What a wacky summer. I'm glad we got in all that fun at the beginning because it got a little un-fun when classes started up. Milo's second birthday was a bright spot, along with a visit from Nonna and Nonno.
G and Nonno got right to it, ripped off our decrepit (sp?) crumbling roof and re-roofed the whole thing, while dodging the fairly frequent rain interspersed with roasting high nineties.
The boys have been growing and changing so quickly. Milo all of a sudden decided to start talking and repeating and saying a lot, so it's gotten even louder around here. I confess to yelling my head off repeatedly because I cannot stand them using the couch as trampoline and diving board and cannot get them to stop. Go ahead, call me what you want. It makes me so insane to think about a trip to the ER, yet they are just like the waves in the ocean, they have to chase eachother while screaming, they have to jump like banshees and they are driven to kicking balls around the house, despite my best efforts to contain, redirect or place limits on the area where said activities are done. *sigh*

So, when these crazy-making things aren't happening, and when all of the bedding is not in the living room for some mysterious purpose, our life is sometimes calm. Which is to say, not much. :)

In my less crazy moments, or you could say, MORE crazy moments I am so thrilled to see these happy healthy robust and precocious boys. I have found Milo snuggled up with Rowan in the top bunk sleeping together, which makes me so happy and they really do play well together most of the time when they aren't TRYING to make the other one crazy.

We've had lots of rain around here, for some reason, including highs in the fifties, yep--late July. The boys had a great day in the rain which started normally enough on Wed. Rowan likes to put his sweatshirt on backwards and his raincoat on forwards, so that he can protect his face from the rain, so that's what you see in the pic of them checking on the chickens. Then... well, I have no idea, but you see that the skin is at least as effective as a rain jacket there!