apres bath

saturday chez del frate

say hello to my leetle friend....

a friend's husband is an electrician, and he came over today and installed three ceiling fans for us. i can't really express how happy this makes me, i've been wanting fans for many sweltering summers. i've felt this love before, when my boyfriend the new fridge came to live with us; and then there was my other boyfriend, the dishwasher. i keep gazing up at the ceiling, admiring them. basking in the breeziness....

ok, moving on, to....

potatoes! harvested from our very own garden today. we haven't tasted them yet, but i'm impressed just by their potato-yness. there they are.

and here is lucca eating a carrot from our garden, wearing his pirate pants from last halloween.

and lastly...

horse-wrangling naked.

that is all.

child's pose

in related news, lucca has recently started to (sometimes) sleep in his big boy bed, in an entirely different room... this was quite a shock to carlo and me, because all it took was just telling him one day that he could sleep there if he wanted to. this after we've had many discussions pondering how to make the transition, worrying about him being so far away (all of about 15 feet, in our tiny house) and so on.... nothing like a child to point out how slowly we adults move.

camping

At the end of June we went on our annual playgroup camping trip, and dusty dirty fun was had by all:

hot dogs!

behold the grubbiness

corn on the cob!

it was a hit with lucca, we have had it weekly since. he also is fond of yelling "corn on the cob" in a dramatic announcer voice at random times. i guess maybe i did that once while preparing it with him?

lucca and his BFF, ollie

tired boys

in search of the humboldt squid

Yesterday we went for a walk on the beach with some friends in hopes of finding a washed-up giant squid. We didn't find one, but we did find a dead seal, a small dead ray, and lots of shells and sand dollars. I forgot to take my camera, but took some shots of Lucca sorting his loot (we left the dead animals at the beach) later in the back yard.

Lucca was especially taken with the sand dollars, and played with them for quite a while.

Here we have sand dollar sandwich and sand dollar telephone.

You may have noticed that I haven't been the best blogger in the whole wide world, lately. That is, if I still have any readers out there? (Sarah, I know you're there!) Well, I'm planning to do better. I know, I know, you've heard it all before... but really, this time I mean it. Probably. I'll do my best.

I have heard the call, I know what you want.

MORE LUCCA!!