Hmmm...I don't know why these pictures are turning out so blurry. I hope they aren't this distorted when I post. We just got back from the FL state Strawberry Festival in the heart of downtown plant city. woopee! It is already summer here for those of you in cooler climes. I am sunburned from the 2 hours we were out today and I was sure that our kids were going to have heat stroke. I remember this story a few years back about this woman who was arrested at the fair because her children were the color of overripe strawberries by the end of the day. Child neglect was the charge. That was my fear today. During the pig racing, the bike tricks, the obnoxious puppet show, the miles of vendors keeping cardiologists working(aka: funnel cakes, turkey legs, polish sausage) all I could think about was the magnifying glass that I(and my snow-white children) felt trapped under. Smoking little helpless ants. Besides all that, I dropped my shortcake so that it splattered( as only a bowl mostly full of whip cream can) all over the ground. Trey was not happy about this...oh no...the heat, exhaustion, etc had danced on his nerves too long at this point.
Needless to say, there are no pictures on here of our day. It was too hot and bright to think about it. I did put a recent one of Abe trying to get on the bike (I hope you can see the sheer determination on his face). He's converted it into a walker. Notice that Trey's shoes are a little too big for him (by 16 years or so), but he doesn't seem to mind.


I don't know what Trey was so happy about in this picture because I was not around (Mike took the picture). Speaking of Trey being happy, Trey has actually started to tell us what his feelings are (or Vegas' or Abe's or mommy's). So far, he's got "happy" and "sad" down. "Trey happy? yeah, trey happy." "Trey sad?"(complete with pooched lip and depressed voice). We'll see if this turns into a good thing or not. When I didn't immediately read a book he brought to me the other day, he said, "Trey sad?" Oh, brother! Although, I'll take that over whining or a tantrum any day!