Columbus Day weekend

Chloe, therapy cat. She always comes running when one of the kids starts crying

Choo choo!

Gleefully eating "Uncle Mike's Famous Maple Syrup" on his pumpkin pancakes

Picnic at the park

Hey -- four-way cooperation!!

Pumpkin Patch Outing

"New" map from Baba and Jiji!  We added a post-it that says "Daddy is here" so we always know where he is!

Very excited about his new "Darth Vader Rides a Bicycle" t-shirt from BabaJiji

Just came back from half an hour at the Pumpkin Patch jump house.  WOW the dirt!

"Can I ride this horse?" 

Laughing Tea

Terran talks

Terran: "This is a cheeseburger."
Me: "Actually, Terran, it is a grilled cheese sandwich."
Terran (nodding): "It is a type of sandwich."  

Great sentence construction, little 2 year old!

We get bored ... time for a picnic and the Lindsey Wildlife Museum

Picnic at Larkey Park

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Summertime keeps rolling on

Thomas and I play Scrabble ... Thomas does pretty well!

Candy Land

A walk down the Martinez Marina

We make the beds into bunks

Butterfly Sophia

Just a week without Matthew

Thomas helps Matthew spackle our room; Téa is building up to crawling; Thomas helps out his cousin; breaking out the shaved ice maker from my youth; Terran wins three games of Candy Land in a row!

Star Talk with Thomas and Sophia

Thomas: Beetlegeuse is a red giant! It's so big, mommy! If our Sun was a red giant, it would be so big! It would go out past the asteroid belt, to Jupiter even!

Me: Wow, that's really big! I'm glad our Sun is not a red giant, because then we'd be inside the sun!

Sophia (matter-of-factly): You would need to wear a tank top.