I have been a bad, bad blogger, only one post in all of August, disgusting. I am so sorry to all my faithful readers, that would be you Dad and you Barbara. Although we have done many fun blog-worthy things in August, I have failed to bring my camera. So let me fill you in, took the kids to a decorate your own cupcake place that opened here in Ocean Springs. Ridiculously cute, ridiculously priced cupcakes but pretty yummy. Luke decorated his cupcake with the candy
Shockers, ugg, they are as gross as they sound. Shockers and
licorice, so totally nasty. Amelia also choose
licorice and I think Hersey bars. I had a wonderful lemon berry cupcake with fresh berries on top, I thought it was the healthy choice of cupcakes. Granted it had three inches of icing and stuffed with icing but whatever. Next thing I missed, took Luke to the
water park and he had FUN, FUN, FUN! He loved going down the slides by himself and came up laughing and sputtering every time. After about two hours he was worn out and ready to go home, perfect because right then a thunderstorm hit and we got
rain checks so two free tickets, bonus.
Okay, above is Amelia and Addison before Amelia left for school. She loves holding Addison before she leaves for school.
Lukey and Amelia now have a few chores around the house. One of them is to make their bed each morning. This is
Lukey's bed, yes this is after he made it. He is so proud of himself. It takes all my might and will not to remake it every day but I don't want to crush his little spirit. Funny enough he is holding up the "I love you" sign to me for the picture. Good to know because he wasn't so in to mommy yesterday. Amelia and Luke had been fighting like cats and dogs so I put them each in the corner in the family room to take a little break. Addison was playing in the middle of them. Amelia laid down and was quiet, Luke was rolling around the floor, screaming and crying. Addison kept looking over at him and squealing and laughing thinking it was a game he was playing. So I couldn't help it and I started laughing at the whole situation, Luke screamed even louder and shouted, "You are so mean!" I have never been called mean by my children before. I just looked at him in shock. I mean it is a "first" but not really baby book worthy so I thought I would post it here instead. Amelia has not even called me mean yet, she has thought it I am sure by the major eye rolling going on these days with that girl but she has never said it. I would have felt crushed and ran over and hugged him but about 10 seconds later, mid-scream he rolled over onto some random stick on the floor and stopped crying and said, "
Hmmm, that is strange, where did this come from?" as he picked up the stick. Such drama for such a little boy.
Addison Kate hanging out in Luke's room.
Luke received some hand-me down boots from a church friend and he thinks they are AWESOME! And why not wear them with shorts and a Cubs jersey?
Ahh, another milestone, off with the training wheels. Anyone that knows Amelia would understand what an undertaking this is. Amelia believes in baby steps, very small baby steps. Poor Stephen has been running up and down our street with her for days now. Amelia is as happy as can be and tells everyone she has her training wheels off, although she makes her Dad promise every time that he won't let go. She is kind of missing the point of taking the training wheels off.
Bonfire on the beach, the kids all made this couch out of sand. Amelia and Luke are both in the back, Amelia in orange and Luke has sunglasses on.
Addison hanging out at the bonfire. Although no
smores for her yet. She did eat a few cupfuls of sand though. Did you know sand comes out in the diaper the next day? Gross.
Stephen had a very cute surprise for me for our anniversary. I love wedding cake, love it, love it, love it. I also can eat butter cream frosting by the bucket full. Knowing this, my lovely husband ordered me a wedding cake and told the baker to put as much frosting as they could on my "wedding cake." So on our actual anniversary day, we were all home sick, all five of us. All of a sudden I heard the music I walked down the aisle to start playing. Then there is Luke and he says, "May I have your rings ma'am?" He took my wedding rings, put them in his pocket and then offered me his arm to walk down the aisle (our hallway). So I am already tearing up at this point because who gets the chance to have your three year old walk you down the aisle? And then there in the family room is Stephen and the girls. Amelia was holding a clipboard with our vows (see below). It was so sweet and cute. After the kids married us, they took me around the corner and I saw my wedding cake. Yum, that was a great anniversary present. 
Luke's first day of school, albeit a few days late, due to the Boskovich influenza of 2009. He is so not into pictures lately so this was all I could get. Now that he goes to the Montessori school, no more Buzz Lightyear backpack, we have to use the organic cotton bag. The first of many changes with the new school! 
Just hanging around.
Luke is squealing, "Daddy, I'm going to drop, I'm going to drop."
My cuties. Love that big gummy grin of Addison. I could just eat her up.
Addison was so serious about the grass that morning. We couldn't get her to look up at the camera at all. 
Big girl with her sister and brother. They are all getting so big!
We went to the Walter Anderson Museum of Art this weekend and the kids each picked out their favorite art piece. 
Even Addison had a favorite. The kids shocked Stephen and I again with their ability to retain information. The kids went to an art camp at the museum in the beginning of July and one of the camp days they came to tour the museum. Well, oh boy did they listen well. They told us all sorts of things about Walter Anderson that we didn't know. I had to check later by reading the pamphlet and they were right on. Even Luke, he pointed to a portrait and said, "See mom, that is Walter Anderson." Oh, I thought it was just some weather beaten guy.
The kids have been begging to go camping. We thought we better give it a test run before we do the real thing. Stephen was brave and decided to camp out in the backyard with Luke and Amelia. I however, thought it was a bit too muggy that night and Addison and I had a lovely evening in the air conditioning. 
Here they are, ready to "rough it" in the tent. Well, I went to bed and around midnight I heard the troops head back in the house. Stephen said, "We are all laying there on top of our sleeping bags with our shirts off and we are still sweating." So they roughed it for a little bit. Stephen said, the kids did fall asleep but they were tossing and turning, I think Daddy got a little bit too steamy in there. Oh well, we'll try again in the fall. 
