Ahh the bliss of summer

I have to admit that I've finally reached the point in parenting (maybe it's the number of children??) that I've started doing a much poorer job of picture taking. Well, enough's enough. Now that I'm 'just' a mom and no longer a daycare provider, I'm back at it.

We've been soaking up every ounce of sun there is out there lately. We are so lucky to have kids that want only to be outside. Now that we purchased a lawn hose (we haven't even had a place to hook one up at our many previous homes, so this is a treat!), we've been making great use of our NEMO sprinkler! Here are a few pictures of our fun today :-).





"I think I'm so stinkin' cute because I'd rather make all kinds of faces than smile for a camera"

"turn your back for one second, mom. I promise I'll find something to get into (literally)"

Yes, that's Jeremiah hiking up his shorts that seem to continually fall down while Savannah - so eager to be like her big brother and sister - is trying to jump over the sprinkler.


Brooklyn simply can not hold back her excitement as she's on her way to dump that cup of nice cold hose water on daddy's toes.




How on earth did we get so lucky?? :-)

The much-desired Bubble Gun

Jeremiah, Savannah and I were running errands recently and got the pleasure of meeting Grandma at Target (so fun!). We were sort of buying some time until Grandma got there so to keep him entertained, I let Jeremiah hold this big bubble gun in the cart while we walked around. Boy did he fall in love with that quickly! 10 minutes later, he was describing (in great detail) every inch of it to Grandma. So, of course by the time we decide to put the gun away and head home, Grandma offeres to buy it for him. He was ecstatic! I should probably mention that this thing shoots only colored bubbles, so I told Jeremiah that we could only use it in the bathtub until it gets warmer outside. And this is what we ended up with...





Oh my word!! That was the bluest water I've ever seen! We took drippings from the gun and had a little fun with it :-). Needless to say, we got to take a second bath that day. It took a little scrubbing to get all the blue off. Haha! Thanks so much for a really fun bath, Grandma! :-)