Friday, August 8, 2008

Ahh Summer!

Licking up ice cream cones on hot hot days!! Or getting licked by one? I don't know who won this fight!


Ever since Aunt Martha showed up at our house, Hayden has been showing off all his tricks. I was just lucky to catch him in mid-air.



Our wednesdays are designated park days or beach days. During the summer it leans toward the beach. My boys love to dig in the sand. Hayden loves to catch sand crabs and watch them swim and burrow in the sand.



Riding Bikes is one of our favorite things to do!






Tyler is a beach boy too, but his delights are more often found in luring the birds closer with food and then chasing them down. Oh what fun.






It is so amazing how one simple little ice cream cone can turn into the biggest mess of the century. ALL over the face, the hands, the clothes, the patio, the chairs, the walls, the screen door, the trash can - I can't believe how much destruction can happen on such a small patio. Thanks a lot Uncle Richard : ) !!! SO much devastation for a world full of glee and happiness - Worth it? OH YOU BETCHA! It will happen again, although next time I am going to strip them down - maybe it will save their clothes from the STAINS.






Friday, August 1, 2008

EarthShake!!!


We had an exciting adventure Tuesday when Hayden and Tyler experienced their first "Earthshake."

Around 11:40 they were happily playing all around the living room when the earth started rocking. I quickly gathered my crew and we sat in a doorway. While being bombarded with questions by Hayden - what's happening? what's happening? what's happening? and enduring a Tyler lock around my neck - he was not about to let go - I proceeded to explain exacly what an earth quake was. "The earth shifting below us, the earth moving etc." I explained it in more detail.

Somehow my definition was either vague or just really misinterperted because now Tyler's favorite question to ask is "Is the planet coming again?" I think our catastrophe went from an "earth shaking" to a possible planetary collision? Not certain what is going on in the heads of my little ones.
Either way, we definitely had an experience. We had pictures fall off the bookcases, things fall off the entertainment center and stuff in the kitchen fell down. Mostly it made me rethink what kind of knick knacks I keep in certain places - gotta keep the house "earthshake safe"