Unorthodox way of eating breakfast

Look where Abby decided to eat her Lucky Charms this morning. I should point out that she doesn't use her potty chair at all except to sit on it with her clothes on. Apparently it's found a better use anyway.

Those pesky state names

Tonight at the dinner table we were discussing various things that were going on in our family as of late. I mentioned some of our relatives, and then Emma asked, "Who's that?" David then explained who they were and where they live.
"They live in Massachusetts." he said.
"No. They live in New Hampshire." I told him.
Emma then said, "Do they call it New Hampster because people always get new hamsters there?"
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David then tried to get her to understand that it was Hamp-SURE. "Hamp-sure." Then he said, "Shire."
I quipped, "Yeah. You know, where Frodo lives."
I don't think she got my joke. ;-)

♫ Here comes the bride. ♪

My dear friend Sarah is getting married this weekend. Yay! ☺ Last Saturday we went to an area amusement center and celebrated her upcoming wedding. One of the other bridesmaids had an "interesting" outfit for Sarah to wear for the afternoon. Even though she doesn't care for pink Sarah wore her fluffy hat proudly and bowled, golfed, played laser tag and arcade games all while wearing her "bling". ☺ Congratulations, Sarah!!! (Ben, too.) ;-)

Snuggling with Daddy

We are blessed as a family to have David spend his lunch hours with us. Each day we anxiously await when Daddy walks through the door at approximately 12:10pm. It breaks up the day a little, and we--David and I--get to tell one another how our mornings have been going.

Today after he ate David went to lay (lie? I can never remember which is the correct word ☺) on the sofa for a little bit before going back to work. Abby and I came into the living room with him, and she went and laid by him on the sofa.

Shortly after this P&E came into the house, and they joined us in the living room. Emma crawled on top of Daddy as well.

Then the three of them had a tickle fight. ☺

Miss Goo-goo

Abby was grumpy this morning. After I took her out of bed she walked around the house crying off and on for about a half an hour. But when we went to wake up her big sisters she suddenly snapped out of it, and then she was happy for a moment. I took advantage and got a cute picture of her.

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Gooby is a big snacker. She goes to the fridge and the pantry constantly! She pulls the cereal bags out of the cupboards and walks around with them, eating straight out of the bag. Or she'll hang on the handle of the refrigerator and make noise until I open it up. Then she'll point at the drawer with the cheese sticks or the apples. She was at it again the other day so I took a picture of her. I think she looks just like my brother in this photo. Sorry, it's kind of blurry.

Yellow dress courtesy of Grandma Lori. I love it on her!

The View

...from my house looked like this on July 16, 2010. As you can see road construction has begun on our street. A crew of men and mega machinery came through and removed all of the surface tar, curbs and gutters, and our front walkway.  

Jump ahead now to today, July 26. This morning I was once again awoken at 7:30am to the sound of *beep beep beep beep*. No, that wasn't my alarm calling out to me. It was the joyful noise of the dump trucks backing up. The crews have been hard at it today; steadily making their way down the street excavating. This is the view in front of our house now:

We are currently the proud owners of a pile of dirt instead of a green boulevard of grass. ☺

Missed one

This was a leftover photograph from our Valleyfair trip. I found it last night on my camera phone. This ride is called the "Monster", and that's appropriate given it A) looks like an octopus, and B) will give you a MONSTER of a stomach ache afterwards. ☺ You can just barely see Paige peeking her head out from the car. This was one ride that Mom and I opted not to partake in.

Every child does it at least once...

Paige was taking a bath that was "supposed" to have been by herself, but then Daddy opened the door, and Gooby saw her big sis enjoying herself in the tub. So Abby had to get in, too; clothes and all.