Simon's Trying the Monkey Bars

I challenged Simon to practice on the monkey bars this fall and try to get across them by Christmas. He took the challenge quite seriously and I think he'll get it much sooner than Christmas if he keeps trying so hard. Here's his attempt at the end of the first day trying.

Blueberry picking

We went blueberry picking at Stateline Blueberries this weekend. It was a long drive there (1.5hrs), but a really fun time. We got to run and play and picnic there. We didn't feel like we picked many berries (about 4.5 pounds) at the place, but there were a LOT of berries when we got home. Blueberry pancakes on Sunday!  

CCC: Pictures of Lillian and Simon Aug 5

Hi Emily and Alan,

We have had such a busy two weeks here at CCC. We've been working hard on our math skills and fine motor skills lately. We enjoyed working with different puzzles, color sorting and making patterns, tracing our names and writing about our favorites parts of summer. We also worked with cotton balls and used tweezers to pick them up and did a really cool cotton ball painting. We also made an ice cream cone art project. We've been getting much better with our yoga classes and being able to stretch our limbs and bend in tricky positions. Last week, we enjoyed making rice krispy treats for cooking class, and this week we made dirt using chocolate pudding, whipped cream and oreos. We also made moon sand this week out of flour and baby oil, that was really fun to squish and mold! We have such a great time at CCC!

Enjoy!

Children's Creative Center

Practicing her writing.

Downward Dog during yoga class

It looks like he is enjoying smashing those cookies!

Gaga and Papa's Visit: July 27, 2016

We had such a fun visit with Gaga and Papa.  Out to dinners, building, cooking and exercising!

July 2016 Pictures

More random pictures from July 2016.

The Basque Family Workers

Cindy was in town for a conference and turned it into a longer weekend to visit with Ken joining her. Alan and Ken took advantage of the time to build some shelves in the garage. Simon was SO excited to help with the building, but unfortunately had been having a terrible string of bedtimes (like 2+ hours) so he had to go to day care instead of helping. Luckily the guys had a bit of work to finish up on Saturday. After a very good Friday night bedtime Simon was SO EXCITED to help with construction.

Aunt Kathy Visit: July 21-24

Auntie Kathy came to visit and we had a great time. She brought crazy goggles for the kids and they LOVE them and for the first day wouldn't take them off.  Just us adults tried to go out on the town for an evening and on a boat tour to see the fireworks, but the weather had other ideas and a lightening storm with torrential downpours stopped the boats from going out on the lake. It was a fun time and we had natural fireworks!

Simon has shark goggles and Lillian has dougnut goggles.

Kathy and Colleen - Aunts extraordinaire - got the kids lollipops as big as their faces.
Those are two happy kids.

We didn't get one with Kathy included! :(