Payton will hate this!

Payton will hate me someday for blogging this.  When Tung was getting ready in the morning, she was watching him and when he put on the deodorant she says "Do you put that on to make your fur shiny?" Hopefully she'll think it's as hysterical as we do someday!

Painting with Pallets

We went to Ben Franklin and bought some canvases because they were on sale very cheap, I'm not exactly sure what I"ll do with them yet, but I know sometime in the future I'll want some for crafting/painting and these were too good of a deal to pass up.  While in the paint section, Payton and Reagan spotted the pallets and had to have one, then later I wondered why had I never bought these before? Sure beats having to find a paper plate or remember to keep an egg carton like I had been doing.  Here's what we painted that afternoon.

Reagan then began taking it to a whole new level, notice her face.

She mixed all the colors together

And ultimately painted more of herself than the paper!

Hair Cut

This is a bi-monthly occurrence in our house.  The girls for whatever reason like to sit at the door to the bathroom and watch Tung shave his head.  He always tells them they're next and they just laugh.  Too funny, however what's even funnier is this is exactly what he was doing the first time I met him, though it was over a trash can in the hallway of the dorm.  It seems not much has changed 13 years later, except now it's over newspaper in his daughters' blue and pink bathroom!

Superheroes

A few weeks ago we went to Superhero day at the Flying Squirrels game.  So we had to make Payton and Reagan superheroes, there aren't too many that they know of, but Reagan knows who Super Why is and Payton just wanted to be a princess, so we turned Payton into Princess P who has spelling power and Reagan was Super Why who has Reading power.  Neither costume lasted long because it was so very hot outside, but it was a lot of fun making them and they had fun wearing them while they lasted.  They also got a Nutzy the Flying Squirrel superhero cape, which will come in handy because Payton has liked using trash bags as capes, so now she has a real one!

Botanical Garden

I love the botanical garden.  If I didn't work I would have a membership, I can't go as often as I would like. It's so relaxing and always so pretty in all the seasons.  It was also a lot of fun to go and see beautiful green grass, and colorful flowers when I have nothing that is green anymore from the many 100+degree days and little rain we've had this summer.  This time the water play was open and the girls had a good time playing in the pop jets.  Reagan liked it a lot more than Payton, she got tired of the other kids sitting on the jets so the water wouldn't come out or getting in her way.  And she said she was cold, now Monday was in the mid-90s rather than the mid-100s but still, is she crazy?!
It was fun to see Reagan excited about something and do her own thing.

The butterflies aren't coming to the conservatory this year, but we saw a lot of them in the garden.

I love the bright colors they always plant along the walkway to the conservatory

Payton took this of me in the treehouse, not too bad!

They got surprised by the pop jets when the turned on!

Payton sitting right in the middle

Reagan trying to wipe her eyes!

She loved standing right in the middle and sticking her hands in the water spraying up

Sweeping out the little house in the village.