Never a dull moment around here

A few weeks ago, we went to lunch with Jan (a.k.a. Honey). The children asked me where we were going. I said, "Roly Poly." Dean got all upset in the car and said, "Gross! Mama, I don't eat bugs!"

Honey took Dean and Anna Grace to get new shoes. They both love them but Dean is particularly proud of his. He could not wait to show them to Neal. He said, "Daddy! Look at my new shoes." Neal said, "Man, those are awesome!" Dean walked off looking at his shoes and said, "Yeah, my shoes are awesome." He runs around now talking about his "cool" shoes.

Here are Anna Grace's new cool shoes too..."strawberry shoes" is what she calls them.

Dean may have moved on from his new shoe obsession because the morning after his birthday he asked me when he was going to get to wear his new "Mater the Greater" pjs again. I assured him he would be able to wear them again that very night.

Anna Grace has been taking exceptionally good care of her babies lately. One of them in particular sleeps a lot...in our laundry basket. It is no longer safe to dump the clothes in the machine without a careful doll search first!

Most recently this is how I found her.


Anna Grace served her dolls tea one afternoon.

And finally a few weeks back Dean went to our trusted barber shop (Neal started going there when he was about 15) and got his first real haircut. I went with him for fear they would cut it the same way they cut Neal's (not that there is anything wrong with that or with Neal's haircut but I was not ready for such a big boy cut). He got a John-John cut and he looks very handsome. All it took was a well-equipped, experienced barber and a few dum-dums. And just for the record, I should not have been nervous.

As for Caleb, well, walking is its own post and if there is a remote control, cell phone or sippy cup within his reach he is claiming it. While we have none of this caught on camera, Neal did ask why we had the last 5 minutes of All My Children recorded the other day. One word...Caleb!