Father's Day excitement

Father's Day started out well with Daddy playing golf with Grandpa Steve.  The real excitement was this evening when we got home.  Nora fell asleep in the car on the way home from Mama and Papa's house, so we came up with a plan of action to get her quickly to bed.  I used Ben's keys to open the door and prepare her bottle while Ben got her changed.  We got her to bed in record time!  It was such a pleasant night that Ben, Alena, and I were outside playing around.  It was getting pretty late and Alena had to use the bathroom, so Ben went to open the door.  Locked!  This is not the first time our door knob locked itself.  No problem, use the spare key.  Oh, yeah, that is locked inside the car, and the car keys are in the house.  We went around the house looking for a window that we forgot to lock.  Our house was locked up tight. We aren't cool enough to have smart phones, but I do keep a phone book in my car (which was not locked). Ben called the locksmith.  He said it was $70 for a house and $50 for a car and he could be there in under a half hour.  I threw a minor fit, Alena declared that she would sleep outside, and Ben continued looking for a window to open.  But the locksmith made it in under 10 minutes.  He laughed when we said the car keys were in the house and the house keys were in the car.  When he was opening the door with his air pressure cuff he said it was tight and we could drive it into a lake and it wouldn't leak.  Good news, I guess.  He had it open in no time, the car alarm sounded, and Ben grabbed the house keys and sprinted to the door so he could get the car keys to silence it.  Alena finally learned how to break into a car!  Nora slept through all of the excitement, fortunately.  How could you ask for a more fun day, right?  Thanks Fred's Lock and Key!

As Aunt Julianne can attest, don't count on getting a good picture of these two.  It is really a matter of settling for not super terrible.  This is the picture we put in a frame that Alena and Nora decorated for Daddy.

 

 

 

Beginning of June

June has started off with a bang.  Alena had hand foot and mouth disease which knocked her out for several days, then Nora got it which included the most disgusting looking blister on her sucking thumb.  Other than that she wasn't really bothered by it.  Now I am running a fever.  June has not been kind to our health so far.  But we have gotten some good playing in.

Nora loves playing with blocks.  She is getting good at stacking the square legos.  After she makes a little tower, she takes it apart and puts it right back together again.  She always makes this face when she is stacking.  This is Rapunzel's tower that the girls (and Daddy) were working on.  Alena is a pretty good sport about letting Nora help as Nora usually ends up destroying the tower eventually.

I came home sick from work to this scene.  The first dip of the season.