Pictures

Look who's FINALLY got a bug antennae! So, I could've planned it a little better and put her against a white background since her hair and the cabinet are both brown...but you get the idea.

When the days finally start to cool off a little. Notice there's already 2 way up in the tree...the glimpse of orange and the glimpse of maroon are kids.

Poppy...one of Violet's 2 surviving kittens. They grew. And, honestly, he's just kinda ugly.

Figuring out how to get up the tree.

A perfectly placed lawn mower.

Mowing the rocks in the buff.....how he does most of everything these days. On a potty training note.....he's peeing in the toilet all day long now and getting better at pooping. We're almost there!

Ever the smiley one.

Serious boy play - for the curious or the ones who did notice...the scratched up part of the wall behind the boys is actually where our the metal pin in our leather recliner scraped the paint off until it actually not only peeled paint but destroyed the paneling. It really isn't the dried on caked up chocolate pudding that it looks like. No, we do actually wash our walls...once every 4 years.

Her first official nail painting. Brad said she's officially been girlified.

Everyone's amuzed by this
The nail painting party

Coco Puffs and painted nails. Life's good.

Setting up the 2nd bunkbed in the boys' room. So, the whole boy's room and girls' room lasted all of 2 weeks, if that, before the girls ended up on sleeping bags camped out back in the boys room. They all missed each other so much that everybody hated the separation. Back to 7 kids in one room and 1 in the other. As of now there are 2 twin/full bunkbeds and a single twin bed now in the room. It's supposed to be that Garrett and Gavin have one bottom bunk, Garrison and Grant have the other bottom bunk while Grayson has top, Aubrey has other top and Evye has the twin. But right now they all switch it up every night with different kids sleeping here, there and everywhere. Garrett and Evye share one night then Evye and Garrison share one night then Grayson and Garrison share one night...pretty much fruit basket turnover every night much to everyone's absolute delight. So, gone are rolling up the sleeping bags every morning from girls gravitating over to boys room. They now all have a bed back in one room. The other twin/twin bunkbed still remains in the girls room....just unslept in. They're only little for so long so we might as well indulge. Separation will come in time.

After a hard day spent mowing the rocks.

Napping with his motocycle gloves