Summer Evenings

Ella and Daddy.
Maga's kitchen.
Most of the time when I pull out the camera this is what I get.
Ella actually took that photo of me so I thought I would include it, she really likes to take photos. She looks so cute with my giant camera angled up against her eye and the strap around her little neck and she surprises me with the results of her efforts.
She no longer looks like a toddler but very much a little girl, even so I bribed her to put on this dress which I adore but is a size 2. I promise the dress will now be retired but she just looked so adorable.

Ella has to bite in to all of her food using the left side of her mouth but with that tooth loosening more and more by the day what will she do?

So I picked the dress but the shoes were all Bobo's idea.
I just love this photo, running free in the yard with the scent of burgers on the grill.
Molly was a little concerned about the possibility of "funder"(thunder). She would peck her little face through the screen door and ask "did any of you guys hear a little funder" Thankfully no one had head any and there was none for the rest of the night.

Ella is now 100% daddies little girl and has little use for what comes out of my mouth, notice the rolling of the eyes?
These photo's were all taken at Maga's house on a warm summer evening, which is my favorite kind.

Breakfast with Papa

Papa we had a great time with you on your visit and we all wish that our visits could be more frequent...

The Name Game

Molly and Ella both got baby dolls from the Easter Bunny. The babies actually coo and babble rather loudly I might add when they sense movement, thank god we found the control that will completely shut them off. Around here the Easter Bunny hides the basket and the girls must hunt for their goodies when they wake up. Well Molly and I came down the stairs first and spent just a few moments waiting for Ella and Nick, but in that few minutes strange noises started to emanate from the corner of the room. At first Molly tried to blow it off with some nervous laughter but then a look of panic set in. She did not like the sound of this at all, "what was that" she uttered it's a phrase we hear all to often from Bobo. I managed to keep the panic level fairly low by letting her begin to look for her goodies. However the noises which should have been a big tip off to the loot had the opposite effect because she was avoiding that area of the room like the plague. When Ella arrived on the scene it was she who braved that corner of the room noises and all to retrieve the Easter Basket for her sister. As soon as Molly saw that the source of the dreaded sounds was the baby doll she had admired in Target all was well in Molly's world. Ella who is becoming way to smart for both myself and the Easter Bunny honed in on her basket within a minute of searching and was happy to see she had also received a babbling baby. One look at her new doll and she declared that her baby was to be named Barack Obama. She continues to make references that her baby is going to be the next president but this is coming from a girl who also believed Obama was running for principle of her school so we shall see.

The Elf Family

http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1116104298

Click above link to see us embarrass ourselves.

Good for a laugh?

So I can not find the wire for my camera and therefore can not transfer any of the photos I have taken recently. But I do have a batch that I took with the camera on my laptop. What do you think? Could these be contenders for next years Christmas cards?

The girls have become obsessed with the power puff girls, which is not the greatest show for them to be watching. I will just chalk that up to another battle lost on the parenting front. It's not that bad really, like most of the obsessions that have come and gone in our house they like the characters and their own make believe versions better than the actual cartoon. Before bed each night the whole family participates in the girls own interpretation of the show. We all have an assigned part (they are not interchangeable) Nick is the villain Mojo Jojo, Ella is blossom commander and the leader, Molly is bubbles she brings the joy and laughter, and I am buttercup the fearless fighter. In the performance that ensues we (the powerpuff girls) defeat Mojo Jojo every night, we are saving the world before bedtime just like in the theme song. Both girls really enjoy this part of the routine and Nick does a great job acting out his part, and I am not sure if I should be offended but Ella said I am buttercup because buttercup is the grumpy one.

Default plans

On Sunday we were supposed to drive to Boston and get the doors for the kitchen cabinets, these cabinets and I have been waiting to get their doors since they were installed in June of 2004. Well the weather was bad and a drive to Boston was not a good idea. So what's the obvious default you ask, well it's an afternoon at Chucky Cheese. That's a natural progression of events right, well it worked for us. I only visited a Chucky Cheese once in my childhood it was in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania (they did not have Chucky Cheese in Maine back then), we were visiting friends, but even if there had been one in our area I don't know if I would have ever seen the inside of Chucky Cheese again as my mother was not impressed. She probably thanked god there was no such establishment within a 50 mile radius of our home. On my second visit to Chucky Cheese I had a pretty good time but the girls had a very good time as you see in the photographic evidence. Ella loves it there, Molly was a little overwhelmed but after a tummy full of pizza seemed to relax and have a much better time. All in all not a bad way to spend a miserably cold winter afternoon, Chucky will probably see the Morris family again.