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Naomi started the month by heading up to
Northern California to bring Cat, the giant german shepherd there,
to her. Her mom went along to help with the kids. Hannah just bought
this house, it's a fixer-upper, but pretty cool, nonetheless. |
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This trail is basically across the street
from her house. They also visited the zoo and a cheese factory.
Mmmmm...cheese. |
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Noah came down to visit, and Naomi was
commenting how he kinda looks like Desmond. So we made Noah put
Desmond on his head so we can compare. |
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Desmond is pretty shoe obsessed right now.
He's also ladder obsessed, and that's a little more trouble for us.
He's constantly putting on somebody's shoe and walking around with
it. |
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We went down to the park to have high tea
and play cricket with some other home-schooling families, and they
had a bunch of great climbing trees. |
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For the 4th of July we spent the day at
our friend's house, at the end of a cul-de-sac. It reminded me of
growing up on Valley Road, where all the families came out and had a
block party. This was the same thing, it was awesome. Our
neighborhood has hardly any kids living it it, it sucks. |
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We left the cul-de-sac when it started to
get dark and went to the Huntington Beach pier for the fireworks
display. It was okay, but the finale was awesome. It turned the end
of the pier into a wall of flame. That part was super-cool. The
weather was pretty mild, but Amelie was feeling the cold, so she's
wearing my jacket. |
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We tried a new tactic this year for the
fireworks, where we parked a mile away and walked (forever). It was
okay, but it was still a pain to have to walk that far. Last time we
parked illegally in an alley right by the beach, but then got stuck
in traffic for a couple of hours trying to leave. I'm still not sure
which method works better. |
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We buy butterfly larvae from
insectlore.com,
and they're awesome. The butterflies hatch in a couple of weeks, and
we've had good luck with all five hatching each time we do it. I
liked this picture because you can see Mia changing, she just looks
older in this picture to me. |
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The butterflies are incredibly docile.
They let you hold them all you want. In fact, we put one outside on
a hydrangea and the next day it was still there. Maybe docile isn't
the right word. Comatose? |
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The hydrangea, hosting a couple more
butterflies. |
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We are giving this car away to a friend's
daughter, so I had charged it up and girls couldn't resist trying to
run me over with it as a took pictures. |
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Mia and Desmond playing around at a
neighbor's house. |
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Gavin is showing off his perfect balance
skills. |
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Desmond is getting in on the action as
well. |
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Desmond is getting so big. He's handling
this bowl of delicious roasted butternut squash risotto with ease.
He's still a huge pain when he runs off every time we open the front
door. |
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Because he's got blond curly hair, he gets
mistaken for a girl every so often. I'm not sure what we're going to
do with his hair. We've never cut the girls hair, maybe we'll give
Desmond a
sweet mullet or something (please click on the link, you'll
laugh, I guarantee it). |
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So until next month, hang in there! |
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