Summer fun

Wow.  Hello June and goodbye June.  I knew that this month would be busy considering I'd be away for a week at school, but this month has really flown.  Hubby T is keeping himself pretty busy so I'm trying to come up with creative ways to fill the days and keep the boys from tearing the house apart while we wait for it to sell.  (Status update, in case you're wondering: one month on the market, two bites but nothing has worked out yet.)  

Painting with Baby P is infinitely easier in the bath tub.  I squirt little piles of paint into their hands and let them go to town.  As long as the paint stays in the tub, we're all happy campers!

Why eat breakfast inside when you can eat it outside with the flowers?!  After I took this picture he probably started asking to "water plants?"  He is obsessed with watering...

Let's play dress up!  With beach towels!  And old Halloween costumes!

And again we ask, why eat inside when we can eat outside?!  We even bring the computer out for a little ambiance music (i.e. Toddler radio on Pandora).

And of course there's our favorite old stand-by: CW.  Yesterday Baby P and I were walking around and stumbled across a sheep being sheared!  I love when I can show my kids things that they read about in books but don't often see in real life.  This was especially poignant for me because four years ago or so, shortly after I first started taking care of Baby D, we saw a sheep being sheared and I remember thinking it was a shame the boys were too young to understand or appreciate what they were watching.  I haven't seen it again since then so when we came across this yesterday, it felt like I'd come full circle.  The sheep shearer also told us that this particular sheep was actually only in CW for "summer camp" and belongs to a museum/farm up in Delaware.  Maybe we'll come across him again in our wanderings once we've moved!

We've had plenty of trips to the beach thrown in there, the library's summer reading program, and time on the "pad" at whatever strategically allocated points in time when I need the boys occupied.  And oh yes, Baby P turned 2!  I finished work for one school course this morning and the other will be done by early next week, which is great because next week brings family playtime!  I'm infinitely grateful for all the ways that our family and friends and opportunities to play are filling our days as we live in this time of waiting.    Happy summer!