In the meanwhile-Henry.

Okay, now we're ourselves again. Here's what we did today. We went to Starbucks to collect our free voting coffee (thanks, Starbucks). We even scored a free hot chocolate for me. I think the workers felt bad for me because we got cornered by a crazy old lady who told us John McCain was in bed with terrorists. We also thought about hitting up Krispy Kreme, Ben and Jerry's and Chick-Fil-A for free stuff (hey, it's patriotic), but restrained ourselves. Then we went to a toy store (that caffeine must have gone stright to Mama's head), where I decided that I desperately needed this huge ride-on firetruck, that was well beyond my budget. I behaved well in the store but threw a huge fit when we got home because mama said I had to put the firetruck on my Christmas list.

Later, mama was brave and got a big craft project out.

Graqndma Cooper found some ceramic ornaments for me to paint, so mama pulled out all of her old craft paint and we went to work.

I really enjoyed painting and painted each ornament at least 5 times. They started out yellow and ended up a deep blue. Hope that you're one of the lucky people to get one of these beauties.

Eventually I was persuaded to put away my paints and clean up.

Hopefully this t-shirt caught most of the paint drops.

While we painted June spent her time sliming the tupperware.

Look at that shirt. 8 months old and already full of attitude.

Our soapbox.

We're feeling particularly fired up tonight. We try not to get too serious or political, but it is election night, so we feel like we can do this just once. Then we promise to never mention it again.

We just want to say it- we're so tired of this election and we're glad it's over. We know that every election has negative campaigning and this year is no different. But to be honest, right now it looks like we'll either be electing a muslim terrorist or an old man who is actually in cahoots with Al-Qaeda. (Seriously, people have said both of these things to us.)

So, we're led to believe that with these two candidates, maybe the best thing would just be to keep W. in office. (Okay, that was a joke.)

Finally, we want to close our rant by saying we hope we never have to hear about Joe 6-Pack, Joe the Plumber, Hockey Moms, or anything Alaskan again.

At the park- Henry.

Yesterday, we headed out to a new park to meet some other families from an online mom's group we're members of.

The park was great. And the swings were very fun.

Even Junery loved them.

The best part of the park was that it was full of sand. I'm so glad we took my loader and dump truck.

Later, we headed down to the lake and fed some geese. These geese must be used to being fed, because they were very friendly and very big!

Later, we ran up and down hills.

Then we all took off back to the playground. We also got our first taste of a child who has never had rules. This kid was really a trip. He stole my dump truck and loader and insisted before he left that it belonged to him now. He also shook June and woke her up in her stroller and then took her nuk and threw it over the fence and down a hill- all while threatening to hit Juner. His mom shrugged it off because "boys are just like that." We're glad that in the 3 years since I've been around that this is the first kid like this that we've ever met (and hopefully the last). And we want to thank everyone with kids we know for not raising your kids with rules and structure. Because all of the boys (and girls) we know don't behave like that.