the simple joys....

A recent Sunday afternoon was spent enjoying all the wonderful things about spring including pretty new flowers in pretty new yellow pots

cute little dirty boy faces 

the view of our new pool and dreaming of lazy summer days and, wait, what's that in the background.....

why, yes, that would be my daughter.  playing in the sprinkler. in a long-sleeve dress.  and tights.  and cowboy boots.

 

a perfect Sunday aftenoon. i love this girl. enough said.



 

the bolt party......

Around here, we love the movie Bolt.  Love it.  If you have never seen it, I highly recommend it.  It is just the cutest thing.  And it was recently on tv.   And the girl declared that we were having a bolt party that night while we watched it.  So we did.


Curled up with Miss Two to watch the movie.




Excited about our night.



Our guest of honor

Practicing our "Super Bark"

Mmmmm.....paw print cupcakes

the suitcase.....

A few nights ago Bennett broke something off the desk chair in our front living room. It is not actually broken but the piece did come off. Shortly afterward, Charleigh came to find me in the other room to let me know what her brother had done.



Like any good mother I told her that Bennett would of course have to move out of our home. I mean, really, we had no other options.



"Okay," she said. And that was that. She went back into the other room and told brother of his fate.



A short time later he was crying and when I mentioned that I didn't know why, Charleigh's reply?




"Maybe he's sad that he has to move out. I even got his suitcase ready."

And she had. And placed it right by the front door.

She had packed it quite well too. The contents? A diaper, socks, pajamas, a sweatshirt, a beanie, jeans, and a shirt.




As you can see, Bennett was very concerned by the threat of being sent to live elsewhere.

Curious about where he was going? To TeeTee's (my cousin's) of course.

"But only for one day to think about what he did."