Budding artist

Anyone who knows the monkey knows she loves to draw.  She eats, breathes, and sleeps anything to do with art.  Cover herself entirely in paint?  Best day ever.  Give her an unlimited paper supply and crayons?  Busy for hours.  In the last month or so her drawing has become much more intentional than the initial scribbles.  There are flowers, bugs, letters, people, helicopters and even dinosaurs.  It's kinda cool to see.

The other night her and daddy were drawing on the chalkboard wall and she was watching him draw and copying.

Ah, young bug love. I like how they're holding hands.

 

Our family at the lake or playing in an apple.  Not sure which.  And yes, that is my phone and fingers in the picture.  My photography career is going strong!

 S and H (what would the plurals be?  Thank gawd I'm not homeschooling them)

 

Letterpalooza.

Three eyed letter Dinosaurus Rex.

Weekend Glimpses and then some...

Wow.  How many times can I say I am going to start keeping up with posts?  Obviously enough to not say that again here.  I may be thinking something along those lines...but I'm not saying it.  Oddly summer has flown by.  And I say that because within the premise of each day it seems to be in sllloooooooww mmmmoooootttttiiiiooon.  I go to bed each night thinking I never thought the day would end but here we are with summer almost over.  What has been going on in this time I don't have any idea.  Apparently a black hole (or perhaps wine bottle?!?) shows up every night to erase from my mind the daily activities.  Thank gawd for the camera on my iPhone or else I really honestly would have no recollections at all.  School starts for the Monkey in 2 weeks!  2 weeks!!  Oh, the things I need to do!  Like learning how to plan out and pack a lunch.  Apparently you need an MBA for that one because it is so beyond me.  So, in an effort to postpone all that needs to be done, here's what we've been up to lately.

There's been lots of eating...

Playing happens a lot too...

There's been swimming...

The Prince went to his first M's game...

And then there was general cuteness going on as well...

Weekend Glimpses

As Jack Nicholson said, "I'm baaaaaack!"  Anyone sense a repeating theme here??  I swear, one day, I will have my crap together and post regularly.  It's called high school graduation.  And lord help me, I don't even want to think about how far away that is (to save myself from my own personal 'I'll be HOW old?!? moment of realization).  I can't believe we are already in August.  How time flies while it is standing still!  Today the prince turns 15 months and the monkey will be starting Junior Kindergarten (fancy french for preK?) in one month.  Holy cow.

I promise to get up the posts about our Alaska trip this week.  In the meantime, here are a couple glimpses from the weekend.