This Weekend

 Mitch and the big boys took a trip to Walmart to buy groceries (I know, I know, Walmart is horrible, but the fact remains that they cost about half the supermarket price, so you know...) and they returned with this huge fourteen foot trampoline. I guess Daddy thought that the boys deserved their share of the tax refund too :)

They LOVE it, and I have to admit that I kind of love it too. My kids haven't left the backyard in days, and I haven't been worried about where they are or what they're doing when they run off to their neighborhood friends' houses. Granted, all those kids have been practically living in our backyard too, but that's fine by me :)

It didn't take long for them to put their gymnastics training to good use! These guys are crazy for flipping!

Don't worry, it has a fantastic safety net enclosure :)

All of the rain we had this year, followed by a good stretch of 80 degree days looks like it did great things for our garden. We have loads of little apricots on our little tree!

This little guy has been wrapped against my chest for the better part of the week. He's having a really rough time teething, though he's been a bit better these past two days. It seems like the only thing he wants is for ME to hold him and snuggle him, so I'm glad that I can wrap him up and still keep my hands free for the other guys. (Excuse my "I took a fast shower and then quickly wrapped the crying baby right back up" look. You can't see it, but I'm totally rockin' a scrunchie in my wet hair. I'm bringing back 1994 lol).

Poor little guy will chew on anything he can get in his mouth right now, wrap straps included!

He finally found something that made him happy - gnawing on cold watermelon! He still doesn't really want to eat baby food yet (he rarely opens his mouth for the spoon, and most of the baby food still makes him gag too much), but he looked like he was in Heaven with that watermelon. I might need to make a watermelon puree and see if he's willing to eat that!