The kids started the day with artwork for Dad. Wes drew this picture of Daddy. It’s the best I’ve ever seen him draw a person. On the right are the eyes, nose, smiley face and ears, with a big (half) circle around them for a face, and squiggly lines for a body. Really good!

The Primary at church gave out ties to decorate for Father’s Day. So the kids used ink to stamp their hands on paper, which I glued to the tie. The five hearts at the top represent our family of five. John was a good sport to wear it in public today at church.

John gave the kids some tickles.

The kids got really excited to watch Dad open presents. They suspected it meant a birthday and a party and cake with candles…but they were OK with it just being Father’s Day and being able to say, “Happy Father’s Day!” (although Wes keeps saying “Happy Mother’s Day!”)

I have to watch Wes like a hawk when we’re grocery shopping together. The other day he was “helping” me in the produce section when I glanced over and found him taking bites out of a head of broccoli I hadn’t intended to buy.

We bought it.

Elizabeth turned 7 months old last week. She is great at rolling around, but not so much at sitting up.

Yet.

She’ll get it, someday.

If you asked Carissa what she’s doing here, she’d tell you, “I doing MAIL.”

She’s decorating the envelope for grandpa’s Father’s Day card. Coloring is her specialty.

Lately Carissa has been kind of fascinated by skating. I’m not sure, but I think it may be because she watches “Pingu,” a Swedish claymation TV show about penguins who do things like go skating. It’s a little ironic because we took her roller skating once and she was miserable (and a few hours later was throwing up because of the stomach flu–so it wasn’t her fault).

In any case, she’s into skating. She wanted to go skating in our kitchen on a couple of wooden building blocks, but I told her I thought that was a bad idea. But I remembered how in my old aerobics class sometimes we’d use paper plates like skates to work our inner thighs. And voila–Carissa’s skates are born.

Wes = 5 1/2
Carissa = 2 1/2
Elizabeth = 7 months