September 20, 2011

Summer Catch Up #1 - New Toys, Cousins, and a Friend's Fun Birthday

I am way behind blogging about our busy summer.  So I am going to try to do a few summer catch up posts.  

Kellen is growing up so fast!  She is loving this new toy - sort of a mix between an exersaucer and a jumperoo.

Big brother thought she needed LOTS of stuffed animals to play with :-)  Doesn't our kitchen look lovely with our patch up jobs?  The hallway and bathroom look just as lovely - we really need to do some painting sometime soon!

She loves this hanging/jumping/thing too!  We can only use it when big brother is napping though, because he thinks it is a swing and that she needs him to push her!

Some of our cousins came to visit for a few days and we had a blast!  Older cousins are great helpers and tons of fun!  We read books,

played at a nearby church with an awesome indoor tube room and toddler play area,


went to the zoo,

  and gave sweet hugs :-)  Thank you cousins for coming to visit, we loved having you!

Our friend J. turned 4 and invited some friends to celebrate with him at a nearby kiddie amusement park.  It was Jonathan's first time on any sort of ride.  This flying rocket type ride was a little too much for our little guy - he looked a bit frozen and fearful for the duration of the ride.  I was very thankful he was riding with an older friend!

Jonathan loved the cars though, and rode them 4 or 5 times!  This is the only picture I got of the birthday boy, and you can't even really see him - he's in the backseat of the red car.

The carousel was fun too!  Gramma was there with us and Jonathan enjoyed riding with her!  Oops, I took the picture a little too soon :-P

1 comment:

Mark said...

Thats a great shot of mom - she looks beautiful!
Mindy