Magic Trick

Up the wall as Zane, down the slide as Lily

Ugly and Cute

What's ugly? This fruiting body of some type of fungus growing in my backyard. Disgusting huh?

What's cute? Lily after she has eaten a popsicle.

She lights up when he's around.

A girl never forgets her first love. Her daddy.

Pictures from Pop and NeeNees visit

Got these lovely pictures in my email inbox!

Can you just see the $$$ signs in daddy's eyes?

ya, there's no family resemblance there or anything. Hawthorne genes run strong.

Feeding the fishies

Ok, so I'm in love with Lily's little voice. What can I say. I love it at 0:52 seconds where she says "ok, fishies, here you go!"

Bossy Lily

Today, a man walked into our favorite frozen yogurt shop and forgot to close the door. Lily didn't like that.

More Monkey action at the park

Top Chef

Lily insisted that she make dinner last night. She gathered up a plastic potato and a plastic chicken leg, wrapped them in foil and baked them in the oven. Much to her surprise, these items had not been selected at random. We all dined on baked potatoes topped with baked chicken. "I make it!" was exclaimed with pride.

Daddy's Birthday and Random Park Scenes!

The future golf pro

Zane hitting around some real golf balls with Daddy

How do I know it's Autumn?

The changing leaves?

The new artwork on the fridge?

Nope. This is how I know. Kids are gross man.

(THIS is how I picked him up from pre-school today. Really? are wipes on short supply?!?)

Time Magazine Interview

"Mompetition": Why You Just Can't Make Mom Friends

Whew, mommy's been busy

What toddlers do while mommy is busy on the phone.

(and why I love my Dyson)

What is on my phone? Video dump.

Old School "No Doubt"

Old Old School "Tone Loc"

Zane playing golf

Lily & Mommy watching Dora

(Life Lessons from "Lily vs. My Toe" at 1:14.)

How was your Sunday morning?

Stuff happenin'

Anne and I decided to ditch our kids and go to the State Fair of Texas this morning. Score 1 for mommy time! It was so nice to walk around and look at things instead of chasing after hyper preschoolers. We enjoyed corn dogs and funnel cakes. All to ourselves.

Now that all the fall flowers are in bloom in my garden...they are infested with bees. This is all great for nature and stuff but I happen to be allergic to bees...and they are everywhere swarming my yard.

Zane has "the look". This is his very obvious attempt at being sneaky. He's horrible at it. He's had this look since he was born. He tucks his lower lip in and makes his eyes wide. Then, I believe, he thinks he becomes invisible.

He slinks around thinking no one notices him.

Ya...I know this face. (6 wks old)

A surprise encounter!

We went to the park this gorgeous morning and the kids ran into Karla! They have not seen Karla for months because we have moved to a new school.

It was the sweetest thing. Karla walks up and Lily screams, "KARWA!!" and she screamed back "WIWEE!!" And then Zane tried to steal Karla's snack. It's how he says hello.

It's always great to run into an old friend

Embrace the camera Thursday: On Friday

I normally don't get on the computer until naptime (bc Z goes insane if he sees the computer on) but there was an email I needed to return.

While I was typing away, Lily grabbed my camera and took pictures of (what I will assume) are her two favorite subjects. Then she reminded me that we needed a "smile" together. I love that she calls pictures "smiles".

Oops! Mom forgot

EMBRACE THE CAMERA

yesterday. Is today really Friday?

So we got down on the floor and snapped a picture. Hope everyone has a great weekend!

It's like having a puppy

While I hate it when people say, to practice for a baby we got a puppy, somedays, having a boy child around IS like having a puppy.

Step 1: See naked child streaking through living room laughing wildly (who was previously clothed and diapered)

Step 2: Walk into his room to find this.

Step 3: Listen to daughter freak out yelling EWWWW! YUCKY!!!

Mama's little monkey