non-stop day of play

Whew! I'm exhausted!!! But these kids are so much fun. We've had another non-stop day of play and I was able to stop and capture a few moments of it:

(this was actually yesterday) They were playing whale rescuers in the pool. Kaiden and Connor were the rescuers and Randy, of course, was the whale!

Wild wolves were running about the house this morning. We also had a zoo built out of blocks for the wolves that got captured complete with a swimming hole for the babies.

Kaiden had the cool idea to make paper airplanes and have a flying contest. They folded, taped, cut, and colored until their planes were perfect and then: Ready. Set. FLY!!!! They flew down from the tree house.

We won't be watching Connor and Brian tomorrow so we have a tiny break. But we do have lots of family coming into town this weekend for Melissa's baby shower. We had a few cousins fly in this afternoon and they stopped by for a quick visit. Tomorrow we'll head to the Venice Beach with them, search for sharks teeth, and do some more skim boarding.

It seems like we have been on the go for the last month. I think after September things should slow down a bit. Maybe that's just wishful thinking!

Kaiden wanted me to share his bad dream with everyone,
"Daddy was swimming with me at day and he didn't know that there were blood drinking beetles in the pool. The blood drinking beetles stabbed Daddy when he got out of the water and that's how he died."

The poor guy came into our room last night terrified, shaking, and hyperventilating. He latched onto Randy, laid down on his chest, and rubbed his arms until he fell asleep again. He doesn't have nightmares often but when one does hit him he gets pretty shaken up! That's a pretty scary image: blood sucking beetles in the pool??? Yuck!