A day warm enough for a car wash!

Our car sits underneath the world most annoying tree, not only does it never get trimmed (can these paid lawn people not see these giant branches?) it secretes some sort of sticky junk (not sap) all over our car.
So our car is constantly sticky and dirt sticks to it even more than regular.
It was actually warm enough to wash the car this summer (our summer here has been more like fall) so we had the girls get their swimsuits on and put them to work!
I don't have any proof of that BUT I got plenty of pictures of them having fun with the hose afterwards.

And of course it's never complete without a nice dance pose from Elle.

And the grand finale...they made their own sprinkler.

drive-in

I was going to have one long post with all the things that I haven't written about....but it feels like I'm accomplishing more writing more little posts.

Anyway, about a thousand years ago in the beginning of the summer Jeremy took the girls to the drive-in. It was a double showing (as they always are)  of Cars2 and Green Lantern.
The girls had never been to a drive-in so they had no idea what to expect...neither did Jeremy.
We got the van ready by ditching a few chairs and replacing them with lots of blankets.
The girls picked out candy from Safeway and I popped a few bags of popcorn for them to take too.

Yes that is marker all over the back of the seats...and no, no one will ever buy this car from us...unless they too have a budding artist on their hands.

The first movie doesn't even start till 9:40pm! Jeremy said they both did really well and halfway through Cars 2 Elle said, "Daddy is it ok if I close my eyes?" I thought that was so sweet. But Eva stayed awake the whole time, Even for Green Lantern! Jeremy said that Elle woke up after Cars 2 was over and both girls watched the Green Lantern! They came home around 1am and I was expecting to drag the girls out of the car and launch them into their beds, but they both walked right in, wide awake acting like it was 1 in the afternoon!
Luckily they both went straight to bed and fell asleep quickly. Jeremy said it was really fun for all of them and he would definitely do it again.

again with JJ

I should probably start taking pictures of my other kids too. Eh.
So JJ at 3 months old!

Check out that GUT!
JJ at three months:
*sleeping really well- had a week of 11 hour nights! whooooaaaa! Yes, I checked him for breathing a few times.
* laughs when you tickle his moobies (that's man boobies)
*starting to drool
*barely fitting in 3-6 month clothes, mostly in 6-9 month
*he loves to talk
*starting to fall asleep on his own- last night I layed him down and he didn't even cry!
*he finally got a crib and has taken to it really well
*loves his big sisters
*likes it when I read to him, even if it is a young adult book...he likes whatever I like. ;)
*I'm guessing he's around 16lbs now

For the 4th we went to the church pancake breakfast, after that we went to a park, went downtown and to another park! We had a BBQ with our neighbors that evening and did a bunch of fireworks. All pictures from that night are kind of poor quality.

and my favorite, the is Eva with her friend Luke, they've been buddies since they were 2!

8 weeks old

I love crying pictures...is that bad? Isn't  he so cute?!?!?!
8 weeks:
*smiling all the time
*talking up a storm
*very social with others
*sleeping...ok...
*not a morning guy, he's a night guy
*pretty much skipped size 2 diapers
*wearing clothes in size 6-9 months
*falls alseep best when he's upright and pressing his face into my armpit
*still gets the hiccups all the time...soooo over the hiccups

Lesson Learned

I hate giving JJ a bath, it kills my back. So I thought I'd do myself a favor the other day and bathe him in our bathroom sink. I got a towel folded so it would be nice and comfy for him...I underestimated how big he is...I thought he'd fit nicely but once I got him in there he was practically overflowing.
I figured it would be my first and last time bathing him in the bathroom sink because he'd outgrow it in a few weeks.
It was the last time I decided to bathe him in the bathroom sink...but for other reasons:

Minutes after I put him in the sink we heard the familiar sound of many bubbles coming out of his bum.
Not once, not twice but THREE poo squirty bubbles.

Then immediately following...

After all of these bodily functions withing mere minutes of putting him in the sink all I could think was now I have to clean this mess up and I STILL have to give him a bath in the tub,

what I was trying to avoid in the first place.

And like a true man, this is the look he gave us after he was done filling the sink:

memorial day weekend 2011

Jeremy and I were trying to remember the last time we went to the beach...and it was memorial day 2010. That's right, we live an hour away from the beach and we only went once last year! We've already planned a few more trips over the summer!

Of course the best part of the coast for me is going to the outlet mall...seriously the deals are amazing, I always come home with buyers remorse for not buying more.
Anyway, this was obviously JJ's first trip to the beach too...he slept through the whole thing, except for lunch at Eleanor's Undertow (sooo good).
Here are our picture's from the beach, courtesy of Jeremy, my hands were full:

Do you like my awesome chair? It was one of my mother's day presents.

And of course the girls having such a great time. We couldn't have asked for better weather, it was so nice and right when we were done it started sprinkling. It was a really fun day to be together as a family, I love my family.

They were having a blast having their feet sink into the sand and trying not to fall over.

And of course making friends everywhere they go.

bubbles, portraits, black eye, spirit week and salsa

I have a surplus of photos once again that need to get on here!
Hence my random title.
We'll start with bubbles. JJ's newest thing is spitting little (and by little, I mean little) bubbles out of his mouth and they some how migrate down to right under his lip, he looks like he has a mini bubble beard...or goatee.

Is that not the cutest ever?

Self portraits:
Eva's learning how to do portraits in art class and decided to do Elle's self portrait.

Then Eva went to the mirror in the bathroom and did her own self portrait.

They then hung them on their door, so cute. Love it when the sisters are getting along.

Black eye:
Elle came home from preschool the other day saying that someone ran into her, usually if something "major" happens the teacher lets me know, since the teacher didn't say anything I figured it wasn't a big deal and she didn't even cry or tell anyone. Then the next day we noticed that it turned into a little black eye.

She obviously was fine but all these little kid things are all rights of passage and "firsts" so we had to get pictures! :)

Spirit Week:
It was spirit week at Eva's school the other day, and as much as I wanted her to participate I forgot the first few days and got some of them mixed up...she participated in crazy sock day (without trying...they were striped, apparently that's "crazy" in Eva's mind) and tie day (she looked SO cute in Jeremy's tie but I forgot to get a picture) but I did get a picture of crazy clothes day and I tried really hard to get her to look crazy because I felt bad that I forgot on some of the other days.

Eva loved my idea of two different shoes. Yay, bonus mom points.

Salsa:
Jeremy and I love to make pico de gallo together, it makes the house smell soooo good and it's impossible not to eat it all in one night, since we do eat it all in one night we don't make it that often anymore.
Here's out last batch.

recipe:
roma tomatoes
onion (red or white)
garlic
jalapeno
cilantro
1 or 2 limes squeezed in
salt to taste, table salt or kosher, whatever you have
I got the original recipe here, I've tweaked it to our tastes, this recipe is totally open to interpretation.
So good, you'll thank me later.