Laptops

We have 2 old, broken down laptops.  I pulled them out awhile back and the girls had so much fun playing with them, pretending to watch things, setting up their babies to watch something, etc.  =) 

Ava's Cat

These are from May, I believe.  Ava put this cat inside her shirt...and kept it there most of the day.

We had several errands to run, including the Health Department: 

And Wal-Mart: 

=)

Daddy's Girl

Fairly often, Joel walks up and down this side aisle at church during altar call, praying.  The second Gracie sees him doing it, she joins him.

Its very sweet.  =)

Summer Fun

On our first day back at the library story hour Miss Shawn asked if anyone had done anything fun that summer.  Gracie said no (HA!) and Ava said, "Yes.  I went shwimming at my friends' house."  =)

(She has a slight lisp and really does say 'shwimming'.  Its so sweet!)

Chatting on the Phone

Talking to Grandma for real.

Pretending

Pretending.

Pretending.

=)

The Zoo

We went to the zoo with Matt and Amanda in June.  It was unbearably hot!  The van said 108 that day.  Here's Uncle Matt pulling the girls:

Ahhh...this is the life!  

We rented a second wagon to pull the cooler of water in.  Not sure we would have survived without the water we brought!! 

We got to see a baby elephant!  Cutest thing ever.

We went to an exotic animal park in May.  This lion was one of the first things we saw and the guys were making it growl, which terrified Ava...

So she looked like this most of the time.  It was SO hot and unusually humid that day, and she was crying most of the time.  Poor girl.  The park is probably 80% lions and tigers and she hated it all.

She was also scared of this goose that was following us around.  Joel had taken the girls to the lake shortly before this to feed the fish and ducks and the Canadian geese really did try to attack them so even though this cute guy was just casually following us, she was beside herself.   

Time to leave!  Happy now!

Yummy food and A/C! 

We took the scenic route home. 

Hh is for Hippo

We did a few activities for Hh week, although not nearly all that I had planned, then we've taken a few weeks off.  Hopefully we'll get back on track this week with Ii for inchworm and igloo!

We got some books from the library:

Built lots of houses: 

Painted some worksheets: 

Letter Hunt:

Did a hippo craft: 

Made Hh's on the geoboard: 

Worked on some counting skills with this very cool, and inexpensive, game from ROSS! 

And a homemade counting game: