Catching Up

Summer just goes so quickly.  Here are some cute photos of the kids from the last month.

Zelda and Julius playing in the bath.

I love the look on her face, so fun.

After I finish a client, Zelda likes to get out the kids cape and climb up in the chair for her turn.  Usually we just spray her hair with water and comb it a bit.

This is Julius' new hobby, writing on himself.  Oh well, it isn't as long lasting as the haircuts he used to give himself.

On the 4th of July, Mo got to help with the flag raising at the pancake breakfast.  I think he had more fun than is showing on his face.

Mo climbing the tree in front of his Aunts house.

Ocean, Mo and Harvey in the tree.

Mo again.

Zelda her cute little self.

One day Harvey discovered the joy of dirt.  He piled it in his hair and then would shake it out.  There was a huge dust cloud that reminded me of pig pen from Peanuts.  I have some fun videos, but I can't get them to upload for some reason, so you will have to imagine.  The other kids of course had to join in the fun.

Ocean and Daphne helping Zelda on the bike.  She has spent most of the summer in just her diaper.

Mo getting his bobcat award in cub scouts, oh and I am 6 months pregnant.

The Garden

The garden is growing well this year.  The pictures are from about a month ago, so things are much bigger now.  

We have to have the garden on the outside of the fence for two reasons, one is that that is the place that gets the most sun with all the trees in our yard and two is then the chickens can't destroy it.

Here are my tomatoes 

Some even have tomatoes on them.

Daphne has been wanting to buy ladybugs to put in the garden since she has seen them for sale last year.  So we did.  We bought a package of live ladybugs and and sprinkled them around the garden.  They didn't stay around very long.

Here are the beds on the other side of the drive way.

Our raspberries really took off this year.  I think it helped that I fenced around them (they are inside the main fence and the chickens love to eat raspberry leaves) to keep the chickens out.

The flowers are some of my favorite things growing.

I love calendulas.  We had some growing in Bremerton and they would reseed themselves every year.  I had a hard time finding seeds when we moved, but my mother in law had some growing at her house in Utah.  She let me dig some up to take home with me.  Then she sent me an envelope of seeds when hers went to seed.  Some of they plants are self seeded from the transplants I took home and some are from the seeds I planted this year.

I love the orange color and how bright they are.

The lettuce really grew well this year.  It has mostly bolted now, I think I will need to seed some new, to keep us in lettuce.

Obsession

Zelda is obsessed with socks, shoes and clothes.  It doesn't matter who's socks, shoes or clothes they are, she will try them on.  In fact I think she prefers miss matching because when I give her two matching shoes to put on, she will chuck one away and find another to put on instead.  Who needs boring matching shoes?

I am impressed with her ability to put socks on herself.  She has been doing it for several months now.  

I have tried to document different times of shoe/clothing changes, sometimes multiple in a day and often it is shoes and socks sans clothing.

Here she is sporting a nice running shoe.

This is her winter look, boots and a stocking cap, apparently it also works for baking (note the hot pad).

Here is our girl ready for the rain.  Hat and umbrella in hand, with Rez shirt on her waist, Julius pj top on one leg, a hiking boot and Daphne's pink slip on.

This time she had too many shoes to wear all at once, decisions, decisions.

She waved the shoe at me,

And decided it made a better hat.

This day, I got her dressed and she insisted on putting some underwear on over, then preceded to cover it up with my black slip (with a knot tied in it) and her skirt.

Here she had ditched the skirt and slip and is just sporting the underwear over her pants along with a shoe and boot.

Then she decided they worked better on the opposite feet.

Here is another good look.

She sometimes tries top put on people's clothes while they are still wearing them.

We love this girl!

Wait, That is Not a Chicken.

Zelda decided the chickens needed a little company today.

Yuck!

She was so happy in there and not at all happy to get out.

She must be related to this boy, her cousin, who also likes to visit the chickens.

Crazy Hair Day 2012

We only had 2 kids this making their hair crazy.  Daphne went all out as usual and Mo went for the "warrior's wolf tail" ala Sokka from Avatar (minus the shaving everything else off).

Happy Father's Day!

I am married to the most wonderful man and father.  

Father's Day morning the kids wanted to make him breakfast in bed.  It took us a while to get it all together, but here was the finished product.  Crepes and juice and 7 smiling kids.

And one happy daddy!

Rez said it best when he said, "He is doing a good job of being the father that kids always wish they had.  I don't have to wish."  

He did take his 5 boys plus 2 of Rez's friends to the father and sons camp out by himself this year!

Mo Lost a Tooth