Sunday morning chess

I'm going to keep working on this pose

I couldn't get them to tilt their heads just right in the window, even with the promise of candy at the end.  So I had to do more post-processing than usual, and it's just not quite right.  I wanted to capture how very different their eyes are.

Halloween!

In other news, why I should not trim hair:

It is not the end of September.

I refuse to believe another month has gone by without me noticing.


I love these boys so much.  Here they are, reading library books about their interests (pirates and dinosaurs) remaining wholly uninterested in outer space.  Not that I am trying to influence them or anything (note the pajamas and sheets).


I am fairly sure their ballet teacher is a saint.  Here they are, in their ballet clothes, that they added a little flair to.  For extra fabulousness.




I am still laughing as I look at these pictures.

Summer's last Hurrah!

We went on an overnight camping trip, canoeing down the Green River.  Here are a few pictures Joe took:


Floating down the current:

Odds and ends

We uploaded pictures from Joe's phone today, so here are a few that haven't been shared yet.

Back during birthday extravaganza, we went to Big Mike's Mystery House.  Here is a picture from that adventure:


The zoo here had an exhibit with animatronic dinosaurs.  You cannot tell from the picture, but the boys really enjoyed it.  They did not enjoy the picture.

Seeing Stars

Grammy and Poppy got new bedding for the boys.  Eliot kept commenting on how "lovely" they are, and James cried that I did not wash the sheets immediately, so there was a day long lag between them arriving and going on their beds.  I am a monster, I know.

The color is off in the picture of Eliot.  He was being a goof.

The stars, and background of the quilt are in fact navy.