silly hats

monday nights are tough here at the potter zoo. 

while daddy is off edumacating himself, mommy is left all alone with these two...

i was supermom today though. we met our friends at jamison square. had some fun in the sun. did some art projects after nap time. monkey started potty training. gave both boys their baths. and did laundry. i think i definitely earned my mommy points today. 

baby girl

when i was a little girl, one of my favorite things was my cabbage patch doll. 

my mom had given me a sweet baby girl with orange yarn hair. i absolutely adored her. 

i have many memories of her. and the one i remember the most is when i came home from school one day and she wasn't in my room. i looked everywhere for her. in the living room, the kitchen, the garage. and then i saw her. or bits of her. there was stuffing and orange yarn all over the deck in our backyard. and i just cried. 

you see, my lovely sisters decided to play with her and left her in the backyard. with arthur, our dog. all alone. to fend for herself. she had no chance. she was shredded to bits. and i was devastated. 

i still haven't gotten over it (obviously). and i make sure that my sisters don't ever forget that day either. 

so the other day i was on ebay and i found her! well her twin. 

and she was literally just one town over. 

so i placed a bid, won and on saturday i brought her home to meet her brothers. 

monkey welcomed her with big hugs. 

like a caveman, mucus dragged her around by her precious orange hair. 

i can already tell who's going to be the smooth one with the ladies...

funny faces

i ask the boys to smile for the camera and this is what i get...

monkey loves dr. seuss

when monkey boy was just a little monkey babe, he took a liking to this particular book. he could read it all day long. he absolutely loved it. he would sit all day on his favorite chair...er, bumbo and read. mommy read this so many times, i had it memorized.

luckily, monkey boy still loves to read. and he still loves dr. seuss. but his favorite is now the cat in the hat. and i have to tell you that this book exhausts me. and he wants to read it every night. and don't bother to skip pages to shorten the story. monkey will notice.

daddy says that this was his fave when he was a little monkey too. 

like father, like son. 

mucus, on the other hand is...

...hopeless.

Happy Birthday Bama!

Oregon State Fair

funnel cakes. deep-fried oreos. corn dogs. mmm...

we packed the boys up and off we went to the

State Fair!

put on the shades and off we go...

we saw some 'aminals'

played some big boy games.

 

won some prizes.

we were so excited to get on some rides,  but monkey boy was just a little bit too short. but who wouldn't enjoy a boat ride in the rain? 

yes, this is oregon. it rained. 

but we had ourselves a good ole time!