Tor is taking a music class at the local Scholastic Store. It is really great. One guy plays the acoustic guitar and the other guy plays the electric bass. Before we left the store, Tor had to ride on Clifford the Big Red Dog.

Last Wednesday Jack dressed as a pirate for camp. He is wearing the pirate bandanna he colored and the pirate bracelet he made.

The first photo was the day after we met Andy Pettitte and he insisted on wearing his Yankee Jersey. Andy pitched a great game that night.

I thought it was pretty cool that in the background of this pic with Tor is a picture of one of the first times Bestemor met Jack. The same exact lamp is in each picture too. Here is the pic that is in that frame. Jack is 5 months old.

Liv sure has changed since the last time Tante Nanny saw her.

Liv loves her Aunt Nanette too!

We went up to the Cabin on the Fourth of July. Here Bestemor is meeting Liv for the fist time.

Later on we sang Bestemor a happy birthday and cut the cake the kids made.

This year we made our Fourth of July cake again. I did better than I did last year! I also took a tip from Maggie and just iced and decorated it in the pan I cooked it in. That made it a whole lot easier. I didn't make a parafait with the leftover fruit like I did last year, I forgot. Next year!

Several months ago I ordered a Bugville Butterfly kit to raise our own butterflies. The kit came and just like with the ant farm, we had to send off for the insects, in this case the caterpillars. I put it on my list to do after Liv came and was reminded when Linda and Sam had us over to release their butterflies. I finally sent the money to Insect Lore and we got our caterpillars about three weeks later. They started off really small but each day they grew noticeably bigger until they were the biggest caterpillars I have ever seen. Then they turned themselves into chrysalis' and we put them into our butterfly tent. About a week later they came out and we watched them dry their wings and then start flying. We kept them for an additional 2 days just to make sure they were ready (as per instructions) and then we released them.

The people that organized the Lego exhibit left a room for the kids to play with Lego's too. That was brilliant. I mean what fun is it for kids looking at Lego's but not being able to play with some. The weekend after this, we went to the Lego store at Palisades and got some Lego's for the boys. They have been playing with Duplos (bigger Lego's) because of Tor's age. Now we have a whole bunch of Lego's just in time for Liv :).

I tried on some crazy shoes today at the mall. They looked much better on display than they did on my actual feet. Brian described them as I tried them on and then twittered his descriptions. He had me in hysterics. People were looking at us and not because the kids were climbing on the chairs like monkeys while they were waiting for me.

This is what he twittered: Niki looking at crazy shoes: 1) "Hercules' wife." 2) "Sneakers disfigured in a car accident." 3) "Ballerina got committed to insane asylum."

One of the neatest Lego creations was a complete dinosaur skeleton. Wires hung from the ceiling to help support it because it was so big. Wouldn't you know as soon as we turned our backs to look at another Lego creation, Tor went under the ropes and approached the dinosaur with his hand extended.

I turned around right before he touched it and those movie scenes where the child grabs a bone and the whole dinosaur collapses flashed through my mind in a spit second. I yelled for him to stop, which he did, and Brian was able to get him before any damage was done. Later Brian told me the artist glues each lego piece as he snaps them together...but still.