The Weekend the House Fell Apart

Labor Day weekend!  A nice little chance to go out of town to Raleigh for a long weekend.  Unfortunately halfway through we got a call from our neighbors who came in to feed Marley and found the ceiling in the kitchen pouring rain :(

It was a fun few days in Cary though before the trip was cut short...

First Day of School 2014

This handsome guy started his last year at pre-school before Kindergarten next year!  Big man on campus this year.

Other August Fun

It has been an absolutely beautiful August... hardly a hot day at all.  And we were unusually not busy so we had lots of fun at-home play time this month.  Charlie's August was pretty chill.  After doing a slew of small camps earlier in the summer we let him stay home most of August.  I didn't take many pictures but below are a few...

Hurricane K strikes again (Daddy locked up all of the cupboard shortly after this and many moments like it)...

Some Sunday AM hoops...

Continuing to work on all the Lego sets from his birthday.  This one is a dinosaur!

Walking her doggie.  K loves doggies...

Water table fun!

Putting his baseball cards on a pretend "field" by position...

Getting really good w/ her utensils...

We had a fun at-home day one Monday.  It was rainy and we were all chilly so we put on our hoodies and made Play-doh..

A funny series of pics on the front stairs...

Our friend Adam was in town and announced his team playing the Squirrels.  It was our first time at the ballpark this year and K's first time there.

Luckily our row was empty for her to explore.

Hanging w/ Adam

First corndog!

Hogging the popcorn

She is serious about the popcorn

High on corndog and popcorn (not normal staples of her diet)

Fun Sticks dinner on the porch afterwards

Mission accomplished...

Hand holding at Petsmart...

Chilling after a trip to the pool (looks like she is about to get clocked)...

Sleeping Beauty

Both kiddos are very sound sleepers.  Every once in awhile when I go to look in on them I snap an iPhone pic if they are in a particularly sweet position.  Because of her locks and very crowded bed, K has been giving me a lot of cute shots lately...

Chilling with her arms behind her head

Leg out the side

In a back cuddle with the doggie

Little crossed feet

Cuddling her doggie so sweet

Pears!

When we bought out house a year and a half ago, there was a nice little fruit tree orchard all along the side.  We were really excited to see it grow fruit each year but much to our disappointment year one, we had nothing and subsequently multiple trees died.  This year however (with the same lack of TLC) we had three pear trees make tons of pears!  We don't really like pears but it has been fun making pear sauce and having Ericka find all sorts of fun things to do with them (pear stuffing was the best).  We had fun picking them too...

Pears!