Simple summer joys

This week, as hubby makes time to join our eldest to raft down the Missouri River in a high adventure camp two states away, it is also my bonding time with the younger two kids!

I LOVE it when they play together nicely...

At the park...

These are our saner moments ;p!

At the movies on a rainy day...
My 8yo gave "Madagascar 3" four stars, while the non-stop action and music held my 3+yo's attention, as did that TUB of popcorn! Both kids became too full though for the chicken-corn soup I'd left to slowcook for dinner. Meimei finally did eat that bunny face I added some breakfast leftovers to -- turkey bacon for its ears and that eggwhite of a mouth!  

Then, staying up to play Othello with them, a game that harked back to my childhood, but still novel to them, I was not kidding when I said that kids have to learn to listen and follow rules, follow directions. 

The Tom-and-Jerry ways between (among) siblings, and their tears and tantrums, are really not easy, *SWEAT*! 

Let's keep going...

Another day, I didn't drive out, got to more housework and just took the kids for a walk. Summer joys include the sun setting later, and a bowlful of strawberries picked fresh from our little wild patch! :D