Summer time cruising

Little playhouse daddy found. It's now nestled between the flowers and vegetables.

Working in the garden.

Close up! I was working on the grape vines.

Roses.

Peonies.

Holiday at the Georgetown Carnival.

Mommy at the sand box during the carnival.

Daddy daughter day.

With baby seal.

New park by EMP.

That looked pretty cool.

Up in your own secret pod like thing.

I kind of want to try this out.

That's exciting stuff.

(snicker snicker)

Well the Anderson family is simply cruising along right now. If we weren't looking at that cast every day we'd forget that Holiday had any kind of injury. It really hasn't slowed her down. Her caregivers at Summer Camp are vastly impressed by her energy, while David and I are not surprised. She didn't need the pain medication past 36 hours of resetting the bone. She didn't get loopy while on it like we've heard a lot people usually do. Instead she got REALLY talkative. I mean, she's talkative normally. It was like Holiday at 100 mph. So it was after 11 pm when we drove home from the hospital. Really dark so you can see any electric light that was on. "Oooooooo look at the lights!" "That's amazing!" "Hey Daddy isn't that amazing?!" "Mommy that's amazing right?!" "How come nobody's talking except me?!" And she flitted like that all the way home. Now she's keeps asking to do this or that so it's hard to reel her in to a safe zone so she won't reinjure herself. She's had a lot of birthday parties and play dates this summer. Johnny is progressing on potty training. He does pretty good at home he just needs to be able to do it at daycare. He's going to start pre-school in about a month so he's pretty excited to start. They agreed to work with him on the potty training. I see a lot of back to school stuff out already so I guess I need to go through the kids' closets and see what I need to get. I did an initial purge on Holiday's already. I knew by the time cold weather came along she wouldn't fit any of that stuff so I got rid of it. I've made strawberry jam this summer and probably the next thing will be pickles. I've been trying to follow what is in season but that can be a challenge to keep up with that since it's been hot lately. Not really motivated to do canning when it's that hot. So I closely watch the forecast and plan ahead. David and I got to see Rush in concert and had a real date night. We ate at 10 Mercer (that's the name and the address...clever) and it was great there. We'll happily eat there again. Rush was an awesome show, so glad we sprang for that. Otherwise we spend most of our time with the kids, playing board games, and watching Stephen Chow movies.