Fourth of July and other things

So we had lunch at the Leas the other day and had a little French reunion with Nicolas and Allison and their two little boys who were home from France on a short furlough. Susan got out her beloved pet ferrets and James was absolutley thrilled with them. they ran away and hid themsleves pretty quickly however. The Farrely's little boy Elliot couldn't get enough of playing in this slimy little fountain.
































Fourth of July was fun with a picnic at the Dubles. James had a great time wandering around picking off of everyone elses plates and cans of coke. He wasnt even scared of the fireworks. He just kept pointing and saying "Loot". He mixes up kays and tees. I never knew that letters actually have a spelling in the dictionary until i met the Scrabble dictionary. Erika brought Bocci Ball and we played for a long time. It was nicely reminiscent of home. Steve even got into a pretty intense badmitton tournament. Another one of those talents I never knew my hubby possessed. : )




























































We have fun taking pictures of Etienne. He is a really funny baby. When we give him a bath, for some reason he tries to suck his whole chin into his mouth, and he is so fat that his neck has dissapeared so we have to really dig under there to clean it out.
I have no idea how James managed to get his shirt tangled like that, but it was pretty funny.





























































These pictures are a little freak of nature that we found on our porch. Our dog is shedding grocery bags full of hair at this point, and we have noted in the past that birds and mice especially like to benefit from the plentiful supply, but I never knew that June bugs like to roll it into perfect spheres and fly away with it. The South never ceases to surprise me.