A Boy And His Brother

While Graham definitely has his moments hitting or pinching Brooks, he does love him.  Here he is reading him a book.  Yesterday when I was taking Graham to his art class, he said "I miss Baby Brooks" while we were driving to class.  (They had been apart all of 10 minutes.  Let's hope this brotherly love lasts!)

A Boy And His Dogs

Graham has a sweet spot for Kona - he loves to hug her, put her "necklace" on her in the morning, pet her.  The other day Kona was running around in the bushes, so Graham joined her!  They ran through all the natural areas together.

Molly, on the other hand.....every time Graham mentions Molly's name he says this: "Molly try to knock Yam down.  No no, Molly!"  (He can't say GR together so he calls himself yam.  And, yes, Molly ALWAYS tries to knock him down.  She's always trying to take out his legs!)

But Molly sure is sweet when she just wants to lay on the patio and watch the world go by!

Cousins!

Fun cousin time a couple weeks ago!  Evie and Lila stayed with BeBe and Buddy a few weeks ago for gymnastic camp, and so we had to have a pool party.  And Aunt Kathryn suppied the most fun ice cream sundae bowls and toppings!

I am ADDICTED

I can't get enough of this baby.  I mean really - how can you resist a face like that?  When I'm with him, he's attached to me.  I just can't put him down!  He really started crawling recently and loves getting around.  And funny - he is finally interested in sitting up and playing with his toys.  This happened at the same time he started to crawl.  Prior to crawling, he only wanted to roll around the room.

Gift Family Visits (More pictures!)

I'm FINALLY getting around to updating our pictures!  Here are the rest of the pictures from the Gift family visit.  Fun times!  And both Brooks and Graham loved being with their family!

 

 

Hurricane Irene - Finishing The Conversation

Wow I'm behind!!  Thought I should finish the conversation about Hurricane Irene.  We never lost power, we had no trees, down, and we now are storing enough gas to power our generator for at least a week....we felt unbelievably spared.  We typically lose power when a bird flaps his wings the wrong way.  And I was prepared to have a couple trees on my house as well. 

I "sold" the hurricane to Graham and Brooks as a slumber party since we had to sleep downstairs.  (Storm didn't hit until 8:00 or 9:00 at night.)  Note: Brooks HATES slumber parties and Graham loves them so much he doesn't sleep.  And the dogs just don't know what to do when we're sleeping in a new room.  On the floor.  And there's crazy stuff going on outside.  Needless to say, I was very grateful for coffee the next morning! 

(The pictures below - I closed the curtains on all the windows in our house.  Because - you know - falling trees a limbs won't penetrate FABRIC........)

Irene is Here

So Irene sounds like she's banging on our door. In fact, I think she may have just torn off one of our shutters. Oh my - leave quickly!!