Photos!

Here's a selection of all the photos I should have posted over the last month. No time for captions. This covers some everyday sillyness as well as our trip to Dallas over the 4th of July long weekend.
Enjoy!

Updated with guest captions by James Richard!

Lord of my domain

Sweep the leg

Conquerors of the world! (and half a corndog)

I wish Dad was here

Daddy!

We drank from your thermos

Get out your wallet or we'll reproduce!

Dallas. Sand box.

Giant Squid

Check out boney

4 of a kind! (it originally said Full House, but that made wife think of Uncle Jesse and Uncle Joey)

And I was like heeeelll naaaww

I'll find that warp zone

Take your protein pills and put your helmet on

Real Daddy comes to visit about once a year

Get Along Gang

I should have added these photos earlier in the week. Mom fussed at me for posting one on facebook and not sending HER a copy :) I didn't realize it had been a whole month since something was posted here. I'll have to make it more of a habit. Hank and Maggie are doing and saying stuff all the time that I try to remember for later. That was kinda the whole point of this blog, so I'm foolish for not just quickly posting stuff here and there as it comes along.

Anyway, I'll add a few photos now of them being all sweet to each other after I had spent all morning refereeing their arguments. Seriously, it had been bad. But then out of the blue Maggie made a chair and asked Hank to join her and it was all adorable.

Proof that they DO get along!

Then this morning they were being all sweet to our three backyard stray kitties. Skinny Pete (the friendliest of the three) was discovered to be a girl, so when Maggie mispronounced her name as Skinny Peep we decided that was more fitting. Then Poochie and Pierre Thomas are there in the background somewhere. I still can't tell those two apart.

Crazy Kid Quotes

We just tucked the kids in for bed after watching a Sesame Street episode which was all about the letter "L". We pointed out to Maggie that she was going to sleep with a couple of "L" items and started listing "Lizzie" and "Lamb" and then Maggie fell right in with "and Elephant". So adorable. Then she requested her brown Llama to join them in the bed. As James was leaving he heard her tell her llama, "You are the Llama Labs of Energy".

That girl is full of crazy sayings these days.

Yesterday morning the kids were trying to convince me to sing with me protesting that I wasn't good at singing and preferred not to. Hank was encouraging me with "Come on, Mom. Do it now while Daddy isn't here to call you names!" So Maggie followed up with "Like 'Space Mamma?'" which is totally a name that Daddy would call me on a daily basis.

Such silly goofballs :)

First day of of swimming lessons

Saturday morning silly

Father's Day Artwork

A place to swing!

After keeping our old porch swing in the shed for three years, I finally got around to building a frame for it. Thankfully I was able to borrow our neighbor's miter saw to get it just like I wanted (or pretty close anyway). The kids loved it! This is actually the first time Maggie has gotten to swing on it. She wasn't even born yet when we moved to this house. Crazy!

"Mama take a picture of me and my crazy foot" ~Maggie (see her pointing her toe all crazy?)

"I made a picture of my foot" ~Maggie

 Crazy barefoot dancing

 Cool guy pose!

 Really dirty feet (and everything else)

Hank drew this while I was working on building the frame. It's a picture of us and my hair is blowing out behind me because we're swinging. Awww!