Evening

When there is silence in the house in the early evening, this is usually why:

I can get lost in what I'm doing (cleaning the kitchen, making another batch of pickles, prepping dinner, all the while listening to NPR on the radio) and suddenly notice that I'm not hearing little voices anymore.

Today, Jim took them to the movies and then out to play basketball. It was an awesome daddy-son afternoon. And later, they read. Solo. So nice.

 

So you gotta reward that behavior ;)
Both kids thoroughly enjoyed some s'mores. Yuuuuuuum.
(Mommy had a Yinger ;)