Happy Father’s Day

We had our Dad’s over for dinner on Sunday.  We ate REALLY well.  Pork chops and zucchini on the grill, corn, Beef House rolls and strawberry jam.  TJ is so good at grilling.  And I made an apple pie that Dad claimed beat Marie Calendar’s. 

Afterwards, we went outside for some game time.  First it was football.  Tuck is pretty good at making up his own rules.  “Hike it to me” “Chase me” “Tackle me”

Then some catch with Papaw and Daddy.

Can you say Charlie Brown?  Don’t do it, Tucker!

Silly faces

The kids were helping Daddy try to set up the new game: Big Birdie Golf

Kora was very good at fetching the golf balls.

The kids with Daddy.  This was JUST prior to Kora doing the ants in her pants dance.

And more football.  This time with Grandpa Charlie.

We had a good time.

Funny Faces

 

 

Another cool feature of the new camera.  Is this a funny kid or what?

Turkey Run with Friends

We met our friends Bison and Archer at Turkey Run State Park for some hiking fun.  We did a pretty short trail but it held plenty of sites for exploring.

Kora had a bug bite right next to her eye.  We were calling her “Sloth”. (Surely you remember Goonies)

This is Archer.  He is just a bulldog and so much fun.

Tuck and Bison exploring the canyon. We took to calling the Lewis and Clark.  They were quite the adventurers; even taking one short little loop trail on their own. 

Kora throwing rocks. It was a challenge to keep the boys slowed down and her moving.

Bison, Archer, Kora and Tucker lined up on a log.  They were filthy by the time we got back to the car for lunch but they had such a great time.

Thanks, boys, for such a great time.

I got a new camera!!!!

I have only had it for two days but I think I am in love.  Of course my standards are pretty low after my last one.  All I really wanted was an action setting to get clear pictures of my active kids.  Here are some samples:

Tuck in the pool.

Kora by the pool.

My pretty in pink lady

And Tuck not cooperating.  But after I showed him this on the screen he really hammed it up for me later.

It’s a Kodak Easy Share Max Z990.  It’s considered a hybrid between a point and shoot and an SLR.  I think I will keep it.

Graduation Play

This year we had three friends graduating from Missy’s. AJ, Behn and Ollie will be missed.

Missy had just the right number of kids and decided to brave a Disney production.  The kids did Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. (Or Dorks, according to Behn: “which dork are you going to be?”)

Tucker was the best little Sneezy there ever was. I made all the dwarf hats and sewed the patches on all of their shirts.

And Kora, along with all of the others her age, were small woodland creatures.  This was Kora’s pose through the whole play; she didn’t move.

This is Prince Charming and the Dwarfs at the mine, waiting for their big entrance.

“Hi Ho! Hi Ho! It’s home from work we go”

Look out Kora Bunny.

And Snow White awakes and –Most- of the Dwarves are hiding.

And Snow White rides off into the sunset (or the scorching temperatures as the case may be).

Behn, Cole and Tuck with their mining tools. And the witches tower in the background.

Missy was so brave to even attempt this. The kids did great even in the 90 degree temperatures.  

Worm Farm

For Earth Day I went to Missy’s and we set the kids up with a worm composter.  The kids loved it so I promised Tuck we would start one at home.

We tore up newspaper and cardboard for a week to get things ready.  I also started saving food scraps so the new worms would have plenty to eat in their new home.

Tuck is pretty apprehensive about actually touching the worms.

Kora, on the other hand, has no reservations.

We keep our bin in the garage.  A few of the worms have escaped and we find them dried up on the concrete floor. But there are enough of them still in the bin that the food is disappearing, so all is good.  I am trying to instill some environmental consciousness into the kids.  Hopefully some of it sticks.

And what kid doesn’t just like worms?

Popcorn Boogers

We love popcorn.  We eat it about every evening.  Kora got pretty into it.