The dog days of May

Rain all day, Target all night 

Max could not be happier about nuggets and a milkshake before tball practice 

A couple of characters

Getting Mr. Potato Head ready for the day 

Minnie!

Potato heads

Once everyone is actually dressed and accepts that it is,in fact, a school day, the race down the stairs is fun!

Max insisted on wearing [too small/tight] shorts and this "jersey" he found [and made his mom cut because it was too long] to school today.  Never mind he rolled around outside in in yesterday.

Max and Kira never touched these Potato heads until today.  They could not put them down, until Max out them to sleep.

The smile before the rain storm

We tried to enjoy every moment of this sun filled afternoon before the skies opened up.

The playground was crawling (literally!) with caterpillars.  Max prepared them a leaf feast fit for a caterpillar king and gathered as many diners as he could. "They have to eat their dinner and then play", said chef Max.

Max picked out flowers for Miss Juliette and Miss Angie for Teacher Appreciation Week 

A very Mickey morning

This morning was not one of those rare sleep past 6am mornings.  At least Mickey stepped in and brought an extra 15 minutes of calm.

Kira loves to color!  Max loves to color!  Thank you, Crayola (and random nameless restaurant crayons)!

Back at it

Back at the drawing table first thing in the AM

Saturday night tball!

TGIF!

Good morning!  Thank goodness for these headphones that were hiding under mommy's bed for a rainy, cold, 5am morning.  Lion King on the screen, Ninja Turtles on the ears.

Kira is jumping right into coloring and thankfully Max approved of the transition from magic markers back to Kira-friendly crayons.

"I drew the Earf!"

When it rain, it splashes!

Puddle jumping in galoshes and snow boots

Max loves group hugs and it appears that Kira does, too!

Sleeping beauty

...went in to close the window and it took a lot of will power to not scoop her up and eat her!

Explaining his newest Ninja Turtle family illustration

This girl will go from eyes closed in bed to out the door, with a waffle in hand, in under three minutes.

Half of the time when this one wakes up he requires an exorcism, a show, several outfit choices, and a perfectly toasted waffle with accompanying bag of "sauce" (syrup).

Max loves Sky Walker

Peek a boo!

Max said this is "Sky Walker".  Later on he wrote "Max loves Sky Walker" across the top of the page.  It really just said "Max" with some random scribbles, however he did a superior job tracing his mask.

Caterpillar hunter

Happy Monday!

5 isn't a crowd!  Let's look for more caterpillars! All afternoon!  Max kept finding different size caterpillars and saying that the small ones are babies, the big ones are daddies, and one on the deck looks like Simba (a lion).

Thank goodness for yogurt!

Kira is strictly observing Passover- just matzoh and yogurt for dinner.

What does a girl have to do to get a wagon ride?

Belated Seder

Another early morning snuggle session brought to you by Max and Kira [and Kira's favorite vest].

We hit the playground bright and early today.  Kira does not want to leave Max's side.

Max has been searching high and low for a caterpillar to call his very own and today he found one!  By the end of the day he had 5.  Unfortunately these may be the kind that  turn into moths, not butterflies.  Fortunately, Max does not want them to turn into anything, as he wants them to remain jarred for life in our house.

"I don't want it to have ANY name!"

It was a gorgeous afternoon!

Kira walked laps around the neighborhood. 

We had our Seder a few days late

Found it!

Jumping for joy

Behind every 8:00am weekend wake up are 100 5:00am wake ups

Leave them alone for a minute...

Kira was jumping for joy at Emma's birthday party while Max played with the dollhouse.

Ninja Turtle drawing for a change