Frog Hunting

My sister Cherie lives on a section of Mount Desert Island largely insulated from tourists. It is also convenient that just down the road from her is a lovely pond filled with frogs. The kids (particularly Chloe) love the idea of catching frogs. Fortunately Uncle Michael is really good at catching them.

Chloe keeping the frogs in the bucket.

Walking back from frog hunting.

Memorial Day Weekend

OK, so we are about two days past the weekend, but I am a bit behind. Here I will recap it for you.

#1 The girls ran the YAM Scram. Here are the before pictures...
Here is Alexa running during the race.

Chloe wouldn't be seen with her parents and wanted to run herself. Here are the after pictures.

#2 COMPANY!!! We had Aunt Cherie, Uncle Micheal, Annabel, and Sam come to visit. It was lots of fun and warm weather. So we dug out the slip and slide. Everyone had their own way down.
Then we had the pool out for a pool party.

Good times. I, personally, am extremely grateful that even though I forgot my camera out on the deck and it rained on it; it still seems to be working... more or less.

Thanksgiving

OK, so I have been holding out on you a bit. I owe about a weeks worth of posts. Things have been rather busy around our little house. We had a lot of company over Thanksgiving which made for a really fun week. Along with the usual turkey and fixings, there were...

Cute, cuddly, little babies named Sam...

piano playing...

tiara adjustments and princess finery...

dance shows...

a lot of taira wearing factored into things...

butterfly sunglasses...

cute, cuddly dogs...

pathetic mooching dogs...

worn out squirrel chasing dogs...

and more cute, cuddly Sam moments.

We also learned a few things. We learned:

• three girls can all sleep in one bedroom and actually mostly sleep
• two little girls can share one bed and actually sleep, if they are properly worn out from a long day
• making a good case for downsizing the McMansions of this world five adults and four children can actually get along in a house just under 1,300 square feet with one bathroom. Although I wouldn't want to test that for too long.
• Grammie Eva will just keep on knitting things for ever if you keep feeding her and giving her access to new yarn. Her week's work: three hats, three pairs of mittens, and one pair of socks. The woman is a machine!
• snow pants are excellent protection for children going ice skating for the first time.
• a scant 1/8 inch of snow can send three children outside on a quest to build a snowman... not terribly successful, but it cleared them out of the house for a bit.
• Three little girls can take a shower at one time and think it is fun too
• four adults working together do not actually know a lot of the crossword puzzle answers

We really enjoyed having everyone. Alexa told me on Sunday, "I am really sad that everyone had to go home." We miss you and are so glad you came. Next time we will make sure to pack in Aunt Andrea and Uncle Ryan. I know they both look great in tiaras.