Oh, what do you do in the summertime...

… when all the world is HOT?

Do you sit on Mommy's lap, 'cause you're super clingy?

 

Or jump on your dad for a ride?

Is that what you do? So do I. (says Ryan)

Notice Ryan yanking Jacob's hair as hard as he can with such delight on his face (and pain on Jacob's face).

We tried rag curls for Rachel last Sunday. They turned out really well, though I forgot to get pictures. Annie absolutely refused to do rag curls. After the 5th or so time she finally agreed to put ONE in her little ponytail.

Above Rachel and Annie and Jake are playing "Don't Eat Pete!" The girls absolutely LOVE that game. Mostly because they get to eat Trix for it (usually reserved for a Saturday breakfast treat), but also because they love getting scared when everyone yells "Don't eat Pete!"

This is one of Ryan's favorite cupboards--under the sink with the dishwasher detergent. The tot lock broke and we haven't gotten around to fixing it yet, so he happily climbs in and closes it on himself on occasion as a great hiding place (one of his favorite words is "hiding!" He loves playing peek-a-boo, or hide and seek. And if you say something about Rachel or Annie or Daddy hiding he immediately says "hiding!" and runs starts looking around for them). 

 

So lately with our back yard getting slowly fixed up (with lots of messy sand in the meantime), and the crazy humidity that comes with monsoon season, which is only beneficial if it actually causes rain on OUR house (which it hasn't for the last week--lots of sticky heat, but the rain has been skipping our house, sadly), we have been spending most of our time indoors. And Grandma and Grandpa Knight's A/C went out just a few days after we got our new A/C unit for the upstairs. The part took a couple days to come in, so after a miserably hot night, Grandma came to sleep at our house for the second night. The girls were happy to have her. And she was happy to join us for our Sunday evening tradition: scoops. We all get 3 scoops of ice cream, unless of course someone was not reverent in sacrament meeting, then they may only get 2 or 1 (or even occasionally none) scoops. Everyone enjoyed scoops with Grandma, though, because she shares her ice cream.

 

 

 

This is probably Ryan's last picture of eating real ice cream for a good long time. Poor guy has to say good-bye to dairy. But that's a whole other post...