CHALK

She's drawing the hair. Beautiful, golden locks.

If only I could teach her how to dry without sitting on the drawing she has already done. 

It is a given that if she plays with sidewalk chalk, that her pants/shorts are automatically destined for the washer.

Setting them Free

"Clever" Aunt Lissy bought Abby a Sea Monkey kit for Christmas. We grew them and kept the "tank" in our kitchen window sill. It was a little fun to watch them grow. The biggest problem was that there is no way to clean the tank and it got really nasty. I wasn't sure how to handle it with Abby, but we finally decided that we would set them free in the pond at the front of our neighborhood.

Here is the dirty tank in the window.  

We transferred them to a plastic cup to take on our walk to the pond.

Here we are ready to go free them...

This is where they are living now.  Abby said after we dumped them in the pond that now they were free and could make friends in the pond.  

Obviously, Lily thought this was a news making adventure.

I'm tricky!

/ɯoɔ˙uʍopǝpısdnǝdʎʇ//:dʇʇɥ :ǝʇısqǝʍ ǝɥʇ ʇno ʞɔǝɥɔ ¿ʇǝɹɔǝs ʎɯ ǝɹɐɥs ı llɐɥs

¡sıɥʇ ǝʌol plnoʍ ʎqqɐ ʇǝq ı ˙noʎ ɥʇıʍ ʇı ǝɹɐɥs p,ı ʇɥƃnoɥʇ ˙ʎɐʍ ǝɥʇ ʎq 'uo ʍou ɯɐ ı ɥɔıɥʍ 'ɹǝʇʇıʍʇ uo ʇı ʍɐs ı ¿ɥnɥ 'ʎʞɔıɹʇ ˙uʍop ǝpısdn ǝdʎʇ uɐɔ ı ʇɐɥʇ ʎɔuɐɟ os ɯɐ ı

There through it all

Good ol' Milo.  There through it all.  Thick and thin.  

with Abby in early 2006

with Lily in 2009

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