Sunday, August 7, 2011

Picnicking

The true sign of how hot it is this summer is that I don’t even notice it anymore.  We just go about our business, playing in the backyard and going on picnics at the park constantly drenched in sweat.  Then I look at a photograph from an outing are notice that maybe the heat is starting to wear on us.

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I think (?) we enjoy our nice, sweltering summer picnics.  I really don’t care how hot it is; it’s so much easier to make sandwiches in the morning and bring them with us than to get everyone out of the house and home and fed before naptime. 

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Tate is teething, plus he loves apples.  So far apples have been great for him.  It’s an improvement over the teethers of my grandparents’ generation:  a baby mitten filled with sugar, then soaked in bourbon.  That explains so many things.

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See the fly on Tate’s cup?  Rush is letting him know it’s time to move on.  “GO AWAY BUG.” 

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It’s time for me to stop putting off unloading the dishwasher.  There’s nothing else left to say about the heat; drought or not, it’s always hot in August.

2 comments:

  1. oh my gosh your boys just get cuter and cuter! maybe carolena and i can join you on spring picnics when it isnt so hot!

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  2. hahaha! looking at this again - tate's expressions in those first two pictures are priceless! i wonder what he was thinking

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