~last day of antibiotics, hurrah!  Still a while to go yet with the herbs.

~Galen decided to be a knight by putting on a whole bunch of black clothing, including a vest and newsboy cap (turned inside out, since only the lining is black).  He was a *black knight* so that explains it…  The Wee Girl decided to be a knight as well by putting on a pair of pajamas with bees on them (shirt both inside-out and backwards) and a pair of Galen’s sandals.

~The big boys took a bike ride.  They usually take several a day, on nice days.  And then spent most of the morning, quite literally up a tree, complete with dolls and chairs constructed from vines and moss.

~Galen briefly got stuck in a tree and switched to building a house on the ground under some low laying pine boughs.

~some yoga, some dancing

~The latest entertainment craze in our house?  Jumping in front of the camera when you see Mom about to take a picture and making funny faces.

The one above was meant to be a picture of the linens they had folded and stacked on the piano.

~There was the usual assortment of chores.  Some that I did myself and some with help.

~they are really more help then they look

~You would think that one above is him hamming it up for the camera, but no, that’s how he routinely empties baskets of laundry.

~We cleaned out the car in preparation for traveling next week.  I’m always amazed at the amount of dishes and clothes that come back out of that thing.  Do the words, “make sure you bring all of your stuff in with you!” mean nothing to everyone?!?  A grocery bag full of dishes and a matching one of clothes say “no”.

~Quiet time and nap time as usual.

~Galen found the first ripe blackberry of the season.

~I tried Màiri Rose’s new dress on her.  I want her to wear it for a family party next week.  She put it on happily enough today.  She used to love wearing nothing but dresses everyday, in fact they were all she would wear, but lately she’s been outright refusing them.  She wants to be big and in this house, big means boys.  In the mornings she looks at me quite sternly, with her hands on her hips and insists on wearing “pocket shorts and a tee-shirt, like Galen do’s”.  I’m beginning to think that my only recourse may be to start dressing Galen in pinafores and Mary Janes…

~We went to look at a house today, because, apparently that’s what we do during the summer.  The rope swing was a big hit, the basement a disappointment.

~We surprised the children with a trip to a pond on our way to the house.  The water was so warm!  It was supposed to be a picnic dinner as well, but due to a time change that wouldn’t work, so we ate our kale and collard green salad in the car, with carrot sticks for a snack.  The two hour round-trip left plenty of time for eating.

~Mairi Rose lost me a game of “keep quiet” in the car by saying, “I just love you so very much my Mommy”, I mean really, how do you not respond to that?

~the rooster across the street seems to have mistaken midnight for dawn.  Mores the pity for us.