Father's Day/Summer Arrives

"I found this near my dolly.  

I don't think my dolly needs a bottle."

"I don't know how my dolly gets the milk out!?"

I think Nolan likes to sit in this chair to play with the Xoom, 

so there's no room for Seth to sit near him.

Seth spent the morning practicing getting up and down 

from the couch.

Nolan enjoys a glass that lights up on the bottom.

Even water tastes better in a sparkly cup.

Nolan wants to let more light in the room.

He doesn't know that Grampa likes to sit here day after day in the dark.

Seth is finally big enough to help Grampa and Nolan water the flowers.

He has no idea his watering chameleon is empty.

Most of it went on his shoes.

The "boys" do a great job watering.

It takes a long time to water all the flowers at Grampa's house.

It's hard not to lose one of the boys, since the tend to go in opposite directions.

Seth thinks he is also big enough to ride Nolan's bike.

Seth likes Gramma's picture hat.

He just needs eyeholes cut in the brim.

"Let's try taking our nap here.

Grampa can take his in our room."

"Do you like my hat?"

"I do not like it."

"Hello again.  Do you like my hat?"

"I do.  I like your party hat."

"My Daddy made this phone."

We celebrated Father's Day together.

Nolan decided to go upstairs to his room.

He managed to lock the door 

to one of the upstairs bathrooms and his bedroom.

Fortunately, he was not in the room.

I wanted to let Nolan know he was not in trouble.

I asked if he wanted to come with me and help me unlock the door.

Nolan, who is always anxious to help, 

was delighted to see how the problem would be solved.

We had plenty of experience with this problem 

when Rebecca would lock Matt out of her room.

We took off for upstairs and found the necessary tool to open the lock.

But the tool didn't work on either door.

It looked as if we might have to sell the house 

minus a bedroom and a bathroom.

I told Nolan Gramma and Grampa would solve the problem.

Nolan has faith in Grampa, so he was okay with it.

Grampa couldn't get the doors to open, either.

I told him it was a good thing we had a balcony to Nolan's room.

Grampa did his Romeo imitation and unlocked the doors from the inside.

If we had had a balcony when Matt and Rebecca were little, 

we would have found at least one of them on the ladder.

News from the California Gentlemen

Harvesting apricots over the fence.

The neighbor approves of sharing.

If we could only bottle his joy!

Summertime means pool time.

Surf's up.