Hangin' out at home

The Frog catchers and their princessa with the snazzy soccer cleats. Frog catching is fast becoming a daily event. The more they find the more they want. These are some of the cute ones. I have to say that one of the bunch grossed out even me. It looked like the guy who stole Thumbelina from her lilly pad. He was not at all charming! I was quite happy when that one escaped. Bailey ( aka: lil mother nature) found that he was perfectly fine in a frog sort of way. Leave it to the budding biologist!

Negotiating proper stone placement was essential to the construction. It was really great to see them trying to find a happy medium. Every once in a while Sophie with her firecracker temper would be tested and could be heard throughout the neighborhood. I can only imagine the neighbors wondering what had happened to their quiet neighborhood! :)

Fortunately, for all of us, once she felt like her opinion counted, construction could begin again. I found out later that week why they slept so well that evening - those rocks were heavy!
The finished product. The kids spent hours creating this fort together. Hefting big rocks and incorporating a ton of dirt to secure the rocks in place. Even the peanut was carrying the big rocks. They all rolled their eyes when I used the classic "be careful" phrase every once in a while. "Yeah, yeah mom." The double yeah, yeah is a classic dane-ism. It cracks me up to hear them use it - even at my expense!

An impromptu game of Soccer..I mean fodball in the neighbors yard. Bailey and Max were hangin' around the house when Tina's boys came over and signed that they were interested in a two on two game. The oldest against the youngest. Always fair right? Well, in this case it didn't seem to matter, because Max and his fellow younger sib. won 3-1! They were sooo proud! These pics were taken from Sophie's bedroom while I was in spy mode. A mom's only spy mode! It was soo funny - because I am sure that if they were paying attention that they would have seen the flashes going off!