Little Red

Here's a story of Little Red.
Mom is making sugar cookies one evening, and the girls are helping, playing and taking turns getting a bath.
The conversation went something like this.

Little Red: Mom, can I take a bath with my sister?
Mom: No, I want you to wait and take one after.

-Little Red disappears for a while and comes back completely in the buff.

Mom: Little Red, I told you no bath right now.
Little Red: (cheerfully) I know, I'm just going to help you while I wait.
Mom: (patiently) Well, I think you should put on a robe or something.
Little Red: (patiently) Mom, Sometimes I wait naked, and sometimes I don't. But this time I am, so... (big smile)

After trying not to laugh hysterically and getting a quick snapshot, she found a robe. ...or did she just get in the bath with her sister? One never quite knows with the baby of the family.

Please indulge the parents in just one more kids are crazy story.

This same child was given some raisins on Sunday in those cute little red boxes. When she was done, she didn't know where the trash was, and she didn't have any pockets, so she flattened the boxes and stuck them in her sandals. So as she walked, if you looked you could see raisin boxes sticking out from under her heals. She was quite pleased with herself (and with the reaction she received from everyone else, and why not? Such ingenuity.)

Kid's Favorites, Vacation Highlights

June saw our little family on vacation to see the folks, visit friends and hug Our Favorite GI, (Topper's brother) who was home on r&r from his Iraq deployment. Here are the pictures that the girls picked to post.





Here is Chickadee feeling like a caveman in a little African hut and the tiger at the zoo.

Big Red is enjoying the Science Center with Grammy Nanna, and the zoo with Gram.

Yippy-Skippy loves the zoo, and loves to play with the children of some good friends.










We hadn't seen the Rubble family for almost four years. What a treat to hang out with them again!






































We took a four generation photo with Nonnie, Great Grandpa, Grammy Nanna, Topper, and girls. What fun!













And here is Our Favorite GI being a good Uncle to Little Red.












What a fun trip! We love you all!

Who Broke My Window?

Here are some oldies but goodies. Enjoy.

Happy Fathers Day!

Hooray! to all the Fathers out there that we know, and of course or own irreplaceable Fathers. We love you all.






For Father's Day this year, while the Skipper was out, we sneakily redid his 'garage bathroom' and turned it into the 'bear bathroom'.

While a decorated room may not be his most exciting gift ever, we think he likes it. At any rate, he's a very good sport.

He was also a good sport about this silly t-shirt we got for him. (The shirt says, "Dad tough enough to wear pink.") If you click on it, it will open up larger.

We love the Skipper. Happy Fathers Day!

(The original post had more pictures, but two were somehow lost, the computer elves probably thought they were too much unnecessary detail. I would probably have to agree with them, so I'm not re-posting them.)

Garden in June

We are having fun watching our garden grow and have enjoyed the greens as they have become available. We are still watching and hoping for some of the vegetables to produce well, but overall we are abundantly pleased with the results of our garden experiment so far.

We are attempting to train our melons and squash up a trellis and they are doing nicely. I stuck this watermelon into the wire while I thought of the 'perfect' way to support it from above. I kid you not, 3 days later we had to use wire cutters to remove it.

Today it is suspended in a kind of pantyhose hammock but it's not the 'perfect' permanent solution. Any suggestions? Quick, we are going on vacation and I need to teach a teenager how to tend these while we're gone.

Random Cuteness

As I mentioned, May was an insane month, and I took pictures of the girls in their talent shows, but none turned out. (Zooming in onto a small portion of the stage from a back row seat does not allow enough light on the subject. I knew better. And taking a picture from a back row with a wiggling Little Red does not produce good results either.)

Nevertheless, here is a picture of Yippy-Skippy at her Kindergarten graduation, and one of Little Red getting ready to ride with her sisters.

One of these times I've got to get a picture of the whole family lined up for a bike ride . We make a mighty fine pace line through town.