Saturday, July 17, 2010

Hot and Humid

Yesterday was really hot so we got out the water table and splashed around!









After a costume change, we came back inside and played for a while before dinner. After dinner Calla and Gavin went back outside to play for about 10-15 minutes but it was just too hot to stay out for long.










We have a few carrots ready to eat!



Thursday, July 15, 2010

Playtime!

I have been very bad about posting stuff the last couple of weeks.  Last week we were cleaning and getting back into routines and this week Gavin has had French camp every morning and soccer camp every evening so it's been hectic.  But, here are a couple of pictures of Gavin in his new glasses:


Our sunflowers are in full bloom! 

One of them only grew about half as tall as the other and the other morning we went outside and it had fallen right over!


Austin continues to practice his walking skills.  He has discovered that he can walk over to his brother, sit on him and poke his belly button which is a very fun new game.

He loves his blocks!


He is very proud of himself when he gets to where he is going.
Gavin is dancing for Austin in this picture!
We aren't working on any states this week since we've been so busy, but we did have one last New Jersey project that we hadn't gotten around too...making blueberry muffins!  We found a great recipe with a cinnamon/sugar crumble topping.


Gavin declared them, "The best muffins EVER!" when he was eating his!
The kids spent most of the day playing with the kitchen.  I brought it upstairs so it's like a whole new toy now that it is in a different location.







While the little ones were in the kitchen Gavin played in the bathroom...that's his I want to be alone spot!




It wasn't long before Gavin joined the others. He doesn't like too much solitude.
I actually caught Calla smiling today!

A soccer game was played in the living room.  At least Gavin was trying to make it a soccer game but the girls didn't exactly follow the rules.   They had fun anyway!
The the neighbor boy came over and Gavin played with him.  The girls seemed to agree that boys are weird...
Then the little ones worked hard to put a puzzle together...strangely enough, after all that effort, not one piece made it back in.


Friday, July 9, 2010

Zucchini

This week has been quiet and we have just been getting back into our routines and taking it easy.  But, we are up to our eyeballs in zucchini!  Steven and Gavin have made four loaves of zucchini bread and will probably be making several more in the next few days.  Tonight we had zucchini casserole for dinner.  I'm starting to wonder how long these plants produce veggies because I'm running out of zucchini ideas.



We should have tomatoes soon so that will be nice.  Today we went and got Gavin a couple of pairs of glasses.  He seems happy with the idea of wearing glasses so hopefully it will last.  I tried to get him to put them on so I could take a picture and he wouldn't let me but maybe he will tomorrow.  The place we got them gave him 'sports' eyeglasses cases to put them in and he was really excited about that!  Make sure you scroll down to see the next post if you haven't already seen it!!!

Austin is Officially Walking!!!!

If you hit the play button it should work!