Justice League

Katharine loves to draw superheroes. Go figure?

The one in gold is "Star Girl", whose secret identity is Eowyn Galadriel. That is a Katharine original.

40 candles

Happy Father's Day to me

My 5'th Father's Day sounds a lot better than my 40'th birthday- that comes later on this week.

Sprinkler party!

Iria threw a sprinkler party last week that quickly turned into a mud party which had to be followed by a bathtub party before the kids could have their Daddy party.

Sunday snapshots

On Sunday I watched the kids for a little bit while Iria went out to the movies with some of her friends.

We made up stories, played dolls, played monster truck, drew a little bit and then horsed around outside.

Saturday snapshots

On Saturday I took Lukas to Aiden’s birthday party at a local pool. We had a blast, and even though the water was no deeper than 3 ½ feet at any point I still ended up holding him most of the time. Funny how he manages that,,

After that we rushed over to Katharine’s ballet recital. Katharine was AWESOME. She had a great time, and couldn’t stop talking about it the rest of the night. The next morning she started giving me ballet lessons. I’ll put up some video from the recital shortly, but the ballet lessons went (fortunately) undocumented.

Breaking in the new pool

We got a new pool today.

Not the kind that will replace all of the grass in my backyard with concrete and gravel so I won’t have to worry about mowing and grass and mud and weeds and fire ants anymore,,, (unfortunately).

Just the small inflatable kind that leaves circles of yellow burned and soaked grass after you move it.

Its worth it though :)