May Long - Saturday

Well, this was another fantastic weekend at the lake, enrapturing Cara and I with the joys of watching our kids grow and enjoy the lake. We did the normal stuff, opening the cottage, checking out what had changed (Hint: 2011 > [2010 + 2009 + ... + 1978] ), church, going for a swim, walks, staring out at the lake, hot dog roasts.

If you have been following Cara & my Twitter and Facebook feeds you may have seen some of this stuff, and heard how some things went. I am pretty confident that my father was appalled by this, yet in a corner of his heart he was happy to see some off the pictures and videos and got a chance to say hi to the girls.

I have enough stuff exported to fill a few posts, so I will go day by day.

Saturday was pretty darn bleah. Rain, drizzle, grey... Nevertheless we needed to go for a walk with the girls.

It may be raining, but it's a good time for a walk

The front beach.  You aren't allowed on West Beach.  Anywhere.  Apparently it will be completed on time for summer otherwise the company will be fined heavily.

We played for a good long time at the park, and then stayed indoors reading books.

Now for some videos...

Teresa giving Rowdy the gears constantly for not doing exactly as she says...

Teresa & Frances scratch their backs a la Rowdy

The girls enjoy the puddles. Responsible parents would have remembered to bring their galoshes. We did not :)

Mother's Day

Well with Mother's Day come and gone, I had figured that some people would be interested in what we did  for Cara on her day...

In our house Cara commits herself to cooking for her mother on Sunday so she insists I take the kids off her hands on Saturday and cook her dinner.  This year we did some shopping for her gift, dinner, and other stuff.  The kids & I went out for lunch and then I got them down for a nap while I smoked Cara some ribs for dinner (FoodFare had baby backs for $2.99/lb, YUM!).  Cara got to relax by shopping with her sister for jeans (for her sister), how this is relaxing I will never know...

Sunday began with the girls and I making Cara a card while she slept in.  After that I released the hounds and the girls got to show mommy what they got her & made...  Teresa decided on the wording of the card, which she wrote (after I wrote it on a piece of paper) all on her own.  Cara ended up getting flowers for the garden and an immersion blender for her shakes & soups that she makes.

Out shopping and picking flowers. There would be more pictures if the girls didn't require 24/7 supervision to avoid destruction of the flowers.

Prepping to make the card.  Frances really should do everything naked to save us the stained clothing...

The card is done!

Happy kids :)

The inside of the card...  The family is drawn at the bottom, I have the short hair.  I forget the exact wording, but the inside said something like "Hi mommy, you love us so much.  Love Teresa & Frances"

The outside of the card, pretty self-explanatory.

And here is the video of the morning after...

Catch-up Time

Well, over the past few months Cara and I certainly have been neglecting things over here. I think part of it is the ease in which our new phones work with Twitter and Facebook, but not blogger. Cara also has been fighting with Bill Gates to make her computer work better with blogger, and she thinks she has found a solution (stunningly, not involving a Microsoft product).

I just exported about 50 pictures and videos of random mayhem that I hope to post over the next few days to week or so...

Today though I think it is appropriate to begin with our ultrasounds. Cara has had two and during the second we got to see Hatty yawn at us. So cute. Here though are the pics of Hatty, and no we did not find out the gender.

See ya Diapers?

So Frances has been asking to be potty trained lately. We went out, bought her panties, discovered those were too big so went out and bought some more. She has been sitting on the potty to "pee", flushing, and pulling up her pants. There is no question she is ready, the only problem for me is finding the time. With Teresa we needed a full week to stick around the house and just let her learn at her own pace, but now we never have an uneventful week. I guess we just have to go for and let the chips and urine fall where it may. And always carry extra clothes around with us.