Outside in July

All three boys... hard to get them all in a photo.















Daddy's slip-and-slide -- two tarps at the end of the water slide. There's a third extension now - the boys can go about 15 feet or so. It's produced some pretty impressive backside abrasions and bruises, but also lots of laughter.

Photos from late July

The new reading station set up outside Ollie's bedroom.














New office - painted brown, new lighting, new curtains.


















The elephant and the cow sharing some cereal.














A miserable little stinker.

from Minnesota

Katherine and I made fruit snack surprise cupcakes.

Wesley is "Mr. June" in the Toddler Construction Worker Calendar

When twins go potty

window

It's hard to see, but we put an "Artscape" film on the octagonal window. It looks really nice.

These are the home improvements we've done so far in July

This is the front hallway, painted blue, new light fixture, door painted white.

This is detail on the front door windows.

This is the sunroom - sort of looks like a Jim Jones hut in the rainforest in this photo. New bamboo curtains all around, film and curtains on the sky window. James says it's a lost cause - it's still 95 degrees in there.

I made the blue valence on that window and one other.

How they talk

These are transcripts I took of the boys talking while we were in the car. Age 3. June 26, 08

Oliver
House church. Shirt is blue. Where tunnel? Train is purple. Mommy's paper. Tunnel's coming. Tunnel's coming. It's coming. It's coming. It's coming. Tunnel coming. I heard tunnel. I heard tunnel. Listen! Listen to tunnel. Listen to tunnel. Ooh, that's so big. I heard it. I heard the tunnel. Listen to the tunnel. Listen to the tunnel. I heard tunnel. Oh no. Oh no. Water. Look at airplane. Look at airplane. Look at airplane. Look at airplane. Look at airplane. Get down there. Get down from the sky! Get down there. Get down there. Get down there. Get down there. Get down there. Get down there. Get down there. Mommy, mommy, mommy! Kiss.

Wesley
Beep beep vroom. Little car. Where tunnel go? There's Oliver cranky. C D E F G (singing). No scared cranky. No scared dark. No scared dark. No scared dark. No scared dark. No scared dark. Dark. All done. All done. There's the plane. Plane. Plane. That's airplane. Cranky there. Loader. Loader. Cranky backhoe. A B C D E F G. A. C D E F G H I J K. Bye AJ. Bye AJ. AJ gone? A B C D E F G. Mommy!