Georgia on my mind

I hate to sound like a a license plate (tag), but we've had Georgia on our mind. So we decided to take a somewhat spontaneous trip to Georgia over spring break. We planned to visit friends, visit friends, visit friends, and maybe visit dissertation advisors. It was all we planned. Thanks to some wonderful friends (hi, guys) we were able to reconnect with most people we wanted to, and thanks to some wonderful advisors (don't worry, they aren't reading), I was able to get some ideas for the dissertation.

We took wonderful pictures, more than can be posted here, but I'll give it a shot.

(While the moms were downstairs talking, the children maintained silence while cleaning out a certain cedar closet.)

(Watching the "Beavers" movie. None of them lasted too long.)

(This was hilarious. The candy lollipops had "YES" stamped on this. Z kept saying, "Yes!"
and F kept retaliating, "No!")

The question . . .

How do you teach your children not to jump on the furniture when they can do this?

Even Superheroes Cry

We missed a birthday party for some friends the other week because the party was on Sunday, so we decided to throw the birthday boy an impromptu party at our house. I threw together some superhero capes for all the siblings (total 6), made cupcakes, and decided to have a ball. Superhero M (birthday boy, aged 4) wore blue and orange, Superhero W (older brother, aged 5) wore yellow and red, Superhero I (birthday girl, aged 2) wore pink and green,

Superhero F wore orange and green (he wanted to be like his friend),

Superhero S wore purple and yellow (he had insisted on me changing his cape around so that the purple would be on the outside, and then wore yellow on the outside the whole party so he could be like W),

and Superhero A wore green and red (because that is what F originally picked). Superhero A thought the cape was wonderful, even though he missed most of the party due to his afternoon nap.

I didn't take many pictures, and I didn't get the dream picture of all the children's backs in order (W, S, M, F, I, A), but I did get some.

The one thing I learned from this afternoon with superheroes, is that even superheroes cry.