I Hope He Never Loses His Spirit

Today we were in the car and I said to the kids "look at the sunset." Boy Wonder replies "It sure is a beauty."

August? Really?

I knew it had been awhile, but was August really the last time I updated the blog?! Wow. In short, our lower level of our house (aka were we spend most of our time) was washed out in a storm and we couldn't use it for a month and half and poor Wonder kids had to share a room, Papa and I celebrated our 10 year wedding anniversary in Spain, Italy and (almost France-damn you wicked French winds), the kids went on a "Wisconsin vacation," Boy Wonder started preschool and loves it, and Girl Wonder is talking like crazy and learning new things everyday.

And that is us in a nut shell. What have you been up to?

Apparently We Have New Names

Boy Wonder has taken it upon himself to rename us.

Boy Wonder = Hunk
Mama Wonder = Punk
Papa Wonder = Junk

Girl Wonder does not currently have a new name, but I am fairly certain he is trying to think of something that rhymes with ours.

The funniest part was that he kept calling Papa "Junk" as in "Can I please have some water, Junk?"

Seriously, where does he get this stuff?!

Awww....

Tonight I told Girl Wonder "I love you." And do you know what she said?!

She said "wauv ou." Then she walked up to Boy Wonder and said "wauv ou" and gave him a kiss.

What Not to Wear

This morning was our customary send off. I gave Boy Wonder a kiss goodbye, told him that I hope he has a great day and I will miss him all day long. He looks at me with those beautiful blue eyes and says “Is that a man’s suit?”

It Involved Lots of Bribes, a Threat of Jail Time, and some Oxy Clean

From the quick glimpse that I got on the camera, it looked like the pictures turned out really cute. Hopefully we will be able to get them in the next few weeks, and I will post some for you to enjoy, because of course you want to see them, and of course since the kids are impossibly cute you will enjoy them.

All in all, the night was a lot of "Girl Wonder look here...Boy Wonder look at the camera...Girl Wonder can you sit down next to your brother?...Papa be ready to take the picture...Mama do you do professional modeling...Boy Wonder please don't tackle your sister anymore." Of course as soon as we got to the park there was an ice cream truck, which is all Boy Wonder could think about. And of course the ice cream truck drove by in the middle of pictures which resulted in a few minutes of the ugly cry, and many promises that we can go and get ice cream from anywhere he wanted. It also involved giving him a dollar, and frankly I would have promised him a pony to cooperate.

As we were getting near the end of our session, a few "kids" started playing in one of the fountains, and of course Boy Wonder wanted to join in the fun. After several attempts at reasoning that he could not stripe down into his underwear to play in fountain, he was still convinced I that I am trying to ruin his life and prevent him from having any fun at all. So I told him that those boys could go to jail for doing that and did he want to go to jail?! He said he didn't and decided that it was best to get some ice cream on the way home and watch a concert that the Lake Harriett band shell. Of course now his white shirt is soaking in Oxy Clean in an attempt to get the chocolate ice cream out.

All of this in the of family pictures.

Coming Soon

Family pictures. Tomorrow we have our annual date with the most fantastic photographer to have our family pictures taken.

Wish us luck... We tend to have someone in the family who takes pictures like Chandler from friends.