Little leggies and feet! Plus it’s hot. Plus, Holmes starts preschool next week. He’s growing up!

With a Happy Birthday video and original artwork (plus chocolate), we celebrate Xanna today! Meryl drew a bank while watching the remote Annual Shareholders Meeting and we framed it for Xanna’s office:)

Burrito blankets are the preferred reading-on-the-couch-accessory these days, even when it is hot. Always at the ready, Lummi carries her own with her at all times:)

Mail call! Meryl made postcards for her school friends and took them to the Post Office today.

These days, Holmes prefers to dine with Jamie Foxx for all meals. Why? Who knows. And we are here for it.

On this hot sunny day, down in the basement there was a terrible storm. Luckily, Meryl used a sheet to make a house to protect us!

The Homer edition!

Where’s the breeze? Thanks, Lola!

Seriously, why do bath mats get so grimy and un-cleanable in the tub?

For several months now, Canlis restaurant offers live piano music in the evening on their YouTube channel, and it’s become part of our evening routine during dinner. After months of listening to their male pianists, they recently brought in Kelsey and we just love her! Meryl in particular (me too!). We chat requests for songs and it’s always a treat to hear them - tonight, it was “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.”

At three and three quarters years old, this girl takes showers. Thanks to inspiration from a French kids book in a Little Free Library on a walk, showers are now her jam. Thanks to Good Dog Carl, who used a hair dryer in the book, she used one last night too.

(Adventures with Baylie.)