Squish

Snack time in Annika's play tent.

40 years

Tonight we were at my parents' place for supper, celebrating their 40th anniversary. This is them 40 years ago.

And Annika and I had fun trying on my mom's wedding dress (can you believe the high neck and long sleeves in August?!?).

Menchie's finally

Annika has been bugging us to go to Menchie's ever since we decided not to go to the grand opening (and it didn't help any when I went without her), so we finally went as a family this evening. Yum. :)

Beans, beans, the musical fruit...

Okay, admit it - who finished the rhyme in their head??? ;)

Fresh from the garden. Delicious when smothered in cheese. Plenty more where these came from. Too bad the kids both decided (before even taking a bite) that they don't like beans. :(

All in a day's work

Put away 3 loads of laundry, vacuumed upstairs, sorted the toys, took the kids to the park, mowed the lawn... oh yeah, and ran 2.649 miles. Getting close to that 3 mile mark!!

August long weekend

Another long weekend at the lake.  This time we went with some good friends of ours and their kids. The weather was cool, but it only rained once.  The kids didn't mind the cold lake water, but it was too cold for my liking!  Still, we had a good time.

On the way out to the lake we stopped at "cellphone point" - the place where Carey proposed to me, just over 10 years ago (I actually don't know the exact date - just that it was the Sunday before the August long weekend in 2003).

 Story time

And more story time.  Emmett loves that truck book.

 My boys in orange.

Annika likes taking "selfies" already! :P

Another tooth gone!  And Emmett pulled it out again.  This one was also loose, but I didn't think it was quite ready to come out yet.  Carey was joking around with the kids and teasing Annika that Emmett was going to pull it out.  They were all rough-housing a little, and suddenly Emmett had pulled the tooth out!  Annika was quite surprised by that one (and I expect it probably hurt a little more than the first one), but she was quite excited when the tooth fairy came to the lake.

 Me and the kids.  

After reading this blog post, I decided to start taking more pictures of myself with the kids (I'm going to try for at least one a month).  Too often I'm the one behind the camera.

Getting ready for the tooth fairy to come.

He's still got it.

This kid loves watermelon.

Wrap it up

Yesterday I was helping my sis-in-law learn to use a baby wrap, and it made me a little nostalgic for my own babywearing days with Emmett, so here's a little "throwback Thursday".  So sweet and cuddly, to have babe all wrapped up close with you.  I didn't do much babywearing with Annika, but I did quite a bit with Emmett, and we both loved it.  This picture is from when Emmett was about 2 months old, and went on his first airplane ride.  He spend the whole time in the wrap and didn't make a peep.  Another highlight for me from that trip was tying the wrap in the airport - oh, the stares that I got!!  It made me feel like supermom. :)