:: The Lovely Lock's :::

Lia, so serious, doing her homework. She is such a dedicated little person. I love how she has her hair tie around her wrist. She sometimes wears my jelly hair bands around her wrist as bracelets which I think is adorable. :-)

I gave Alex an oreo, and instead of eating it like a normal person I watched as she very carefully cracked it open. She inspected both sides and threw the side that didn't have any of the filling on the floor. (as a side note; she has no concept whatsoever that she is a mess maker. If she doesn't like something or want it, she either throws it or spits it out on the floor and saunters on her merry way). After lovingly staring at the filling filled side, she scrapes her little finger across the surface until a curl of white frosting is at her fingertip and then she pops it in her mouth, sucks carefully, and then repeats the cycle. The cookie, after being carefully wiped free of its filling, is tossed to join it's fallen other half.

Chris in the mornings. Bedhead. Coffee (lately since I've started drinking it at least!) and his phone checking into work.

Saturday morning breakfast.

Saturday morning cartoons, snuggling up as the rain fell outside.

I adore these pictures of Alex. She's so smushy and lovey, all squished up against Chris. So happy.

I gave the kid's some washable markers to draw on the window with, which was fun while it lasted. They had way more fun however washing it off. :-)

I was cleaning downstairs when it occurred to me that I hadn't heard anything from the kid's in a while. I ran up the stairs to see everything quiet, no one was in sight. Then I saw the chair bobble.

Davy has been very interested lately in the ''Olden Days'' and asks me questions all the time about what they did back then. ("How did they get around? Did they cook? What did they wear? What did they poop on? Did they have lights? Did they make fires? What's a chamber pot? Did they have horses? Do they ride cows? Did they go to the grocery store? Did they have toys? Did they have beds? Did they have televisions? What did they play with? What? What? What? Why? Why? Why?")

So I decided to take him to Wilder Ranch for one of their living history days. I'd never gone, and it was so cool. I will definitely be back. We picked a bad day to go however, when we got there it wasn't raining but throughout the two hours we were there, there would be huge random downpours where if you were standing outside you would be drenched in two seconds. It was sort of awesome. But the living history days they had all sorts of demonstrations going on. Making old fashioned ice cream, making masa tortillas, making rope, bubbles, it was really amazing and fun. Part of me wished I didn't have the kid's so I could have listened more. :-)

Getting ready to start the adventure!

I love her ''dragon tails'' :-)

The resident blacksmith

Looking at where the animals lived

Blowin' bubbles. Or in Alex's case, eating them...

An out of focus Chris pretending to be an early 18th century child... reminds me of the opening scene in Pollyanna. :-)

Discussing how people got around back then...

Mooooooooo

Learning how to make rope!

Hammering their names into leather bands for their wrists.

Making a snack with the masa tortillas. They were super good- they had nopales, refried beans, salsa and cheese there too so you could make your own little tostada thing. SO good. I want to go and get some masa now... :-) It reminded me of Annie. :-)

Waiting to run back to the car in the midst of a downpour...

Luckily, Alex had sustenance...

We didn't make it very far before we had to take shelter in the barn from the rain. The kid's didn't seem to mind the rain at all though... I swallowed my severe aversion to being wet in spots and let them get drenched... at that point though I was already all wet so it didn't matter much. :-)