Tuesday Afternoon

It's a warm Sat. night after a beautiful day. Want to get these posts done but I admit I'm a little short on energy. So short but sweet.

All good sea horses and dolphins living in the park need to be fed and petted. Most common bark mulch food is apples.

Picture of the Day

We had identical buckets we were using for a "water fight" until he decided his made an ultra cool hat. This boy makes me smile!

River Otter

We spent the afternoon of "Canada's birthday" at Othonellol Tunnels (pardon the spelling but I'm too tired to look it up!) with L's Dad, Mom and Shelly. It was a wonderful afternoon with LOTS of pictures taken. I didn't have time to pick some favorites yet but I thought I would share this with you. This is so Cody. He gets everywhere, over everything and at lightening speed.

Saying Good bye

Cody is all in favor of time spent crawling around in the back yard weed patch! I only pulled one slightly disgusting thing out of his mouth...I'm still not sure what it was before it was crunched!

Leah and Sam worked really hard at turning our cucumber garden from a sea of weeds back into a recognizable garden plot.

And then the goodbyes. First Leah read Auntie Carolyn a chapter or two about Mr. Putter...

And then the good bye hugs and snuggles, Cody wasn't intentionally left out but was somehow missed just the same.

@ 2 years

Just barely two and this is what my dear boy came up with yesterday.

After getting ahold of the container of fruit puffs his sister was eating and dumping most of the container onto the floor I said a stern, "Cameron Overduin" to which he responded immediately, "Cara did it too!" Oh boy.

And after supper when he and Leah were playing "give me five, up high, down low, too slow" Cam's version was "gimme five, up high, low down, too late!" I grinned :)

A Happy Birthday

I really should be outside enjoying this truly wonderful weather but if I don't do it now, I'll never get these posts done!

Cam had his 2nd birthday on Saturday. He decided that when you are 2 years old the best thing about birthdays are the candles. "blow it? again!" So, he started with candles on his pancake.

And then candles on his donut at Opa & Nana's.

Where he got a puppy. Thankfully the kind of puppy that can take some really rough lovin'! "Goggie eyes!" "Goggie nose!"

Then we had a BBQ at Gramma and Gramps' house because not only was it Cam's birthday but it was Auntie Care's too. This may be the only party they share in many years. Cam was born on Care's last birthday as a single lady and after she moved to Wisconsin we didn't think they would have a shared party for a long time. Well, with Care coming for Shelly's grad we got that party in and it wasn't until 3:00 in the morning that I remembered I didn't even get a picture of the two birthday characters together. What a bummer.
Lots of fun things happen when we get the nuts of family tree together.
Uncle Brian gave some crazy rides....that's almost 90 degrees, Brian!


Leah was going just as high but I missed it.

Some more candles, on a cake this time. We had to light them in the shop because there was too much wind.

It was good cake, too.

There was the lawn mower gift.

Lots of fun!

And "new adventures of Curious George" with cool stories like George and the pancakes and puppies....
And a soccer ball that has already had its fair shair of usage.

"Uncle" Will showed the girls he can skip just as good as them. :)

And a little sister with a funny ears sweater.

Jumping on the tramp is lots of fun...

And you can't outwit or outrun them all night and so Shelly ended up in the pool, fully clothed, courtesy of Brian and Les.

An afternoon at the LC

An experience to be repeated in the near future. Thanks to Care and Hollie for the afternoon! I sure wouldn't be able to do it on my own.

(For crowd control purposes we went with as little luggage as possible. Big kids were allowed swimming shorts/suit + towel. Babies were allowed swimming diaper, period. You do notice who makes the rules? Camera was allowed :) )

happy exploration

part fish adventures (I love to see Leah love the water)

cautious enjoyment

pure delight! I could sit and listen to an entire day's worth of those giggles!