Chuckelsbury Schmidt

If this face doesn't cheer you right up in the morning...
I'm not sure what will.

This is Sam enjoying our breakfast picnic.

Mountains I

This weekend we had a little family mountain weekend.
We found a gem of a house in Banner Elk. We wound up
Grandfather Mountain (I think) up up up,
then we rounded a curve to see a split rail fence,
these beautiful little cabins nestled into their own lots,
and a lovely meadow right in the middle of all the land.

Here is our first morning waking up at the cabin.
Here was our view!

And a few more pictures from our picnic breakfast.

At the breakfast table...

E: "Do you like eels?"
Me: "sort of..."
E: "do you like ouchies?"
me: "no"
me: "do you like ouchies?"
E: (excited for the opportunity to shock) "yes!"
E: "do you like hippopotomuses?"
me: "yes"
E: "do you like breakfast?"
me: "yes"
Sam: "dada da dadadada"
E: "do you like little babies?"
me: "yes!"
E: "do you want to watch clifford together?"
me: "YES!"

from the backseat... part II

This is what Evan was asking me from the backseat
yesterday on the way home from school:
Evan: "do you like...spiders!?"
me: "um, not really"
E: "Do you like birds?"
me:"yes"
E: "do you like wildebeests"
me: "um, yes, they are interesting"
E: "do you like garbage?"
me: "no"
E: "do you like fingerprints?"
me: "um, they are interesting."
E: "do you like mailboxes?"
me: "sure"
E: "do you like wasps?"
me: "no. not at all"
E: "whyyy nooot?"
me: "because they might sting me"
E: "do you like garbage?"

Buds

I love these two.

First bath...

In the big tub that is!

from the backseat...

As we were leaving from school this afternoon Evan
was having the following conversation with himself.

Evan: "Don't worry Evan"
Evan: "NO! I want to worry"