Thingstätte, Heidelberg.

July 28

 We visited this place last fall HERE, but we wanted to show it off to a friend, and needed an outting for this weekend.  I was impressed how different it looked without a carpet of leaves. :) 

 These guys are such posers! 

 I have a dozen more shots in this same location-- each a different pose!-- but I thought I'd just show you my favorite. haha!

 "fun-size" entrance.... right C?

 puddle stomper

 beautiful light! 

Hmm.. this looks like a bad idea... don't worry! it didn't get stuck.

 I was there too!

 What grace!

I love his face. :) 

Starting to get grumpy... time for dinner!

 C has style... no question about it. 

*love*

sick day photoshoot... ;)

July 13

 So -- yes.. all three boys were feeling sick and awful and we were all hanging out in jammies, but... Momma got a new lens. So! make-up or no make-up, fevers or no fevers, out came the camera. :) Self-portraits with a 50mm lens on a crop-sensor camera is no easy feat (but the goal was to keep most of myself out of the shot anyway... ). They're not fabulous, but I *adore* these pics, of my favorite little guys nestled up right into my neck, as usual. *love*

  

My beautiful boys.. I'm such a lucky Momma! 

silhouette

july 19

 I had a little project to take a silhouette of a child with a balloon. My sweet Cameron was a very enthusiastic helper!

Sick

July 12

 Our three boys very artistically shared a little virus in July. First Andrew, then W, then C, then back to A and then again to C. Can I tell you how tired I was of cleaning sheets/blankets/towels?

Aww, but they do look so sweet when they're feeling wretched. W ONLY naps on the couch (or anywhere) if he's sick.  

Sleepin on the LoveSac. Aunt Abby would be proud (as long as he doesn't throw-up on it, in which case I would fly her out to clean that beast!). 

Frankenstein Castle

June 30

 This castle is not particularly amazing, and it was disappointing to find that the two towers were reconstructed, but still-- it's so close, and it's fun to explore. Plus, it's called Frankenstein. Does it take anything more than that to make it cool? 

 Busy Boy!

 See all of their CamelBak backpacks? My mom sent us those for the boys birthdays this year, and they have been *fabulous*. I later added a carabener (sp?) on Andrew's to make the fit tighter, but it has been so great... The boys get enough to drink, and mom & dad don't have to haul it around for them.  I also later added to Andrew's pack the "tail" to the monkey leash backpack that we have. haha!

 N threw his baby boy down a well! ... well... a ghetto fake well anyway. 

C and W were thrilled that there were some nerds authentic-wanna-be medieval dudes there working on their skills. 

june 26: Pool, baby!

Oh man-- how do I get so far behind? You do love our hot & cold blog, right? :) 

Isn't this boy adorable? On this fine day we found it to be a perfect kick-off-the-summer day! We packed up our gear and headed out to our fabulous local pool. Really-- America, you have some major catching up to do when it comes to German pools!

 The water was a bit cold still, but the boys didn't mind a bit. 

 Andrew was too busy to be bothered with looking at me... until I finally said "gummy bears!"

 ... he wasn't impressed. ;)

 See his "oowie" ^?

... the monster climbed onto the counter when I was upstairs and fell off, hitting his chin on the way down. I ran down to cuddle and calm him down, and then I ran back upstairs to get a clean washcloth to press on it. I was gone for 30 seconds and the crazy child was already back ON the counter! What a busy boy!