July 28th, 2010
Ellie couldn’t get enough of the water.
What a sweetie, eh?
3, 2, 1…Jump!
They were playing make believe here…”Ahhh…we’ve washed up on a deserted island!”
Just so you know, they did not want to go on this “Keep Off” lifeguards chair. I made them. I thought It’d make a cute picture.
I love this on of Elijah and his good friend Navinah Riley. Chivalrous, that Elijah is.
This might just be my favorite picture ever!
Noah, running from mischief, probably.
Elijah’s foot. In case you’re wondering, this is also the size of one of my feet.
Awww…Elliekins. Wow, can you believe she’s almost 11 months old?
The Fam. Five out of seven are actually looking at the camera. Not bad.
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July 26th, 2010
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July 19th, 2010
So…now that my hundreds of photos are finally off of my camera and onto my new Mac, I can’t find them. I mean, I can find them – I can look at them – but I can’t figure out how to import or export them. Booo! (I’m booing myself, by the way, and not my new computer.) And actually, I probably could figure it out, but it’s 9:30 pm, and putzing around on a computer when I’m tired is not something that I enjoy doing.
Anyhow, summer continues to be lovely. The boys just finished up two weeks of swimming lessons. They rocked it and I got some great pictures of them and everyone by the pool, but those will have to wait till next week. Tomorrow I’ll be getting us packed up for a very spontaneous trip down to IHOP in Kansas City. We couldn’t pass up some free lodging that was offered to us and the chance to eat Chick-fil-A. Yum!
See you next week…probably 5 pounds heavier.
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July 8th, 2010
Ah…summer, how I love thee. Freckles. The lingering smell of sunscreen. Towels drying on the patio. Eating outside. Sun-bleached hair. (You should see Noah’s!) The yummy, sleepy feeling that envelopes you at the end of a day spent entirely outside. Mmmmm.
So, it’s just dawned on me that as a homeschooling mom, my perspective on summer vacation will be entirely different from that of a mom whose children go to school. Right now, I really do feel like I’m on vacation. It’s been so lovely to have noting to do but be a housekeeper and mummy and not a schoolmarm! I could really get used to this. :-)
Dave and I are committed, though, to homeschool through the next school year. Yes, it takes a lot – A LOT – out of us, but we’re loving the connectedness (is that a word?) that we feel as a family. It’s worth it. Hopefully, I’ll be able to blog more about this sometime. Hopefully being the key word. I can’t make any promises…I have five kids y’all!
I have tons of photo’s waiting to be shared too. Right now they’re stuck on my camera (almost 1000 of ‘em!). Our computer died a while ago, and Dave’s laptop is in serious danger of crashing if I upload anymore onto it. But never fear, Dave has ordered us a new MacMini and it should be here soon, so stay tuned.
P.S. Going to Fort Snelling tomorrow, a local living history museum. Excited!
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June 30th, 2010
Swinging. So much fun.
That’s paint on Phoebe’s face, by the way. We – that’d be me with all five kids in tow, my first real outing alone with all of them. (!) I’m very proud of myself – had a lovely excursion to the Minnesota Children’s Museum yesterday, and face painting was one of the many fun things that we did. Phoebe and Noah came home looking like Native American war heroes and Elijah and Zeke like baseball players.
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June 28th, 2010
Have you heard of/seen the new-fangled skateboard called a RIPSTIK? Oui? Non? (I need to brush up on my French. We begin a French foreign language course this fall. Exciting! Elijah and Zeke think that they’ll finally have a language to have secret conversations in the same way that the Portuguese speakers on campus do.) A RIPSTIK was all Zeke wanted for Christmas this past year and a RIPSTIK he did get.
As soon as the snow cleared this spring Zeke started practicing the wiggling maneuver used to propel himself on his RIPSTIK. He soon found out that it wasn’t as easy as it looked. He fell…a lot. But he kept at it. And fell a lot more. His elbows took the brunt of most of his collisions with the sidewalk. Ouch. Me? I would have given up.
But finally – like overnight – Zeke figured it out! Now he’s cruising all over campus. I love this picture of him doing a U-turn and the concentration evident in the tongue curl.
Of course, it simply would not do for Zeke to have a skill that Elijah didn’t have, so now Elijah is determined to figure out the RIPSTIK too…
Boys…everything’s a competition.
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June 22nd, 2010
Now could all three of you look at the camera? Just once. And smile…or at least not look weird. Please?
Not gonna happen.
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