Monsters!

There's a new game being played around our house. The kids call it "monsters!"or sometimes "ghosts...whooo!" I call it "the dirty laundry is all over the floor again". At least the game is unbelievably cute, so I can easily get over all the clothes having to be sorted many times before actually making it into the washer. 

 The game is essentially what you see here. They both empty a laundry basket, put it over their heads and wander around bumping into things (and each other) while growling, whoo-ing and of course, giggling. I can't really complain about dirty clothes on the floor when they are so adorably sweet.
By the way, as you can see by these shots of Happy's room, we've done next to nothing upstairs. Eventually we'll get around to painting, but the more used we get to the weird plaster patches and trim paint-halos, the less likely painting up here will be a priority. Ah well.

We continue to visit parks and playgrounds as often as we can. Girly likes the swings more and more and is starting to get brave enough to go down slides by herself, but Happy is just about too big for the toddler swings now. Poor floppy boy. I tried to teach him to hold on and pump his legs on the big-boy swing, but he thinks flopping is more fun. Who can blame him, right?

We had another great visit from Curmudgeon's folks last week. They went with us to visit the KC Temple Open House (see this post) and we made a quick stop at the mall to get Boy-o some new shoes. Right next to the shoe-store, however is a little coin-operated play station. It has become an obligatory stop whenever we go to the mall. Good thing for us, the kids don't know the things are supposed to move and make noise! (And the ice-cream truck is known as "the music truck" around our house.)