Summer Happenings. . .

WHAT ABOUT BOB? Gehrig told me that he caught a caterpillar. Unfortunately, I didn't make it outside to take a look. The next day, I was outside with him when I heard him lament, "My caterpillar is dead!" I noticed that he had put it in a glass jar and I told him that it was probably too hot for him in there. Well, not long after that I came back outside to find him bent over (bottom left picture) something and I thought I might have heard some crying. I asked, "Gehrig, are you crying?" He said, "Yes." He was burying his caterpillar that he had apparently named Bob. (Take a look at the headstone. If you can't read it, it says, "Bob died.") Through his tears he said, "He was even building a cocoon." He "unburied" Bob so that I could take a picture of him (top right). After he was done burying him, he rested on our porch swing and cried a little bit more. Poor kid. I felt for him, but does it make me a bad mother if it kind of gives me the giggles too? He's so cute!

I found this POCKET ROCKET at a garage sale for $20. Lou told me to get it (he had seen one on KSL Classifieds for $45). After a couple of hours of work, he had it running (minus the chain--which is good b/c it can't take off yet, it just makes the sound like it's going to). It's the cutest thing I've ever seen. We all had fun scooting around on it. The boys had fun starting, stopping, and revving it. I'm not sure what I'm going to do when we get a chain. It's apparently really fast and probably too dangerous for our young boys yet. It will be a fun toy for the future though.

Emma wants to be like the big boys! Daddy finally put the purple training wheels on the blue bike and off she went! She's a pro!

Emma's Straight Hair (Posted, yet again--Please Show up!)

So, I can't help trying new things. On Sunday I thought it would be fun to use a flat iron and see how straight I could get her hair. It was quite the process and in the end was not even close to one of my favorite hairstyles on her, but it was fun to try.

It was so funny to see her with straight hair because it got in her face and she had to flip her head to move it out of her eyes, or run her fingers through her hair. I've never seen her do that before, but I guess since it's so curly on its own, it hasn't really been a problem for her yet. Can you believe how long it is?

Just snuggling with Daddy for a minute.

The boys thought she looked like a witch. I told her she was a princess, but I could actually see what they meant by it. The back was not flattering at all. And, as the day wore on and we were outside in the heat, her hair underneath began to curl and mat and the straight hair just straggled over top the curls. The front was cute for a bit though!

Slip-n-Slide Fun

After having lunch at the park today, we got home a little earlier than naptime, so I decided to be a fun mom and bring out the slip-n-slide and hook it up for the kids. (It's too hot to be outside now without water or shade.) They had a blast. I had fun watching them and weeding my gardens in my swimsuit (need to work on the farmer tan--hopefully none of the neighbors saw). After a little while, I brought Emma and Isaiah in for naps and let the boys continue to play.I'm really sad that I didn't get pictures of what they did next. They have a section of our lawn that they helped kill and now has become their dirt pile. They'll spend hours at a time playing "guys" out there. Today, they brought the hose over and filled little canals they made. Later on, it looked like they had dug themselves a swimming pool! What a mess. They were covered in dirt/mud and were having a great time until the mud fight began and our lovely rocky soil was being thrown. Then, it was time to hose them down and bring them in for "quiet time." I'm hoping that Damian will become a good reader this summer during his daily "quiet times". Sometimes he does them alone and sometimes I let Gehrig help him read or read to him. Anyway. . .we had a pretty fun day today.

Summer Fun

Our little bathing beauty! The girl in the background is our neighbor, Jenavee. She is such a sweetheart and loves to come over and help out whenever she can. She's great with the kids and is almost old enough to become a great babysitter!

Hear me ROAR!! :)

Don't you love these little bodies?