Happy Birthday Chandra

Happy birthday to my sister Cha-Ba! I hope you had a great day. I wish I had my scanner working because I could have had some fun posting pictures.

Last of the fourth of July pictures

This is my last post with Fourth of July pictures but I had to show off Elizabeth in her patriotic outfit. My Grandma Watts made this for Alexandria when she was a baby and I just love it. She had so much talent- look it is even reversible. I am a little sad that this is my last baby to wear it so I had to get lots of pictures.

More fourth of July

One of the few pictures I got of Alexandria:

Annika, displaying one of her many talents:

Papa at the grill:

Ian throwing poppers:

Fourth of July

We had a great day yesterday. We headed up to Papa and Nana's and swam, watched the boat parade, ate some great food and watched fireworks on the lake.


Ian:


Annika:

Elizabeth and Aunt Erin:

Aunt Lucy and a very tired Elizabeth:

Elizabeth the nail tech

I think we are going to have our hands full with Elizabeth when she is a teenager. She is already such a girly girl! She absolutely can not stand to see someone else painting their nails and not doing hers. The other day I was painting my toenails and she stuck her foot out at me and said "Foot. Put here." (Which totally reminded me of that SNL skit with the caveman and Tonto, but I digress.)

Today I went to the store and as soon as I walked in the door Karl asked me where the fingernail polish remover was. Elizabeth was covered in bright red nail polish, as was the hardwood floor in my bedroom. I thought she just dumped the polish out, but as i looked closer, I could see she sincerely was trying to cover each of her
little toenails and fingernails.



And I am sad to say the pictures look like this because our camera is broken. The camera that we just bought in February. We are going to get it fixed as soon as I can bear to part with it.

That boy

Whenever I tell Karl about Ian's latest misdeeds he sighs and says "That boy." Needless to say I hear that a lot. Today 'that boy' was in a mood. He was in trouble all day long. So today was fourteen hours (yes I counted) of dealing with his naughtiness. He just fell asleep about a half an hour ago (10:30, yikes!) Our last fight was over where he would sleep. He said downstairs on the couch, I said upstairs in his bedroom. I just found him like this:


Would you call that a compromise?

Doesn't every seven year old need her own laptop?

One of the benefits of Karl working in IT is we get hand me down computers when they decide it is time to upgrade. So Karl brought this laptop home for Annika today which made her very happy. She decide she needed her own blog as well so we set one up for her. It is set to private so if I didn't get you on the list and you want to be just let me know. I believe we now have six computers in this household, plus Karl's phone can access the internet. This is getting ridiculous!