You Remember...

...summer showers.

his ROYAL highness

BORIS = 6

So...

Yeah...so...

He's six.

Freakin' six.

-shaking my head-

Six.

So...

We had a crazy party. 13 kids, several adults. Pirate-theme, so there were eyepatches, and skulls, and hats and swords and guns...

We used water guns, which gave us the idea of black water balloons as cannonballs which gave us the idea of making a big cardboard pirate ship...

Unfortunately, it didn't give us the idea of taking any pictures...

Sorry.

Everyone had a great time, were soaked to the bone, got 'tattooed', ate cake (two of Mommy's famous ones, decorated to look like a dead mermaid...that's what pirates eat, right?), had water gun and foam sword and balloon cannonball fights...

Daddy got tackled into the mud.

Mommy got pelted in the head by water balloons (and then took her revenge by turning the hose itself directly on Boris)...

We think he had a good time...

Here's the one, lone picture...after all the kids were dry and playing in the boys' room...

THE INIMITABLE MS. KATCHOO

Being the only girl, and not a bit camera-shy, more pics get taken of Hella than pretty much any other subject around here...

Here's some...

SHE FOUND A 'FLOWER' FOR MOMMY...

SHE LOVES TO HELP COOK...OR, AT LEAST, SIT AND WATCH SOMEONE ELSE COOK...

ROYAL WATCHES FROM AFAR...
WHAT'S A GIRL GOTTA DO TO GET SOME SERVICE AROUND HERE..?!?

VANILLA PUDDING ROCKS...

YEAH, PEANUT BUTTER & JELLY IS GOOD, BUT I'D MUCH RATHER PONDER ROETHKE..."I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go."

FOR THE LADIES...

This is like cat-blogging, only it's kid-blogging...

1. Goofy, gorgeous and great. (I really like how the light is accentuating the mole on the end of my nose...yeah, that's great...)









2. What were they looking at..?









3. Best friends.









4. Can you have more than one best friend?









5. Natural Born Model.









6. Diaper Fight! (What does that even mean?)