4th & More

Elijah playing peek-a-boo while helping pick up the yard.

Sticks go in the wagon.

Messy sandbox girl.

Playing at The Grove where we can climb and climb.

Elijah runs down the slide.

King of the hut.

New chalkboard.

Elijah wrote the whole alphabet!!

Drawing fireworks.

Paint/glue/q-tip fireworks.

Painting a flag for the 4th of July.

Wave, wave, wave the flag. Hold it very high. 

Watch the colors gently wave. Way up in the sky.

Kass gave the kids backpacks full of little kid fireworks.

Poppers and confetti shooters and black snakes.

Watching the spinning, light-up, flying fireworks.

Watching the cows: Ellis and Eva.

Sliding and climbing and posing a little.

Playing in the water.

Lots of glow sticks for fireworks at Perkins Park.

New My Little Pony toothbrush and toothpaste.

Snacking on tortilla shells.

Reading like a big girl.

Father's Day

Painting dots!

Bubble bath!

Eating rubber ducky!

Wearing the Father's Day shirt we made.

Daddy wearing Eva's hand prints.

Daddy wearing Elijah's hand prints.

Erik with both kids and shirts.

Opening gifts.

Eva's helping with laundry.

Learning new songs for the 4th of July!

Just Like You

She's almost too big for the shelf!

All of us had our legs up in the living room.

Ocean felt fun!

This kinetic sand is so fun that Elijah said he wasn't ready for a snack.

Swimming...before the thunder. He was excited about jumping and spraying ants.

He likes pouring water on his head (and Eva's).

Eva didn't do much swimming, but she loved dumping water out of the pool.

This tiny boogie boards were fun.

Swimsuit-water-dumping pose.

Helping and Pose

We get a box, and the kids get in the box.

This picture is totally my kids! Elijah with HIS magazine and doing something weird with his tongue. Eva wanting to read a book and be like her big brother. She even has a clip in her hair...that was ripped out of her hair and the flower torn off within 10 minutes of this picture.

Family movie night! We're watching Despicable Me 2.

Elijah asked if he knew how to fold towels because I taught him a couple weeks ago how to fold his pants and pajamas. I said he could probably do it...just fold in half and fold in half. He did it, but Eva messed it up.

She does this silly lean. Before bath time, she'll do this pose with a hand on her hip.

Eva loves animals! Animal sounds, baby animals, animal pictures, stuffed animals, real animals, animals on TV, any kind of any animal. We even did animal yoga poses the other day.

Play-Doh Zoo and Reading

We learned about the zoo this week and made a zoo with Play-Doh and sticks.

Eva has her own little highchair activities during our school time. She gets so excited for 'Cool! Cool!' that she runs to her highchair. Also, she loves her Band-Aid. She touched the stove and burned 3 fingertips...only one was bad. It blistered up, and we've been trying to keep it protected.

Here's our zoo! Looks like a giraffe escaped...oops!

Our basement has carpet!! The kids have loved running around in the open space with balloons...this weekend we're putting furniture down there. Hopefully, we'll still have plenty of run around room.

Eva practicing her animals.