Two Little Men

Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Henry and I read "Boomba"

Henry loves Charlie Parker Played Bebop by Chris Raschka. It has lots of sound effects in it that sound like jazz scatting (?), and he is so cute when he makes the sounds.

The part he likes goes...
Be bop.
Fisk, fisk.
Lollipop.
Boomba, boomba.
Bus stop.
zznn zznn.
Boppitty, bibbitty, bop. BANG!

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Thursday, June 26, 2008

Henry loves the sprinkler!

This morning, Henry spotted the sprinkler outside through my bedroom window. He wanted to get in it RIGHT.THAT.MINUTE! We had to take Leo to daycamp, and he talked about it all the way there, and all the way back. The minute we walked in the house, he went straight to the back door and started banging! Wouldn't even let me put a swim diaper on. So we just stripped right there in the yard and had a good time for over an hour. I LOOOOOOOOOOOVE having a yard we can play in!!! We also got a good 3 hour nap out of this.

Drinking some OJ from Sonic...

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Riding around in his car. He likes to be pushed through the sprinkler in the car. So I had some sprinkler fun, too.

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Wiping mud on my chairs...

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Having a snack. Notice my awesome photography skills at snapping at just the right moment to have a censor!

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Some videos...

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Monday, June 23, 2008

Dining Room Furniture

We finally chose some dining room furniture. We ended up with a square counter-height table that expands to seat 6. We are thrilled with it and think it fits the room really well. I also found something I liked to hang on the wall. There are some old holes there that we will spackle.

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Monday, June 09, 2008

Summer Fun!

Here are some pics in our backyard...playing on the slip-n-slide and the sprinkler thingie. We're so happy to have a yard big enough for this! Our friend Evan (and Mommy and baby Luke) came to play last Friday.

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We also went to a little playdate last week where a mommy had an underwater camera! She got these great shots of Leo...

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Speaking of fun in the sun, we have had some great excitement this summer with Henry and the Saga of the Sunscreen. Everytime we've put sunscreen on him this summer, he has gotten it into his eyes and had a horrible reaction. Much more than just a little fussing. Enough to totally ruin three outings - we had to come home. After the last one - a family pool outing where H and I had to leave after 30 minutes, I have gotten an advanced degree in sunscreen ingredients and their possible effects. Turns out that Henry has a strong reaction to sunscreens that use chemicals as their active ingredients. We are now having to special-order mineral-based sunscreens that use titanium dioxide and/or zinc oxide. Right now, we are using Blue Lizard. I also have some Dr. Hauschka, but we haven't tried it yet. It smells so sweet that I'm afraid it will attract insects. We are anxiously awaiting the return of California Baby, which is having problems keeping up with demand. The Blue Lizard does a much better job - we have only had minimal eye-rubbing and no crying since we discovered The Lizard! We are all having to use it b/c he can get it on his hands and into his eyes from touching any of us. No more easy spray-on sunscreens for us - we're back to old fashioned hand application.

Monday, June 02, 2008

New pictures...

I know I am way behind on pictures and no one wants to hear the "we moved" sob story once again! So hear goes! LOL!

I went to Austin with my BGFs Carla and Allie. Carla is an alcoholic.

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Just kidding! We went to a cool restaurant that did wine tastings!

Allie and I.

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At that same restaurant.

On the morning we left. :( It was an awesome trip.

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We've been keeping busy since preschool ended. We got a membership to the FW Zoo.

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Eating at the zoo. Eating lunch is NO REASON for Leo to stop talking!

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Notice that Henry wore his zoo outfit!

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Killing time in Plano while Leo was in preschool. This is a picture of mommy torturing Henry in Garden Ridge.

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Henry demands a "flip-flop" in the middle of Garden Ridge.

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Leo at the dumb preschool graduation!

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Last week, we went to the zoo with Miss Allie, Evan, and Luke. Allie and the boys riding the carousel.