Father's Day Nap

Celebrating dads can wear out a dude.

Egging

 

 

Geometry Problem

1. Imagine that you are building a chicken coop and want to place it in your backyard. Your very attentive neighbor points out that, in order to meet city code, the coop must be no fewer than 50 feet from any neighboring residence. Draw a plan of your property and the properties of your three nearest neighbors, being sure to accurately depict the proportion and location of each residence.  Shade in the areas in which you cannot legally place the coop.  How much area is left over?  Is it large enough to contain the coop that you already spent a month painstakingly building?  Does its location within this area of your yard look ridiculous?  How sad and defeated do you feel?  Show your work.  (Hint: You might want to use a 50-foot string to check your answer in your actual backyard.)

3rd Birthday Suit

This is how you play with your favorite toy after your 3rd birthday party and bath:

Scape

The kids enjoying our new backyard feature--a giant playscape!

Sugar Coaster

Happy Halloween from Iron Man and Butterfly Girl!

Summer Nights

In case you were wondering what goes on in our house in the evenings...

Last Day of Summer

When the snow-cone stand shuts down for the year, it is officially the last day of summer.  Of course, it is still hotter than 100 degrees Fryinhat outside, so it only means no more snow cones.

Baby Snarl Face

I love this baby.  I love this face he is making.  Love, love, love.

Desi gets tough.

Metri-cute-lation!

Tillie graduated from daycare and started pre-Kindergarten.  This is her first day of elementary school!  I'm a little bit weepy, proud, and nervous.  Fortunately, her bestie from daycare, Gianna, is also in her class, so I know she will have a really fun day.

Cute Crossing

1st-day excitement

Gianna, Tillie, and their teacher Ms. Alonzo

Tiny mortarboards!

First Gallery Show

Tillie proudly displayed an original piece of artwork at the hotel's waffle house.

Natural Historian

Travels

Cousin Canon

Local Flora

Traveling Light

Beach Babes

Tillie and Django went to the beach with Uncle Mike and Auntie Amy. Being knocked over by waves, popping seaweed nodules, digging for sandcrabby thingies, building sand castles, finding shells, chasing the ice cream truck, eating Popsicles, and jumping on Uncle Mike. It was an Adventure!

Treasure Map

Sometimes her drawings blow me away!

Anticipation

Tillie is excited about our trip to California.  She made a list of all the things/places/people she wants to do/visit while we are there.  I'm getting kind of excited too!

"Party" Doesn't Quite Describe It

Yesterday we celebrated Camile at her parents' house.  It was the third birthday party of hers that she did not attend.  Our kids are now old enough to run up the stairs to her bedroom and change out of their wet bathing suits and then race back down for cupcakes.  I wasn't a four year old when I did this, but I was still a child with childlike joys.  Like me, Tillie did enjoy the ever-present, eat-what-you-wish candy bowl filled with "nemanems" (even though she was disappointed to discover that M&Ms are all chocolate, never vanilla).  I miss my friend.  I'm glad we all know what to do on July 10th.