Day 191/365: July 9th. Just a Wednesday evening playing at home. It starts out like this: “Daddy, will you help me build {insert name of dismantled Lego set here}?”  It ends like this: “Daddy, that’s okay. You can just finish it by yourself.”

Day 192/365: July 10th. What time is it, Dexter?  We were out to eat, celebrating the successful completion of a project I had a love/hate relationship: “Frugal June.” I really need to write about my attempt to decrease non-essential spending for 30 days.

Day 193/365: July 11th. My friend’s sweet baby boy at the splash pad on Friday evening. Why can’t they stay this age forever!?

Day 194/365: July 12th. This photo is pathetic. Saturday was a nice day …relatively uneventful but not without opportunities to take some nice photos. I just wasn’t in the mood. This picture was the only successful {if you want to call it that} attempt to get a picture of all 5 of these wild boys having a picnic.  A picnic with 5 kids ages 4 and under isn’t that relaxing, for the record.

Day 195/365: July 13th. Sunday morning bowling. I could feel a cold coming on late Saturday night so while I still felt halfway decent, we took advantage of Sunday morning happy hour at the bowling alley. Ryan and I hadn’t been bowling together in YEARS and the boys had never been at all.  It was actually really fun and I was surprised at how much the boys seemed to enjoy it. Dex tired out on the 7th frame but Theo finished his game and Dexter’s.  We’ll have to go again soon.  Also, the tiny bowling shoes were adorable.

Day 196/365: July 14th. This is the kind of fancy dinner my kids got once the head cold was full-blown and there were 87 gallons of snot in my head. Bologna & cheese roll-ups, applesauce, and shelled edamame.  Cleaned their plates…figures.

Day 197/365: A couple weeks earlier we went to a friend’s house to picnic and swim. It poured down rain on the way there and our picnic ended up taking place on a blanket on my friend’s dining room floor.  Tuesday night Theo asked me if we could have a picnic in the living room but it was a gorgeous night so I convinced him and Dexter to take it outdoors.

I felt like my pictures were a little uninspired this week. I’m sad to not feature at least one nature/landscape shot but it just didn’t work out that way. I found myself more than once feeling that me messing with my camera settings and trying to get the right shot was turning into more of a hassle, taking AWAY from the moment, and I just put the camera down.  Do you ever feel this way?

My favorite picture this week is day 193 – my friend’s cute little boy at the splash park.

Which one do you like best?