Today my mom bought the kids some treats. For the girls she got some new clothes and for Jack she bought a Lego set. Louisa felt like a million bucks in her clothes. For possibly the first time ever, she has shorts that didn’t used to be leggings and she is LOVING IT. They’re even short shorts – not down to her knee like all of her other pairs.

Working leaves very little time to spend with the kids during the week, so I try to finish work and get right in with the kids. Now that the weather has been great (even a little hot like today’s 90 degrees), and with it staying light out so long, I have been taking the kids to the neighborhood park pretty frequently.

Norah spent lots of time climbing on the playground equipment.


And Jack played with his playground friend, Ethan.

Meanwhile, the girls climbed to the absolute top of a rather tall tree.

Jack also got in on the tree climbing.


And to finish the day off, Norah got upset about something that she, herself, did.

It was a good day, and now the weekend begins.