Call Day #109, 6/25/12

Erik didn't have to go into work until after lunch (hooray!) and, well, no pictures were taken with him around.  We spent most of our afternoon at the park with our friend Lila. 

 The girls played with this puddle for the longest time.  It was a pond, then a big bowl of salad--which was filled with leaves and grass.

 After dinner, Eleanor vacuumed up the crumbs she dropped during dinner.  We're trying to teach her to lean over her plate while eating.  Her preferred dining style involves looking every which way but towards the table.

 Claire got to continue the job (left off earlier in the day) of picking up one by one tiny pieces of foam which she had torn from a seat cushion during nap time.  We're trying to teach her to not be so destructive.  Nearly everything in her room has already been removed but she keeps coming up with new trouble to get into.

 Eleanor found a fun way to wash her hair tonight.

Brushing wet hair.  In jammies and almost ready for bed.

Call Day #108, 6/21/12

Eleanor asked for something to do this morning and worked on writing some numbers for quite a while.  Thanks, Mr. Tim, for the book!  She's good with capital letters but we hadn't really worked on numbers or lower case letters before.

Not surprisingly, one of the morning activities was running around in circles.  They were doing "a jig."  You'll hear them debating who is faster.

 We were invited to a friend's house for the afternoon to try to stay cool on this, the second really hot day of the summer.  Slip and slide was the activity for the afternoon but Claire seemed to prefer this ball.

 She spent her time rolling around on it.

 Eleanor tries to figure out the best way to slide.

 Following Gus's example of sliding on the knees.

 Running back up for another turn.

Waiting a turn.

Sliding!

 It was also fun to just spray each other.

 Claire didn't join in the fun until Eleanor asked her to go down with her while holding hands.

 Holding hands all the way down.

They went together several times, and Claire wasn't afraid any more.

Sliding together.

 After a few more slides, Claire was happy to make "bana bread" (banana bread) in the sandbox.

 More of sliding Eleanor.

 A friend who was heading out of town gifted us their CSA share of vegetables for the week.  We went to go pick it up.

 We're going to need some new recipes to use things we normally don't.

 Like this.  We are definitely city girls and don't know what this thing is.

 But we all laughed at how funny looking it is.

 We had popsicles after dinner to help cool off.

 After reading bedtime stories, it is time for a "roll hug," Eleanor and Claire's recent invention that must be executed before each nap and bedtime.

 Yep, you lay down and roll around.

And there is some hugging too.

Call Day #107, 6/17/12

 We took Daddy to work this morning.  Claire holds his hand down the stairs.  (Photo credit: Eleanor, using her birthday camera)

 Mommy drives the van (Photo: Eleanor)

 Things seen on the way to the Brigham (Photo: Eleanor)

 Daddy in front of the hospital (Photo: Eleanor)

 It was early so we went back home.  Claire poses on the front stairs. (Photo: Eleanor)

 Girls needed a bath before church.

 Lunch.

 Big pieces of watermelon.

 Hated to wake this one who rarely naps these days, but it was time for us to head to Sunday evening Bible study.

 Kids taking over the living room after Bible study.

 Talking to Daddy while eating before bed.

 Eleanor's turn.

 Eleanor started telling Daddy a pretend story about how we went shopping at Whole Foods.

 It included a whole list of imaginary items we bought.

By the time she was done with the story, her eyes were watery from laughing.  She cracks herself up.