My Summer in Review

This has been a great summer! My kids are at a young age and they are making many discoveries. I'm also learning allot about them...

This boy is super competitive

this girl is not :)

they both love to sing

and they decided that water is awesome...

and exhausting...

they proved that they have big personality

and they can be big helpers.

They found things to play

and things to share.

They tasted "awicious" foods

and some... not so much

and a couple weeks ago, my baby learned how to walk!

Here are some of the things that my oldest said this summer:

“Woah, my legs don’t feel very runny right now.”

“The hummingbird flew away and now there’s a real bird on the back porch.”

“May I step on the scale to see how much I waste?”

“I need to work on my bike. The engine is not very good.”

"Of course it's cute, it's a little boy!"

Snapshot

The photo challenge at Simplicity is "...a random picture that pretty much summarizes what life is like at your house on any given day."

With the weather cooling down a little, we have been spending our time outside and my little artist is happy to decorate the swing set with chalk! You can see that she is pretty pleased with her work.

You gotta clap

clap!

clap your crazies out

and wiggle your waggles away!

Bubbles

Swing

I've been trying to get a good swing photo. It's a challenge! Yesterday I took what I think might be my favorite so far.

But here is a secret: I actually used photo shop to merge two disappointing images.

Can you tell?

The Sniffle

The Sniffle

by Ogden Nash

In spite of her sniffle
Isabel's chiffle.
Some girls with a sniffle
Would be weepy and tiffle;
They would look awful,
Like a rained-on waffle,
But Isabel's chiffle
In spite of her sniffle.
Her nose is more red
With a cold in her head,
But then, to be sure,
Her eyes are bluer.
Some girls with a snuffle,
Their tempers are uffle.
But when Isabel's snivelly
She's snivelly civilly,
And when she's snuffly
She's perfectly luffly.

A Weekend to Remember

Last weekend I had a visit from my sister, who happens to be the lovely lady at Simplicity! It was wonderful and busy, full of laughter and good times... it was over much too soon. One morning we went to the city square for some photography which was my first real (ish) photo shoot. I had all the advantages of working with a beautiful model but none of the stress! We both took a million photos and goofed off like moms without their kids. Here are some of my favorites:

And when we came home, the house was quiet because my husband had put the kids down for naps and he cooked a delicious meal for us, with chocolate cake at the end. Sweet! Our husbands (being super heroes) took care of everything and I'm so thankful and happy that I got to spend quality time with my big sis...

let's do it again!