How the girls help

The girls love to "help" Ray on the project house. This is a couch they built out of the scraps. A little later they were building themselves a castle.

P.S. I have joined the smartphone ranks. With a relatively old version of smartphone, of course. This picture is from my new phone. Much better pictures than my old phone.

Eda

The other day while I was cleaning the master bathroom Eda walked in and said, "You never cleaned this bathroom before."

I replied, "Yes I have. Just because you didn't see me clean it doesn't mean I haven't cleaned it before."

Eda said, "Oh." Then thought for a minute and added, "OH! You probably did that when I wasn't alive."

(I really do clean my bathroom more often than that.)

Cora's wisdom

I overheard this conversation the other day:

Cora, "I REALLY want to go to Grandma and Grandpa's house."

Ruby, "But we can't go to Grandma and Grandpa's house while we're in school."

Cora, "But they can come HERE while we're in school."

So, Grandpa and Grandma, you have no excuses.

Things I learned yesterday

I should never go shopping mid-afternoon. It's insanely busy. Much better to go early in the morning or late in the evening. Much better.

Shopping with three children is much harder than shopping with one. I know I used to go shopping with three children all the time. And I didn't really know better. But now I do. My twins used to be well trained to walk beside me, holding onto the cart. After months of not going shopping with me they seem to have forgotten all that. They were all over the place, touching everything. I was about to go crazy. So I decided I need to stock up majorly over the next couple of weeks so I don't have to go shopping all summer. Try out three months of living off food storage. I'm sure we can do it...

Learning to dress herself

Ready for anything

At least one leg is.

Yea! Sunshine!!

So Eda tried triking. Maybe someday she will try pedaling while triking.