Uh....

How hysterical is this mask?  It was a prize for reading 10 books from the library.  By the end of the summer reading program we also had a blue and a yellow. What a riot.

"Real mermaids don't even WEAR shirts!"  Where does she learn this stuff?

Behold!  The only person I have ever known to actually stop biting their fingernails.  If only she could teach this discipline to Joe and Suz.

These are all pictures Jaynie took.

She loooves to borrow the camera for a little photo shoot.

I think she shows great promise.

Question - how do you keep an annoying baby from taking off his diaper and peeing all over your house?

Answer - you perfect the "backwards diaper security application".

It involves laying him face down on the changing table.

Jaynie thinks the whole thing is hysterical. (Which, coincidentally enough, is how I feel about her outfit.)

Jonas is (understandably) less amused.

Sigh.

What is this a picture of?

Why, its a picture of my three-year-old swimming without a life jacket.  Duh.

So glad we spent 20euro on one the week before.  Who knew she'd suddenly refuse to wear it and swim like a fish?

Good thing we have the back-up child to wear it.

Get our money's worth.

Back up child!  Ha!  I'm laughing because I'm planning to remove my diaper and poop on the table later as a response to that comment!

Just you think about that the next time you're considering calling me "back up"!

Watch out, people.

He's working the faux-hawk, he must be in a ca-razy mood!

No idea what he's doing here. 

This I know.  This is puddle stomping.

And this is what happens when you keep a baby at a bbq through naptime.  Poor kid.

Hey, dude!  Whatcha up to?

Uhhh.. Where is your diaper?

And WHAT are those things stuck to your BUTT?

Sprinkles.  Of course. (It was finding a diaper laying in the middle of the living room that made me go looking for him.  I found him sitting in the pile of sprinkles, sugar-high-in-progress, happy as a clam.)

SprinklesSprinklesSprinklesSPRINKLES!

I remember this from Jayne - I try and take a picture...

He sees and wants the camera...

And that's it for the photo shoot.

Lucky for me, I have *this* gorgeous model who loves to change clothes and pose for pictures all. day.  long.

Niiiice glasses!

And nice bruise, too!  Maybe we don't climb up on the table anymore, hmmm?

Whatever, Mom! Maybe you should be a little quicker with the catch next time, hmmm?

Mmmmm.

Fudgsicles.

Hmm.  Low pants.  Sleep mask as shirt.  Stuffed tiger...

I got it!  Its Jasmine and Raja!   (Cute in a totally unacceptably-hoochie kind of way.)

I cannot remember why I was trying to take a picture of myself, but they all came out like this.  I seem to have a growth or something on the back of my legs. Peculiar.

After he was done screaming and hanging off of me,

He raided my drawer and put on my lipstick.  That's Burt's Bees Merlot, if anyone likes the color.  ;)

This kid loooves to dress up with my shoes.

I can't imagine where he gets this dress-up thing.

She will only speak in "Bow bow bow's", and he didn't really speak at all yet.  So interesting interactions here.

You have to admit, he looks pretty dashing in them.

Speaking of "dashing" - that kid can MOTOR in a pair of womens size 8's!

Ahhh.  What every bride dreams of looking like on her wedding day.

Radiant and... topless?  Wait, this can't be right.

Hmph.  Hard to go down the slide when your pesky baby brother is sitting on the bottom of it.

Let's try this again...

Sigh.

It was kind of hot, so the Twink checked out a nearby sprinkler.

By "checked out" I of course mean "practically lay on top of it to get as wet as was scientifically possible."

This kid looks ready for the golf course.

When did my baby get so big?  Look at her on that thing!

Ok, now I have like a dozen pictures...

Of Jayne pushing Jonas on the merry go round.

I thought it was so cute.

Him sitting back, getting a ride.

Her playing so nicely with her brother.

Admit it.  Cute.

Ever wonder what the view is like...

From inside the kitchen...

With the door closed?

I would close it so I could make dinner without any ankle-biters in there with the open flame.  Jonas is not a fan of a closed door between him and his MOOOOOOMMY.

"Hey!  What's that beeping sound?  Is she taking PICTURES OF THIS?"

Whoa.  Who made the Cheerios mess?

Ah.  Of course.   (Alternate caption: Time for another diaper hunt!)

Never fear!  The fire dept. is here!  And they've brought Snow White!