Boys In The House

Look who's here! It's spend-the-night night for these two boys. In that picture, August was creating a game to play with marbles and was cutting up an egg carton for that purpose. He is such a little engineer. So is Levon, actually. While August was creating the marble game, Levon was setting up dominos in pleasing patterns to knock over. They let me read to them and I was just so damn happy. I love that fact that August and Levon getting better at understanding the jokes in books. We laugh and laugh and laugh. There is just nothing better. 

They tell me that school is going great. Levon loves his kindergarten teacher who was August's kindergarten teacher. August has three teachers this year- that's how they're doing it at his school. One for math, one for English, one for...I don't know. What do you study in second grade? He says he'd rather have his old kindergarten teacher. 

They do like their new puppy who has a name- Sophie! Jessie loves that name so much and she loves that puppy so much. Sophie has now slept through the night two times. Big progress. She peed on the couch but Jessie was at work so she probably did not get taken out as often as Jessie takes her out. 

Besides playing marbles, and dominos, and reading, and giving me reports about school and their new puppy sister, the boys have also watched The Batman Lego Movie. I had no idea such a thing existed but indeed it does and what a cast of actors who do the voices! My Lord. They were so excited I'm surprised they didn't pee on my couch. I made them and their grandfather popcorn and put a whole bunch of butter on it and nutritional yeast and salt and now they they're going to try and hook up the Wii game thing. 

And that's about all that's been going on here. Of course I'm simmering chicken and onions and green beans and carrots and celery for chicken and dumplings. I hope they come out better than the last ones I made which was in North Carolina when I was at the tail end of being sick. They were not my best effort. In fact, August tried a dumpling and said, "These things are hard as rocks!" 
He was not far from wrong. I have no idea how I made hard dumplings but I sort of did. 
"You're lucky I made dumplings at all," I told him. I was not offended in the least though, and even laughed. I mean, he was just telling the truth. They were...filling, shall we say?

It did not get up into the hundreds today, temperature-wise, but it was close. For some damn reason Mr. Moon and Vergil decided that it was time to go set up the deer feeder and trail cams at Tom's house in preparation for this year's hunting. 
"Do you really think you have to do this on the hottest day of the year?" I asked my husband.
"Yes," he answered. "Yes I do."
I told Jessie that if he had a heart attack I'd kill him. 
He didn't have a heart attack so all is well. 

And I've just been informed that the Wii won't work with our new TV without something that I have no knowledge of. This is a bummer. I guess I better get in there and make some fluffy dumplings. I swear to you, it never occurred to me before that I could make dumplings that weren't fluffy but now that I've done it, I am quite worried that I've lost my touch. 

We shall see. 

Love...Ms. Moon