situation we took what we could get, time as a family. Since trial wasn't until September Zach's work load lightened considerably and we've been able to do fun family things (more on that later).

To make a long story short, I haven't posted in months because it's been a little bit crazy.

Here's a shot of Austin's cut, pre glue removal

Nap time

Today as I put Austin down for his nap this is what he told me...

"I need to tell you someting. I need you go downtairs and don' boder me. K?"

It's like he's in charge or something.

Carter is currently napping with an eye mask on. You know, the kind that diva's wear in the movies when they're sleeping? Zach brought it home from some trip out of town (it was complimentary at the hotel). Carter asked what it's for so we told him. He now thinks that he has to wear it for nap time. I totally let him because hey, he takes a nap and I was beginning to think that was a thing of the past for him. Thank you hotel!

A little mixed up

We went to the park yesterday. Right now you can find dandelions everywhere around here, and we did. Carter picked one and carried it around smelling it saying he was going to save it and bring it home to show Daddy. I'm not sure how long he'd been up to this when I looked over and noticed that his nose was all yellow. I didn't know dandelions smelled that good. :)

Austin also decided that he needed to pick some dandelions. He seems to think that one can not have too many dandelions. This made our walk to the park pretty slow. It was hard to get him to walk past a dandelion without stopping to pick it. As he held his handful of eight or more dandelions and bounced/walked along occasionally he'd see a dandelion out of his reach behind a chain-link fence. He would point it out to me by saying, "Look Mom, a jellybean!"

This morning....

Carter: "Austin, that does not make sense"

Austin: "Yes it doos"

These phrases were repeated seven or ten times until I put Carter's breakfast in front of him. When Carter stopped his side of the "conversation" Austin ended it all with, "That makes sense to mees"

* The pictures really have nothing to do with the post.

A thousand words...

They say that a picture's worth a thousand words.

Yes, that's Austin wearing his bike helmet in the house and yes, they're "eating fish"(brightly colored plastic ones)

I'm really not sure what these pictures say.

Haircuts, again.

Carter's hair has been hanging in his eyes lately. I told him it was time for a haircut. His response, "Yeah, I want it super short like daddy's!" I'm still not ready to just buzz over his head with the clippers so this was my compromise.

It's shorter than the last haircut I gave him. I have to say that I preferred cutting his hair when it was longer. It was easier. The mistakes were easily hidden by the curl and length so it didn't take very long to cut. Doing a shorter cut takes more time and requires more holding still, which makes both of us grumpy.

Austin got a haircut too, just a trim. It's still long and curly but a little less wild. See....

And just for kicks here's a picture of the two monkeys together.