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It's official

Every year I can tell when it is REALLY summer when I get to sit on the grass and watch my kids play with the England kids... It means it real, it means that we finally don't have to be stuck inside anymore... It means I can gab with my friends while my kids sit in dirt, ride their bikes, skin their knees (poor Jackson) and play with friends... I love it...So if you are out on a walk and you see me outside... Feel free to pull up some turf and chat a while... I might even break out the popcicles...Everyone is welcome and it's free... If you like to spend your evening outside in the air, I might come visit you!

Lets get married

In the car on the way home Ryleigh and Daddy have this conversation after Ry has left the Grandparents house with a daisy. (you know the bouquet

R- I am married
D-You're married?
R-Are you married?
D- Yeah me and mommy are married
R-i wanna get married
D- you do? who are you gonna marry?
R-um, Alex
D-No, you can't marry anyone in your family
R-Oh, I'll marry you!
D-No you can't marry me I am in your family, and I am married to mommy
R-You're in my family?
D- yeah, but you could marry Hunter...
R-Yeah (with much squealing and giggling)
D-or you could marry --------
R-noooooooooo
D-or you could marry ---------
R-nooooooo
D-Okay Hunter, but you can't get married for a really long time...okay
R-Tomorrow?
D-no a really really long time...
R-okay, this many,(holds up three fingers)
D- no this many (holds up all ten and then does the AGAIN, and again and again sign)

Ry looses interest and starts talking about staying up late because she doesn't want to go to B...E...T.... When dad says "when we get home it's time for B....E...D..."

Photograghy of a three year old...

 
 
 

To help Ryleigh be good and help with her chores without complaint we heard of a jar system that seems to work really well.... For everything good that she does she gets to put a marble into an old formula can that she decorated with stickers.... When she has reached the total amount of marbles for the pre-set amount, she gets to earn her reward... This particular time she really wanted a camera, I thought that was probably worth fifty marbles... it has taken her nearly three months to earn them all... Well on Friday she had fifty three when we counted them up so we headed off to buy her camera... The camera took horrible pictures, so we took it back and got another one... We hope the new one is a little better. I haven't downloaded them to picasa yet. just to show you how awesome the camera is we saved her first shots, I tried to make them a little more visible, we will be having a gallery show every once and a while to show you how she is coming with taking pictures.... Also the little TURKEY has figured out how to escape again... It is not like I never pay attention to my child, she just gets away from me... It can be as simple as me changing Gator and she is gone... she can now get out of the backyard that is totally fenced in and has these hard to open gates that I even struggle with... But to a three year old master mind, it is a breeze. like I said before; great problem solving skills, but a flight risk none the less.. Her bike had a time out because she left without telling mom... I think that she got the idea...AND she lost a marble.... Tragedy!!!! She hates to loose them... She is figuring this whole thing out... We as parents are too!

the busy-z's

 

The pictures are backwards in regard to time, but this is what we have been up to lately.....With a quick trip to the mall for a present for my friend Angie's mom... we just had to go ride the carousel...Ry and Jake get along so well it is funny. But Jake insisted on riding the dragon. Ry had already chosen a horse behind him but decided it would be way funner to ride next to him instead....(is "funner" a word?)
 

Ry really wanted to make cookies for daddy. The kids loved liking the beaters even though it had dough and not batter...
 
A few days ago I needed to fill a prescription at PCMC. It is a RX that I can only fill there because it for 1 is a compound... and 2 it is the study drug that Alex has been taking... So, we decided to ride Trax again. This was the first time I would be taking Ryleigh... We invited Jake, Joey and Angie to go with us... We also got push pop ice cream from the Rainbow Cafe and made a visit to the third floor to see Spider GUY.... Jake LOVED him... They were eye level to his, um, and they kept hitting him...Good thing he wasn't alive and could easily get hurt, "hurt him good"...
 

This is the Trax ride with all four babies, We had a blast... Ryleigh was talking to an older man and she said to him, "do you have a lot of teeth?" he didn't he had only had four in front... The things kids say...

Hats

 

I decided to find all of Alex's hats and take pictures with them all...Here is a little picture of all...

Spring Cleaning?

If your working on any projects that might give way to some large garbage... Bring it here.... It will only be here a couple of days....