Asks my four-and-a-half-year-old.
Well, kiddo. Let’s look at the calendar. And while we’re at it, let’s have you fill yours out!
After painstakingly writing the month at the top and all those little numbers beneath, I think she’s got a better appreciation for just how far away Christmas really is. 
The girls love Jen.
Maggie loves “Jen-Jen” (I mean, I seriously think she pees a little every time she sees her!). And Jen-Jen loves her Maggie (she’s bought the girl no less than two pairs of shoes!).
They go way back to the very beginning when we started up at Michaela’s for daycare and Jen is always happy to see them.
So it’s a no-brainer when we hear the daycare’s got a vacation coming up. We call Jen-Jen.
And I didn’t think it would be fair to let their little lives (or rather, their lives as little people) go by without documenting some of the love.
Besides, this is an easy site to leave home on, no?:
Weekend before last, Dave’s uncle Dale came to town (why did the camera not come out??) to catch a Mariners’ game with Dave.
The girls and I were on our own and since we were also carless (so Dave and Dale could pick up yummy Chinese on the way home from the game), it was quite providential for my folks to call and say they wanted a visit.
So Dave and Dale high-tailed it for the game and the proverbial cat made its way out of the bag. The girls were driving me a little nuts with no hope for behavioral improvement at the lunch table. I decided it would far more likely be a cooperative venture to let the girls eat on the doorstep picnic-style so they could see the GPs arrive. Little did we figure on traffic being such a beast (thanks stupid Seafair) and it took the GPs far longer than usual to make their way up. But the girls loved the novelty of eating outside and the wait afforded me with a moment to capture a few cute shots of the girls.
Just home from their trip to Bruges, it had been a while since Nana and Pepere and the girls had all seen each other and the weather was (strangely) lovely, so I think it was a nice diversion for everyone!
If you hadn’t heard, while the rest of the country’s been roasting in record-setting triple-digit temperatures much of the summer, Seattle has been having record-setting COLD and more rain than I care to describe. But every six days or so, we’ll get about 8 hours of summer. Just enough heat and sunshine to remind us of how it should really be (don’t get me started on global climate change…).
So, I took the rare opportunity to treat the girls to a kiddo-perennial-summer-favorite: outside popsicles. They didn’t seem to mind that they were homemade, that they were made of organic cran-raspberry juice, or that I made them sit out on the front step (my house isn’t always clean, but it’s certainly not sticky!).
Actually, I’m pretty sure they loved stripping down into their homemade tie-dye tops (what else is tie-die appropriate for if not stain-making activities?!), watching daddy do some evening yard work and slurping down those pops!
