Sometimes it is such a challange

to parent this little person.

This picture is so blurry because he is running right at me. He is so wild compared to Boone at this age. He must act like the big boys all the time and if he can't or isn't able too...watch out! Complete melt down. This was taken when he was running all over the park at Fishhook this weekend. Granted he'd been cooped up on the boat all morning but Jeez! He never stops and is so daring. He climbs anything, a complete monkey as evidenced by this next pic.



Remember when I was talking about him being Picasso. Well this weekend when Josh and I were within about 4 feet of him he managed to color on the carpet with blue crayon. Like a huge one foot square area in about 5 seconds. Amazing! But we love him dearly and we are learning a lot.

Ringold and more...

This weekend was crazy. Josh and I had a date on Friday night. Took the boat out and met up with a few of his friends from work. I haven't been out on the river at night in so long. There was a price to pay however. I got eaten alive by mosquitoes!! Probably 12-15 bite overall. This...on the eve of my lecture on West Nile Virus, me on the boat at night with no bug spray!


On Saturday morning , we took the boat up the Columbia to Ringold. There are a lot of sandy beaches there. We took Uncle Booba and the Stevenson's with us and met up with the Jenne's and Ellis's from Apollo. Boone and Claire had a blast in the sand but he didn't want to try to keep up with her on the inner tube. Here they are climbing the dunes. They would run down holding hands and they both ended up with a mouthful of sand several times. Here is Brody chillin' with his sunglasses. He kept them on most of the day.

Saturday evening I went scrapbooking and Josh took the boys to a casual reception for Stephen's sister Kimberlee. She married a great guy named Chip on the 7th of July. Sunday we a had a great visit with Miller's. The kids played really well together . Here are Anna and Boone very intent on Beauty and the Beast (for about 2 minutes).

We finished the weekend at Hubby's for Boone's buddy Ian's birthday party. Poor Ian hurt his elbow on the slide and didn't really get to enjoy his party.

Josh couldn't figure out why he was so tired even though nothing got done this weekend. Time to check to google family calendar to find out!!

Boat Day

Today I went on the boat (aka money pit) for the first time this year. I also got my first sunburn of the year too. My face is fine but my back is fried. Ouch! Oh well, I made it half way through July before it happened! The boat is running great now but I wish is wasn't looking so haggard in the interior. Got the boys some new board shorts on clearance at Freddy's. Gotta love that!