Jimmy walked into the room where one of our guests had set up our ironing board. He looked at it, then turned to me and said, “What is?”
I answered, “An ironing board.”
He thought for a moment, then asked, “Me surf on it?”
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When is a walk to the mailbox more than just a walk? When it involves a Jeep, four kids, a long gravel driveway and lots of puddles!
Recalling driving the little toy Jeep around the yard with her cousins, Becky said "Me and Jonathan are the best drivers of all.” Susie replied, "Katie and I are the best losers of all!” ********** Becky, after hearing me talk about blasting the rocks for our pool: “Mommy what’s a blast?” Me: “A blast is an explosion, when you blow something up.” Becky: “Oh. I thought a blast is when you’re having a fun, fun party.” ********** Susie: “I can go shopping whenever I want when I grow up.” Me: “If you have money, that’s right.” Susie: “Well, my husband will give me money by working.” ********** Susie to her sister, with more than a little annoyance in her voice: “Why do you have to do everything I do?” Becky: “Because it’s exciting!” ********** Jimmy, when he got a rock in his shoe, sat down heavily and took his shoe off, saying, “Oh man!” ********** Becky: “When I grow up, I want a red convertible…” Then she paused and looked up at me sadly and moaned, “But that means I can’t have any kids!” ********** Susie, reading a line in a book: “Well, I’ll be a monkey’s uncle.” Jimmy: “Me be a uncle monkey.” Then he burst out laughing. 🙂
I think the girls are ready for school – they’re eager teachers, at least (although I’m not sure Jimmy is an enthusiastic student)! Swinging with Daddy can be giggle-inducing…
…or headache-producing (see Jimmy on the far right)! (Don’t worry – Jimmy was absolutely fine!). Big sisters are good for a laugh! Helmet + soap suds = Happy kid!
Ever wish you could squish the USA so that you could get geographically closer to your friends and family in far away states? Well, I long for that quite frequently, and I was definitely wishing we could move Connecticut and Wisconsin a little closer after spending a lovely weekend with our friend Phebe and her adorable kids. See? Phebe’s daughter Kyana was like a long-lost triplet sister to my girls!
And little Liam was such a doll to have around:
Speaking of dolls, we had our very own doll baby on the boat this weekend. Meet beautiful Matea, who I think is our youngest boater yet at 5 weeks old:
I’m so glad Katelyn was such a sport about bringing her newborn daughter out so we could all ooh and ahh over her!
And of course we were excited that we got to cuddle sweet Breton too!
We were also blessed by our friend David joining us on the boat for the first time in a long time. The kids love him, so the poor guy got stuck with more than his fair share of babysitting:
But he was so good, he could do it in his sleep:
Here’s Phebe showing us all up on the wakeboard (with a sprained foot, no less!):
And here she is cuddling with my little guy:
Jimmy was thrilled to have so many friends around!
And me? I couldn’t have been happier to be surrounded by so many great friends (and cute kids!). Now only if we could get them closer! Even though we have kept very busy this summer with awesome trips, visitors and outings, we’ve still had plenty of lazy days like today where all we did was play, play, play. I’m so thankful that the kids have great imaginations and can spend hours entertaining themselves* with books, dolls, rocks…and the occasional feather. Here they are trying to “plant” the feather. *That’s not to say that their “entertaining themselves” doesn’t also require me to step in and referee disputes every few minutes sometimes! Especially when Jimmy is in the mix. He definitely derives great pleasure from antagonizing his sisters. But for the most part, the kids all do really, really well playing by themselves these days…which makes it that much harder for me to accept that full-day kindergarten is just around the corner for the girls. The boys are going to lose their best playmates! Jimmy’s going to have to pick up the slack and start entertaining Danny…this could be interesting. I see (more) bathroom humor in my near future! |
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