Some pictures of a few of the things I've written about lately:

See Kristy, he DID smile at his birthday party! By the way, the squirt guns were a huge hit. We had to make a rule, no squirting in the house. To me, it seems obvious. To my kids, not so much.

Glen's aunt and uncle, as well as a cousin and his family, also live in the Twin Cities area, so we visited them the day after Sage's party. Another cousin and her family were visiting from Colorado, so it was fun to visit with them. Did I get pictures of the family we rarely see? Well, I let Britta take the camera for a while, and I got:

this one of Sammy . . .

. . and this one of Leighton.

Britta (notice her pink cast) with her friend Katie and counselors Peggy and Liz at EIBC 5th grade camp.

Tate is always happy when he gets to drive. (Or pretend to!) So does Chase, so there was one screaming incident while the boat was stopped . . .

Isn't he cute? We actually did pull him behind the boat, and he just sat there with no expression. The conversation after we stopped:

"Chase, are you done?"

"Yeah."

"Do you want to go again?"

"No."

"Did you have a lot of fun?"

"Yeah."

Britta was able to get the pig-poopy pink cast taken off a week early and got her short cast--in green, which was her first choice last time. She's happy to be able to bend her elbow and scratch a little bit. :) Glen wanted to go to the lake again, but Tate really shouldn't be in it yet, and Britta would have been very uncomfortable with a plastic cover on her cast in the heat, so I convinced him to go to the Science Station instead. They didn't have a lot new since the last time we went, but the kids still spent a happy couple of hours before it was time to go home.

Static electricity!

Glen and Sammy blowing bubbles together in the water room.