Monday: forks

I found out yesterday that not everyone cuts their meat like I do.  I stab the meat with my fork and then put my knife through the tines to cut it.  Everyone else at the table stabs the meat and then cuts parallel to the tines.

We found this out because I had a three-tined fork and couldn't put my knife through the middle hole.  I felt off balance.

Anyway,  I put a poll on the side.  How do you cut your meat?

Sunday: Happy Father's Day!

After church we went on a boat ride for lunch.  It was delicious.

Isaac is really starting to like Flurry.  Flurry is still tolerant of Isaac.

For Father's Day, Isaac took a wonderful nap for Ben while Ben was on-duty.  (I was taking a nap.)  Isaac started screaming once, so Ben put the pacifier back in.  I didn't hear a thing.  It was awesome.  I hate being woken up from my naps to put the paci back in.

Saturday: a wedding

Today we went to a wedding for Ben's cousin.  It was beautiful and fun.

We also fixed the sprinklers with the help of Larry and Cheryl.  It was neither beautiful nor fun, but their help was much appreciated as several of the heads were buried and/or needed to be replaced.

Friday: 24 weeks

Today Jacob and Ashlyn spent some time with us.  Isaac really enjoyed playing with them, especially since it meant he got to watch a video game for a little bit.

And we have some 24 week pictures!  I played around with some of the camera settings and could easily see that some were better than others, but now I don't know which are which.  Maybe next week I'll write down what they are.

We also had some pictures taken of the immediate family taken.  The two smallest kids were doing ok until the last picture of just the grandchildren.  They were both done by then.  We'll probably end up with one or two decent shots thanks to Photoshop, but we had to work hard for them.  :)

Thursday: salad

Today we ate a salad from lettuce we grew ourselves!  It was another first for me.

The lettuce

The pickers

The salad spinner

The baby and a pile of greens.

(The picture is really blurry, but I thought it was a clever play on "a pile of baby greens."  But now I'm not so sure that's a phrase.  Maybe that makes it funnier.)

Wednesday: Roar

Isaac was having a rather happy day; he was laughing more easily than normal.  Then I read a book to him and it kept saying "shhh, listen for the lion."  So I was reading it rather quickly.  Then ROAR!!  I scared him so much he started crying.  It took him a while to settle back down.

Oops.

Tuesday: why I felt like a bad person

Today I felt like a bad person because I was pulling out flowers with no reason other than I didn't want them.

Only bad people don't want flowers, right?  Good people want flowers.  So I gave five bushes a probationary period.

It isn't looking to good for them as I proceeded to sit in the hot sun for the next 10 minutes and try to get grass out of the middle of them.