Lifelines

These two are so darling together sometimes.
Other times, I’m ready to sell them both to the highest bidder.
Or ANY bidder.
But not on THIS day :)

They’re often mistaken for twins when I’m out in public.
Have I mentioned this here before?
It’s alway sort of wild to me because they are 26 months apart but I know they look very much the same age to others.
(She’s a bit taller; he has bigger feet and weighs a few pounds more.)

I hope they’re always as close as they are now.

We tried a nap on the couch.
FAIL.

THUMB!!!
I can’t stand how adorable this is! It kills me EVERY SINGLE TIME!

Dear Luxe,

One of these days, you’ll be old enough to view your “first days” and when you see this photo, I want you to know that every single person here, all eleven of them, are cooling their heels to wait for you to have YOUR DINNER!

You might be a small diva but you can stop a crowd cold.

We found this staged photo “moment” and Chas was cracking us up with his antics!

I’m up early as I saw the Harmons off this morning.
They were here for almost a week but it went so fast and was such a nice visit.
Lynn said she was coming down to help me and she meant it.

Lynn, thanks for letting me have another week with Luxe.
I so appreciate you letting me sleep late, all the breakfast feedings you made my kids (19 bowls by noon, right? :)), all the loads and loads and LOADS of laundry you did for my family, holding down the fort while I scurried off for hour long nursings in my room, and all of the small things I don’t even really know about but that just come when you’re taking care of a houseful of seven kids.

You are a wonderful friend, the best I could ask for, and I’m grateful for you.

Much love to all of the Harmon family from my sleepy, sleepy bunch!
Thanks for making the trek to Columbus and we’re already looking forward to our next “adventure!”

“Friends Forever”

Flamingos!

Our statue-lovin’ broods:

The touch tank! We NEVER get to use our own local touch tank because we always go off-season and they don’t open stuff like this for off-seasoners!

Love this of the two of them. I always say it because it’s true–Chas is an amazing big brother.

Sacked:

Manatee lunch hour–salad!

Creux ripped this bad boy right out of the ground for me :)
And his other hand?
He’s just making sure his precious boy equipment hasn’t gone anywhere since the last time he checked 35 seconds ago.

Still sacked.
Not much of a zoobie, this one.

Is Charlotte here?
I mean, seriously, can you see this web???

I was looking for a message in there but got nothing.
Maybe the spiders in Ohio are just illiterate?

This last one is for Madison–she wanted a photo with the tree frog.
Madison, I hope you had a good time with my gang!
You’re welcome to come anytime, with or without your family!
We love and miss you already…

You know how it goes…you find a pretty spot, “someone” remembers their camera, and before you know it, you’re there 20 minutes in 15 different shots.
Here’s a few of those:

My mom splurged on a SIXTEEN DOLLAR face painting for my daughter.

(I say it like that because I would have laughed in the painter’s face had they told ME the price. But I wasn’t there and my mom, she likes to spoil.)

I’ll say this though–sixteen bucks buys you a mean little cat face.
(Meow. HISS!)

And Greer loved every pretty minute of it!

We RAN through the zoo tonight and as hoped for, it was emptyish.
What I didn’t count on though was how long it would take 11 people to maneuver themselves through it and how often SOMEONE of the bunch would get sidetracked.
Honestly, we’re lucky that in two hours time we saw more than the polar bears–we were THAT bad.

Here’s just a bit–Luxe is fussing for me, though I’ve nursed her 1,342 times in the last three hours.
Fun, fun, fun.

Jenny, when you check in show this to Colin!

Colin, we found a friend of yours swimming in the deep end of the pool! Rhyse fished him out and kept him in a cup for the night though you KNOW he wanted to keep him for good!

We set him free so maybe he’ll be back to welcome you home soon :)

Anyway, thought you’d enjoy knowing that the local wildlife is enjoying your pool now that all of the neighborhood kids aren’t!