Outside supper- Henry.

Spring is quickly coming to an end. The weather forecast for this weekend is 90 degrees. That is officially the temperature when mama closes the blinds and retreats to her cold basement- arg! It's going to be a long summer in our above ground house. And the pool doesn't open for another month!

So we're trying to make the most of the last few remaining days before the paint starts to blister and are spending as much time outside as possible. I didn't want to go down for a nap today without my nuk. So mama bargained with me and said if I took a nap, we could eat supper outside. I did settle down, so we got to enjoy a feast of chili dogs, edamame in the shell (my favorite!) and strawberries.

Mama was in a particularly good mood and let us eat cupcakes that she froze after Juner's birthday party. They were still delicious. Eating her cupcake, June was business on top...

...and party on the bottom. Check out that bare skin. We're also calling this the "seedy underbelly of the Piedmont" or the "Thunder Down Under."
Today at school, my classmate Brock was hugging a kissing June and ended up tackling June and knocked her over. I guess this is the kind of girl guys like.

We didn't bother washing hands or faces after that red dye was smeared in, because June was probably just going to go eat dirt anyway. So the red stains head to toe plus this outfit really made Juner look ridiculous.

She spent a good amount of time pushing the big wheel in a circle.

Then moved on to pushing the army truck. Check out Juner's favorite accessory- the necklace I made at the EggStravaganza. I'm not in any of the pictures because it took me a hour to finish supper tonight. Most of the time I instantly decare that I don't like mama's cooking and then sit until everyone is done. Tonight, I wanted to eat everything, but just took my sweet time.

Papa found a caterpillar.

It was very exciting for two reasons. First, we have a Little Einsteins DVD that focuses entirely on a caterpillar's journey to become a butterfly. Second, our computer has a screensaver that cycles through pictures saved on our hard drive. Henry's favorite is one of Evie with a caterpillar on her arm. He wouldn't put it on his arm, but did let papa try it out.

Here's another video.

Meanwhile, June made some more crazy faces.

We heard some commotion over at the high school and decided to head over to watch a girls soccer game. We took the wagon and both liked getting pulled by papa. Grandma Seibert, we need you to come cut our hair.

The Spartans were being demolished by RJ Reynolds High School. Yes, that's actually the name of the school. Our town exists solely for tobacco.

I climbed the stands while mama tried to ignore the looks of other parents wondering how two kids were so poorly dressed and so filthy. I really like my rain boots because I can put them on myself, so I wear them alot.

Why would anyone think we're weird?

Per the leg warmers, they were supposed to stay up on June's knees to protect her when she crawled ont he concrete. Mama thought it was funny that June was wearig her necklace like a holster and couldn't figure out how she got it on like that.

Then we spent some time leaning over the bars looking down at the four foot drop onto hard concrete.

We're risk-takers.

Mama and I decided to walk around the track. I spent my time looking for more caterpillars. I found one that mama thought had been stomped and tried to wake him up from his nap, but no amount of blowing or yelling helped. Then I found a really big one in the pole vault pit.

Best friends.

Papa pulled us home and mama threw us straight into the bathtub. We left a ring that will have to be scrubbed.

On the bedtime front, mama and papa have decided that maybe they need to spend more time helping me calm down at night. This means that bedtime has an extra 30 minutes of stories and cuddling. Today there were no tears, but there were still about 10 trips to return me to bed. And I was even asleep by 10pm. Maybe we're turning a corner.