The Days After Grandma and A.M before Camp

Here are the boys right before summer camp.  As you can tell they are revving to go.  

On Sunday, Grandma Judith left after a 6-day stay and I have to say the day she left I cried my eyes out.  

The boys were quite sympathetic of my breakdown.  "M" empathetically said, "Mom, if you left I would cry too."  "X" expressed his condolences and later threw a penny in the wishing well the next day and wished for grandma to come back.  It's not often I realize how far we are from family and friends because when they leave I am astounded at the loneliness in the house.  I also can't believe how blessed we are to have such low-maintenance and charitable family members. 

Good thing, in a few weeks we will be expecting the baby and a slew of wonderful family/friend guests to greet the newest member of our family.  They also will be here to get the boys ready for school since I will be a little busy.  I am glad "E" seems to love my family as much as I do and just between me and my blog readers I think my family may, I repeat may like him better. 

I love his family and can't help but sometimes think..."Umm, what was I thinking moving so far away?"

Here are a few past photos of the boys.

I love this picture because their faces tell everything about their dispositions in the mornings and sometimes the afternoons and sometimes in the evenings and well you get the picture...

Last Summer

Here is a picture of the boys on Lake Michael last summer.  They have already been a number of times this summer and I will send more photos when I can get my pregnant body out there to snap a camera.

Watermelon Roots

Micah has lost 4 baby teeth to date all in quite traumatic ways.  Partly because he lets those teeth hang on to the very end and refuses to let anyone pull them.  

But today he did me proud--with one front tooth gone and the other well on its way he entered the watermelon eating contest at his summer camp.

He won!

That kid loves some watermelon. (Call it a reenforcement of a wide spread generalization but hey,  I couldn't help but slightly think that his 25% Black lineage had something to do with that win. )