A gorgeous late-summer day for a picnic in park. Des and Ella race a fuzzy catepillar
Wide open spaces for running
Just chilling, you know
Des goes for a bike ride as Eleanor follows in her fairy costume
At the community garden for some bee watching
Des gets a special treat (bomb pop) for riding all the way around the block on his bike
Ella earned a “finished all your bites” treat as well
The boys scheming after a reasonably restful sleepover
Puzzle time- Calvin was awfully proud of completing the barn puzzle himself
Eleanor, puzzle master
Clearly ignoring brother’s antics
Picking up campaign signs for some excellent women candidates, Eleanor fearlessly tries the scooter
Morning trip to the library, to color (of course)
Des signs his coloring before posting to the wall
No stairs too big for her ambitions
New library card holder
Dad spends the afternoon practicing indoor flash photography before the restaurant’s soft opening. The result? A new series, Indoor Llamas:
Amidst all the new faces, Eleanor beelines for grandma
Grandpa reads to Des and Julian in the kids corner
Yummy indeed
Uncle Mike brings out the inaugural dinner order
The kids point to what they want first (hummus)
A brief moment before the food is inhaled
Sitting in the “east wing”
Congratulations Aunt Kellie and Uncle Mike on a successful soft opening of Oasis Falafel of Omaha
Aunt Kellie brings Calvin for a sleepover during final preparations before the restaurant opening. Ella uses some sort of child intuition to demonstrate how the bat mobile works-
Mmmm, (Thai) noodles!
Two young jedi fans gather for bedtime stories of the force and rebellion
Breathing exercises before bed, as if that would help
Their heads hit the bed shortly after closing the door, clearly
A spontaneous trip to Memorial Park for a post-school/work kite excursion
Eleanor spent more time descending/ascending stairs than the kite could be kept in the air. Apparently dad significantly misread the wind opportunity on school’s flags, perhaps there was not a sustained wind present
Ok, one last gust as we walk back to the car
Actually it turned out an enjoyable little outing
Eleanor demonstrating how food gets in the tummy by shoving a beet under her dress
Redness is not an injury, but rather the beet injection point
Eleanor walking straight down the middle, as you do
Dad was later informed this was possibly poor precedent
Eleanor made it an entire day with that headwrap on-
Des says he’s “reading Snoopy” (a boy after dad’s heart)
So apparently dying your bathtub experience like an easter egg is a new thing called “bath drops:”
Running off some excess energy on a rainy Labor Day morning
Let’s all sit on the couch!
Cal: “Yeah, I know- I got this.”
Duck: “Is our pumpkin on top of the stump, Goose?”
Goose: “No!”
Eleanor’s first “head of the table” honors
Farmers market, for veggies and puppies
Much like koi fish clobbering each other for popcorn, these two llamas are always keyed up for cheese samples
Instead of getting lemonade at the farmers market, dad thought (foolishly?) it’d make for a good post-nap activity. Turns out a lot of lemons are required, so Ella joins dad for a trip to the grocery store with an inadvertently perfect outfit- muumuu, head wrap and pet squirrel
Stoked about her lemon
Two steps into the Black Votes Matter Concert for Change in dad’s old neighborhood, chalk is found and put to use
Ella rocking the turquoise with dad
Not as prepared as usual, mom and dad were getting creative for ear protection. Ella wore dad’s ear plugs for way, way longer than one would have imagined
Des tagging outside The Union for Contemporary Art’s old digs
French fries and smiles
According to grandma, this (middle) is a white-lined sphinx moth
