Labor Day!

Well, you wouldn't know it from the photos, but we had some kind of bug this weekend. Little dude was hot and fevery on Friday and Saturday, had a cough Saturday but only at night today. So he was not his usual boisterous self and we spent a lot of time watching Octonauts and whining. Octonauts is kind of our new thing, and we spent about two days watching it, which averages to three viewings of all the episodes on the DVR. But averages don't matter here, because we watched our favorites about 8 times each. Go ahead, ask me about The Great Penguin Race.

Anyway, Labor Day was actually great, even though the Sophieloaf is still awake.

And crawling!

No, wait, she's standing!

And we got a shot of Sophie with her first rainbow!

It's sort of an ongoing project of Mom's to recreate photos we took of Austin with Sophie. It's not something I do a ton of, but it is fun, kind of like a treasure hunt. Here's Austin's "first rainbow picture" from February 2011.







Anyway, we had a great Labor Day. Although neither Mom nor Dad got much of a day off...

And we did get one raised bed built and filled and planted with a little bit of a practice garden, since it's really late in the season. Austin had fun watering!

 And we enjoyed having a little time outside after being cooped up so long.

Week In Review

We welcomed some old friends to California!

We had a visit with Grandpa and Mere!

It is impossible to take a picture of Austin looking at the camera at the same time anyone else does.

Sophie did some modelling!

And discovered grass!

Zomg!

We mastered the thumbs up!

We invented a game called, "throw water on chickens." Understandably, the chickens were enthusiastic participants, because the rules required lots of running away on their part. He never got close.

 We also watered plants and danced in puddles.

Austin's Weekend in Review

It has been so rainy the past week! But at least things were nice and green for St. Patrick's day!

Which we celebrated by visiting the Easter Bunny. Unwillingly.

We also got to see some nice rocks. 

Mom thought we might see if gardening was our thing. Naturally, we loved the dirt. And you can see one of the casualties there by his foot.

Fortunately (for the plants),  we lost interest before we could commit much more herbicide.

We also visited a beautiful Japanese style garden.


We were really into the gravel paths.
















We also enjoyed climbing these steps...












 Mostly so we could fling our gravel really really far.

 

You may notice that most of these pictures are of Mr. Austin's caboose. This is because we are always running away from Mom, who won't let us dive into the koi pond.