This past week we have been swimming in the back yard, but the mosquitos were pretty bad last night. Peter came home from work and wanted to mow, but I had the kids all dressed for a swim. He had to mow a 12 foot square of grass, drag our pool into it and re-fill it. Then he mowed out front while we swam in back. Allen kept trying to get out of the pool to find his daddy. He knows the lawn mower sound and what it means.

After all the swimming we hit the tub. When Peter handed Katy her night time milk she said, "Who is going to hold me?" He told her that Mommy was in the tub and he was all sweaty, so she had to hold herself. Then he helped her nest into the corner of the sofa, all snuggled up.

Allen has developed a shoe fetish. He loves two sets in particular: his Disney Pixar Car crocs and Katy's rain shoes that look like bugs. Juice McGoose tries to say the word shoe when he brings one to me and insists that I help him stuff a foot into it. After he has two on, not necessarily from the same set, he stomps around as happy as can be!