Grumpy Gills

We have a saying in this house... when someone is being a ill-pill, we say they have on their "grumpy gills" . We've said it for a while, but this week its come up a lot (those weeks happen sometimes).

Earlier this week, Bowen was fit-pitching about doing something other than what she was doing and Michael reached behind her ears and said "give me those grumpy gills" and that was SO not flying with her. She scrunched her face out and in her best wail said "gimme my grumpy gills BACK!"

Oh buddy, I thought Michael was going to pick me up from laughing so hard.

Then this morning I got a text from Michael after dropping the girls off at daycare... it said "Bowen just put her grumpy gills in her pocket!"

That girl. That girl.

What We're Reading: Llama Llama

It's been a while since I've updated our reading list... here's our newest favorite!!


(photo from www.amazon.com)

I think its what we are going to deem Bowen's first favorite book! She's been carrying it around for 3 straight days and saying "llama llama" over and over and over again. Its just as cute as you think.

What makes this book a winner:
"Baby Llama, what a tizzy!
Sometimes Mama's very busy.
Please stop all this LLAMA DRAMA
and be patient for your mama!"

amen. amen. amen.

Great rhythm and rhyme!!

Hayley's K3 Photo Book

Click here to view this photo book larger

Whew... its DONE!

One year....

From this... to this....

one year people, one year

let's not even talk about this further.

ok? ok.



Our Summer Bucket List

So I'm sure if you use pinterest at all, you've seen the "Fifty Fun Things To Do This Summer" pins... and everyone has their cutesy perfectly balanced List... our poster is more like crayon scribbles expoded over my feeble attempt at cuteness. Its not pretty in the least, but it has been SO MUCH FUN!!

We've still got about 2 week of summer left before Hayley starts Pre-K (let's not discuss this just yet, my Mama heart is starting to process what that means), so we're still working down our list.

We started with 50 things, added about 15 others, but still lack about 19 completions from the original 50...so we're just about break even.

It has been as much fun for us as the girls I think! But its a great way to be intentional with time spent together...and to make you more concious of choosing a little thing to make into a big thing!

Some of our list that's completed: (in no particular order)

• Pick Blueberries with Meme
• Paint with Nana
• Spend the night with Breezy
• Spend the night with Mischa
• Have Grady spend the night with us (currently happening as I type this)
• Make a dessert (chocolate pudding pops)
• Gymnastics Camp
• Costa Rica (and yes, I realize that I never followed through with that whole, more info coming soon thing)
• Ride Daddy's boat.
• Ride Granddaddy's boat.
• Do Puzzles
• Blow Bubbles
• Have a water balloon war
• Play in the lake water & sand.
• Ride in Granddaddy's Jeep
• Go to water park (we did this twice!)
• Make kool-aid ice (also a pinterest inspiration)
• Play with Court & Bubba
• Read
• Swap beds
• Stay up late (how about doing this for a whole week at the lake!!!)
• Eat Pizza
• Eat Mexican
• Ride Carousel at Mall (and have icees and cookies from the Cookie Shop)
• Spend the night with Meme
• Swim at Mischa's
• Swim at Breezy's
• Eat lunch with friends.

Some things we have left to do:

• Visit Children's Museum
• Picnic at Turtle Park
• Riverquarium
• Have a friend over
• Swim at Mr. Lee's and Aunt Jackie's
• Go to Library
• Take family photos (since this was an epic fail at Easter & Wedding)

and I know I'm missing some on both lists but I'm SO not getting up to double check myself.

Anyway, you should make one.

It totally makes summer ROCK!

biggest summer slacker award for lack of blogging.

right here people, right here