Sunday flowers

House is a wreck, but we had a fun weekend, and I bought flowers for the table. That makes Monday better, too.

Sundays with Daddy

Paul took the kids out for lunch and hiking. Usually when they return from a big outing like that, Levi is ready for cuddles with me. But today, he said hello to me and told me a bit about their day, then asked Daddy to sit and read a nature magazine with him on the couch.

Culprit

Tonight we discovered a lot of water on the basement floor, dripping down from a radiator pipe. This was very mysterious, since it's August and we haven't turned on a radiator since March.

Paul traced the leak to the living room radiator itself, not a leaky pipe at all. The knob at the bottom of the radiator can be turned to let more or less water into the radiator, and it can be opened so far that water drips out. But who would do such a thing?

After eliminating me as a suspect through questioning, Paul asked the kids, very kindly: "You're not in trouble, I just need to know if one of you turned this knob."

Sylvia: "No, I never did."

Paul: "Levi, did you turn this knob?"

Levi: "Uh ... yeah! All the time! All the days!"

Mystery solved.

Dressed up for daddy’s birthday morning

Cats

Watching Lion King 2

In size order.

HBD, Isaiah!

The turtle game

They pretend to be turtles who hide in their shells (the blankets) whenever humans walk by. Gideon thinks this is an invitation to run and jump on them.

Gideon’s best life

Flowers, butterflies, kittens.

Dad’s first visit to church

New month

I let Sylvia make the new calendar.