Conversations Through the Vent

Today we had a coed baby shower to attend, for my quasi-cousin Melissa. I made her a nursing cover. They're one of my standard baby gifts now, because I love mine.
Melissa got lots of good stuff. The babies had lots of fun with a bunch of family.
Cason looked handsome.
Paige looked beautiful.
Chris adored Jess.
AND Paige received another awesome finger puppet from "uncle" Michael. The coolest one yet, in my opinion. A mama and baby llama, from his trip to Peru. Thanks Michael. On the way home Jess said, Uncle Mike is nice to get that for you, isn't he? And she said "Uncle Nice." So that's your name.

We went over to my mom's for a while, so Jess could hook up her stove for her. First of all, we tried going last night, but ended up needing a part from Home Depot, and had to wait for today. But on our way last night Jess noticed his cell phone riding on the hood of our car, because I put it there while I buckled Paige in, and then forgot it. We pulled over to get it, and we both said we'd grab it. Jess goes "Oh no you won't." So of course it turned into a race. It was closer to his side, so I jumped out just before he put it in park, and dove across the hood to try and get it. I lost, but he did admit that he was impressed by my effort. Paige was grinning when we got back in, and goes "Mama funny on a car!" She talked about it for a while.

Speaking of driving, look at how Jess drives, instead of buying sunglasses.
While we were at mom's house I went outside to see how her garden is doing. I planted a TON of squash seeds a couple months ago, to make sure I got a few healthy plants. I ended up with like 12, so I sent some over to my sisters and mom, since I didn't have a ton of room. Well mine started off strong, but recently quit growing, and looked wilted and just unhealthy. THESE beauties are the ones I sent to my mom:
Whatever.

Mine are now in here:
But since my mom just likes gardening, and doesn't really cook much with squash, I got to take home the first big beautiful fat yellow squash we harvested today. Her labor, my gain.

Tonight Tyra and I were baking some Father's Day goodies. While we baked, Paige discovered she could talk to Jess through the vent between the kitchen and living room. She was SOOOO pumped. She kept running back and forth telling us to "LOOK", and trading rooms with him, while they talked through the vent.