Wortham's House of Pestilence.

This as from yesterday. We were driving to the pediatrician and the boys were almost completely silent. I looked back to check on them and they were just staring out the windows blankly. I took this video with my phone (sorry for the poor quality) because they just looked so miserable.

For the record, Jacob is doing better. Still has some...symptoms. Geoff is, shall we say, a bit snotty. As I type this he is watching Backyardigans next to me. Check out the photo. Notice the blue box of tissue on the desktop and the waste basket next to him in the floor. This was not staged, I swear.

Beautiful sky

This sky was somewhere over Southern Indiana. It was like those skies you see in those old Romantic era paintings.

Quick note

I will post more later, but this is just a quick note to say that I have put up pictures for June and July I have a lot to catch up on. Weddings and birthdays not the least of it.

Clay sculpture and literal conversations

I would like to apologize. I was preparing to write a fresh post. When I logged in and looked at the previous posts, I noticed that the following post was never published. Sorry.

The above is a really tiny clay sculpture that Jacob did of a couple of ants, a father and son at a cook out. They are cooking a pie on the grill. This was totally Jacob. He got the idea from a picture he saw on the box of clay. After he finished this little clay sculpture, he took it to our new neighbors as a house warming gift. As the second photo shows, it was very tiny.

Kids are very literal. I made a braised chicken dish a week ago. I told the boys that the meat will just fall off of the bones. At one point, Geoffrey grabbed a drum stick and held it up, giving it a shake. He turns to Kelly and says to her, "It won't fall off?!?"

At the zoo

For Field Trip Friday, we went to the zoo today. It was hot and the boys about fell out but there were a few highlights. Unfortunately, the batteries in my camera were dead, so the only images I have are from my cell phone. Below is a video of Geoffrey and an orangutan. At one point, I was rooting around in my backpack looking for water and Geoffrey jumped up next to the glass. I looked up just in time to see one of the orangutans climbing toward him. By the time I got ready, they were checking each other out.

Here is a direct link to the video in case you are reading this from your email.

I'll post more about our week later, just thought I would share this while it was still fresh.

Rainbow pt. 2

Getting bigger.

rainbow

Nice rainbow on the indiana/illinois border.