Lemonade and Broken Bones

Last Friday Micaela had the day off of school, so she got to spend the day home with Kurt. She invited her friend Emily over and they decided they wanted to have a lemonade stand (Micaela's first). Kurt thought it was a great idea - he could take them to the store, buy lemons and waste some time, and then they would spend all afternoon outside and out of his hair (well, he doesn't have hair, but you know what I mean). I guess he didn't realize the appeal of two cute kids behind a lemonade stand, because after an hour, the first batch of lemonade was gone. Kurt spent the rest of the afternoon using our juicer to make fresh squeezed lemonade for the girls. They made out like bandits ($32!) but the lemonade was actually very good. Here are some pictures with Micaela and some of the kids from the neighborhood:

Okay, well, no one has any broken bones YET... but a family down the street with three girls that Micaela plays with is moving and they needed a home for their large trampoline. Kurt's first inclination was to say "No" because what are we going to do with it once we move? But my first inclination was to say "Yes", what a great way for Micaela to get all that energy she has out. Eventually we compromised and decided that we would take it and give it to Kristen before we move since she has a large yard and two energetic boys. The downside is that within minutes of placing it in our backyard we had all the kids from the neighborhood over jumping on it. I have no desire to be liable for other peoples kids and don't want to be babysitting all the time, so we're just going to have to establish some rules and figure out a way to keep kids off of it when we're not around (hmm...maybe some kind of electric shock system). Anyways, we had a great afternoon and it's only 7:30 and Micaela is already up in her bed passed out from exhaustion, can't ask for too much more.

This is Jessica (from the family that gave us the trampoline) and I doing our mean faces. I wanted Kurt to take a picture of my new haircut, but you can hardly tell in this picture.