July, Seriously?

Wow - I can't believe July is almost over. Owen starts back to school in 3 weeks! Let's wrap up some summer randomness before it gets any closer!

Maggie enjoying some pizza at the pre-4th of July bike-decorating party. Funny girl.

Rebecca and Maggie and I were ALL in their tiny pink castle. Eating our lunch. Criss cross applesauce + chick fil A. No filter - its just super pink inside that tent!

Rebecca dressed Bee up as a Fairy Grandmother or Grandmother Princess or something. She loves using the pancho as hair. Rebecca was happy until I told her she couldn't use real glitter around the house as fairy dust. Bee told her imaginative/invisible fairy dust was better anyways. Well played Grandmother Fairy Princess!

Have I mentioned that Rebecca is a ninja? More on the general topic later...but one aspect is that she has taken to being sneaky, meaning she actually sneaks things (steals!) and sneakily does things she shouldn't and then pretends she didn't (lies!)...Like this hairdo...Rebecca, did you put something in your hair? No??? Are you sure???

Turn around. Are you sure???????

And more performances. The highights of this one included: 1) Owen "MC-in" (which they call judging) and directing people to use the powder bathroom if they need to, 2) Rebecca packing a back with a snack in it for midway through the performance so she'll have more energy (she actually took a snack break while we watched). Unfortunately, her stage (our coffee table) is no longer - it's still a table, we're just not letting her dance on it for fear of it caving in. That has proven to be quite the barrier to her creative spirit.

Just when I catch myself thinking - where does she come up with that? whose daughter is she? - because she's so creative and free-spirited...and then she goes into party-planning-mode and I'm like - oh, yep, definitely mine. She makes lists (even though she can't write) and invitations and meal plans for every made-up and real event possible. The challenge is I never know exactly what she's planning or what she is expecting to actually happen - is this a real party we're talking about or is this something you and your animals are doing and the invites are just for fun? The other day the example was a baseball game. Invitations were made, tears were shed that people (grandparents, mostly) were not able to come (with 10 minutes notice), uniforms were donned (she put on one of Owen's polo shirts and called herself "Rowen"), snacks were packed...in the end, she had a great time with Owen and Kyle just doing their own little game in the backyard - yea!

(Rebecca insisted on batting and running the bases with her purse, which had extra balls and a bottle of water.)

The same day (at least one of them) that Rebecca put a bunch of conditioner in her hair (above) Owen gave himself a mohock. Unrelated, he also lost his first tooth! It's a good thing too, because both of his adult bottom front teeth had already come in behind the baby ones. He wiggled it and wiggled it and then finally just yanked it out at dinner. He was excited about the dollar the "tooth fairy" left and immediately did the math to figure out how much more money is in his mouth. Right now his other front one is literally hanging on by a tiny thread/root but he doesn't want to pull it out (even though he said he's excited about the dollar) because he'll miss wiggling it.

Just a morning at the lake w/ the chillins.

And an evening at a food trailer park. They were more excited than they looked.

Other summer funnies:

• Owen thinks he has super-vision. He also uses the word bizarre a lot. I find both of these things very amusing.
• Rebecca asked me the other morning over breakfast: Mom, are these farm fresh eggs?
• Maggie-isms: sowwy momma sowwy (sorry) - said, like most things of importance, with hand up, palm facing mouth), likes to interrupt the other kids when they're talking to me even when she has nothing to say: mommy, mommy, someping... and often times starts talking to me and then immediately tells them to be quiet even if they're not talking: mommy mommy, quiet Rebecca, mommy...when she has an accident (potty, spilled drink, etc.) she says: mommy mommy iiiiiiiiis okay iiiiiiiiiiiis okay (because clearly I'm the one who needs reassurance), she says tank you sir! in a very sweet chipper voice (with a hint of an English accent?) when you help her, and finally, she loves to comment on food especially when it is: tasty an 'licious!

That's it for July randomness...lots of other new posts below. :)