Summer Recap 2014

Summer 2014 was so very sweet...These snap shots are just snippets from some of my favorite moments...

 

Roller blading, scooters, and chalk out front, one of our favorite things to do...

 

 

 The kids wanted to sell some thing out front, we settled on cucumbers and necklaces! We sold 14 cucumbers!

 

 One of our many trips to the "our spot" at the park...

 Daddy reading to our little book worm.

 We bought 10 pounds of blueberries for $25 one summer day, we had a LOT of fun processing them.

 Pig tail Twins.

 

 Another favorite spot, rolling down the hill at the rose garden

 

 

 

 

 

This kid was a sand box playing fiend this summer!

 

 Much playing in the back yard!

 Processing about a gazillion quarts of pickles this summer!

Robot making fun!

 

My favorite and my best! Evening walks with our "baby" with Ryan. We would walk and listen to her perky little input and comments on what she saw, we would try to have a conversation as well. I look forward to the warm weather and longer days swinging back around.

Another favorite moment! These two are getting so big and coordinated on the BIG playground, I could lose them there for hours they just play and play.

 

"My Pot!"

The Pip is turning into quite a clown. When anyone gets up or she see's they are about to sit down she dives into their and yells "my pot!"

 the other night Ryan went down stairs to get some e thing and Piper heard him coming back up the stairs she shrieked "hiiide!!!" and dove under the covers and silently waited for Ryan to come back. She hid quietly from him until he pulled back the covers. "noo my pot!!"

she's the lump under the blanket

joker joy

she loves to run loops under Ryan legs... this was bedtime one night

 waking up... she's solo happy and snuggle

 Another joke she played recently... yesterday we were eating dinner. Ryan got up to get seconds and some water and Pip went and got this giant stuffed sheep. She set the sheep in his chair and climbed back up to finish her dinner at her place. Ryan came back to the table and Piper was eating her food and making sly glances at the sheep. Ryan said "hey how'd this sheep get in my chair??" Pip just grinned slyly and said nothing. 😁

 

2 is such a fun age! I gotta say, I do have pictures from her second birthday... hopefully I can catch up there soon

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12v250z7MsQ

 

Another "waiting fir Spring Photo dump" coming soon!

Recent quotes...delightfully 3.

Roo really wants to ride a roller coaster. We live pretty close to a fairly large amusement park, we pass it regularly when we go to visit Nana. Every time Roo asks to ride on the roller coasters "some day". We're not really amusement park kind of people. We love family trips to the swimming pool, camping, long walks in the park, trips to the beach...But paying $100+ bucks to spend the day waiting in line for hours on end (often in sweltering temps), for a 10 minute ride? No thanks.

But the Fair is coming to town in September. . And they have little roller coasters for little people like Friendly and Roo. Every time we pass the amusement park I remind them that they can ride the coasters at the Fair "in September".

Thursday we were driving and Roo announced that she didn't want to ride a "little coaster" at the fair. "I wanna ride a BIG one!!" I (don't know what I was thinking) tried to explain that she had to be 4ft9inches to ride on the big coasters.

Always logical Roo piped back, "But my feet are FINE!! Look how big they are! They really big kid feet."

She got me there.
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One day a week or two ago Roo realized she had outgrown her brown play boots. She tried unsuccessfully for 10-15 minutes to cram her feet into them. It wasn't happening. She was so sad to realize she had grown too big. She asked that we go to the store and get her new boots. I told her in the Autumn we'd see about getting her new brown play boots. We were home with Ryan's car (that didn't have the carseats installed in it) and that was the excuse I gave for not going out that morning to find her boots (I find we need to have good logical excuses with Roo). Always the problem solver, Roo came out of the bedroom a few minutes later and said, "Mommie, it's okay that we don't have car seats in Daddy's car... Friendly and I can sit in the back seats. See, we're big enough because my arms are REALLY long."

I can't say I understand her logic there.

Roo is a very logical person. And she is a problem solver. Every thing is "because" she always has a reason for things being a good idea. And she really comes up with some shockingly good solutions.

The other day in the car we had been talking about some options about what we would do that morning. After discussing it for a while we all agreed on what order we'd do things. Roo said from the back seat, "Thanks so much for giving me good choices Mommie."

3 has been a very challenging age so far. But the little thoughts she articulates... So precious.