Big Toad!

The kids love exploring the woods around Nana and Pop Pop's house. Today Betty found a large toad (usually we only see tiny toads). We convinced her to not touch it and let it be (especially since she was working on eating her bowl of crackers).

Betty's New Tooth

While we were playing outside today, we decided to check for new teeth, and found that Betty got in a new 2nd molar (top right).

Tooth count: A-16, B-19, C-17

Reading Time With Nana

Hungry?

This video is from the other day, and catches the tail end of a prolonged banging session. Evidently if dinner is not served on time, the natives get restless.

Thirsty?

Today was a very hot day. Arthur loves playing with the hose, and luckily Betty loves being sprayed. Coraline, of course, sat the whole thing out. And on a hot day, there's nothing like a drink from the hose (or sucking up cold water off the asphalt...)

Braids

We're just staring to regularly put the girls' hair up in a pony tail or braids. Usually it lasts between half and hour and an hour before they start complaining and pulling it out. One day, though, we hope they'll get used to it. (Oh, and this is Coraline)

Aunt Allison, Uncle Matt, Grandma and Grandpa Visit

Erin's family drove over from Richmond today to help watch the kids, as Erin frantically prepared lesson plans for the first full week of school. Everyone had a great time, and afterwards they were quite sad to see Grandma and Grandpa leave. They weren't as upset about Aunt Allison's and Uncle Matt's departure, but they did keep talking about how they were running up and down the hill with them.