Saturday, June 30, 2012

Grandma's new toy


We picked up this water table at a garage sale today. It's for my mom to keep in her yard for all the grandkids. (Hi, mom!) We tried it out this evening, since it probably won't make the trip up to my parents' house before the fall anyway. The girls approve!

Reaching


Megan has been trying to reach these things on the swing set for the past year, ever since we got the thing. She's tall enough this year that she can sometimes grab a ring if she jumps just right. 



Got it!


I got the idea to play with toothpicks and mini marshmallows from a blog I regularly read, moneysavingmom.com. Megan was trying to make people here. We also made cube-shaped houses, a fish tank, and a porcupine.

Friday, June 29, 2012

Megan at 8 months, with purple dress


Here is Megan in our back yard in September of 2008. She was two days shy of 8 months. Scroll down to the following post to see Abigail in the same dress, sitting on the same white blanket, with the same purple doll, at just about the same age.




















Abigail at 8 months, with purple dress


This is Abigail on Tuesday, one day shy of 8 months, wearing her big sister's purple dress, sitting on her sister's baby blanket, and holding her sister's purple doll. Check out the post above to see photos of Megan with this same getup.











Thursday, June 28, 2012

Back home again


We've settled back in after our little vacation in Indiana. Some of our friends hosted us for dinner last weekend and we brought dessert: a fruit pizza. Megan ate - and arranged - the fruit.



I introduced Megan to the musical "Annie." It was a hit. Here we are snuggled in the recliner watching it.


We made recycled chunky crayons the other day. I sorted all of Megan's broken crayon bits out from her crayon box and peeled off the papers. Megan sorted the crayons by color and put them in a lined muffin tin, and we baked them at 250 degrees for about 20 minutes, until they were all melty. Once cool, we had these fun round crayons. The pictures above and below were snapped by Megan. 





Megan demonstrating the use of recycled chunky crayons!

Turkey Run, Part Four


These are the last of our Turkey Run photos.We spent one afternoon flying kites in a field at a school across from the campground.


Above and below are my dad's two kites. The box kite is particularly hard to get in the air, so the guys were proud of themselves.



Watching the box kite fly.


While we were out flying kites, the critters chewed on our closed up container of nuts back at the camp site.


Cute baby playing at the camp site.


A little movie before dinner.




Grandma always has good toys!




Camping wears a baby out.



This was shortly before we got in the car to drive home, and this is what a 4-year-old looks like when she is exhausted after a few days of camping and no one will push her on the tire swing at the playground.