Workin' at the Carwash

Eric had "wash the car" on his To Do List and naturally there were little helpers who had no problem taking turns playing with the hose and scrubbing with bubbles.

My Girls

Kiddie Tidbits
1. Cora can say uh-uh, we shall see where that takes us!
2. Cora loves shoes, she tries on shoes whenever she sees a pair. She even knows which ones are hers and brings them to me, sticks her foot out for mommy to put them on her
3. She has also really started to copy what her big sister is doing

1. Jodi loves to wear her swimming suits - she calls them "my pink" and "my blue"
2. She loves to draw and color. Lately she's been drawing happy and sad faces after one of her nursery lessons. Then she'll scribble them out and say "Oh, no a monster!"
3. Jodi has got groove - this girl loves to dance and jump around and where those little hips learned to shake I do not know

Here comes the rain!!!

Yippee for rain! It has been soo hot and humid lately that we've just been sitting around like wilted flowers draped over whatever piece of furniture was closest. (not having AC has been rough this past week!) It helped that we had a friend loan us some fans so we could get airflow and man what a difference!
However, it cooled off yesterday with rain and today was overcast and 75 degrees. What great summer weather! Eric and I both think that is just about the perfect summer day. Do you think someone is a born Seattle-ite?

The Paper Route

Allright everyone we have started our latest adventure - a paper route. Its our summer opportunity to help us get out of debt faster. We are living like no one else so later we can live like no one else. I mean really who wakes up everyday at 2:15ish, loads 2 toddlers into a car and commences to spend the next 2 hours tossing papers at houses of total strangers? I know, I know...WE DO!!! Yup, everymorning for the past 5 days. We are only at the beginning here but the prospect of an extra $200 a week to throw at the debt ratio we have is great motivation!
The girls are such troopers too! They have actually been more awake during the paper route than I thought they would be. Its okay though because it means that when we get home we can all go back to sleep for however long we feel like. (The girls and I that is, Eric had his last day of school today so now he can join us!) This is forcing us to attempt earlier bedtimes, hopefully one of these days we'll get it all figured out. Happy summer to us!
Funny/weird sidenote: Apparently I'm just motion sick enough that the constant motion while looking down rolling papers in the front seat got to me the 2nd day. Eric jumped out to porch deliver a paper and I opened the passenger door to empty my empty stomach. Eric gets back in the car and says, "Can we at least get out of the driveway?" Uhm, well let me think? If looks could do harm mine just might have. Let me finish my business and pour my water bottle on the driveway and then we can leave. Now we call that house the puke house very morning. :)