this weekend we had a barbaque :) Gabe and the girls pretended that we were bbqing snake steaks. the weather was really gorgeous, in the 70s and not very humid, not really typical august weather in mo so we were very glad to take advantage. I think I am going to buy an additional grill. I watch too much food network and especially Bobby Flays grilling shows and I want to try grilling all sorts of things! Grilled eggplant for instance, mmmmmmm.

cicada

http://extension.missouri.edu/xplor/agguides/pests/g07259.htm
Here is something that every MO kid knows about, a cicada shell. We learned all about them at the link above.

big day for Xavier

The bumbo seat used up its usefullness, he started climbing out of it too, boys, lol.
I had Ricky go up to the attic and bring down out attach to the table high chair ( thanks Ricky, I will be getting a picture of you on here soon, bowahahaha) X resisted getting into the chair at first but after he was in and given a few cherios
he loved it. He likes sitting with us during dinner
and I dont know but I think he realizes that he is at the head of the table and enjoys that too;)

Rickys freshman orientation

The girls and I accompanied Ricky to his freshman orientation bash at Parkview high school on the 14th.
The girls got to get their faces painted, always a big hit :)
Serena chose a kittycat and Iris a butterfly
then we ate junk food :)
Ricky is absent because he is avoiding pictures at the moment, hmmm, maybe not so much the pictures as moms with cameras, lol. I will get him very soon though, bowahahaha

Kyle visits

We got a rare visit from big brother Kyle last week. He is starting his sophomore year at MSU
the end of this month. College kids are busy busy busy I guess. At least Xavier isnt crying every time Kyle looks at him like he was last month :)

Park day

We decided to head out to the park today.
The weather here has changed from oppressively hot to pleasantly warm. Serena is practicing her tree climbing. We have an apple tree in our back yard that her little friend eric scrambles right up but she cant quite do it yet. she has much more luck on this tree.







Iris loves to climb too but she sticks to the playground equipment












Serena ran into a friend from karate class, what a happy surprise :) they had a great time playing "word girl" Serena was wordgirl, the superhero girl with a great vocabulary:) and Henry was Dr. two brains, the evil villain who somehow has a mouse brain in addition to his regular one, lol.








Just hanging around, so I can take their picture













Me and my little boy :)
I didnt realize the sun was right behind me like that, but I like the way it came out just the same.

a big day for xavier

His first haircut, at only seven moths old! It was looking straggaly. I hope that it is better, I had a hard time with the back especially because I cut it while he was asleep on my lap and his head was tilted to one side or the other. Dh says that it looks pretty good and thats all we really need :)


And then Xavier crawled . It's not like he hasnt been sccoting around but this was a real crawl which Dadie had to catch opn video : )