Photo Dump

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I have a giant photo dump today…

Josy wasn’t feeling the best, so Pat and the other two skipped church to go skiing and he and I skipped church to make sure that he was feeling okay. So we went out and got coffee and then came home, sat in the floor and watched Bluey. Josy’s version of a perfect date.



Poor Freddy is going to get loved to death…



We made Ukrainian food, in honor of what’s going on over there right now. Gabe was in charge of pounding down the chicken breasts.



Now that it’s light again, it was time to take down the Christmas lights, so the boys turned into Christmas trees. One of them was more excited about it than the other one.





We found the cat tie that we’d gotten Max year’s ago, so clearly Freddy needed to try it. It makes him look so fancy!



The boys pulled out their bikes. Josy is now quite convinced that he needs a pedal bike just like Gabe.


I feel like that’s a pretty cold place to read…



Josy loves sitting in Chambers!



Such a little gentleman.



Every morning they have to watch Daddy’s truck drive away on the neighbor street.



I don’t have words for this.



It doesn’t matter how many times we talk about not sticking your finger in holes, it still happens. Regular. Today’s episode involved sticking his finger in Bella’s fishes lid. I literally had to cut it off of his finger. Also, Gabe got Bella a new fish for her birthday.



We were in my office and he asked me for water. I assumed that he would go at the water dispenser. Nope. He went and got the mostly empty jug instead.





More bike time!



Gabe wanted to play baseball, which is great. But then Josy wanted to too. And I have no idea what he was thinking, but it was so cute watching Josy try and play baseball because he would twist his body in a funny way and make ridiculous faces in order to get ready for me to pitch. He would try and pitch to Gabe, picking his foot up multiple times in his windup. It was adorable!! I hope that he gets super into baseball just because it will be great fun to show these videos at his high school senior banquet.






A pacific sleeper shark carcass washed up on shore, so naturally we had to go see it.



And that’s enough for one day. Life around here has been crazy…

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