Buddy's prayer at bedtime lastnight

"God, I gotta tell you somthin'. I got these cuts on my toes, God. They really hurt, will you heal them for me? And, one more thing, keep daddy safe."

Also, for my uncle:

"I love big uncle Joe, he just plays and plays, all day long."
(keep in mind that my uncle is a farmer which means he has put in at least 14 hour days the last few times we've been there. :-) Hey, to a four year old boy there isn't anything better than riding in a tractor all day long and working with some stinky cows.

Sharing

I own these precious cakelet pans from Williams-Sonoma and I love them but don' t use them often (actually I just purchased the catepillar one) so if anyone ever wants to borrow them you're welcome to them. Just a thought.

Good times in Iowa

Yum! Buddy sharing his ice cream. Gotta love vacation- dessert after every meal. Getting ready for tubing. Because I'm the worst mom ever I didn't get one picture of their cute little grinning faces sticking out of the tube. next time. at least papa sent me these.

"aw, dad. why do i have to have my picture taken with a fish?" Buster caught this one all by himself.


One more of smiley herself.

And a few good quotes:

• After I explained that there wouldn't be any death in heaven JP's first question was, "So can I pull the bark off the trees then?" (we explained last year not to do that because it could cause the tree to die and apparently this is something he's longing to do.)
• I heard Buster and Dory playing a pretend game in the next room and when I asked what they were doing he replied, "We're playing a game. It's called concourse C" (apparently no one told him that concourse c was shut down months ago. or maybe that's what they do all day now in that part of the Cincinnati airport. :-)