Ben loves school but complains that he doesn't get enough time to play at home. He really doesn't have more than a couple of hours each day (what happens when he starts getting homework??) so we try to make the most of them. We've had some really beautiful evenings lately, a little taste of fall, and Ben has loved riding his bike around. This is the park-to-be, just behind our house and two lots down. Can't wait to play here when it's all finished! And those are NOT clouds in the background - that is smoke coming from last week's wildfire in Magnolia, about 60 miles from here. Even from that distance we still got ash falling here and could smell the smoke. Thank goodness it's finally under control and we even got some rain to hopefully put it out completely.
The boys both go to swim lessons after school one day a week and they're both doing really well. The difference between May and today is incredible. But sometimes I wonder how they learn anything when they're constantly playing with each other over the ropes.
Matt got invited to a duck hunt last weekend and came home with four teal. Our boys were pretty interested in the loot, but our neighbor Thurman was even more excited.
No, they're not toys but these boys didn't seem to mind! Thurman's parents are not hunters so hopefully we didn't do any damage to our neighborly relations by exposing him to dead animals in our garage. No matter what, they sure tasted good!
I wouldn't be a good mom unless I had at least a few blackmail pictures of my kids, right? This one isn't too bad...Alex wanted to borrow Ben's glasses, only his head is a tiny bit bigger so they don't exactly fit.
This one has me almost in tears every time I look at it! Putting it in his senior yearbook for sure. As long as all his business is going in the potty, I really don't care what he's doing in there. Life is so wonderful without diapers :) I think I can actually downsize my purse again.
Poor Ben picked up some kind of stomach bug yesterday and spent the entire morning throwing up. Amazingly, it's the first time our kids have really had something like that so we considered ourselves very fortunate and were happy to see he perked right up after a nap on the couch. I still kept him home from school today just to be considerate to the other kids but we're enjoying a little "Ben holiday" together.
First order of business - dig out the rain coats and boots and enjoy the morning's rain! I bought these coats over a year ago and they've been worn just a handful of times. That is how much rain we've seen over the past couple of years. A record breaking 18-month dry spell in Perth (which usually has very dry summers anyway) and then this historic drought in Texas. I never thought I'd be so excited to hear thunder.
Now we're just enjoying a quiet afternoon together and then a visit to Ben's ophthalmologist. He's scheduled to have surgery to correct his lazy eye on Wednesday so please say a prayer for our little guy!
Good luck on the surgery, Matt told Dirk. Also, you go from extremes, Singapore, rain every day to Perth and Texas. Miss you, things are going better now :) If you ask me, if you ask Dirk, no.
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