potato pickin' time!

last week, we took ethan and lucia out to jarrod's parents house, specifically, the huge, over-abundant garden. their tomato plants were incredibly fruitful and ours, alas, were not, so we all had a raucous good time picking what was left over on the vines (they had recently spent an entire day canning tomatoes). ethan, still figuring out this language thing, kept calling the tomatos "potatoes" which was pretty cute. He was a very good little helper and when stacey, elliot and ruby came out to join us, he wasted no time in giving direction to the newcomers. 

ethan finds another patch of potatoes.

diane and lucia go exploring.

jarrod and ethan survey our bounty.

ethan helps ruby through the vines. adorable.

cecca and lucia wait patiently for the tractor. lucia has no idea what we are about to put her through.

"c'mon y'all! the piggly-wiggly ain't gonna stay open 'til we say it gonna!"

even a ball couldn't make lucy like this.

funny story: before we left to go over to rich and diane's place, i was asking ethan if he remembered what it looked like. Last time he was there was 4th of july last year, during which they had rented a bounce house for all the kids to play in. I asked him if he remembered it and, whether or not he really did remember it, he become fixated on the idea of a bounce house existing at the place we were headed. I tried to tell him the bounce house wouldn't be there because it had to go back to the store, but he was not having it. It was bounce house this, bounce house that for a good twenty minutes. Lo and behold, we go in the backyard and diane says she can quick inflate the bounce house for the kids to play in. the bounce house they had just recently purchased. ethan one, cecca zero.

bounce house!

ethan prepares for the exorcism; yep, he's still doing those.

a little mid-bounce stretching session. ethan is a stickler for strained muscle prevention.