Catching up....

Continuing the catchup...

I can't imagine that'll be good for her teeth.

The girls' birthday cake! Carefully assembled with minor help from Dad, and decorated by committee.

Sisterly hugs :)

I don't know what look he's going for, but Theo is rockin' it.

My caped crusaders. This actually turned into the best game ever - they'd pretend to become invisible, hunker down under the cape, and hold suuuuuuper still... for minutes. I couldn't find them! No matter how hard I looked!

Water park with friends.

Auntie Katie using Theo as a backpack stand in - training for Kyrgyzstan!

All of the kids are enrolled in highland dancing - an hour of solid jumping? Yes please!

The girls were in a week long summer version of Wilderness Awareness and after dropping them off one day the littles and I decided to have a hike of our own.

Exploring the great unknown!

Theo's fine. This was just a checkup from his original head stuff - I took the picture because a) he was doing so well and wanted to know what it looked like and b) HE'S HUGE!

Ellie teaching Theo how to skate.

Bungie picnic is the best day of all the days. Balloons, face painting, bouncy houses, smoothies, BBQ, ice cream, juice... man, the day is heaven for kids.

The big kids were also enrolled in an "Adventure Camp" this summer, which was actually a build-your-own-treehouse camp. They loved this (more pictures below), and the littles wanted to participate. This is a dragon park near the camp where I distracted the littles from all of the constructioning.

The littles are not so little anymore.

Construction camp! Avy and Ellie worked with a team of kids and counselors to build their own treehouse.

Avy's first lost tooth!

Nana's visit! Making dinner with Nana is the best.

Working hard "cleaning" things.

Whoops! Looks like Theo is "clean" now...