July 28, 2014

  At dinner tonight, the kids were eating everything but the celery out of their potato soup.  I told them to plug their noses so they wouldn't taste it.  Shelbi commented that it was the texture of the celery that she didn't like. So I told her to put her fingers in her ears.  They'd take a bite, cover their ears, and then start chewing.  They didn't know I was joking until Shelbi asked Jeff the scientific reason that this works, and I couldn't keep a straight face.

July 27, 2014

One of these days this will be the site of our sandbox.  Of course, the kids still play back here, even if it's just dirt and rocks.

July 26, 2014

  This is as close as we're going to get to a ping pong table at this house.  I dream of some day having a basement rec room to send the kids to.

July 25, 2014

We're pretty excited about that cucumber.  It's the first we've grown here.   And it was delicious.

July 24, 2014

July 23, 2014

December 20, 2006

Aww.

July 22, 2014

  Many nights Bailey chooses some random object to take to bed with her.  I don't mind; it makes bedtime go much smoother.  Sometimes it's just a stuffed animal.  Other times it's stranger things, like a greeting card or item of clothing.  Tonight it was her "'Fia First" pencil case.