How We Pass the Time.

Summer is here and the kids are finally out of school and are enjoying every second of no commitments. The humidity has set in and we are really feeling the heat so we've been to the swimming pool and have been playing in our back yard splash pools. In addition to playing outside in the water and heat, creativity is thriving here as you can see from these pictures. Here's Mer in her element posing with her new stuffed animals and purse. As you can tell Luke loves playing along, though his attention span doesn't last too long.

Jack is learning his letters and showed off an "H" out of diving sticks. You might not be able to see too well but he has black eyes in this pic, He is recovering from a slip n slide collision with another little boy on Memorial Day. Thankfully it is all healed up now.

Max passes the time building things out of tinker toys like this "hyper-blaster". He even tried to buy a girl's set for Mer for her birthday so we would have more to build with.
And Luke is just happy to be toddling around from place to place to see what everyone is into. He jumps in on the wrestling pile, screams for fun when everyone else does, and courtesy laughs at the funny jokes. He has been adding to the mischief lately...climbing onto the couch and blue chairs all by himself and then tries to climb over the arms or the back. He has gone over head first a couple of times and it's a miracle he hasn't broken his neck. He is also working on his vocabulary. He hollers "da da" , and says "bebe" for baby, knows to say "eeee" when he sees the camera. I'm trying to get him to say mama but all that comes out is "ba ba" though he cries "ma ma" when he's sad. He is also really good at expressive sounds like "uh-oh" "whoa" "boo" and "roar"
I'm glad it's summer. I love having them all home reading and playing and am looking forward to many more days of mischief.