Calm as the Moon

Sassy face

Sorry Claire the answer is still no.

The mice will play...

I had to stop in at work today for a couple minutes. I am officially on stay-cation so the kids are at home with me from camp. I asked them to keep themselves busy in my office while I went to a quick meeting. My first mistake was turning on the computer. I came back to my office to find about 100 new pictures on Photo Booth on my work computer, including this one...so cute. I will, however, spare you of the pictures of Eddie's butt. We're only in day 2 of 14 days of stay-cation. Heaven help me.

Our friend the caterpillar

Claire has declared herself a "bug hunter." She seems to handle caterpillars fine. Spiders are quite fascinating. Ants...those are terrifying.

Zombies from the Shadows

MuwhAhahahahahaahah!

The ultimate deception

As we are desperately trying to get out of town to head up to Traverse City for the Bayshore Marathon...

Doug: Do you want to run into D&W to get the bacon?

Allison: No. I've already been in once this morning.

Doug: Really? What for?

Allison: um. A lime and some summer sausage.

Doug (with a noticably brightened tone): Oh boy! What kind of sausage?!

Allison (distracted by Twitter): huh? Oh sorry...I meant summer squash.

Doug: *wimper* That was not nice.

Why we had kids...

And he asked to help!

Eddie has the bug.

Eddie has a sour belly today. I hope he doesn't share.

Claire's banana chocolate chip muffins

I'm sure they're going to be as good as they look!

Two Wheels

I love this sweet boy.

I am proud of this sweet boy.

Soak up the dark depressing sun

On the way to the grocery store...

Claire: Daddy? Can we listen to "Soak up the Sun"?

Doug...looking at the looming clouds in the sky, listening to the Pixies: No Claire we're goingto listen to dark depressing music all day.

Claire: OK. You're just joking.