Summer fun

This is not our church building (I wish it was!) but it is the most beautiful one in Hillsdale.  So I asked the kids to pose for me.

Isaac fell asleep on the floor.  He is not the first of our babies to do that!

It's gotten hot here.  No complaints from me: June was mostly quite mild, and high summer is when it ought to be hot.  The wading pool is very popular, of course, with all three of the kids.  Isaac loves the water: he was pouring the watering can on himself in this picture.

 

This was bought to be Ethan's tricycle last year, but he couldn't reach the pedals.  So mostly Abigail has used it.  But Isaac loves to ride on it too!

Picnic Time

The plan was to enjoy a picnic and then play some wiffle ball and play on the swings. They chose to add playing in the water to the activity list.

 Poor Ethan was soaked and cold, but that didn't stop him from enjoying the swings.

This may have been Isaac's first time in a swing.  His sister was as excited as he was!

 

 It was a gorgeous early-summer day!

 

Home on the farm

 

The kids spent yesterday at the farm with their grandparents, supposedly making strawberry jam.  At least that's what the adults did: the kids played in the pool, 

 

played with squirt guns, 

 

went riding on the four-wheeler and enjoyed free ice cream courtesy of their oldest cousin, 

 and generally spent all day outside.  Isaac cried whenever he was brought back inside, and pointed at the door.  He loves being outside!