Lockdown

Lock all the doors! Bar all the windows! The baby has escaped! Nothing is safe now that the baby can open the screen doors by herself. (And what's with the big 'ol boy shoes?)

The Brittens are coming!

Michael, Thomas, Caroline, Aunt Laura, and Leah

Grad. pictures

My Gramma Grell, my Mom, my Aunt Connie, my Aunt Eunice and of course, my Dad!

Congrats, Caleb!

Caleb is graduating and off to the Air Force in July. My how the years have flown.

Alexis took this picture of me, Caleb and Emily. Good job, Lex!

All 4 of my children in one place

Doesn't happen very often. We were at my nephew Caleb's graduation on Sunday in Iowa City. It's so hard to get pictures of them together because someone is always floating off somewhere else. But here they are. All the padawans. Together. They are even mostly happy. Exept for Leah, who smiled for the first three pictures when Trey had his head through the chains. (Sigh)

Secret Reading Club

Alexis has read all the Magic Treehouse Books that are out (35 I think). Now she is reading them to Trey. This morning she was reading #5 to him in his bed.

Yesterday, I found this note taped to the wall by her bed.

1. Get up in the middle of the night

2. Wake Trey up

3. Get the books

4. Get the fashlight

5. Get number four

6. Read it to Trey for a little wilele

7. Then go back to bed

Which may explain why, last weekend when I slept on the couch due to heartburn, I heard this at 4:30 in the morning.

"Trey....TREY!" (lots of rustling around)

Me: Alexis, what are you doing in there?

(nothing)

Foiled again!

Some days they are best friends...

...some days they are not. But every day they are so imaginative together. A couple years ago, they started playing baby and mom. Or baby and dad. Depending on what kind of mood Lexi was in. Then they started playing Dave and Leisha.

Lexi: You be Dave and I'll be Leisha okay? You call me honey and when you walk in the door say Honey, I'm home!

Trey:OK!

(Trey never got the funniest part that his name really is David)

Then they moved on. Lexi was the mom and Trey was Grandma and Grandpa.

I cracked up when they started playing Harry and Char. Trey didn't have the foggiest idea who that was (grandpa and grandma) but he played right along.

Then it was Garrett and Ande. (Friends of ours)

Yesterday, Lexi was the queen and Trey was the knight. She told Trey to follow her around and do everything she said. Of course, he complied. I heard her in the kitchen saying Trey, let's have crackers for snack. He was like No I want something else. But she really wanted the crackers so Trey said, Well, okay, you are the queen.

Today, it was King and Queen. I saw her in the yard with a blanket around her neck like a robe and she was telling Trey to take her by the arm and lead her slowly around the house like they were in a royal procession. They did. For a long time. Just walked around and around very slowly. In fact they walked the entire way to the library with me, connected like that. I walked on the opposite side of the street, pretending they were someone else's children.