There are a few toys that I honestly think Matt likes more than Thomas does. Case in point - the giant bag of balls he bought for "Thomas" at Target last year. I think it was right after Christmas and these bags of balls made for those tiny ball pits they sell that time of year. We don't have a ball pit, but 100 balls for $4 seemed like a steal.
Today, the two of them were having such fun putting the balls in a tube and launching them up in the air. The giggling was so cute! And since the balls are so bright, I thought it might make for some cute photos.
As an aside - if you noticed his outfit looks a little weird, it's not out fault. We sent him to school in a normal outfit and he smeared spaghetti sauce all over his shirt. And since he had done the same thing with chicken & dumplings earlier this week, he didn't have a spare shirt. He did, however, have his swim suit top...
Anyhow, back to the cuteness... As soon as I got over there to take photos, I became a target. And while Thomas wasn't entirely sure Dada should be launching things at his momma, he still kept supplying the tube with new ones.
See what I have to put up with? And it's only the two of them! Just wait until Henry gets old enough to be in the mix as well...
I'm doomed.
I couldn't really get mad though - they were both having a great time launching the balls across the room. And they are soft enough it didn't hurt too much...
Although their relative "softness" made them an easy target for a big, black lab that happens to be obsessed with balls. She's probably taken out about half of them - they can't even stand up to a gentle grab (not that she is all that gentle!). Thomas gets so upset when she grabs one and I hear him yelling "my ball! my ball!" from across the house... Poor guy!
On an unrelated note, the days are getting shorter again. The past few days have been cloudy, so it's even been dark on my drive in to work... Boo! The only upside is the sunsets are back and we can see our volcano again!
Hello Mt. Redoubt - we missed you!
Of course later I was telling Matt the volcano was out and noticed something that I hadn't seen before. What was that thing?? So I went and grabbed the binoculars and saw it was the sun* setting! How cool!
I ran and got the camera to see if I could get a photo of it since it was getting pretty dark - and I managed to get a pretty clear one! There was a little bit of monkeying around to get the photo true to what I saw since I was shooting pretty late in the day with a long lens (gotta love Lightroom!).
*Ok, I have to be honest. I really, really thought it was the moon! Then I was trying a iPhone photo through the binoculars (because I read online that was a thing) and by the time I had figured how to line the phone up, the "moon" was half gone. I couldn't figure out why the moon was disappearing so soon?
And that's when it occurred to me that the sun was the more likely astronomical body to be disappearing at 'sun'set. I have no problem blaming this on a lack of sleep - it's been a long week. But the photo was still awesome - moon or sun! :)
Haha - and it just occurred to me that I should have told Matt "That's no moon..." when I realized my mistake. Why can I never think of these clever things at the right moment?? Argh!