Sorry, buddies. You’re getting a new play area.

This enclosure was actually built for Ben and his cousins for our Newport Beach family reunion in 2003. My brother-in-law, Byron, designed it, cut and glued the frame, and even sewed the fabric. It has sat in my mother’s basement ever since. She sent it out when she saw how hard it was to keep the twins in line in our backyard.

There’s nothing like having 1/2 and acre, with a pond, stream, and trees, but only having to survey 100 square feet of it.

We pulled out Miles’ old Playskool car for the twins. I think we may need another one…

Isaac knew exactly what to do, probably because he can see the driver from his seat in the van.

Asher had a lot of fun in the car too.

Um, this probably isn't good.

And on and on it went.

In these highlights he gets a couple of hits, out races the slowest baserunner in history, and trash talks with #5 (his friend Colby).

This is a pretty boring set from last week. It’s not that times haven’t been exciting, it’s that they’ve been so exciting that we have few pictures that don’t deserve their own post.

So now republicans are calling for a special prosecutor to investigate the claim that the Obama administration offered a job to keep a candidate from running for senate. The story goes like this:

1. Last April, with President Obama riding a high approval rating, 79-year-old Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Spector changes the letter after his name from an “R” to a “D”.
2. In August, Pennsylvania Representative Joe Sestak announces he will challenge Spector for the democratic nomination.
3. In February, Sestak claims that he turned down a “job offer” from the Obama Administration, a job he said they would give him if he dropped out of the race.
4. This month, Sestak defeated Spector in the primary election.
5. Since then a gaggle of republicans have made the rounds of the beltway new programs, dusting up the issue of Sestak’s job offer.
6. Now every republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee signed a letter to the Attorney General asking for an investigation into the job offer.

This is pure political maneuvering.

If the potential of bribery was so heinous, why did it take three months for a letter of concern appear? Simply put, the republicans had to wait until the results of the investigation would be a win-win for them.

Either Sestak overstated his encounter with the Administration or the Administration is understating. If the former is true, the republicans stand to regain Spector’s seat by disgracing the democratic nominee. If the latter is true, there will be a shake-up in the Administration, or, as some have suggested, this attempted bribery could be an “impeachable offense.”

If anything improper occurred, great! The opposition’s cabinet will take a fall. If nothing improper occurred, good! The opposition’s candidate will look bad. Had the republicans moved before Sestak won the primary, they would have probably lost that second option.

We might think twice about sharing a video of the family room when it’s such a mess, but it’s the twins’ mess anyway.

Click to see the whole thing:

He found Brooke’s camera.

I took last week off because I was really busy finishing up the semester. Brooke and the boys have been stretched thin with the opening of t-ball and Little League (I have pics of those coming up). For now, here’s some shot from the last two weeks.

We’ve been exploring our culinary side. I tried to replicate Shoots’ honey-roasted walnut chicken and Brooke tested out the baguette pan we gave her for Mother’s Day. She did much better than I did: I used too much honey, so it was way too sweet.