summer rain

what a lovely and wet summer it's been.

(my friend Mauri took these pictures while our kids were riding bikes together in front of her house. thanks, Mauri!)

speaking of batman

(which we were, if you recall)

BATMOBILE TIME.

we wish you a Merry Christmas...

suspicious

(silence)

"hey. What are you guys doing in there?"

"Noffing!" yelled William.

I rolled my eyes. "hey, Michael. What are you guys doing in there?"

"He just told you, mom, we're not doing anything," Michael called back.

I took a deep breath. "Guys, please tell me what you're doing!"

(silence)

I jumped up. "DUDES. WHAT IS GOING ON IN .... oh."

"sorry."

play ball!

cousins

These pictures look very similar to these pictures, so sorry if this feels redundant to you, but I wanted to share with my mother-in-law:

even when Michael and Madelynn haven't seen each other for 6 months, they are such good little buddies.

crawling

poor Ivy.

Her mother doesn't learn from mistakes.

It occurred to me last week that the reason Ivy couldn't crawl yet was because ... wait for it ... she never has the opportunity to try! who saw that one coming?

So I made an effort every morning to let her roll around on the floor for an hour or two.

Three days later, she was crawling all over the place.

it's a whole new world.

sunday afternoon fort

monday morning lightsaber battle

day off

well, it was inevitable: this round of sick hit me, too.




hard.

so I decided to take it easy.

we just holed up today with William's birthday presents

and the best part:

left over cake.

lightsaber

Michael calls his a 'LightSaver,' which I find particularly awesome because I thought it was called a lightsaver, too, when I was little. Until I was 20. Whatever.



























We had a great Christmas.

slip'n'slide

children's museum continued