Summer has been a busy time and it seems to be flying by. Here are a few of the highlights:
My 35th Birthday!
Happy birthday to me! Other than the getting-that-much-closer-to-40 part, it was great! Ry & Tess made me waffles for breakfast and Ry surprised me with a crabcake dinner with chocolate cake for dessert. You can't go wrong with that combination! Tess loved the balloon decorations and insisted that I make a pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey game for us to play. (As she called it: "Pin Around the Donkey.") She actually won that game. I was surprised many times over with a iPod Touch from Mom & Dad, a new CAMERA (woo hoo!) from Ry, sweet cards from Tessie, the cutest baby blanket from Maur, spending moolah from Keith & Wendy, and car tunes from Mer.
Puppet Show
I've been dying to take Tess to a Bob Brown Puppet Show. He's been doing these old-school marionette shows around here since Ryan was a kid! The low-tech show didn't impress the rest of the hardened day-care audience, but boy was Tess tickled by it! (For some reason Tess insisted on wearing this pink scarf to the show. Recognize it Mom? It's from your blanket wrapping.)
Drewie's Teething
Drew now has two darling little teeth poking through his bottom gums. He loves chewing on everything, so I think some more will soon appear.
Newseum
Not a highly successful outing, and not one that I'd recommend for young children, unless you enjoy explaining genocide, starvation, war, militant regimes and devastating natural disasters to your 3-year-old.
Home Time
I've been keeping Tessie occupied with lots of art projects and "craps" this summer. We raided Michael's clearance section and even put together a trillion-piece castle model. Tess still loves coloring, drawing and coming up with her own creative projects.
Fourth of July
Tess had been waiting a long time for this holiday! We started the day with a parade and pancake breakfast at the church. We decorated her bike for FHE, and it was fun to see all the kids in their patriotic colors.
Tess with her Sunbeam teacher, Sister Darlene Smith.
Tess is acting shy, as if she didn't just see her in church the day before.
Danielle James with her sisters and Taryn Pomeroy.
Cade Austin (in the middle).
We headed over to Nana and Papa's that afternoon for dinner and fireworks. Tess was SO excited for fireworks. Unfortunately that enthusiasm didn't make it past the first sparkler, which gave her a nasty burn on her finger. Very sad. She cried hysterically for an hour while we set off the rest of the fireworks. I have a feeling 4th of July is not going to be her favorite holiday.
Some more summertimes to come--summer's not over yet!
3 comments:
Very fun post and you are a very fun mom. Except for maybe the Newseum. :) Were you guys at Wolf Trap for the puppet show?
Happy Birthday and I didn't know you were an artist! At first I thought my mom had drawn the pictures of your kids but the handwriting isn't right. V cute!
And I always love seeing pictures of your kids!!
Tess is so cute in her Fourth finery! Those marionettes are Mr. Rogers-creepy! Drew makes that blanket much more adorable than it was on its own.
The best of summer is yet to come!!!
You can still get sparklers with metal wire handles? That is wonderful! The only thing you can get here in the nanny state of Oregon is sparklers with wooden handles. Apparently our gov't thinks we're too stupid to know how to handle a metal sparkler on our own. How a wooden based makes sparklers any safer is beyond me. Seems like it would make them more dangerous. It sure doesn't make them burn better. They're crap! Sign me,
Jealous
PS...you're kids are, of course, totally adorable!
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