We did it!📚📖

Got our library prizes for reading 15 hours!! Woohoo! From Penderwicks to Hop on Pop- it was so good to be intentional about reading to them. One of my favorites was a biography on Milton Hershey.   

Gabriel  has read about 20- 30 books. Jubilee has even read a few! 😳 she took off with a Dick and Jane book while we were at Dorothy Lou's. 

They got to decorate their own super hero masks.  

And they both chose a robot shirt. 😁

I don't know why we've never done the summer reading program before.  

Picked this one out to help us black out Gabriel's bingo reading card for LOCS. Now that's a tall tale. 

Hillbilly

Hillbilly baby gate. 

This boy will try to squeeze through anywhere. Funny thing – I remember Gabriel would never try anything like that.  Cautious, sweet boy. 

The exercise ball held him for a while.

This pose reminds me of a breakdancing move. Don't know the name of it.

Mini franklins

She came up with this all on her own.  Too cute. 

Was so cool to me is that his little baby came with her dollhouse. Before we ever had AZ. 

Call me crazy

No.  Let's say super blessed. 

The Biggs were actually very good helpers on this shopping experience. And hallelujah AZ took a nice nap. He may have slept longer if the elderly lady with a 50 pound bag of kitty litter hadn't  peaked at him when we were on the baby food (Island- that's what the tots call it) aisle. 

I was very impressed at how much stuff I could actually squeeze into the smaller basket.

Come on over. 7/27/15

Started the day with one more fix from out beloved venables.  

Lucky charms for the win..

Erin called to ask what size shoe and always wears. I decided to compare her feet to Gabriels.

 Turns out they all have about the same size feet. LP was so cute taking pictures and videos of everything with her new camera. 

Wish we could have 25 more mornings like this. 

Oh how I miss them all! 

And later in the afternoon...

Jubi was so happy to have someone put together her new favorite puzzle. 

Not that she can't handle all 100 pieces by herself.  The little puzzle prodigy is quite capable of putting it together herself. She managed to complete the task 4 times, solo, yesterday. 

Lachlans first time playing checkers.  They managed a civil game.  For the most part. At least what I witnessed..

Gabriel was his advisor. 

And this happened... That third child though..😜😂

Her bath time creation. 

Chords

Jubilee  loves to play her tunes for us after I'm done nursing. And sometimes during.

Step 1

Whistle britches got stuck and  skeered on the first step.  

The boys went to play 🏀 with Balch boys  and Elijah.. Them George's.  Then putt putt. 

Jubi helped me feed AZ.  She even gave him his bottle for about 7 seconds.  

Then she pretended be injured like auntie Em. "Mom, I'm gonna do some cwunches. " (I'm picturing crunches.)

She pulled out the light saber noodles and used them for  crutches. Then I asked her what happened... "The same as auntie Em!" 

"What's that?"

"I fell out of my bump. " ☺️

Ended the day with a partial checkers game.