Don't Worry It's Not Spiked

This was a test post to see if I could figure out how to post large pictures. It appears that I can! This is C enjoying a pina colada slushie at my sister's baby shower luau. More on the luau to come!

Sneak Peek

Thursday the fam headed north to go stay at Nanna's house. My kiddos could not have been any happier while we were getting ready to go to Ohio. C said "I always have fun with Nanna!" We made it to Nanna's driveway by about 10:30 Thursday night. We spent a lot of the day Friday getting ready for my sister's big baby shower luau. The highlight of the day was getting to go with my sister to her ultrasound appointment. Here are my sis and her husband after sneaking a peek at Baby T.

A here's the sneak peek! What a profile!

After my sister's appointment we all got ready and went to the Blue Goose Cafe in the little town square near Nanna's house. Here are the girlie cousins playing around while we waited to eat.

I love this little girl! (and she loves her Aunt Sissy, too!)

Just as we finished dinner a parade was going by the restaurant kicking off a little town festival that was going on. The parade was actually a caravan of very loud fire engines, but 2 of the 3 kiddos really liked it. C was super excited about the motorcycles!

We walked from our parade spot to the park where the festival was being held. C played laser tag for the first time! They had an inflatable that you could enter and play laser tag in the dark with two other players. C really liked it! I was a little worried because his 2 opponents were a little older than him and a little bit tougher than him and they knew each other. For some reason, the momma bear in me felt like they were going to gang up on him or corner him. My aunt snuck in a little back door and told the boys to spread out :) Here he is coming out after he played. All smiles as always!

And it cracked him up to dunk someone in the dunking booth!

And guess what all 3 kiddos won???? Lovely goldfish. Actually, the festival workers cheated for AP and helped her win. Then C won 2 fish all by himself and he gave one to my niece. Unfortunately, the bad mommies did not run out and buy fish food and all 3 fish had gone to heaven by the time we got up Saturday morning :(

AP leaving the festival double-fisted- popcorn in one hand and her fish in the other. She would not let anyone help her carry them!

Bathrobe Baby

AP has had the same little bathrobe for over 2 years now, truth be told it was her brother's before it was hers. I snapped a pic this morning that reminded me of a picture I had taken of her in it several years ago. The first picture is from September of 07. My has she grown! And maybe it's time for a new bathrobe :)

Amen

AP's prayer at dinner tonight:

"God our Father, God our Father. Again. Amen. Eat."

More Friends, Free Movies, and Fountains

Today we continued our summer Tuesday tradition of free movies, picnicking, and playing in the fountains with friends. The movie this week was MUCH better than last week. We saw Space Chimps and C really liked it. Then we set up our little picnic area and chowed down.

Shortly after we finished our lunch several of our friends came to join us.

I mentioned the relationship between C and his "wife" last week. I don't really encourage the wife talk, but it is amazing to me how much these two connect. They can play in their own imaginary world together for hours. I am excited that they will be in school together in a few weeks. Here they are discussing life.

AP and her friend had fun rolling each other up in this blanket like burritos :)

After our splash time we walked to the ice cream store again for a treat. How sweet are they???