baskets, buckets, cupboards and more!

Gabby loves to paint. We got new paints and a table cloth that we can put on the floor, sometimes it is just easier than up at the table. Pants are not required for painting, less clothing to get dirty.

Our new bucket, it has been used to hid under, to drum on, pull the kids down the hallway, toy basket, and to roll Gabby around in! Notice E's new hat, I am trying to get him to wear one to protect his head from the sun and he actually keeps it on- backwards only tho!

What have we been up to the past week? Well last week we tried to think of things to do when it gets 94* outside, you can't spend all day inside because it is too nice outside- and your a/c isn't working! We have been thinking up new ways to have fun, and truthfully we have been having a blast. I bought fans when I realized our air conditioning was causing the house to go up a degree when you turned it on- one night we slept at a sticky 85* ugggg. Called the property managers, they sent out a guy and he fixed it pronto!

The biggest news of the week is that we signed up for a Community Supported Agriculture. We picked up our very first basket of produce on Friday and were a little iffy on the contents but am still optimistic on what the next 21 weeks will have in their baskets. We should get things like melons, beans, apples, pumpkins, apple cider, okra, beets. This week we got: carrots (old, the core is very large and hard), strawberries (used for pancakes and then today's experimental orange strawberry bars- a take on lemon squares), asparagus (roasted for dinner tonight) and a bag of what I first thought was maybe spinach but after talking with my mother think it may be swiss chard (still need to use it).

This is the kids watching Clayton mow the lawn! Exciting day, the garbage truck came too!

Elliot has become a climber, he climbs everything! The couch he mastered and now hops up on it and back off of it like it is no big deal. The ottoman is another thing, we use it to block the tv cabinet that he has figured out how to open- so now he climbs both (there is a TINY ledge on the cabinet door, or he uses a box of diaper wipes for a boost), I found him in the computer chair today with a smug grin, and the stool Gabby uses to help bake is a new obstacle for him to conquer!

The only cupboard without a child lock in the kitchen is the one we throw tupperware and sippy cups in. It's a double edged sword to me, Elliot pulls out everything in it a minimum of 6 times a day- however if he is happy playing with it I can cook or clean up the kitchen. He does drag cups all over the house, and I have found a few lids to the tupperware in the play room lately. Clayton wants to put a lock on it b/c we are both tired of picking up the contents of it so many times a day, I am hanging on to the fact that it keeps him occupied!

This was our dance party tonight, we were dancing to Tracy Chapman!