Hungry

Connie read this book while we were living with her and after her reaction to the ending (slamming it against her pillow over and over again) ,realizing it was just the first book in a series, I decided not to read it until the second book came out this September. Some call this cheating, I call it smart. One Saturday afternoon at a family gathering at my moms I went in to lay next to Connie and take a break and notice she is reading this -

I knew our friend had an arc and that she was going to do a group reading, but I couldn't go because I hadn't read the first one. I asked Connie how long she had it for and when it was determined I could have it for a couple days I quickly picked up Hunger Games and started reading.

Before too long Gracie came in to join us. She would lay down in between Connie and I on her tummy and then Russ would push her over and over into the mattress and when she lifted her head up she looked like this -

And this.

Oh my little ragamuffin. Anyway the books are good. But now I am wishing I waited to read all of them until the third and last book came out.

Scripture time

Here are the kids for our family scripture study.

They love the scriptures. It amazes me.

Here is Gracie joining me during my scripture time. She sure likes to lay in my bed.

WHY SO SERIOUS!?

I made a smoothie and Gracie just loved it. She spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to get every drop out of that cup.

Bath Bellies

My kids think it is so funny to stick there large tummies under the running faucet. Really funny. Here is Gracie watching William with much anticipation.Now it is her turn.And she loves it!So, so much. (I wish so badly that this picture wasn't blurry)

Then later once the water is off they lean up against each other. Like Forrest and Buba.

Cute!

Early Birthday

While I was thrift store shopping I came across a toy in perfect condition that I knew Russ and William would have a lot of fun playing together. William and I hid it from Russ to save for his birthday, but none of us could stand to wait that long and we gave it to him early.

I was right.

They have a lot of fun with it.
They always quote the, "no, he was talking to me!" from Toy Story when they do it.

It's fun. I really like watching them play together.

Definitely worth $1.50

Long Lost Cousins

William and Gracie got to play with a couple of their cousins that they don't know all that well because they live in Texas (and because my kids memories are not very good yet).Mia got herself all gussied up.
and Gracie did not know what to think about it. She kept saying, "no say hi". Meaning that she didn't want to say hi to her.

Hot Rain

Last week I sent the kids outside with a Popsicle and we discovered that it was raining. It was still hot outside but the rain helped cool us down. It was nice. The kids wanted a drink.Gracie was really excited.William kept trying to drink the rain that was falling off the house (gross)And I caught him licking the water off the sidewalk, good for the immune system, right?I really like the next two pictures of Gracie. William is playing in a stream of water that was running off the house and getting really wet. He didn't notice for while. When I said it was time to go inside he said, "hey, I'm all wet."
Here he is showing me the rainbow. I love the double fingered point.

Rain, rain come again. As often as you want!

Melts in her hand, not in her mouth

In a moment of silliness at the store I gave Gracie a small square of chocolate. You see, we were at the register and I was buying some lollipops for her upcoming birthday party. She wanted one and I didn't want to give her one because they are for the party and she would get really messy. As you can see, it doesn't matter what I give Gracie it will be messy. Because this little girl loves to hold her food in her hand for as long as possible taking the smallest of bites or maybe even just licking it (I can't do this, I bite Popsicles and all other things you are supposed to lick).

So when I went to get her out of her car seat this is what I found. Wow. I didn't even know it was possible to make that much mess out of such a small amount of food.

Only Gracie - these pictures make me smile.

Sprinklers

When William looked outside one morning he noticed some sprinklers were on outside. He ran and got his swimming suit and then just mostly stayed on the side walk getting barely wet. I asked Gracie us she wanted to get in and she said, "no, I on't want to". When I asked why she said, "umm, because." Such a grown up answer.It was not long before William was drinking......and fighting the water.The it was time to lay out on the warm sidewalk (this was before it got really hot here).The sun was still kinda bright even though it was cloudy.Sometimes it is hard for me to get him to look at me when I am taking a picture of him. Usually he hides, so I really like this picture. I am sure there are many more sprinkler days to come.

Goofy girl

Gracie can be so goofy sometimes. While we were getting ready to go camping we got out Williams little boy cloths to see if there would be anything good to take (most of her stuff is dresses or light colored and just not right for camping). On the search we found this little suit. She thought it was so funny.

She was doing all sorts of tricks.

And then she pulled the hood off and sang, "no sir, not me. I guarantee it." Anyone know what that is from?

Or why pulling the hood off is significant to it?

The 4th

The 4th of July was spent quilting (for me and my mum), swimming (Gracie now swims around with floaties), eating (really good food), playing (rockband) and fireworks. I didn't take pictures of much of this. All I got was Russ and the kids with his flag cake he made (Gracie did have a cute red white and blue outfit on earlier...ho well). Well, my mom baked the cake...

...but he decorated it!

I also got a picture of my friend Emilie's salad that she made. She always makes the best salads. I could take pictures of them and start a blog about them, seriously.

Then I got some pictures of us in the car watching fireworks. I was really bummed thinking the ones we were going to watch were going to suck, but then they started up and they were fun to watch with the kids. They loved them. William is holding the pinwheel we made together. I really love the 4th of July and next year I want to be closer to the fireworks!