Morning Snugglers

Perhaps the only time of day that the monkeys actually sit still. And are quiet as of late. And look adorable.

If only the adorable time occurred more than once a day or perhaps not AT 6 am everyday.  Ahhh well. Take what you can get I suppose.


And here is Molly, the exchange cat, being posed with:

Because a little exchange cat fun helps the day go by?

Fourth Of July

The Fourth of July is Abbys favorite holiday is a lot of aspects.  It's been one of our longest standing "nontraditional" holidays that we celebrate. We stay up late. We have been going to our friend's house (Thanks Friend!!) for the last several years. They have a barbecue, fireworks, cookies, chips, a kiddie pool, some of her best friends. For a little kid - how can it get better? This year, we let her play with sparklers. They both reached the magical age of 5 (which we deemed the age of sparklers for our since they tend to be uncoordinated..) and were allowed to have the delight of swirling light bits of magic about. Now, we shall just pretend that Mattie didn't almost burn some other kid's behind, nor shall we mention Abby kept trying to catch her OWN hair on fire.. BUT.. The magic of sparklers. AND someone brought a BABY to play with. Mind you, it was more of a toddler and not really brought for HER to play with. She'll never know the difference.

 Mattie waiting his turn.

 Abby with her sparkler!

Abby waiting her turn.

 Waiting for the BIG boys to make stuff go off.

Sparkler magic.