::in which sandy truly enjoys some chocolate ice cream::

It was wednesday night. I was feeding Lucy and getting her ready for bed back in the bedroom and Kris had to quickly run out to mutual. (of course as soon as I got released from Young Women Kris got called right into Young Men--we'll have busy Wednesday nights for the rest of forever). Anyway, I heard some commotion outside and so I stepped out of my bedroom door--I was intending upon taking a Lucy & Mom selfie. I only got this far:

Because then I looked and saw Sandy.

He said to me, "It's a pewfect night for ice cwream!" And obviously, it was.

Evidently Max had helped him get his shirt off after it became covered in ice cream.
Sandy's face was so out of control that I didn't even get a picture of poor Max. He's gotten to the point where he can keep his face clean, which is a good thing in a 10 yr old.


Happy eyes.

We love our goofy little Sandy.
And Lucy looked on, anticipating the day when she could be covered with ice cream as well. In the meantime she thought maybe she'd make some bubbles. It kept her busy.

::max makes lucy laugh::

Max is the expert at making Lucy laugh. I can do it once in a while, but he's consistent. She thinks he's hilarious. And since he also thinks he's hilarious they're a matched pair. But seriously, when he's holding her she's just completely transfixed by him. It's very cute.
For some reason Max loves the face that Lucy makes when she's lying on her back and somebody picks her up--she makes this frowny concentrating face and it really cracks him up.
I think this night he was watching Lucy for me so that I could get Sandy into bed.  He's a real help sometimes.  It's hard some nights when I'm the only parent and now I'm so outnumbered.  It's great to have a big kid around that understands I need help.  I love him.

::sandy candy::

When I was going through my photos I realized I just have so many goofy pictures of our Sandy. Sweet ones too actually. He's just such a funny character. So here are a few of the fun ones for you.

Goggles--they're pretty much like sunglasses according to Sandy.  He used to call them "goo-goo goggles" because of the Dr. Suess alphabet book (he called all glasses that for a while too).  So we still call them goo-goo goggles quite often.



More goggles and some mommy too.

Maybe he's pretending to be a dog here? I can't remember why he wanted this picture taken specifically, but I know it was requested.

Yes, he's super adorable.

Our cute little babysitter took this one. She loves the boys. That's all it takes to make me love her.

Back seat pirate.
A few weeks ago we were on a Sunday afternoon hike as a family. Some folks came along going the opposite direction. They had a little yappy dog with them. Little dogs make Sandy really nervous, which is pretty funny considering how big HIS dog is, but anyway. As they came along the lady called out, "Felix! Come!" Sandy says to me, "That's funny, Felix the DOG."
I was really impressed (and amused) that he got the joke--that it really should've been Felix the cat. He's smart and pretty funny too--when he's not making poop jokes.
There's your taste of Sandy Candy for the day.

::found::

I was scanning really boring work stuff in my home office when I turned over a seemingly blank piece of paper and found this: I was pretty delighted to run across this intriguing piece of work, and just disappointed that there was no more to it. I'm going to have to sit down with Max and force him to finish the story.