Enter the Bubblesphere

Kindergarten is exhausting. What better way to kick back in the evening than with a jug of suds? Reid seems to have this figured out.


In his opinion the bubbles are too small. I guess bigger is always better when you are five.

First Day of School

The kids had their first day of school today. Reid announced that he was no longer going to pick his boogers since he was starting kindergarten. He'll be doing good if he can just keep his shirt tucked in and manage wearing a belt. Reid's eyebrows were up in every picture. I think that means he was excited.
End of day report:
Mom: "How was your day?"
Reid: "Great"
Emiline: "Mine wasn't great. It was fantastic."

How could you ask for more?

Heat Wave

How are you enjoying your days of 100 plus temperatures? It's even better with fur...or a cast! I will admit that the artwork makes the cast much more bearable!!

Summer in Breck

I've gotten a little lazy with this post and added a slide show of our trip to Breckenridge. (If an ad pops up at the bottom of the slide show you can close it.) Colorado is almost better in the summer. When I was a kid and we went on vacations we would drive to Elk City and stay at the Holidome. We would swim and play miniature golf and we thought we were so lucky. We had no idea places like this even existed.

Tomatoes for Sale!

Somehow when we were planning our summer garden Reid threw out the idea to sell our extra vegetables and give the money to the poor. If I didn't roll with this I figured I was going straight to hell.I jumped on board and now we have close to 40 tomato plants, 8 red and yellow bell pepper plants, and some herbs. My dad is beating us so far in the actual production of tomatoes so we have been selling his overstock. We are up to $49 which we be given to St. Vincent de Paul Society when the harvest is over. We like to use real farming words like 'harvest' to fool us into thinking we are on a real farm.
Today we moved our stand to Wilshire for some new customers and the cars were all stopping. At one time the kids had four customers at once. I think their new farmer look helps sales.
How could you resist? A pint sized farmer and home grown tomatoes for $1!

Jumpers

Aren't we nice? When Reid asked if he could raise some tadpoles into frogs we let him. I thought it would take a little over a week. It actually took 5 weeks of tadpoles in my dining room.
It's fun watching them grow, but then they start to get a little gross. Since Reid has the necessary Y chromosome to love all gross things he jumped right in. Then the big moment happened...
The big moment for Reid was that this thing grew legs. The big moment for me was that we got to get him out of my dining room.

The rest of the frogs were released a few days later. This time the kids barely got out of the car and I dumped the rocks, water, & frogs in the lake as fast as I could. I guess you could say it was slightly less ceremonious.

Stormchasers

Within 5 minutes of getting home from the day we took the brownie troop to the zoo this is what we were hit with. As soon as the media referred to this storm as a mega cyclone Reid checked out. Anything close to a tornado he envisions his toys being blown away to Texas. Good luck to you Texan children because he probably has something you want.
As thrilling as storms are they do some damage so we will be calling our insurance company in the morning. At least Emiline could enjoy some hunting for hail pellets in the meantime.