Boys will be…well, boys.  The other day the boys were having fun in the neighbor’s yard after they re-discovered their “squirty pencils” in our garage.  It turns out money can buy happiness.  The dollar store sold the squirty pencils all summer (oddly, for $2.00).  My dad initially bought them a couple of these up at the lake.  I am not sure how many of these we went through, but they had waaay more than $2.00 of fun with these things over the summer.  Now of course, everything is a sword to them.  Well, at least to Charlie.  Nate has no clue and just happily mimics whatever his brother is doing.

I realized today that it’s been way too long since I’ve taken any shots of my own boys.  And this one, he’s really hard to nail down.  He runs as fast as he can from my camera most of the time.  So for once, I think *not* having taken pictures of him in a while worked in my favor, he didn’t have the usual run and hide response when I got out my camera.

The light in the backyard was nice and bright so I decided to try to talk him in to laying down for a minute to look for airplanes 🙂  So here are the many faces of Charlie, over the course of exactly two minutes.

Lazy days.  In jammies.  My favorite kind!  Okay so I admit these shots aren’t from this week.  I am *still* way behind and trying to catch up.  But these are very recent!  Nate is (unfortunately) getting really into Caillou as of late.  Just when I thought I was off the hook because Charlie seems to be losing interest a little bit…

So here he is just mesmerized by everyone’s favorite bald 4 year old.  And if you don’t know who Caillou is?  Be glad.  It’s worse than Barney.

Nate (age 2) contemplating the lake, as so many have before. Next time we go, all of the leaves will be gone. It’s so pretty while it lasts though! Happy fall! (I’m soooo not ready for winter yet!)