Indoor Activities

Helping to tenderize the meat.


Pushing the firetruck is usually Ethan's job, but here is rare shot of Abigail doing the duty.


Playing Candyland with Daddy


Painting: one of Abigail's favorite pastimes.
Pushing cars (or trains): one of Ethan's favorite pastimes.


Reading together.

Summertime Fun

Where should we play? In the grass? In the playground gravel? Or on the slide? Of course not: dirt is the best entertainment of all!


With all the heat in the last few weeks (taken July 19, 2011), playing in the sprinkler seems like a good plan.


Although mostly they're about filling up cups/buckets/watering cans/dump trucks and drinking from them.

Cooking Skills

Cooking with Mommy is always a fun pastime, especially if Ethan gets to help with the mixer!

Abigail's House

Abigail loves to build houses: they're getting considerably more advanced, too...multiple rooms!

Strawberries

Back in mid-June we found a strawberry farm and asked them if we could come pick some. They said they hadn't had a good crop and so weren't open, but we were welcome to come and take whatever we could find, free of charge. So we did!

Abbey and Ethan Cool

They love playing with Daddy's sunglasses!

Easter time

We did tell the kids about Jesus, and resurrection, and how Easter is not really about eggs and candy at all. But I don't think any of that registered. We'll keep working on that next year...

Here we have Friday, home from daycare with bunny masks and carrot hats:



Next we have adventures in egg coloring: by the time we got to the store, all the egg-dying kits were gone (perhaps we should go earlier than Saturday afternoon, next year!), so instead we bought some watercolors.

Abigail really enjoying painting the eggs: I was impressed at how well she did! Ethan did pretty well too, though he needed a bit of help.









And here is Easter morning at home, time to go find the eggs!



After church, a visit to a friend's house for the big hunt: