Tricycle

Tricycle, Tricycle I love you with all my might

Tricycle, Tricycle I ride you morning noon and night.

-Frances England

Carter boy finally took an interest in his tricycle.  A couple of weeks ago Mike and I were loading the jeep, and we assumed Carter was with my Mom.  Then my Mom walked up without him and we all momentarily panicked wondering where he was.  Turns out he had jumped on his tricycle and was around the corner before any of us knew that he left.  Gotta keep an eye on this one.

Daddy took this picture last night while we were outside.  I was sitting on the steps and both kids came up to sit with me.

Lucky me, it seems I have caught the Ava stomach bug.  Mike is home today tending the babies (THANK YOU!  THANK YOU!  THANK YOU!)  Did I ever mention that I have the best husband?  He is using one of his vacation days today so I can recooperate.  Hopefully I will be better tomorrow, because we have a lot to do before we go camping this weekend.  Wish us luck!

You know it's summer when.....

Mom busts out the clippers and gives Carter his summer cut.  There, that's better.

The ice cream for snack was all part of the bribery to keep him in the chair while getting his hair cut.

More sickies

Poor sickie girl.  She has some kind of stomach virus and hasn't been able to keep down water today.  We are giving her lots of love and hugs and extra paci time.  Hopefully she'll be feeling better tomorrow. 

Tracey and the terrible, horrible no good very bad weekend

I guess I'm exaggerating a little, it really wasn't that bad of a weekend.  But to have your cell phone, refrigerator, dishwasher, and vaccuum cleaner bite the dust in one weekend sure didn't make my top ten list either.  To be fair, everything but my cell phone has been on it's last legs for awhile.  We were just hoping that they could magically repair themselves and last forever.  Then pizza would rain down from the sky and ice cream would grow on trees (and of course you could eat these forever without gaining a pound.) 

Do you know what I really hate?  Washing dishes by hand.  We even went out and bought a whole stack of paper plates and bowls to get us through until our new dishwasher is delivered.  It feels like such a necessity, even though I know generations survived without dishwashers (including the Shadles until a couple of years ago.) 

But our little Carter boy is feeling much better, which is all that really matters.

Well, got to go.  Looks like we're about to make somebody at the Home Depot really happy.

Under the weather

Today Carter woke up crabby and complaining of a back-ache.  A little later I noticed he was hot and sure enough he had a 100.7 degree fever under the arm.  Luckily motrin has been keeping it down, but during nap time it wore off  and he woke up with a temperature again.  Unfortunately it looks like our weekend plans are off, which is disappointing because I haven't seen my Dad's side of the family in awhile.  Oh and the worst part of this day?  I have watched way too much Curious George.  WAY.  TOO.  MUCH.  He has refused to watch anything else besides Curious George and Cars.  We also spent some time reading our library books today which also consisted of Curious George.  It looks like Elmo is totally out and Curious George is totally in.   

So far Ava has been totally good.  I did take her temperature at one point and it was 99 degrees.  I haven't given her any tylenol but it hasn't gone up from there.  She's just enjoying our Curious George marathon.  Hope your weekend has started out better than ours!

Farewell, dear friend

“Hunka Tin”

Goodbye trusty four door car, you’ve carried us a pleasant 110 thousand miles thus far.
But your radiator leaks and the AC sputters,
The brakes squeak and startup stutters.
Though it is our last day, we will cherish everything ‘Midnight Grey’.
While we move our separate ways we will always adore your unique VIN,
You’re a better car than most, Hunka Tin


Written by Mike Shadle, poet extraordinaire

We are.....

We are.......happy.  exhausted.  sweaty.  covered in dirt from the knees down.  ready for our naps.  thoroughly played out. 

We had a great morning playing at the indoor playground at Sharon Woods.  It was a thunderstormy morning but by lunch time the storms had moved out.   So we had a great picnik at a shelter and then played on the playground for awhile. 

Hmmm, notice anything different in those pictures?