It seems I've been a bit slow with posting pictures....just put the 4th of July photos out on facebook, still working on the 2013 family photo album. Yes, I still put together photo albums...but I do use Shutterfly to print the pictures on nice pages instead of printing photos and slipping them into the albums (not that there's anything wrong with that!). But I have managed to find time to watch about 10 old episodes of the King of Queens over the past week because I am more inclined to do that from bed than work on a photo album. (bet you thought I would say Seinfeld? No, I've seen all those 5 times over. And Yes, I do still watch them anyway) The kids watched two oldie but goodie movies recently...Dumbo and Charlotte's Web! Jay was in New York for two weeks in July so we tried to fill it with activities along with some McDonalds and movies. He brought back shirts for the kids, and Joseph told him he's too old for Mickey. Jay tried to explain that you're never too old for Mickey and didn't he want to go to Disney where Mickey lives? Joseph responded with something along the lines of geez dad, there's lots of other stuff at Disney besides Mickey. For being such an old kid who does math problems and practices writing, he sure sleeps with a lot of stuffed animals (approx. 20...grover of course, along with a Sneech, Yurtle, the brewers Sausages, a shark, blue bunny, very large frog and huge red puppy, a yellow duck, an elf....I could go on) And speaking of writing, I convinced him to write a page in his summer journal the other day and he decided on a biography. It went something like "Hi. My name is Joseph Conway. I am alergeck to everything outside and cats. I like....." Yes, he led with his allergies! It was actually pretty funny, at least to me. Hannah and Leah practice writing letters and their names, but aren't nearly as interested in reading as Joseph was. But they are both very meticulous in their artwork and coloring. They cannot get enough princess and Barbie coloring books and pages, and if they accidentally poke the marker through the page or color a color where they didn't intend, they disgard the entire page and need to start over. They also measure time in sleeps, and are counting down to the number of sleeps until they see Bubbie and Papa and their cousins at the beach, how many sleeps until Grandma comes to our house, and how many sleeps until we go to Ohio to visit Grandpap and Grandma Pam? It's cute, except that they literally ask these questions every night. :) Along with Leah asking as I'm walking out of the room "Mommy can I pick out my clothes in the morning?" and Hannah screaming "Mommy I love you!" as I'm closing the door. It's actually quite adorable, which I have to remind myself of in the moment at times!
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