Walking!

Baby Eli has learned to walk!

Re-fried Beans - Unsupervised!

As always: 

It is dad's fault!

Bo-Peep

For Reference:

I am proud to announce that now every member of our family can do this dance!

Introducing: Baby Eli

And now for a duet: 

Introducing Yony and Baby Eli 

and now for Yony's Solo:

Transportation Museum!

We  LOVED the Transportation Museum.

 I am certain it was more fun for the adults!

Unlike the Zoo you could ride on the train as many times as you liked!

Hooray!

 

 J. Loved the old steam engines.

My personal favorite was getting into the engine and seeing how it worked.

Yony and I stayed in there exploring for more then half an hour. 

Enjoy! -AM

New Skills

Little Yo,
Now two,
has a new skill:
He has learned how to open the door
and turn off the fridge
. . .
without his parents knowing about it
. . .
till  a few days later
. . .
where they are left wondering
. . .
"Why is everything in our freezer soft?"

Long Live the independent two year old!

For Dad:

You wanted me to add J. to our family photos.

Here you go.

Enjoy!

Summer Fun

Stomach Flu: Day 6

Moping around all morning.

Painting

This also runs in our blood.

Gardening Vicariously

Thank you for a lovely mothers day and time to put in the garden.

The basil patch is near the front door on the south with three kinds of basil. Thai basil, purple basil, and sweet basil.  They will be both decorative and culinary.

There is a parsley patch on the west of the house inter-planted with leeks and onion sets. We will have to use our bunny repellent regularly to keep Bugs Bunny and his large extended family at bay.

North of the building are our beautiful three sage plants, and two tomato plants. One is a sweet cherry tomato and another is an heirloom black tomato. This will be my first time trying an heirloom.

The plants were glowing in the dawn light this morning. 

I pinched off the tomato blossoms so the plants could put their energy into their roots and transplant shock, and the fresh smell of the tomato blossoms reminded me of my mother one day in the Middle East when we found a wild tomato plant growing wild near a monastery. Mom smelled it and told us how it reminded her of her home back in Nebraska and growing up.    The gardening gene is hereditary!

I am getting up early to get work done before the boys wake up. Ironically they are now waking up early as well.

I am finding this is so good for my soul!

Enjoy!

A New little One

Baby Eli has joined our family! We are so blessed by your presence.