Catching up with SM

Assortment of occurrences with SM.  This is how she wears sunglasses...

This is what happens when dad dresses her...

This is her reading...

This is her helping put away laundry...

This is her cooking...

This is her outfit for the rodeo...

And this is her eating a cupcake...

Nebraska Marble it ain't!

Oh no!  It appears that green lawns don't grow on their own in the LOE!  A yard full of goatheads?  Not on my beautiful momma's watch!  Roto-tilling and then manuring and then rototilling and then peat mossing and then tamping leads to ....

It is a flat, stinky, dirty, well-fertilized patch of dirt.  So then lay the sod...

Water profusely and wa-lah!

You can't do this on goatheads!

My parents felt so confident now with sod that they plan on building us a sod-home instead of a tree-house!

Take Me Out to the Ballgame...

Another Tee-ball season has ended in the LOE.  Under the tutelage of my dear old dad, JC took his first live hacks...

With two seasons under my belt, you can see that my ball traveled farther before nosing into the dirt...

JC's run to first base presents an excellent exhibit of the organized chaos that reigns...

Here is JC in the field.  He enjoyed offense.

Here is M in the field.  She also enjoyed offense.

 In the dugout and ready to bat...

Thanks for the season, dad!

Let's Go Fly a Kite!

With tuppence for paper and strings
You can have your own set of wings
With your feet on the ground

You're a bird in a flight
With your fist holding tight
To the string of your kite

Oh, oh, oh!
Let's go fly a kite
Up to the highest height!
Let's go fly a kite and send it soaring
Up through the atmosphere
Up where the air is clear
Oh, let's go fly a kite!

When you send it flyin' up there
All at once you're lighter than air
You can dance on the breeze
Over 'ouses and trees
With your first 'olding tight
To the string of your kite

Oh, oh, oh!
Let's go fly a kite
Up to the highest height!
Let's go fly a kite and send it soaring
Up through the atmosphere
Up where the air is clear
Let's go fly a kite!

Okay!  One more time from the top!  Hey!  Oh blast!  Who gave them a sno-cone?