Boy's World

J-" Im chewing gum. Do you like my gum? (proudly shows Kaila and I the white-chewy glob in his mouth he's chewing on.)"

Me- " Where did you get that J? Did you get that from mommy's purse?"

J- "No."

Me-"Where did you get that?"

J- "It's just...an earplug!!" (Flashes a HUGE, proud grin that looks a tad bit guilty at the same time). 

Now I'm laughing but trying to be a bit scolding as well, knowing that he got it well-used from beside Ryan's side of the bed. 

Me- EEEEEEWWWWW!!! Josiah! That's so gross!! That's gross!"

J- "What? The earplug or cuz I farted?" (a terrible smell wafts around the room)

The End

Second Cousins

 

 Kaila (2.5 yrs), Ella (3.5 yrs), Seth, (7yrs, left side of box), Oliver (4yrs), Josiah (3.5 yrs) and Elliot (20 months, back of box) ; )

 

Beach Day...Update for Ryan xoxox

Josiah, runnin the show, Ellie and Wyatt. (Erica's kids, 4th cousins)

Josiah, Seth and Oliver, rompin in the waves,   killing bad guys, building castles and taking sandcrab hostages.

(Rose's kiddos, second cousins.)

From left to right, just a few of the next generation of cousins, Oliver, Seth, Wyatt (the white "standing blanket" figure), Jade (top), Ellie (chair), Josiah and Kaila,

A crew of them playing frizbee with Tata...

Lovin the warm San Diego Beach!

Miss you Ryan, have a great fun weekend. Can't wait to see you when we get back...

Ryan's Update

An update for Ryan, a day around the house, day three away. We all did a spin class together, then came home and canned nectarine jam and nectarine marinade...It was an easy-going day.

Sprinkler Running...Josiah is a bigger fan of this than Kaila at this point.

Hide-and-go seek. Where in the world could the kids possibly be!?? They thought they were pretty well hidden.

Day w Tata

What Tata can't help but spoil their daughter and grandkids by giving them a sweet day out with pizza and then apple pie to follow!?

...and who doesn't still fantasize about rolling in a big pile of freshly mowed grass, every once in a while? Good memories ; )  

                                            

Driving Lessons

After a grueling 6 hour drive down to San Diego, I decided that I needed a back up driver. Tata volunteered to give the kids driving lessons so that they could take the wheel when I needed a break heading back up North.

 First they took lessons old-school, stick shift.

                                    

 Then they took it up a notch and worked on their automatic-driving skills...

 

Turns out, they're naturals. Watch out, they'll be on the road in no-time!

A Week for Ryan

This week we headed down to San Diego, sadly without Ryan who was unable to join us because of work. Hopefully he will enjoy his time, but I know he will miss us. I'm going to try to document a little all or most days, just to say we love him and are thinking about him each day. I know every thing we do I am thinking it would be even better if he was there with us. : )  Today, we met up with my cousin Erika and her kids, Jade, Wyatt and Ellie at the Wild Animal park.      Just to make Ryan laugh, Ill point out that the kids are actually something like 4th cousins.  There's no "cousin-boundary" in our family. Cousins are cousins, period. End of Story.