Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Monday, July 11, 2011
July 4th Catch-up, Part 2, Corn and Donkeys
On Saturday, July 2, after nap we headed out to see GraGra and Papa Greg and measure some corn. See an explanation of measuring corn here.
Colin and Gillian were pretty happy to see GraGra and Papa and immediately set out to do everything possible that their parents would never let them do. Well, not EVERYTHING...but they tried. First they checked out GraGra's new playhouse. She found hers by the side of the road for free too. We are so awesome.
Then they "helped" Papa water the garden. I wasn't present, but I hear G told Papa when he tried to explain how the hose works, "No, I figure it out myself!" Yep, that's my girl.
When I got there, Colin was pretty well soaked. Apparently Gillian was innocent though, Colin had just backed himself directly into her line of fire.
Once we finally convinced them that the plants were plenty wet, we walked up to the corn field to measure some corn. The field we picked looked pretty good. It was one of the highest fields we saw in the area. The wet, cold spring was tough on planting season, I think.
For the third year in a row, the kids were less than thrilled with this activity. Tough. They will continue to humor me for many more years.
This year they asked lots of questions while we measured. Mostly "WHY are we in the corn and WHAT are we doing?"
G using her knee to measure. You know....KNEE high by the Fourth of July!
Definitely not thrilled.
After torturing the kids with corn for a while, GraGra insisted that we ride down the road to visit a baby donkey. My Grandpa owns a male miniature donkey who was bred with a lady donkey down the road and the baby had just been born on June 30. Mostly I was humoring my mom. But, I'm glad we did. That baby donkey was just about the cutest dang thing I've ever seen. (Yet another example of, Always Listen to your Mother.).
Meet Junie.
She was super friendly, sniffing us up and down and nuzzling a bit. Then she would RACE off, jumping and bucking, turn on a dime, and race back. Oh my, she was funny. I wish I had a video of her shenanigans.
The kids enjoyed Junie, and pet her some. But, they were more intrigued by the other animals that lived with Junie. Junie's donkey mom (Ellen), of course, and another lady donkey, a horse, chickens, pigeons, frogs, guinea pigs, and a herd of dachshunds. Honestly, it was like toddler heaven.
After petting and talking to many of the animals, we headed back to Grammy and Papa's for pizza (mmmm, the BEST local pizza place ever) in the backyard. Another fun day! With more to come!
Colin and Gillian were pretty happy to see GraGra and Papa and immediately set out to do everything possible that their parents would never let them do. Well, not EVERYTHING...but they tried. First they checked out GraGra's new playhouse. She found hers by the side of the road for free too. We are so awesome.
Then they "helped" Papa water the garden. I wasn't present, but I hear G told Papa when he tried to explain how the hose works, "No, I figure it out myself!" Yep, that's my girl.
When I got there, Colin was pretty well soaked. Apparently Gillian was innocent though, Colin had just backed himself directly into her line of fire.
Once we finally convinced them that the plants were plenty wet, we walked up to the corn field to measure some corn. The field we picked looked pretty good. It was one of the highest fields we saw in the area. The wet, cold spring was tough on planting season, I think.
For the third year in a row, the kids were less than thrilled with this activity. Tough. They will continue to humor me for many more years.
This year they asked lots of questions while we measured. Mostly "WHY are we in the corn and WHAT are we doing?"
G using her knee to measure. You know....KNEE high by the Fourth of July!
Definitely not thrilled.
After torturing the kids with corn for a while, GraGra insisted that we ride down the road to visit a baby donkey. My Grandpa owns a male miniature donkey who was bred with a lady donkey down the road and the baby had just been born on June 30. Mostly I was humoring my mom. But, I'm glad we did. That baby donkey was just about the cutest dang thing I've ever seen. (Yet another example of, Always Listen to your Mother.).
Meet Junie.
She was super friendly, sniffing us up and down and nuzzling a bit. Then she would RACE off, jumping and bucking, turn on a dime, and race back. Oh my, she was funny. I wish I had a video of her shenanigans.
The kids enjoyed Junie, and pet her some. But, they were more intrigued by the other animals that lived with Junie. Junie's donkey mom (Ellen), of course, and another lady donkey, a horse, chickens, pigeons, frogs, guinea pigs, and a herd of dachshunds. Honestly, it was like toddler heaven.
After petting and talking to many of the animals, we headed back to Grammy and Papa's for pizza (mmmm, the BEST local pizza place ever) in the backyard. Another fun day! With more to come!
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Underbrella
That's what Gillian calls umbrellas. Grammy had this cool duck umbrella at her house over the 4th of July weekend. Gillian claimed it as hers.
She liked to have parades with it. And refuse Colin a turn with it. It stayed at Grammy's, needless to say.
Saturday, July 9, 2011
July 4th Catch-up, Part 1
See about Michael's love affair with the Fourth of July here and here.
So, holiday weekend....well we drove up north to the Land of Grandmas on Friday, July 1. We got there in time for some play, lunch, and nap. Big news this trip was that we are finally DONE with the Pack n Plays!! Woo hoo! The kids were really much, much too tall for them anyway! But, since we are doing so well with big-kid beds at home, we bought some air mattresses for travel. The kids did REALLY well in them. They looked so much more comfortable in them than in those tiny travel cribs (and Grammy may have spoiled them with Thomas and Princess sheets for the new mattresses)! HOORAY for sleep!
Oh, and C&G helped Papa Frank make some fresh squeezed lemonade...just like Max and Ruby make!
(Per usual, G isn't wearing many clothes. And that's Grammy's two month old Cinderella balloon helping too)
Anyway, Friday evening we drove out to eat dinner at Uncle Stevie and Aunt Emily's new house! Aunt Em just started a new job, and she and Uncle Stevie moved back home and bought a lovely new house! We were pretty excited to check it out! The kids were particularly excited to check out the playhouse in the back yard. It passed their inspection with flying colors! As did the dinner Uncle Stevie cooked up for us!
The slide is very zippy.
On Saturday morning we called on Dickiedoo, Noonie, and their pool! Colin and Gillian absolutely love water, and we don't have much chance to swim, so they were pretty excited! And headed STRAIGHT for the water when we got there!
They loved these blow-up, q-tip things....
Both of them will jump from the ladder and side too.
And G really liked Daddy to spin her!
Poor G. She has approximately 0% body fat and she SHIVERS her way through swim time. She really needs a wet suit, or 100 degree water to swim in. Despite the shivers though, she ended up skinny-dipping for the last half of our visit. Again, very few clothes. It's a theme. We didn't get any skinny dip pictures. Or pictures of me falling off the raft rather ungracefully. Or of G after she FELL IN THE POOL after she was dressed (she was immediately scooped up by Dickiedoo who was sitting 6 inches from her). Exciting morning.
More to come....
So, holiday weekend....well we drove up north to the Land of Grandmas on Friday, July 1. We got there in time for some play, lunch, and nap. Big news this trip was that we are finally DONE with the Pack n Plays!! Woo hoo! The kids were really much, much too tall for them anyway! But, since we are doing so well with big-kid beds at home, we bought some air mattresses for travel. The kids did REALLY well in them. They looked so much more comfortable in them than in those tiny travel cribs (and Grammy may have spoiled them with Thomas and Princess sheets for the new mattresses)! HOORAY for sleep!
Oh, and C&G helped Papa Frank make some fresh squeezed lemonade...just like Max and Ruby make!
(Per usual, G isn't wearing many clothes. And that's Grammy's two month old Cinderella balloon helping too)
Anyway, Friday evening we drove out to eat dinner at Uncle Stevie and Aunt Emily's new house! Aunt Em just started a new job, and she and Uncle Stevie moved back home and bought a lovely new house! We were pretty excited to check it out! The kids were particularly excited to check out the playhouse in the back yard. It passed their inspection with flying colors! As did the dinner Uncle Stevie cooked up for us!
The slide is very zippy.
On Saturday morning we called on Dickiedoo, Noonie, and their pool! Colin and Gillian absolutely love water, and we don't have much chance to swim, so they were pretty excited! And headed STRAIGHT for the water when we got there!
They loved these blow-up, q-tip things....
Both of them will jump from the ladder and side too.
And G really liked Daddy to spin her!
Poor G. She has approximately 0% body fat and she SHIVERS her way through swim time. She really needs a wet suit, or 100 degree water to swim in. Despite the shivers though, she ended up skinny-dipping for the last half of our visit. Again, very few clothes. It's a theme. We didn't get any skinny dip pictures. Or pictures of me falling off the raft rather ungracefully. Or of G after she FELL IN THE POOL after she was dressed (she was immediately scooped up by Dickiedoo who was sitting 6 inches from her). Exciting morning.
More to come....
Friday, July 8, 2011
MIA
We've had a super busy July so far and some technical difficulties getting our 4th of July pictures up and running! I hope to be back to updates soon! Please come back and check out the fun! And comment. We L-O-V-E comments!
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Happy Cats
Our cats love summertime when they have access to the deck. Our deck doesn't have steps off of it, so it's pretty safe to leave them out there for as long as they'd like. At least in the day time. Schmo has been known to get into some trouble out there after dark. So he has a curfew.
But, daytime? It's all good!
MoMo has been on a diet. Can you tell?
Right after I snapped these pictures, the kids came tromping and screaming onto the deck. The cats quickly excused themselves. Schmo and Weasel love the deck, but not enough to share with crazy toddlers!
But, daytime? It's all good!
MoMo has been on a diet. Can you tell?
Right after I snapped these pictures, the kids came tromping and screaming onto the deck. The cats quickly excused themselves. Schmo and Weasel love the deck, but not enough to share with crazy toddlers!
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Another Statement
This isn't what she started the day wearing, but by 4:00 she looked like this:
Oh boy.
Oh boy.
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