Picturepalooza

Here are some pictures from the past few weeks around here. This one is very cute because Hayden and Jake were both wearing Khaki shorts and underwear with cartoons on 'em. Jake's have South Park and Hayden's have Curious George. Yes. Hayden Is In Underpants All Day. Everyday. Since Friday. With Very Few Accidents. YAY HOORAY! I also think that he looks extremely grown-up in this picture. And not just because of the underpants. Look at how tall he is! How did he get to be so tall? sunrise sunset... LOL
Hayden took this picture. He took many others, but this one was the most interesting and most centred.
EEEEE! My baby kitties!! They're 3 weeks old now, and starting to crawl all over. Kitty decided she wanted to keep them in the bottom drawer of Jake's dresser. Previous to that she had them "hidden" in the middle of the floor in the bathroom.
Aww.. they make me want to keep them!!!

"Hi! We're squirmy kittens!"
"We love to wiggle and play with our mamma."
"And look at our paws."
LOOKIT RHIANNON!! I HAVE A WATER PLAY TABLE JUST LIKE THE ONE I LET YOU HAVE. See how much my kids enjoy it? See the enjoymenting?
Well, this picture doesn't exactly demonstrate how much Sage loves it, but he IS gathering rocks to put in it. Like our barbeque? All we need is a grill and we're good to go.

There. There they are enjoying it together.
Big nose.
I love little Tilly :)
A good shot of the kids enjoying the water table, and also of our fire pit.

Pup-on-a-rope.
Hayden's saying "Go away Tilly!" I thought it was cute that Hayden was gathering rocks and Tilly was so interested.. but he didn't want her to look at what he was doing.
There. got the shot I wanted. sort of.
I discovered the artsy black and white feature on our camera. Yes, that is a clump of mud on Hayden's cheek.

Remember back in 1963 when Hayden and Sage used to play in the yard?
And there was no such thing as the internet or computers yet?
Yeah... good times back then.
This is Sage (back from the past) being caught in the act of jumping on Hayden's bed. Note the mischievious grin from ear to ear.
..about to catapult off into the air...

Hey, speaking of sunsets... (I was in the first paragraph of this post) a beautiful one tonight.


This is Tilly at 8 weeks old. Can you believe the difference from the pictures above? That's only a week and a half of growth! We got her at 5.5 weeks old. Tiny Tilly. So cute. So not housetrained yet.
And OH MY GOD. She could've died. TWO weeks ago she chewed a few of Sage's binkies, leaving him with one intact. Jake was pretty sure he'd recovered all rubbery bits except for one latex bulb that she'd sheared right off clean with her razor sharp teeth. We expected her to puke it up or poop it out, but as time passed and we didn't see it, we thought maybe we'd vacuumed it up without noticing. She was pooping and eating just fine. And then yesterday she started to puke. I'll spare the details, but she was a sick puppy. I thought it was worms. Today while I was at work Jake phoned and told me that this morning she was still pretty sick, and then all of a sudden pooped out the hugely swollen latex bulb of Sage's soother. It had grown to at least twice the size it was when she ate it, and we do not know how that thing fit out her butt-hole. Or why it didn't get lodged. Or why it didn't obstruct her poop for 2 weeks. Or why it took 2 weeks to come out. Or why it didn't fill with poop and become impossible to pass. She is ONE VERY LUCKY PUPPY. And as soon as it was out, she was feeling better and prancing around and playing again.