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Critters

Nearly everyday we go up to the pool, we find these tiny frogs swimming in it. This one survived.

Water Fun, Part 1

We haven't gotten a ton of time in the pool yet because of the amazing amount of rain that's been here. But here are a few good pix of pool time.

         

Sock Monster Regurgitation

Turns out the sock monster was really just busyness and procrastination all dressed up. When Mama got to the bottom of the laundry pile (from about two months ago when we last left our house), there lied heaps of socks! I grabbed the lost singles out of the trash can and threw all of them in the washer. After matching up the mountain of clean socks, Cyrus was only missing a couple plain white ones. Nice.

The Biggest Sock Monster...

...belongs to Cyrus. LOL. Yesterday I spend ALL day sorting, organizing, and packing children's clothes. After living like vagabonds for six months, there was quite a bit to do. We are moving from sizes 7, 5, 4T, & 2T into 8, 6, 5, & 3T. Craziness. I even dreamed about packing children's clothes last night. At any rate, I did discover the Cyrus has the biggest sock monster. You know, the monster in the dryer that eats one of a matching pair.

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5 & 6.5

I opted to take Cyrus' 5-year photos and Shelby's 6 1/2 year photos myself. Although I was disappointed with some, because I was fooling around with the camera settings without really knowing what I was doing... I got a bunch of good ones. Here's a couple of my favorites.

Cy Five

Cyrus (and Grammy Rhoads) had a birthday last Friday. We celebrated with just our family on Thursday evening. After pondering what he wanted for his birthday dinner, he excitedly decided that he'd like to have a picnic with lunchables. Mama thought that was a great idea! The weather was a little chilly, so we picnicked inside.

I believe the children's two favorite birthday traditions are cutting their own cake and sleeping in Daddy & Mama's bed (we found out that's just a tad squishy with a growing boy and a growing belly).

Some other highlights from the evening...

      

Springtime In the Park

The sun was renewing. The warmth was comforting. The company was unbeatable.

         

      

      

      

         

Butcept I'm Infused

i finally remembered to jot down two of the cutest words i hear each week. cyrus often utters, "butcept" instead of "except." the contrasting connotation is still there, just a little extra negative perhaps. and when something doesn't make sense, elle mae gets "infused" instead of "confused." i love those funny little sayings they each come up with, and i miss hearing them when they outgrow their toddler talk.

Boy Genius Strikes Again

cyrus loves to wake up and play aunt chrissy's wii. this morning when i entered the wii-playing room, i noticed something different on the screen. i asked cy if he's allowed to do that (although i wasn't sure what "that" was exactly). he replied, "yes. it's rated E." that wasn't exactly what i meant. turns out boy genius browsed around and downloaded tetris, paying with aunt chrissy's wii points. wow. alrighty. we're gonna try to stick with just playing games now. he IS amazing.

Boy Genius

so, i strolled into the den to see what the boy was up to. just playing on his computer. checking his weather widget that dad helped him install this past weekend. then he was clicking around on a web browser page. i inquired what he was doing (innocently enough). he went back to his dashboard and explained that he liked this lava lamp widget, so he wanted to pay the man so he could keep it. sure enough, he showed me the "donate" button he had chosen. he was then typing random characters into the paypal form. wow. i'm impressed. i explained that we're just going to use the free ones for now. he accepted that and moved on to the pbs kids site. i'm pretty sure he's going to surpass my technical knowledge by the time he's seven.