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Ansley and Christian know not to let Kota outside, and they are pretty good about it. But today, we couldn't find her anywhere, and after calling her with food, I was convinced she must have gotten out somehow, even though Ansley insisted they didn't let her out. Then we remembered taking out the toaster for breakfast, and look who we found. I'm always surprised that Kota doesn't let out loud meows to let us know; she just waits patiently.
It is nice, as the kids get older, that they can entertain themselves and each other while I, say, clean up from lunch or make a (usually brief) phone call. I'm always interested in what they are playing when I come upstairs, and on this day when I did return a phone call things were a bit....messy. But they sure were having fun!
Getting some lunch before hitting the road. I'm not sure why I took this picture, or if it was even me, but it was the only one I had on this day.
I should have taken a picture of all the traffic we hit on the way home, making our trip home take 6 hours. Six long, whiney hours. But we finally made it home at nine pm, put the kids to bed, unpacked and headed to bed ourselves. A fun weekend!
Lake living is hard, as you can plainly see. When should we swim? When should we relax? What magazine to read? When to eat? So many tough decisions just make living on the lake so difficult.
We headed to Smith Lake this morning, along with Mimi, JonJon and Missy, to spend the weekend with Granna and Papa Joe.
What could be more fun than synchronized dock jumping??
I hosted a surprise shower this evening for my friend Rebecca. She thought she was coming over for our girl's book club meeting, but instead it was a dessert baby shower. I made this blueberry 'n' cream cheesecake for it, and we had lots of other yummy desserts as well. It was a fun evening!
Ansley has had a yucky sounding cough for several days now, and complaining that her chest hurt. So today I took her to our pediatrician, where she had breathing treatments for bad wheezing. He says it's allergies (I had bad allergies at her age), and we were sent home with a week's worth of breathing treatments. Ansley takes it well, and it's quick - praying it works to get rid of that cough and wheezing! Ansley has never had to use a breathing treatment before. She's never had allergy issues before either.
Hello, Tennessee.
Umm, yep, the next night too. Moose tracks + cool summer evening = happy boy.
A summer's evening treat - ice cream cones. We do it fairly often after dinner, and the evenings have been SO nice lately! It's messy for sure, but that's why we go outside.
It's the simple things that bring joy when you're five.
Look at that Big Boy underwear! Christian pee peed on the potty for the first time today, several times. So we pumped him up and pulled out the underwear and gave him treats and rewards and praise.
The next day? "I not pee pee on potty Mama."
So, I guess I should say pee peed for the first, and last, time.
