July Photos

Anthony's new position... He doesn't even know he crosses his fingers... but he will eat like this... pick up food with crossed fingers and his thumb! So funny...


"Helping" daddy lay block.

The blocks weigh more than he does! heehee but he sure tried! You should hear the faker grunting and growning, when he "tries" to pick these up... it is hilarious... it is so dramatic!

Alex was trying to "ear" up blocks for daddy.





Anthony rarely sleeps under his blankets!

He took a nap on our bed one day... i guess he got tired of watching a video...

The boys like to play on the lawn mower... we hardly used it all July... we had no rain for the whole month! see the brown grass?


We took a mini vacation for the weekend to Manistee with our friends the Hubbles. They have a little cabin and a boat up there so we took the motor-home up and had a most wonderful time with them! This was on the ride up...

Too tired to read anymore books...

Anthony on the boat! Smiling, of course...
Goofing around in the motohome...

Anthony has been using the potty since we came home from Kaz for number two... but has never used the m-h potty... he just looks so cute!!!

Packing up the quads at the end of the trip! We went riding in Baldwin National Forest...Well... some of us did... the kids can't ride... you know, so they got little rides around the parking lot on Alex's battery quad.

Sunday afternoon we went mini-golfing... it was Anthony's first time... He was a maniac... you had to stay away from him.

Alex was one too, come to think of it... But they had a blast "playing" like us adults!



At the end we decided to get ice cream... naturally Alex picked the blue stuff... ugh!!! He loved it... he'd never had it before.


Only July 29 we celebrated Anthony's one year Adoption day! We really didn't do anything too grand, just played a lot and mommy tried a photo shoot...








Playing before bed... Alex likes to sleep just in a shirt (and undies) lately... thus... no pants.

Just cuteness.








The gardens in July... the weather was cool and dry all of July... so while we can remedy the dryness... we couldn't really make it warmer... so things just grew slowly. Which was a bummer.
But we have potatoes!
and beets...
and baby birds! down in the potatoes! i discovered them one day when i was watering... i heard all this peeping... i was dousing them with the hose! poor little guys! they were so tiny! and were gone in a couple weeks! They grow up so fast!
When i put my finger near them their little mouths popped open and all kinds of racket same out!
more beets...
This beet is a special beet! It is a seed i brought home from Kaz. I have to say that the germination rate of the Kaz seeds was terrible! i don't know how they can even get a decent garden!

We had problems with the raccoons for a while!!! Pesky things!!! They would completely dig up the carrot section literally every night!!!! i was so mad! I was ready to kill them... and then they just stopped. but they had already destroyed my 13 little rows of carrots. They also dug up the peppers a couple of times... but i put the cold frame over them to protect them, but it definitely seems to have stunted their growth! So annoying.