Isabele and the Costume Jewelry

Rats.  I don't know how to make the photps show up right side up.  Guess you'll just have to turn your head. 

Titus Riding at the BMX Track in May

We haven't been in about 6 weeks or so...it's been too hot to make him wear all the safety gear.  He can ride the entire track without help. 

Face Paint

Here's Isabele displaying a couple of paintings.  Washable crayola paint and cold cream.  My newest attempt, which I neglected to photograph, but my favorite method so far, is to put cold cream on their faces where I'm going to paint, then just use the washable crayola poster paint straight.  It dries better this way, so long as it's not too humid.  Still washes off great with warm water and a washrag.

I must have lost the pictures of the first ones I did when the computer crashed.  Guess I should blog more often.

Trains!!!

Titus and Isabele got to drive a co-workers electric train the other day.  They had done so about 2 years ago, and Titus asked the other day if he could do it again.  Here are a few pictures of their adventure. 

I Flunked Vegetable Gardening This Year

I flunked.  All I wanted was fresh tomatoes in August and Pumpkins for the kids to carve.  All of my pumpkin plants ended up being Zucchini.  Except 1.  Finally I got what I'm pretty sure is a pumpkin (unless it's watermelon).  I was weeding and found one.  Yeah!  10 feet away, I cut part of a vine...who knows what it was...with my bad luck, I figured it was the strange squash plant that took over, so I whacked off 8 feet of it and hauled out of the back of the garden.  Only, when I got it to the driveway, I found a small pumpkin was attached.  ERRRR!!!!  So much for having 2.  Guess I'm going to be buying pumpkins this year. 
I also planted some birdhouse gourd seeds in the spring.  So, this random, strange squash plant, must be the birdhouse gourd, right?  Well, since I forgot I planted them for a while, sure - that must be it.  WRONG!  It's butternut squash.  Good old compost.  I did NOT plant butternut squash.  I don't particularly like them.  If I was going to plant a winter squash, it would be acorn squash, not butternut.  Oh well.  Better luck next year.

She's a two-wheeler rider!!

Isabele can ride the "green bike" now.  She needs some more practice, but she's figured it out.  A little iffy on breaking and steering isn't overly accurate, but she's official :-)  Hopefully self-sufficient in a couple more days and I'll get some pictures.

New camera!

I just got a new camera that does video!  I asked for it for Valentines Day, but got it a little early as we have a birthday party for Titus tomorrow.  Isabele is a bit of a performer (Titus not so much so, so far).  So, here's a clip of her singing. (If I can get it to work).

I'm hoping these aren't too big (okay they are the smallest size I think I can make them).  If they don't work for you, please leave me a message so I can see if I can figure out how to fix it.