Family pics

Silly face!

Beach boys

Crab Whisperer

I caught a ghost crab and he kept pinching me. The same crab in the hands of this kid:

...happy and calm...

OBX Beach Fun

We headed down to OBX for a long weekend with James' family. The water was frigid (58 degrees!!) and the weather was hot, but we all still had a blast on the beach.

Rudy with his name written very precisely...backwards.

Bendaroos

Silly

Obstacle Course

Maybe it's all of the episodes of Wipeout that we've been watching with the kids, but the the boys wanted me to make them an obstacle course for their scooters.

I obliged, with Monster pizza for the start:

Then, crossing over snake lake:

Around Watchout Way (watchout, because you might get shot with a water gun...):

With a brief stop at Rocket Hall, to shoot and replace the rocket two times:

Jumping through Jumperoo Alley:

Weaving through Stick Street:

And, finally, slapping the mailbox to finish!

Peach Picking

We braved the heat for a quick trip to the peach orchard. And - we even remembered to hand the camera over to James, just to document that I'm actually around for all of these family adventures!

More thank yous

Summer camper

Brady is staying with James' parents this week. While he's there, he's been going to half day sports camp with golf, swim, and tennis.

At camp, he learned about silly bandz. Our time free of them has apparently come to an end, as it sounds like he is quite enthusiastic about his new collection ;)

From Kathy:

Just a little story -- The tooth fairy left two dollar bills under the pillow, but they slipped down under the bed. The first reaction was not good - she took the tooth but didn't leave anything. Anyway, we found the money. Then Brady told me that some of the kids had one dollar bills at the pool yesterday for a snack. I asked if he wanted to take his money with him for that reason. "But I only need one dollar for that. Would you like me to buy you something too?"

Smarshmallow

Rudy picked out a really cute book from the library; I think it's called Tell Me Your Dragon. There are really beautiful pictures and descriptions of different dragons. We asked him to tell us his dragon.

The dragon he described was aqua all over, with aqua wings and a tail as long as a river. He could breathe fire and used his fire to help us cook "smarshmallows." This dragon, also named Smarshmallow, lived in the woods beside our house.

Rudy wanted to paint his picture and nail it to a tree in the woods so Smarshmallow would always know to come home.