They're At It Again

Hugo coaxed Papa into nailing down a few floorboards for his long anticipated tree house.  The little bugger sneaks up the scaffolding every chance he gets.  He has also fallen off the scaffolding a few times...  The monkey that he is, doesn't listen to barely a word out of my mouth these days.  I must say, that he does still come running for a kiss upon his injured finger, back, head, or eyeball.  The other day he slid down the stairs wrong and wanted me to kiss his bare foot, I drew the kissing booboo line right there.  I told Hugo that I was not about to kiss his dirty, smelly foot, for nothing.  That got his attention and before I knew it, he was laughing.  Laughter is the next best medicine to the kissing kind.

That last shot of Marlo is a close up of her version of "sand lipgloss", she wears it well don't you think?  I'm enamored with Sabine's wispy waves.  I know they wont last, so I'll take pictures while I may.  Oh yes, Sabine is wearing the latest of summer bronzer from the oh so chic cosmetic house of Daddy's Dodge Tailpipe.  It is going to be a long, long summer.


 

Spring, Spring, Spring!

The children are loving being out of the house and in the wide open air of the yard.  Stomping through my weed patch of a garden, tossing Hugo's parachuting army man high up in the sky, fetching the mail, climbing on the "turtle", walking with Evie The Cat, discovering mud puddles, and rolling through the dandelions are filling our afternoons and helping Sabine to finally slumber in till 8am.  Life is pretty grand.

Escapees

I took the kitchen trash out to the can while I made pumpkin soup and had my own french bread baking in the oven.  Good multi-tasking I thought until... I spied me some escapees of the short and wobbly kind!  I suppose that I didn't shut the door all the way due to the fact that my trip outdoors was going to be so short and also because it was a balmy 54 degrees out.  I should have known better though, the girls don't miss a beat as to my whereabouts.  Goodness, outside the sun was beaming down and it felt glorious and I stood there, next to the trash can, soaking it into my congested body.  Coming around the corner of the house I stopped short in my tracks as I spied our two girls standing side by side in the half open door way.  They looked so cute!  And strange.  We've spent so little time outdoors, the girls and I, that it doesn't seem natural to see them in this setting.  A few more weeks, some size 4 rubber boots, and I'll be singing a new outdoor tune!

Sabine & Marlo