Go Reds!

 Daddy's love of baseball is quickly wearing off on us...

 

Thoughts of a Three Year Old

I want to put Sydney's little voice in a bottle and keep it forever, so that I never forget the way she puts things into words. Most of the time, it's her sweet observations about the world around her that is music to my ears... but tonight was a little different. She was having trouble and couldn't get a show to work on the dvd player, so she loudly exclaimed "DANIT!" (pronounced dan-it). Andy and I looked at each other wondering if we heard her correctly just as she repeated it over again. A lesson on using, "oh golly or gosh" instead quickly ensued. :)

Stricker's is Super Fun!

Our Sunday drive this past weekend took us to the most adorable, charming amusement park called Stricker's Grove. It is a private amusement park that is family owned and operated. It is only open to the public four weekends a year (lucky for us, last weekend was one of the them!). The weather was perfect, the rides were just the right size, and the sweet corn was mmm, mmm, good.

Happy Birthday, August

Our family got together to celebrate August's first birthday! It's always fun when the seven cousins, three aunts, three uncles, mimi and papa get together.

Talented Aunt Cecilly (dandelionjelly.blogspot.com) made these uber-cute, delicious treats!

Indian Summer

We took a fun trip to the 800-year-old Sunwatch Indian Village this weekend...

Busy Bees

We've been very busy trying to enjoy every last minute of summer break! KI has been one of our favorite places this summer. We have two little coaster enthusiasts and it's been so much fun meeting friends for play dates!

What Happens When You Have a Big Sister

Several things come to mind when I see my sweet Reid like this...

#1: He is a really good sport. 

#2: This is Sydney's sneaky payback for when he snags toys right out of her hands. 

#3: We definitely need more boy dress up clothes!

Big Bugs & Binoculars

We used our binoculars to see all of the big bugs at Discovery Gardens today!

Dairy Farm

While daddy was competing in a local bass tournament on Sunday, the kids and I headed to a dairy farm!

 

Mimi and Papa were driving home from the lake, so they met us for lunch along the way!

Back to School Shopping

We headed out this morning for some back to school shopping. It's sometimes a toss up of how it will be when we are out in public, but all three kids were awesome! It helped that the teacher store has a play area. The incentive sounded a lot like this, "If you stay in the cart and use nice, quiet words, then you can play with the toys after we shop!" It worked like a charm. :)

They were so good at our first stop that we piled back in the car and went to Ikea. We pretended our cart was a boat and sailed our way through the store while I threw some things in along the way. When we ran out of room in the cart we headed home for lunch.

What a fun morning!