Move It! Dig It! Do It!

Wow, a lot of time has passed since I last posted so I have a lot of catching up to do. This past weekend we went to Move It! Dig It! Do It! which is an event sponsored by a local children's museum that brings in many different kinds of trucks and vehicles that the kids can climb in and on. There were construction cranes (only inside the cab of those!), recycler truck, trash truck, bus, fire truck, police car, combine, construction equipment, you name it, they probably had it. Two of the coolest things were going inside the balloon part of a hot air balloon that was tipped on its side and watching a helicopter land and go inside. They also had all kinds of animals and Winky's favorite...HUGE piles of sand with lots of sand toys to play in it. We spent most of our day there and here's a few photos.

Gussie doing the wheelbarrel race.

Winky drives the recycling truck. Just a little too short. :-)

Both girls had fun playing with the little cars. Gussie barely fit but they pretended to contact each other on the little radios and race around the track.

Playin at the Lake

I wish I had photos since it's rare Paul gets to come on an outing with us, but we had a great day out as a family (as I said, a rarity!!) at a local lake playing in the water. Gussie's swimming skills have improved so much with this last round of swimming lessons and she surprises me with her abilities each time we go in the water. Winky was finally willing to try the little arm floaties and could join us in the deeper water with a little dog paddle. We'll be BBQ'ing tonight and then a fabulous day will be had by all! If there wasn't rain in the forecast we would be letting the girls sleep outside in the tent tonight but I have no desire to get rained on, so we'll save that for another weekend. ;-) You can't expend all the fun in one day, can you??

Backyard Fun

It's my Mom's birthday this weekend and we had a GREAT, fun-filled weekend! The girls went to Space Chimps with Grandma, we spent a day at the beach, and lots of little bits of fun in between. Here's a few pictures to start off.

Winky is about as stubborn as they come sometimes, and her sense of fashion is off the charts. This was the ensemble she came up with to wear out this weekend. If you're curious what's on her head, that would be a Winky-decorated dinosaur head on top of her favorite hat. VERY fashionable this year!

It's been a hot weekend and the girls had a lot of fun playing in the sprinkler to cool off on Saturday afternoon.

Both girls thought it was quite amusing to spit the water at each other, in the air, at me, at the dogs, anywhere they had a target. Here's a picture of Gussie as a fountain, although she wasn't as thrilled when it came back and hit her in the face. I'll admit I found that quite amusing. ;-)

Panya wouldn't play with us in the water but she looked so cute in the ferns that I couldn't help taking her picture, too. Jungle Panya! I hope to post the pictures from our day at the beach soon.