Cellular oddities

Shots of our wacky life as seen through the cruddy lens of my crappy cell phone:

1.  Baby Megan came over to visit (and brought along her mom, Melissa, and big sister, Madison).  My arms were the crib of choice that afternoon.  I took this photo to send to Alicia to make her jealous.

2.  It turned out, however, that Rocky was the one who got jealous.

3.  Charlie Jo LOVES to do "homework", so I dug out an activity book I had bought her ages ago just to scribble in because Dora was in it.  Here, she was working hard coloring each shape a particular color.

4.  We still mostly have temperatures in the 60s and even 70s right now, but a few weeks ago we actually had to wear jackets outside.  One of the kids' favorite games is to race between the two trees in our front yard.  There is no particular purpose other than to touch the tree trunk and shriek "I WIN!"

5.  "I WIN!!!!"

6.  A very special little girl named Evelyn came to visit us last week.  Her mom, Kate, also came along.  Evelyn just couldn't be bothered to wake up so I could hold her, so we're going to have to get together again soon.

7.  Peter loves the dog statue at the vet's office.  When we picked up Connie from being boarded over the weekend, he decided to ride the statue like a horse while yelling "NONNIE FOO FOO!  NONNIE FOO FOO!"  (That is Peter speak for "CONNIE DOG!  CONNIE DOG!")

8.  Our garage door opener inexplicably died a few days ago.  Corey decided to install the new one himself.  I was way too scared to do anything but watch and hold stuff when I needed to.  He's going to finish the job tonight, so cross your fingers.

9.  We needed to buy food for all of the animals, so I packed up the kids and told them we were going to a sort of zoo.  They thought the PetsMart fish section was just as good as a fancy aquarium, and we spend a good 15 minutes mesmerized by the fish.  Peter, of course, was shrieking "HI FISH!  FISH!  FISH FISH FISH!!!"  Why does everything need to be shrieked?  Anyhow, I would really love to beg PetsMart not to have their cheapie goldfish down low with open tops on the tanks.  Peter does not yet possess the self control to refrain from petting the fishies so I had to watch him like a hawk.