Sunday, September 18, 2011

Love this family

What a week we have had! Looking at these pictures males me so happy bc I see that even though I work many hours a week, I still get to experience so so much with my babies. I am also fully aware of what an awesome family I married in to and live next door to- yes, the Murphys are practically one of us, minus the carnivore.
Hopie impresses me all the time because I imagine her as a tiny baby and the next thing I know she is stacking blocks all on her own like it's old hat.


Wonderful Aunt Ruth got a monarch caterpillar and taught Al all about it's transformation into a butterfly, so we are now watching and waiting for the butterfly to emerge from this chrysalis.. So cool!


I asked Albert to get dressed one morning and this is what he did- such a jokester.


One morning at the park with the Murphy fam the kids were playing on the cannons. Hope is really excited, check out that grin. I mean Rush is quite a charmer, all the more reason to be happy riding a cannon.





On Friday Beau and I took the kids to Forest Park for the annual ballon glow--best STL event. I absolutely love this night.


Saturday we started the day off at the zoo, where Al showed off his scorpion climbing skills and Cary let all the butterflies out of the butterfly house.


After naps Al thought it would be a good idea to build a fort...


... And make the baby a cozy bed in his 'gi-antic' dump truck.


And today, we spent 8 FULL hours with our Reinberg cousins. Flash-forward to Halloween, only Hopie will be wearing a much more adorable costume- motocross is not really her thing.





We look forward to many more of these moments in two weeks when we all take a trip to Iowa!

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Saturday, September 10, 2011

It's only 9:30...

... and we have already be in full play mode for 3 hours.






And a cute one from last week...


I am so tired already. I did do yet another toy disposal this morning as well- about once a week I pitch a couple of toys. The clutter makes me crazy and anxious as well I find it so therapeutic to get rid of things!

What should we do the rest of the day??
Farmers Market, run, grocery store, possibly the bounce house?
Beau and I are going with some friends to the Clayton art festival tonight which I am very much looking forward to. And on Sunday aunt Ruth is going to show Al her Monarch caterpillar that will make a chrysalis soon, exciting! They have been talking about doing this for weeks.
Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

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