peak a boo!

Z likes to help clean






































eating blue chalk


















peak a boo!









boo!
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all the things you can do with a box

zadie has really found a new passion: spending some quality time in her big red box ... multiple times a day, multiple days in a row, zadie can be found loading her precious possessions into the big red box.



...loading it up












...climbing in


















...kicking back in her toy baby stroller drawing a couple of circles













...and finally having acquired the perfect amount of stuff around her to make her feel happy:







2 baby strollers
3 magna doodle drawing boards
1 talking lawnmower
1 giant squeaking dolphin
1 blow up soccer ball
1 deflated red balloon
1 cup of snack crackers (because you never know when you are gonna get hungry)



















...another day with stuff in the red box











...it also makes a great chalkboard

















...or a train




















...or just a great place to hang out with your brother to draw.

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our first rock concert: The Sippy Cups!

We took the kids to their first rock concert - a psychedelic kids band from San Francisco called The Sippy Cups! The music was fun, they had crazy costumes, jugglers and even a unicycle...and they shot beautiful silvery mylar streamers into the crowd - it made everyone ooh and ahh.







Max went crazy for the huge balloons they threw into the audience. He was by far the smallest kid in the 'mosh pit' - he was very brave and never got trampled...he really wanted to touch some of those huge bouncing balloons. He's hard to find so I circled him for you.



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nice hat

nice hat
























































































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potty seats!

we got potty seats! but that's not the exciting news...the big deal is that the seats came in these really huge boxes and they are providing hours of pure enjoyment.







































































































































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eatin' doots and raisins on the front porch

Eating our favorite snack: doots and raisins...the kids call cheerios 'doots' ...for at least a month I couldn't figure WHY Zadie started calling cheerios 'doots'.

Then one day I was singing my special little song that I sing whenever I served them their cheerios: "cheerio, cheerio baby, doot doot doot doot doot doot doot" (it's actually a reggae song called Cherry-O and I didn't know all the words, ya know)

...and it suddenly made sense.

Kids make the funniest associations...














by the way,I just looked up the actual words, they are:
Cherry oh, Cherry oh, baby.
Don't you know I'm in love with you!























make a wish!

blowing dandelions in the yard at the new house (lucky for us we have quite a few!)



















































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