A Few Pretty Much Unrelated Pictures

All these are backward chronologically, but if that doesn't bother you, I won't let it bother me.

Spaghetti Night at our house - I was trying to get a picture of Annalise eating a noodle, but she wouldn't look my way, this came in 2nd though.

We have caterpillars again; it is kind of like spring here. Well, hotter than spring, but things are blooming again.

Our theme this week - making mud. A priceless quote from Caleb, "It takes a lot of dirt to make mud!"

I take full credit for how her clothes don't really match in this picture. She's making what we call a giraffe tongue - that is she's sticking it out as far as it will go. We have a book that says, "Giraffes have long necks and long legs, they even have long tongues!"

Annalise very chipper while playing. You may notice in the left hand corner - her "train" - toys lined up in a row, which she declared to be a train ("Tane, mama!"). Caleb used to do this a lot too.

But here is what Caleb does a lot these days - use all the couch cushions to make a house, which I guess is pretty typical. Our neighbor's kids handed down this little kitchen to us, which really added some homeiness to his "cozy house".

And finally this big green caterpillar we found while we were playing with a neighbor-friend. I am sort of regretting not putting it in the butterfly cage. When we found it I told the kids I was sure it was a moth (it was huge), but after scanning picture online I'm not totally sure it isn't a type of swallowtail. I saw one at a friends' house a few days later and it was enormous. It crawled like it was on a mission, the same way the monarch cats do when they are ready to go "make the J".