Kate and Nadia with their babes.	Now holding her own big bottles…some of the time.	Rudy trying to “ease” her way into Lucy’s play area.
Yet another ballgame.	Grab those toes!	Lucy with Nanny at the lake.
Lazy dogs at the lake.	Learning to sit up……	And excited about it!
Packed and ready to go….	But where to???	Raspberrying at everyone!

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Last weekend, Katie and I came home from a late evening outing only to find 10 (yes, we counted) dog puke stains on our NEW carpet.  10 - in one evening – that’s a lot.  We don’t know for certain which dog did it, so we blame Turk.  Why not?  He destroyed our last carpet by chewing giant holes in it.  Yesterday, he tracked poo in and spread that around the carpet.  Katie was kind and took the doggy doody duty.  I took pooch puke patrol.  Thankfully, we own a carpet cleaning machine. 

Katie suggested that it is practice for when our kid will make messes and we should learn to laugh about it.  I pray that our child doesn’t try to recolor our floors with poo and puke. 

Darn Turkey Butt (we think).

We often like to head out for the weekend and spend a couple of days at the lake.  It was a short trip as we couldn’t leave until Saturday morning and we had to head out Sunday at 2 PM.  Still, it was worth it.  Mom made us some fantastic food.  I helped Dad work on the sailboat.  It is coming along well.  He has put a lot of work into fixing it.  The boat was seriously damanged in a storm a few years ago.  He thinks we are almost ready to get the boat back into the water.

You can also see our progress on the new tree house.  Katie was standing in front of it just before we got in the car to come back to Houston and I snapped a couple of photos.  We started building this treehouse last year using a lot of the leftover wood from the old pier we took down.  That wood went into the “platform” that is attached to four trees.  The “house” sits on top of the platform.  The house framing is done.  The roof is decked and covered with tarpaper.  We put up enough siding to give the walls some stability.  It should be done in time for our kid to start playing in it.

It’s fun to get out of the city and let the dogs run, play, fetch, and drive the mule.  The mule is kind of like a small pickup truck.  It could also be described as a golf cart on steriods since it has 4-wheel drive and can launch boats.  Any time we fire up the mule, the dogs all compete for who gets to ride shotgun.  It’s normally pretty cute, unless the winning dog just got out of the lake.  Then you’re just trying to drive while keeping a stinky wet dog from crawling all over you.

This is a picture of our dog Turk (short for Turkey Butt) as he begins another round of chasing his tail.