A Misfortune

We were at the park last night and Mark informed me he longer has Boy. I asked him what happened. He told me Boy popped.
"Popped!!" I said.

"Yes, popped" was the reply.

"What happened?" I inquired.

"He went up and up and up. Then he popped."

"Oh. Sounds messy." I replied.

Not ones to wallow in self pity. Boy was immediately replaced. We now have Green Boy.

I ask Mark, "Is Green Boy green?"

"No, he is blue."

I should have known.

Here are a couple of pictures of our adventures. Unfortunately I am dumb and don't take my camera every where we go. All we had was Jason's camera phone. I will take better pictures next time.

See how he has his hands folded in front of him. I think he is thinking naughty thoughts.

Anna is too little for most of the playground equipment. She absolutely loved this tunnel though.


I love this picture.

A Lesson To All

Let this be a warning to all who live here. DO NOT take silly pictures of yourself with my camera unless you want to end up here. I don't care if you are all scruffy and your hair is a mile long and you are wearing that ridiculous looking Mr. Potato Head earring. I also don't care that your whole family is going to laugh when they see it or that all the guys at work (who I am sending a link to) are going to pick on you for days and days and days. I will put you on my blog.

End Warning.

Even this close I think he is pretty cute.

A few Pictures

Cupcakes are yummy.

During Anna's morning nap Mark and I usually try to do something educational but fun. The other day we did puzzles. He was so proud of himself he even let me take his picture.

This was taken right before bedtime the other night. Anna had a very busy day. She was so tired.

I love how they look when they are asleep. So peaceful.

Recently Mark likes to play a new game. He will come up to one of us out of the blue and ask, "Wanna be a digger?" Here is Daddy being a digger.
First Mark has to start the digger. For some reason the start button is in the belly button.I think it was poor planning on the part of the engineer but what do I know.

After the digger is running, Mark uses buttons to control the buckets/legs of the digger. The digger is only supposed to do what Mark wants. If the digger/Daddy gets out of hand Mark reprimands the digger. (Unfortunately for the digger/Daddy Mark likes the buckets/legs up in the air for long periods of time. Poor digger/Daddy.)

For about a week I have had my bird feeder up. This is my first visitor. She is the only one who has found it so far.

Pictures of Things Other Than Little People

You may think I only take pictures of small people. That just isn't true. Here are a few of my favorite things that are not little people.
When we live in Virginia, we used our wheel barrow to death. Well, almost. After it outlived its useful lifespan I turned it into a flower box. Here is this years offering.

These are my two favorite herbs, rosemary and thyme. I like basil too but didn't take a picture. It doesn't look as pretty. I use some combination of these in just about every meal we have in the summer. These herbs mean summer to me. Can't you just smell their sweet aroma.

I love this begonia more than a person should like a plant. It makes me happy to look at it.(Looking at this picture, I really should have removed that one flower but I didn't. So, you will just have to imagine it gone. Go ahead...I will wait. See, now isn't that better.)

So there, I told you I take other pictures. Don't be surprised to see pictures of little people later today. I am not sure I can go a whole day without posting just a couple.