Before I forget, here is the picture I missed last time with Nana and all the girls with their new doll outfits. Rebecca loved her new Bitty Baby too.
And poor Kaya who was sad not to be included in the picture because she doesn't have a doll yet (I told her when she's 5. We'll see if we make it that long. Lynnsey's obsession is contagious. Kaya told me the other day: "First I'm getting Kaya, then Molly, then Kit, then Julie...") So anyway, Nana had a little stuffed animal that she gave Kaya and we snapped their picture together.
The last day with our visitors we went to a concert in the park. It was a Beatles tribute band that was pretty great actually. The weather was totally weird and went from sunny one minute to a downpour the next. We were thinking we would have to go home when the rain stopped again and the concert continued. But then later the same thing happened and that time we actually did have to pack it in. Still it was a really fun time. Kaya danced most of the time and put on an additional show for the audience. It was really cute when they started playing "Yellow Submarine". She was dancing along, not quite recognizing the song until they began the chorus and she stopped, giggled and proclaimed "Yes!" and then started dancing and singing along.
After the visitors left, we sort of moped around for a few days with that "Day After Christmas" feeling. College started again and so Kalen went back to work full, FULL time. The boy who I babysit after school had to come full time for those two weeks too since his parents work at the college as well. But finally, we decided we had two whole weeks left until school started and so we took a few field trips to the zoo, the nature center and for the last movie in the summer movie series.
These rabbits at the zoo were seriously enormous. Probably twice the size of a housecat.
We love the red panda. He actually raised his head to smile for the picture this time!
We have SO many pictures of the kids on this silly ant statue but it's been fun to see how much they grow from year to year.
We spotted this tiny little turtle taking a break on a rock at the bottom of a little waterfall.
We have lots of pictures on this rock at the nature center too. Another fun way to measure growth. Taylor has grown so much that apparently he thinks he's too old to pose for pictures on these things anymore. Or any pictures at all, unfortunately.
And poor Kaya who was sad not to be included in the picture because she doesn't have a doll yet (I told her when she's 5. We'll see if we make it that long. Lynnsey's obsession is contagious. Kaya told me the other day: "First I'm getting Kaya, then Molly, then Kit, then Julie...") So anyway, Nana had a little stuffed animal that she gave Kaya and we snapped their picture together.
The last day with our visitors we went to a concert in the park. It was a Beatles tribute band that was pretty great actually. The weather was totally weird and went from sunny one minute to a downpour the next. We were thinking we would have to go home when the rain stopped again and the concert continued. But then later the same thing happened and that time we actually did have to pack it in. Still it was a really fun time. Kaya danced most of the time and put on an additional show for the audience. It was really cute when they started playing "Yellow Submarine". She was dancing along, not quite recognizing the song until they began the chorus and she stopped, giggled and proclaimed "Yes!" and then started dancing and singing along.
After the visitors left, we sort of moped around for a few days with that "Day After Christmas" feeling. College started again and so Kalen went back to work full, FULL time. The boy who I babysit after school had to come full time for those two weeks too since his parents work at the college as well. But finally, we decided we had two whole weeks left until school started and so we took a few field trips to the zoo, the nature center and for the last movie in the summer movie series.
These rabbits at the zoo were seriously enormous. Probably twice the size of a housecat.
We love the red panda. He actually raised his head to smile for the picture this time!
We have SO many pictures of the kids on this silly ant statue but it's been fun to see how much they grow from year to year.
We spotted this tiny little turtle taking a break on a rock at the bottom of a little waterfall.
We have lots of pictures on this rock at the nature center too. Another fun way to measure growth. Taylor has grown so much that apparently he thinks he's too old to pose for pictures on these things anymore. Or any pictures at all, unfortunately.
It was a fun wrap-up to a fun but super-fast summer. More posts to come!
2 comments:
It looks like you guys had a great summer. We didnt do a whole lot. We planned on doing a lot and then I started having all of that pain full time. It kind of prevented us from doing the things we wanted. Plus all the medical expenses took all of our money. We did take the kids camping once. And we went to the movies a lot.
At what age did Taylor decide he wouldn't pose for pictures anymore? My oldest is already that way, and he's only 9. :-(
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