Foster Lake

 For Family Home Evening, we took the crew to play at the lake. It's deserted now that school has started up again.

 Serious business digging up rocks to fling.

 Love this doctor guy.

 My little serious woodsman.

 Still serious, and yes in another outfit of necessity and it had only been 40 minutes since the last blow out...

 Cooling down with Star Wars after the wild girls have gone to bed. This is the most effective treatment for his colic that we've been able to find.

Two Month Smiley Guy

Back to School

 Claire is in 1st grade now, Sophie is doing one more year of preschool and Eloise wants to be just like them.

 This "little" fellow is now wearing 6-9 months clothes even though he just turned 2 months. What a tank! He can laugh a little and scootch only to the right. He smiles back at people and makes a click pop noise to get people to look at him. He loves anything red and especially loves attention from his sisters. He often sleeps through the night. We call him Fritzicus, Little Guy and Sweet Man.

Happy 6th Birthday Claire!

 Claire asked for a Safari Party after seeing a nasty WalMart cake that she fell in love with. I tried to get that cake but I dropped the pass and was too late. This was my 11pm gambit last night sans Pinterest. The eyes were an edible Wilton cakes product. Pretty cool! It's supposed to be tigers, lions and a special zebra just for Claire. There are 6 zebra candles jammed in that baby too.

 I used peacock duct tape to make our "watering hole" beautiful.

 Our friends the Parry Family let us use their yard and we brought our new bounce house, which was the present for all the kids during birthday season this year from Grandma Kay.

 Sophie had her tonsils out last week and she's already bounced--literally (don't tell the doc!).

 Claire's favorite snacks = pretzels, cheese and cornichons.

 Happily collecting candles.

 Did I mention there was cheese at this party?

 Pretty Weeza.

 Frtiz rode out the party in a wrap. It's crazy hot this summer so I'm glad I made it out of light linen.

 I was there too. Daddy is doing a pediatrics rotation.

 The neighbor boy offered to do a magic show for the party, after which we "hunted" for animal toys in the yard and ran around yelling.

 My lovely friend Liz--this is her yard.

 Eloise got a chance to bounce without big kids.

 Getting away with something.

 Claire's trophy.

 Present frenzy.