All The Things

Seems like I just have random pictures from the last two weeks, so we'll go with photo-dump format...

Suffice it to say that this baby's sleep has been a.w.f.u.l. lately. I may have seen a glimmer of hope today. Time will tell. 

I helped some friends serve a fancy meal to their freshmen girls before Homecoming. We had as much fun as the girls did, and way more wine. 😉

There's a new internet company bombarding our city. Not impressed, especially when they keep making very costly mistakes that seem to be avoidable. Fixing a main pipeline to a house is super cool to watch though. The boys LOVED it. 

He insisted it was a beehive, and then proceeded to whack it with his bike tire repeatedly. Good thing his hypothesis was incorrect. 

He loves this puzzle. He's been able to do it for a month now. I should rotate a new one in for him. 

He also likes Monkey Math. What 17 month old plays this?! Mine. He loves the small motor challenge of hooking the bananas on the wobbly thumbs of the monkey. 

Elias isn't much of a bread eater. He took a few bites and was uninterested. I can't relate. 
Cars are a favorite right now, and all three play with them together. Win. 

He had a Grandma cinnamon roll for breakfast today. He kept licking his fingers and saying "mmmm".

Eklamology

Augustine told me:

"Your dad teaches about Eklamology. That's the science of slime. He really does."

This Week

I've been gathering the wives of Logan's teammates this semester. I've never in 8 years of FOCUS felt inclined to do anything, but this year it seems right. Elias LOVES his fellow baby teammates! There are lots...himself and two others, and one on the way! There are three big boys too. 

Can you find my monkey in the middle?!

I was rummaging around in the 18-24 month tub of clothes for Elias and I found the trash truck shirt. Elias is SUPER into trash trucks so he wanted to wear it right away. He's a week shy of 17 months, and it's a little tight on him. Lewis got/wore this when he was 2 years old. 

(Snapchat much? 🙄)

The boys serving tea during dinner one night. They are still having fun with the set. 

Elias got a daddy haircut. 

Lewis, Preschool 2

This boy could.not.wait to get back to Mrs. Bevan's school. He asked if it was time to go for 40 minutes before it was finally time to go. 

He thought taking this picture was totally embarrassing, but we took it anyway. We walked inside and said hello to old and new friends, and then all of a sudden he was headed downstairs with Mrs. Treadway. I didn't even get to say "I love you! Have a great first day!" But he was in his happy place and didn't need reassurance. His "soowuh" has finally started again. When I picked him up he was right where I knew he would be...digging a deep deep hole in the sand, and talking about how wet the sand is when you dig that deep. 

Here's to a great year!

Spot of Tea?

We found a tea set at a garage sale! Curious George is about as boyish as a tea set is going to get. The boys LOVE it. 

Logan won the caption contest for this picture with:

"The fox hunt was rather boorish last fall, wouldn't you say, Edna?"

Czech Days 2017

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