Matinee

I watched three of Becky's children while she took the twins and Cassie to the doctor's office and errand-running. After four hours of playing indoors and outside, I broke down and let them watch a movie, and then I took way too many pictures. They were still and oblivious, though. It was an impossible combination that I found too tempting to resist. And please remember that I've already defended their perpetually grubby faces.








They're so tense here, which is funny because the movie they were watching was about Kermit. His friends had been kidnapped by a science teacher, but still...



During one especially terrifying sequence involving frog puppets, Millie leapt off the couch, instinctively making this gesture.



These little girls were too sleepy to care much about the fate of the frogs.





I like that she's holding her doll's hand.



Hannah






They swap expressions.









Tommy, the Lone Boy



Susannah found his sprawl quite convenient as a sippy cup holder.