Some Silliness

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White Boy 'Fro

The little Dude's white boy 'fro is getting out of control.
I know Yiayia loves his curly locks but me thinks he's looking a little too...
We are overdo for a serious summer shearing.

Movies in the Park

What could be better than an outdoor movie that starts at the ambiguous hour of "dusk" and a picnic dinner with endless pretzels and cookies. You get to stay outside with sleeping bags way past bedtime and lay on blankets as the sky darkens and the movie comes into focus.

The night air is brisk once the sun goes down and the grass turns cold under our feet. If there weren't clouds we could see the stars.
The epic family movie "Open Season 3" barely holds our interest, but its not about the actual film. Its the event itself and creating visceral memories with these lovely little people.

Yea, I think we'll be doing this a few more times this summer.

Ooh La

School is winding down, only two more days!
To celebrate the end of the school year,
Zoe's class is having a Luau today
or "Ohh La" as Zoe called it.

Um, where did May go?

Sprinklers and Mud Pies

It reached around 90 today for the first time this year. So just an average Saturday afternoon was spent jumping in the sprinklers. Just the girls, Jack decided to spend the heat of the afternoon taking a marathon long nap.

There is a bare square in our back yard where the old sandbox used to live. When it gets wet it is apparently awesome for making mud pies.

The girls had a blast making a big lake of mud. When Jack finally woke up (after a three hour nap) we did not let him out for fear he would have been rolling in it.

Phone Pictures

A big part of our everyday life is taking pictures on my phone. Its just not handy to carry a DSLR around ones neck all the time, so for many pictures my phone is my point and click. Equally as often my phone gets used as a child distraction and random pictures are taken. The resolution isn't great, but it uploads automatically into my photobucket account.

Athena received an award for perfect attendance today and her best friend got a Core Virture award. Athena was one of only three Kindergarteners who got this award so she was pretty pleased and I was awfully proud.

When we picked up Athena from school yesterday she had another take home friend. Jack absolutely insisted on carrying the back pack even though it was waay too heavy for him. He's just up from his nap here, as he is most days we pick up the girls, so still kinda bedhead and askew. I literally pluck him, all warm and sweaty, out of his crib and pour him into his carseat still half asleep as we go to pick up the girls at 3:00. Otherwise he would sleep until nearly 4.


Zoe in the car last week. I thought she was looking pretty cool here and just had to snap her picture.

Pajama Dance Party

After the dinner dishes were cleared, homework finished, backpacks packed for school, baths taken, teeth brushed and jammies donned, we let loose with a little pajama dance party in the dark tonight. Athena's sneakers broke yesterday and Chris bought her some snazzy new Twinkle Toes to replace them. Everyone decided they looked really cool when she danced with them in the dark and now Zoe wants some too. Everyday life.

One Word Wednesday

"Arrrrrrrr!"

This is the start of an "Everyday Life" photo challenge.
I'm going to attempt to post one photo every day this week
that captures our everyday life.
Dress up is a big part of our everyday, even the Dude gets into it.

And she's off!

Mimi and her buddy, Jeffrie, embarked on a ten day cross country trip today. They will be visiting friends and sightseeing along their journey, taking their time to enjoy the trip. Jeffrie is going as far as Missouri and Mimi is heading to NY to spend the summer running the Shakespeare Festival, checking up on her business and spending time with Mom.

Oh the minis were sad to see her go. It's been nice having Mimi in our home the last three months and the girls lately have taken to calling Mimi "Momma Too". We've tried to prepare them as much as possible for her leaving, and she will be back after the summer, but four months is a long time when you're small. They each gave her many hugs and kisses and promised to call and text.

And they were off. We waved until we couldn't see the car anymore.

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Since then, Mimi has sent me pictures via text, documenting her journey. As she does not now, nor never will blog, I'll post them here so family can keep track of her whereabouts. Check back as I will update with every picture I get. So far, I have:

Grand Canyon
May 15, 2011

Four Corners
May 16, 2011

Snow in Telluride, Colorado
May 17, 2011

More Telluride, Colorado

May 17, 2011

On the road to Ft. Collins
Vail, Colorado
May 18, 2011

Visiting with Dougie

Fort Collins, Colorado

May 19, 2011

Somewhere in Kansas

May 20, 2011

St. Louis

May 21, 2011


Reaching Kentucky
May 22, 2011

Traffic Jam in West Virginia
May 23, 2011

Spring Concert

Athena's school held a Spring concert with just the K, 1st and 2nd Grade performing. It was an evening of concentrated cuteness. The Kindergardeners sang "John Jacob Jingle Heimersmith," "Hush Little Baby","Jesus Loves Me" and a "Spanish Words" song. All with hand gestures to match. The dress was "Fancy Spring," so, you know, a new dress was in order. Luckily Kohls was selling its Easter dresses for over 70% off!

Athena wanted everyone to be equally well dressed and tried to put one
of Chris' ties on the Dude but he wasn't having it.

I had hopes that my little hammy star would sit through a few photos before we left.

Cute...but maybe not for Yiayia's wall?

We even attempted the ever elusive photo with Mommy but this was the best of the series.
And we couldn't be late for the concert, so we had to go.

As the concert began, the audience sat in rapt attention.

Except for Jack who was more interested in Chris' phone. Chris met us at the event and had to leave directly from there for this softball game (hence the tee shirt).


At the end of their last song, I stood up for one final photo, and check out what my shy girl did when she caught sight of me.

After the lovely, and brief, performance, we took some photos with our besties outside.

Athena's best friend is suffering from some health difficulties, so some prayers would be welcome for this little one.

We love her alot and Athena is desperately sad at school without her. Hopefully she'll be back before the end of the year (in two weeks!!).

I'm not exactly sure what the Dude is doing here.
It's like some still from 70's police drama, is anyone else getting a Starsky and Hutch vibe?

And to cap off a lovely evening we went out for dinner with our Mimi - a send off for her craoss country trip to New York where she will be for the Whole. Entire. Summer.