It has bloomed.

And, to Addie’s great gasps of joy, one of her other little sunflowers showed up too.

She is thrilled because all of Emma’s friends are coming over to her garden for their book club this afternoon, and now she has beautiful blooms to share with them.

While we were waiting for our flowers to bloom we spent hours playing with…wait for it…empty boxes. Yes, cardboard boxes.

You know – whatever keeps them happy – and gives me photo opportunities like this.

And then…just to blow their little minds, we finally were able to get bunkbeds this weekend. And whenever I couldn’t find them on the patio in the boxes, I just had to look up in the top bunk. I am not sure what the allure is, but hours, HOURS have been spent hanging out on the top bunk. Just look how many monkeys were (NOT) jumping on the bed. (And try to not look at how badly our trim needs to be painted. Ugh. Dingy-ness. Add it to the to-do list)

All of this (kinda, somewhat) free entertainment is mighty handy since I just realized that we leave one week for our big trip, and we are taking Audrey to Disney for her birthday tomorrow, we leave for the weekend on Friday, and essentially have Monday and Tuesday to get all our world in order. Yikes.